OK, lemme recontexualize this for normies: imagine Game of Thrones or whatever is airing 3 months early in the UK, and you pay for HBO Go.
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Replying to @Babylonian
If you're telling me you'd actually to sit there patiently for 3 months while Game of Thrones gets spoiled for you on Twitter, you're lying.
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Adding this to the thread, since I'm very tired of explaining it: Netflix is uploading Little Witch Academia weekly in Japan, but not here.
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If you're a paying Netflix member and you're still gonna wait months to watch LWA: good for you! I'm sure Netflix is very, very proud of you
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But to equate downloading a show I'm paying for to old-fashioned "I don't feel like paying" piracy is disingenuous. Please miss me with that
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I'm anti-piracy. I haven't pirated any media in 8 years. Yelling at me because I no longer pass your anitwitter purity test is masturbatory
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(That said: I think anyone who downloads LWA early should also try support it by legal means, including rewatching it once it's out here!)
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Replying to @Babylonian
I mostly agree with you but feel it's counter productive to actively tweet about the ways you are getting around having to wait
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Replying to @aloadofhupla @Babylonian
I see a lot of creative people on Twitter get bummed by people who proudly announce why their downloading content and feel it's
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Replying to @aloadofhupla @Babylonian
legit to shit on Netflix for this but it's probs better to also not add "and also I'm just gonna download it"!
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see, i think saying "Hey Netflix, this sucks, but I'm gonna sit here and wait like a good boy" accomplishes absolutely nothing
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Replying to @Babylonian
I agree but I think there is a middle ground of putting pressure on them without openly and inadvertently promoting piracy
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Replying to @Babylonian @aloadofhupla
But you are still paying for Netflix, right? I mean, it isn't enough of a problem to get you to cancel?
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