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We’ve always been communal creatures, humans. From the dawn of time, it has been our capacity for partnership for pooling the shared resources of collective labor, and leveraging them for great leaps forward into the progress-laden smorgasbord of the future that has marked the great starts and stops of human existence. Agriculture. The industrial revolution. Sharing Debbie’s Netflix password so that everyone can keep up to date on all the hornt-up shit happening on
Bridgerton. These are the iron bonds from which the future itself is forged.
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And while such simple, glorious acts of inspiring co-existence do, technically, violate the terms of service of the streaming service (and all the others that have followed in its ilk), Netflix, etc. have typically been, well, “cool” for lack of a better word with the sharing of people’s passwords among multiple users. Not actively encouraging, mind you, but when the choice has come dow
ALL 4, the on demand service from Channel 4 is full of great programmes and is completely free. There are a few ads, indeed some in the middle of episodes, but they ran smoothly and with no buffering.