Are earnings too low / living costs getting too high??

Ouch :( That sucks.

I was of the generation where student loans were not expensive (it was sold as the cheapest loan you'll ever get!). In spite of that it was the most fantastic feeling not having to pay student loan off any more.
 
Medicine. Finals start in a few weeks then I enter the sinking NHS in a career that is causing so many to jump ship.
I feel like I have potentially made poor life choices.
 
Zatoichi.uK said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...rt-rules-fully-loaded-Kodi-boxes-illegal.html

Stuff like this kind of annoys me. Maybe if people weren't getting nickel and dimed at every turn, stagnant wages, student debt, housing crises etc. and companies like Sky and Virgin charged a reasonable fee for their services then people wouldn't look to alternatives.
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What? There is absolutely no justification for pirating TV any more. A netflix sub is £6 / month, TV content is cheaper than it has ever been. Access to football / movies is a luxury, not a human right? :confused:
 
Zatoichi.uK said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...rt-rules-fully-loaded-Kodi-boxes-illegal.html

Stuff like this kind of annoys me. Maybe if people weren't getting nickel and dimed at every turn, stagnant wages, student debt, housing crises etc. and companies like Sky and Virgin charged a reasonable fee for their services then people wouldn't look to alternatives.
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I'm pretty sure if you worked in that industry you'd have a different viewpoint, whilst those at the top might be coining it in, piracy has had a huge effect on those in the industry who make it all happen.
 
Netflix sure which is why loads of people I know (Including myself) have cut the cord so to speak. It's a fraction of what Sky and co charge. Most seem to pay around £70+ without all the bells and whistles per month. It's the first thing most people trying to save a bit will get rid of.
 
tres said:
Medicine. Finals start in a few weeks then I enter the sinking NHS in a career that is causing so many to jump ship.
I feel like I have potentially made poor life choices.
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Nah, you'll be ok. What would've been a poor choice is to rack up 70k debt on a worthless liberal arts degree.

Medicine is a good choice and you can go anywhere with it.
 
ci_newman said:
What? There is absolutely no justification for pirating TV any more. A netflix sub is £6 / month, TV content is cheaper than it has ever been. Access to football / movies is a luxury, not a human right? :confused:
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Indeed it's getting cheaper - but people like free stuff! But you still have to buy the gear... I guess the only advantage of pirating is that you can choose exactly what you want to watch, rather than having to choose from the selection given to you, and you can store it offline to watch at your convenience.

I'm looking forward to having an online service like netflix or amazon prime or whatever that truly has EVERY film/series ever made, available at all times. Then I will truly cut the cord. I don't mind netflix, but I do find it lacking in the things I want to watch - though you can now sync to devices to watch it offline - which for me is important.
 
ci_newman said:
What? There is absolutely no justification for pirating TV any more. A netflix sub is £6 / month, TV content is cheaper than it has ever been. Access to football / movies is a luxury, not a human right? :confused:
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the problem is not the price, if the service is good people will pay.

if you can't watch things due to country bans, episodes being a year late, things not even being in the library etc then it makes sense why things like kodi get big. They have it there and then and have it all.
 
Not advocating piracy, but my biggest issue with paid-for providers like Sky in particular that really irritates me - is they double charge you. First, they make you pay 40 pounds a month to watch Sky Sports (or whatever the cost is). Then, they fill it to bursting with adverts! So i'm paying nearly 500 quid a year, to watch adverts - and Sky rake it in at both ends. That never sits well with me.
 
SMN said:
Not advocating piracy, but my biggest issue with paid-for providers like Sky in particular that really irritates me - is they double charge you. First, they make you pay 40 pounds a month to watch Sky Sports (or whatever the cost is). Then, they fill it to bursting with adverts! So i'm paying nearly 500 quid a year, to watch adverts - and Sky rake it in at both ends. That never sits well with me.
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Another reason why people turn to things like Kodi. Endless amounts of adverts, people don't want them. Same reason we use Adblock on websites.
 
Personally my biggest peeve about the whole Sky/BT thing is the complete lack of coverage. £60/70 a month to show not even half the games every week? When I get pirate every single game for free? If I could pay a subscription to get 100% of the games in good quality streamed I absolutely would, just how they do it in the US with gamepass etc.
 
Chris1712 said:
Personally my biggest peeve about the whole Sky/BT thing is the complete lack of coverage. £60/70 a month to show not even half the games every week? When I get pirate every single game for free? If I could pay a subscription to get 100% of the games in good quality streamed I absolutely would, just how they do it in the US with gamepass etc.
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You can actually do that, though its essentially paying someone else to pirate it for you.
 
ci_newman said:
What? There is absolutely no justification for pirating TV any more. A netflix sub is £6 / month, TV content is cheaper than it has ever been. Access to football / movies is a luxury, not a human right? :confused:
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Increasingly the motivations for piracy is less people straight up freeloading (though there will always be some) - I mean most people know someone they can blag a netflix login, etc. from these days and more about the service or access to content.
 
The original argument was that Zatoichi.uK was complaining that Kodi has been deemed illegal (which it clearly is) and was caused by TV services being too expensive - which they aren't, they are cheaper in real terms than they've ever been (excluding sport).
 
My only observation is simply that I'm not surprised people turn to kodi when Sky etc are so expensive and the alternative is so hassle free without the intrusion of ads.

Kodi should be illegal sure. I just don't expect it will make much of a difference to users unless things change. It's no wonder people just use Neflix and the like due to the huge savings.
 
ci_newman said:
The original argument was that Zatoichi.uK was complaining that Kodi has been deemed illegal (which it clearly is) and was caused by TV services being too expensive - which they aren't, they are cheaper in real terms than they've ever been (excluding sport).
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Which is where most of the expense is going to and reasons why it keeps going up every year.

If people stopped watching sports then it would save them loads on subscription TV.
 
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