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"You also have more content than at the moment you subscribed... Would you want the extra downloads but have only the content before the date you subbed?"
That's an absolutely ridiculous take. When you subscribe for lifetime, you're subscribing for what exists and will exist, unless it's some sort of radical new product.
My parents have a lifetime subscription for the past maybe 20+ years from Sirius XM.. or even prior to that, either Sirius satellite radio or XM, before they merged and it's still current, active, they use it. They're not limited to listening to songs or sports or news broadcasts that happened prior 2006 or something ridiculous like that. They obviously have access to modern music, news, sports broadcasts, etc. SiriusXM haven't even offered lifetime anymore since 2011, but whatever my parents paid for is still active.
Famously, some people like Mark Cuban bought lifetime flights with American Airlines I believe. They're not limited to places that only had airports or routes in the 1990s or 1980s, whenever they bought the lifetime pass. Same here as far as American Airlines doesn't offer this lifetime/unlimited travel pass anymore, but it's still active, because people bought lifetime/unlimited and that's what's honored.
SLR has been chipping away at what was paid for. They're not honoring what was paid for by early adopters. At the moment, I download very little. I haven't downloaded much for months. Partially due to doing other things, partially due to hard drive space, but either way, I paid for unlimited streaming, downloads of original files. If I decided I want to start downloading 30 every 72 hours again, that's what I paid for, but that isn't what SLR honors. At the time I paid, I believe it was up 30 every 72 hours. Now it's cut in half, up to 30 every 144 hours. Maybe myself too, I don't remember at the moment, but others paid for 50 every 72 hours. Prior to that, people paid for unlimited as far as I know. It's been cut 3 or 4 times and they bullshit each time, saying this will be the last to make people calm down for a while, then months or a year later they cut it again or start talking about how they can cut it further... 'Nobody needs x amount of downloads'.. 'Only x% of people actually consistently download the full amount of videos'. How's that an excuse to cut further? That means people should be downloading more if only a certain percentage are, and they should have plenty of bandwidth or whatever and quit their bitching. SLR's take is, they'll offer a tube that can flow 1000 gallons/liters of water, but the people are only using 120 gallons/liters of water.. so instead of being thankful that people aren't using the tube to maximum capacity, they say.. why don't we shirk the tube so it only flows 100 gallons/liters of water, because only 20% use over that. And everyone will get used to that amount of water, and later we'll cut it again and again. That's not how lifetime works when you paid for something and the providers keeps coming to cut more and more of what you paid for.... and they're not giving half the money back when they cut what you already paid for in half.
