There is SO MUCH FREE CONTENT online!!!
YouTube training videos, documentaries, old movies, and so much more.
I learned how to wire a 3 way light switch, fix my car, fix the clutch on my motorcycle, do concrete, build a dormer, write MVVM software, etc etc
AND tons of UFO videos!!!
YouTube alone has enough content to last me the rest of my life and they are adding THOUSANDS of hours of new videos every hour! Granted, a lot of it is crap but even if 99% of it was crap, you would still not have enough time in your life to watch even a fraction of the remaining 1%.
Almost every documentary ever made is available on YouTube. Just about every vintage movie or TV show. Virtually every song ever recorded - not just the official MTV video but live versions, alternate takes, cover versions...
That's just scratching the surface of what's out there. So how does YouTube get away with it? You notice now that almost all copyrighted material now requires you to watch an ad. So the content providers get revenue which is fine by me. In many cases, you can click past the ad after the first five seconds.
Traditional television is dead. They just don't realize it yet. It's sort of like where the music industry was in 2000. Most people were still buying their music on compact discs even though the handwriting was on the wall. Within a decade, everybody would be streaming and downloading and CDs went the way of the 8-track.
I also have Netflix and Amazon Prime Video but those are luxuries. I could easily cut back on those and just rely on YouTube alone.