• @[email protected]
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      1212 hours ago

      Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They’ve forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won’t seem like such a hassle anymore.

      • @ikidd
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        24 hours ago

        Kodi, Seren add-on and a debrid provider like Premiumize gets me better service than any streaming provider. Multiple source streams on any show in the last couple decades and every movie way earlier than is available from any source I’ve ever seen. If its not available as a cached stream, I can queue a torrent file at their end and stack them up until I’m ready to watch it, but I’ve rarely had to do that.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          To be fair, the last time I flew the jolly Roger was over a decade ago. Finding a stream/torrent that:

          1. Wasn’t potato quality
          2. Had seeders
          3. Wasn’t shut down since last time
          4. Wouldn’t give you a virus
          5. Was actually the thing you were looking for (I did not have sexual relations with that woman)

          was a much more time consuming process.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 hours ago

        It’s not a hassle at all. I use my phone to tell my computer what I’m interested in watching. It automatically downloads that, and when I’m ready to watch something it streams to my TV. After I’m done with it, my computer removes it.

      • 🕸️ Pip 🕷️
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        38 hours ago

        As a person who uses stremio; not only is it not more of a hassle than streaming services, it’s WAY less. Astronomically so. You set it up once and you have literally everything

      • @[email protected]
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        212 hours ago

        Only upfront effort. Downloading is almost as much of a hassle as choosing what to play tonight.
        Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 hours ago

          Back in my day, it was a much more involved process.

          Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.

          Do people really rewatch stuff that often?

    • udon
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      1713 hours ago

      You can pirate the ads and quizzes

      • @[email protected]
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        1612 hours ago

        A friend of mine in college pirated a japanese show which included the ads. The first episode seemed to have subs with legitimate translations. The rest of the season the subtitle author had fun and changed them to make fun of the ads. It was pretty funny.

        There were no quizzes though…

      • Jack
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        111 hours ago

        I was wondering how I should prepare for the tests