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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Back to piracy ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, streaming is still completely free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yaaaaarrr tis cheaper than eva matey

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They want >$100 a month to come out with maybe one movie and maybe two TV shows worth watching each year? No thanks, piracy for me has become more of a means to assuage my fear of missing out and keeping in touch with the cultural moment than actual enjoyment of the media they're putting out right now.

I do not believe the quality would go down if their budgets were cut significantly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The era of cheap streaming is over, now begins the era of free streaming

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Long live 1337x and Stremio.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t 1337x just get caught injecting bit coin mining software into their stuff?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

era of torrenting unaffected

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that true? Most of the best public trackers got shut down. Anything left has bots recording your IP and you're getting a letter from your ISP.

If you're not on a private ratio tracker or paid tracker it's basically a non starter. So I'm not sure about unaffected era the last 10 years have been brutal for pirates via torrent.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

VPN has been necessary for pirating for a long time. And fortunately a VPN is cheaper then any streaming service, and has other benefits besides.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Not on my Emby server

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Oh well, there's plenty of space for all of ya here on the high seas, welcome aboard, mateys!