I'm getting close. I just hedged my bets three days ago. Bought me a piano - that should keep me entertained for years as I try to relearn what I used to know. If my TV becomes useless because the corporations are so hell bent on protecting themselves from what I'm not even doing in the first place ... too bad for them. They just lost me as a customer. That includes everybody in the chain - the music guys, the movie studios, the providers (Dish), etc. I have no interest in stealing their stuff. But if they make it so hard to obtain or enjoy, then I have no interest in their stuff at all.
Yup...it really isn't too hard to not follow the heard.
When ticket prices to movies shot up, so long ago, now, it seems like an eternity, I just quit going. Now, we've always gone to the cheap flicks, after the movies stop regular distribution. But, I have not been to a full price movie in at least 20 years.
It's all mindset. Like you are thinking, you just make life choices and changes, and turn your back on the garbage. In my earlier teen years, before we had cable, I only watched TV when sports was on, which was really only on the weekend. That, in turn, really made me a music lover, and very knowledgable about music, to this day. Not to mention I sure got a lot more done. I got to college in 1983, and people were amazed I'd never seen the Cosby Show. Did I miss it? Hardly.
So, I could easily do it again, if my hand were forced. Take some of the outrageous amount I pay for cable/satellite and get Sirius and or XM!
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