In the grand scheme of the media industry, they are. Moreover, Floatplane is a separate entity with < 50k users.
I don’t use Spotify, but yes, I pay for YouTube premium (which comes with YouTube Music, which I use instead of Spotify). I use YouTube a lot. $13.99 is not that much money for so much video and music content.
And I’m not saying don’t pirate anything ever. But come on, when people build a platform to try and do things right, to ethically support their creators, we ought to support those platforms.
Here’s a good guide, t’s old, but nothing should be too different.
https://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started
Use radar instead of Couch Potato.
You can find up to date guides for any of the individual products.
I recommend NZBgeek’s lifetime subscription.
Then, set torrents as your news group’s backup and you should be good to go.
Spend an evening setting this up and you’ll be golden. Just subscribe to any shows or movies you want and it will automatically download them when they are available.
You can set preferences around quality, file size, language, format, etc
lmao please