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The only system that can cover all five of your points right now is piracy. 1) No charge, so you're not paying for content you won't watch 2) Same as 1 3) A
by ohithereyou 7y ago
The only system that can cover all five of your points right now is piracy.
1) No charge, so you're not paying for content you won't watch
2) Same as 1
3) A torrent client speaking RSS + a private torrent site that serves RSS covers this
4) You pay with nothing - no money, no data, and no viewing history
5) Files without DRM can be played on any device and cannot be retroactively deleted by the service provider
Piracy really is most often a services problem.
- austhrow743 7y agoPhysical discs.
- snuxoll 7y agoDRM, high cost, and ironically, poor availability (I bought all the seasons of ER in 1080p off iTunes, there exists no Blu-Ray sets for the show and the DVDs are often more expensive than what I paid Apple for digital copies that I promptly stripped the DRM from)
- jogundas 7y agoThat's right! It would be interesting to see how torrented series statistics correlate with online streaming prices. My feeling is that as Netflix-like services become more expensive and/or fragmented, piracy picks up. Don't have any numbers to back this up with though.