That’s the idea I’ve got lately. I used to have Spotify through a community that’s been taken down; NewPipe/PipePipe has problems 5 days every month. I found a great site to watch shows with good CC thanks to this community, and a few days ago half the servers weren’t working anymore, and the ones that are still working are slow, like unusable.
Is it just all a big coincidence, or is trying to make people exhausted a tactic?
Even though prices are stupid atm, this is your push to finally spin up a local jellyfin instance. You can run this off an old laptop and an external drive. It won’t be fantastic but it will work and you can look and giggle at the IP holders wringing their hands not knowing how to actually stop piracy. Hell, my entire docker stack (minus plex) is just on a pi. Starting off it’s not too expensive. The expense hits when you turn it into a full blown hobby and you are looking at homelab setups ontop of your htpc setup.
Buy a used workstation off someone who sells getting rid of it. Probably can get one for 20€, if not even free.
If you want more space buy an HDD for some 50-100€. Such setup will easily last you 10-15 years with little maintenance.