The real winner of the streaming wars.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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I mean, all subscriptions are limited in some way. That’s how a subscription works. You either get limited by time (monthly sub) or by usage (data cap). If it were a perpetual/lifetime access license, it wouldn’t be a subscription.
That’s why I said most people keep a monthly subscription for everyday usage, and then only use the secondary subscription when their primary is missing something. The usage doesn’t expire, so it’s not something you need to constantly maintain unless you’re actively using it. So they’re not constantly getting dinged for usage on that second provider, because the monthly doesn’t have a data cap.
The reason people like Usenet is because you don’t need to worry about seeders or dead torrents. You grab the file you want, and it caps out your gigabit download speed every time.
Netflix streaming isn’t limited.
Costco isn’t limited to 5 visitors a month.
Many ISPs don’t limit you to a preset amount of data (fuck you Crapcast).
Yes it is. It’s a monthly subscription. You pay every month. That’s a time limitation. If you pay for a month, you only get a month of usage, just like a Usenet monthly subscription.
But again, you only get the month you paid for. It’s a time limitation, just like a monthly usenet subscription.
Neither do monthly usenet subscriptions. I think you need to go re-read my original comment, because you seem to think that the monthly subs are limited. They’re not. The only limitation on monthly subs is time. Which is the exact same limitation as the other subscriptions you mentioned.