Star Trek Discovery started a new season this week. Usually here in the Netherlands episodes come out a day later, so I thought I'd watch the last season finale the day before it came out so I was up to speed.

Turns out Paramount pulled the show from Netflix to put it on Paramount+

As a Star Trek fan, j thought what the heck, let's see how expensive a subscription to that is. Turns out it's not available in this country. It'll launch as part of something called SkyShowtime, a separate service including multiple American streaming platforms, somewhere in 2022.

So I shrugged and added the show to Sonarr. Within minutes, I had all the episodes available for my viewing pleasure.

It's like these companies don't want my business. They pull content from my existing subscription, make it impossible for me to buy their service and then complain about the terrible threat of piracy at the same time.

It's time for someone to set up a service that aggregates all other services so viewers can enjoy their content without chasing platforms. I'll pay for the extra services once content isn't being shifted around anymore, which is clearly going to take another decade.