For a brief moment there pretty much everything was on Netflix and it was a good price for a good service.
Then it slowly got worse and worse and the content got split between more and more services and my own laziness and, honestly, how much I liked Netflix when it WAS good kept me going. But eventually it became too much.
Yaarrr! Fin me by the jelly me locals are all that I needs these days.
Absolutely this, when netflix had everything, i had no issues. Especially my wife liked having content in different languages… But now everything is so fragmented it’s insane
I think that’s exactly what it is. Netflix was killer and worth it. And then it was a SLOW bleed to enshittification where suddenly people are paying just as much to 15 streaming services as they were with a premium cable package.
Basically, the main advantage to piracy is price. No legitimate vendor is going to beat $0
It also used to be that you’d get sub-par quality compared to the physical version. However pirates have really stepped up over the last 20 years and now often offer the best version of any given media. Lossless audio and 4K video are widely available.
The place where legitimate services still beat piracy is convenience. Streaming services are easy to use, the content is always what it says it is, and people generally want to do the right thing and pay for services rather than steal them.
However, when piracy beats legit options on both price and convenience, people flock to piracy.
Piracy isn’t just a price thing. It’s literally more convenient than having 4 or 5 streaming services and still potentially needing to pay extra just to watch a major movie that just came out
Yep. When Netflix cracked down on password sharing and disrupted my ability to use my brothers account once in a while, i switched to a plex share. It costs less, doesn’t give a damn about who’s licensing what, has no ads and doesn’t try to spy on me.
Regional ISP traffic scan centers have got a lot better at sniffing stuff like torrents. It’s 3 cease letters and poof no more access to that ISP, with monopolies in place, that pretty much means no more Internet for you. 1 letter is usually enough to scare lay people away from doing it again, despite tools like VPNs. I realize it’s common sense to us but I also get why people don’t gamble with access to a basic utility.
There is a cost vs ease balance, when the cost is such that the ease of streaming vs piracy is low enough it makes sense.
Like I have spent the last hour trying to get my vpn set up to work with a torrent client. Now the settings for my vpn are so messed up I cannot get it to connect at all. So the ease of piracy now is so great that the cost of streaming is looking like the better option.
DL torrent, open it, go take a shit. Here on Kodi. I mean compared to the stupid login dance you have to do on Netflix every 2 days, hoops you have to do with your VPN or adblock giving your spy TV internet etc, that’s not even valid anymore.
Also what’s an hour or two, learning things, once in a while vs getting ass raped by tech bros 24/24? And paying for it.
Still trying to set up the vpn. Finally was able to reset it enough to get basic access back.
compared to the stupid login dance you have to do on Netflix every 2 days, hoops you have to do with your VPN or adblock giving your spy TV internet etc
I have not had to log into a streaming service in a year, maybe 18 months. Do not have a spy tv, so no issues there.
I never quit stealing and am always boggled that so many people have these subscriptions.
For a brief moment there pretty much everything was on Netflix and it was a good price for a good service.
Then it slowly got worse and worse and the content got split between more and more services and my own laziness and, honestly, how much I liked Netflix when it WAS good kept me going. But eventually it became too much.
Yaarrr! Fin me by the jelly me locals are all that I needs these days.
Absolutely this, when netflix had everything, i had no issues. Especially my wife liked having content in different languages… But now everything is so fragmented it’s insane
I think that’s exactly what it is. Netflix was killer and worth it. And then it was a SLOW bleed to enshittification where suddenly people are paying just as much to 15 streaming services as they were with a premium cable package.
It’s how the market shakes out.
Basically, the main advantage to piracy is price. No legitimate vendor is going to beat $0
It also used to be that you’d get sub-par quality compared to the physical version. However pirates have really stepped up over the last 20 years and now often offer the best version of any given media. Lossless audio and 4K video are widely available.
The place where legitimate services still beat piracy is convenience. Streaming services are easy to use, the content is always what it says it is, and people generally want to do the right thing and pay for services rather than steal them.
However, when piracy beats legit options on both price and convenience, people flock to piracy.
Piracy isn’t just a price thing. It’s literally more convenient than having 4 or 5 streaming services and still potentially needing to pay extra just to watch a major movie that just came out
Yep. When Netflix cracked down on password sharing and disrupted my ability to use my brothers account once in a while, i switched to a plex share. It costs less, doesn’t give a damn about who’s licensing what, has no ads and doesn’t try to spy on me.
I didn’t pirate for around ten years when Netflix had everything and Disney with Hulu was $15.
It was so much less hassle it was worth it.
Now it isn’t worth it.
Honestly after so long sailing the high seas, I find streaming interfaces clunky and annoying. I like all my stuff in a nice clean file tree.
Piracy is not stealing.
Would you download a car?
Hell yeah, if I could.
That ad used copyrighted music and fonts. Without permission. Remember, it’s fine for them. But not us.
I already did. But the STL is huge and I don’t know what to do now.
You got a 3D printer? Just slice it into pieces and reassemble after printing.
Where do you download your movies? All I ever found was streaming services but I want to download and watch offline.
The bible of the seas has a section on this. Read its verses.
Regional ISP traffic scan centers have got a lot better at sniffing stuff like torrents. It’s 3 cease letters and poof no more access to that ISP, with monopolies in place, that pretty much means no more Internet for you. 1 letter is usually enough to scare lay people away from doing it again, despite tools like VPNs. I realize it’s common sense to us but I also get why people don’t gamble with access to a basic utility.
There is a cost vs ease balance, when the cost is such that the ease of streaming vs piracy is low enough it makes sense.
Like I have spent the last hour trying to get my vpn set up to work with a torrent client. Now the settings for my vpn are so messed up I cannot get it to connect at all. So the ease of piracy now is so great that the cost of streaming is looking like the better option.
DL torrent, open it, go take a shit. Here on Kodi. I mean compared to the stupid login dance you have to do on Netflix every 2 days, hoops you have to do with your VPN or adblock giving your spy TV internet etc, that’s not even valid anymore.
Also what’s an hour or two, learning things, once in a while vs getting ass raped by tech bros 24/24? And paying for it.
Still trying to set up the vpn. Finally was able to reset it enough to get basic access back.
I have not had to log into a streaming service in a year, maybe 18 months. Do not have a spy tv, so no issues there.