Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.
Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.
TBH, it would depend on how many services I'm theoretically replacing, and whether you count the people I've shared my library with. Before I went down the rabbit hole, cost was the motivation, but I'm long past that.
Between the usenet subs, paid search engines, power for a 24 bay server running 24x7, and adding a new drive every few months, I can't really defend it on a cost basis for my own use (though that's not to say it can't be done considerably cheaper).
Similarly, I'm giving my data to a handful of usenet search engines and 2 usenet providers my data (though I trust all of them more than the likes of Disney and Netflix)
With all that said, I've never looked back. It's a hobby project for me, I have total control, can help out my friends and family, and use the server for other stuff like private cloud hosting, home automation, network ad-blocking, etc…
Yep, looking at doing the exact same thing myself, albeit smaller scale to start with. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the ride despite the cost, because I know I'm headed down the same path, lol. Cheers.