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Illegal. I have about 500 movies on my external hard drive. As for the legality, if you get caught pirating TWC or your ISP will mail you letters saying stop that. TWC gives 6 or 7 warnings. Then all they do is drop you as a customer. It's easy to avoid detection anyway. One gets in more trouble for going 65mph in a 55 zone.
Illegal. I have about 500 movies on my external hard drive. As for the legality, if you get caught pirating TWC or your ISP will mail you letters saying stop that. TWC gives 6 or 7 warnings. Then all they do is drop you as a customer. It's easy to avoid detection anyway. One gets in more trouble for going 65mph in a 55 zone.
Thanks for clarifying. I'm only interested in legal options.
As an American who has lived overseas for many years, when I'm back in the US and find myself in front of a TV, it is a stark reminder of how much TV is programming people in various ways - culturaly, de-sensitiving, the sensationalizing of things not so sensational, violence, bad food, drug ads (that other countries do not have), etc.
It amazes me that people have time for things like Kardashians and celebrities's lives and tacky reality shows, by choice.
I don't like the de-sensitizing of values with increasing levels of profanity, violence and sexuality on regular TV, though I staunchly defend our right to access these things by choice, not by having them rammed down our throats. Some of this I realized watching "Orange Is the New Black", which like a lot of media, news, and websites, has an agenda, and I avoid these as much as possible though it's kind of impossible to do completely.
Plus, all that noise between shows, the interruptions, ads for upcoming shows for which I have no interest, the annoying compression of these and commercials, the dumb-down-ness of it all, it's all too much once you've separated yourself from it. For me it is unwatchable and a complete waste of one's time. Even news, with the witless and often biased commentary, much of it I disagree with, that surround the actual coverage.
Where I currently live the TV and even DVD stores are so controlled in a 'freedom of choice" fallacy that is so ridiculous, for an American, that I never, for all the years living here, subscribed to local TV.
I have a media player for things I download and Netflix for the rest, and if I want a movie, there are various ways to access these. The time and peace I have gained in the process is invaluable.
Reading this forum is good as I will soon be moving to the area and want to maintain my freedom of media intrusion and mental programming.
How much are your car payment(s)? Mortgage? Cell phone? I'm all for saving money but it's funny how people pick on the cable bill when they have these other massive debts.
It's really a matter of preference, but we don't generally watch anything but news, sports, and trash TV that generally isn't available on Netflix, Hulu, etc.
What we did do was lower cell bill by about 100/mo switching to Ting from Verizon, and get the exact same service we got from Verizon. Only difference is we don't get the latest and greatest phone, which isn't an issue for us. I'll buy used phones one or two generations back. For example we just ordered Galaxy S5's (upgrading from S3's).
To answer the questions directly...
No car payment.
No credit cards.
Not the latest phones.
Only a mortgage on a 1300 sq ft ranch in beautiful Garner.
52" TV with full 4k HD and surround sound via Roku. Costs $25/month.
No other debts. Nadda. None. Zero. Zippo.
Yes, it has everything to do with what you want to spend your money on. That goes for cable/satellite. Paying full price for 10-20% of the watched service makes absolutely no sense. Who pays full price for something they only use 20% of? Money saved by not buying cable? $93,000!!! ($200/mo*20 years @ 8% returns). So yeah, it matters.
Same here.
Zero debt except for my mortgage.
For me, I simply wasn't watching enough TV to justify needing cable or satellite TV and paying the price to have it. It was a simple cost/benefit analysis. I watch several network shows and those are available OTA for free. Other content I acquire through other means, but not through a cable or satellite provider.
I got a TCL Roku TV this weekend - it was on sale at Target. It's a TV that has the Roku interface built into it. It'll help with my "cord cutting mania"
I tried doing an OTA amplified antenna, I can't get any stations. So it's not worth it to me to cancel cable at this point in time.
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