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You don't understand how low-friction piracy is these days. Only techies deal with automation and Plex. Most people just buy a "fully loaded" android box which
by hendersoon 7y ago
You don't understand how low-friction piracy is these days. Only techies deal with automation and Plex.
Most people just buy a "fully loaded" android box which lists thumbnails for all the latest movies and TV shows on various file storage sites. They select a thumbnail and the movie plays. Nothing local at all, all streamed.
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- scarface74 7y agoWhich again doesn’t help when so much video streaming is done on mobile devices....
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThere's plenty of streaming sites, and since web browsers work so well on mobile devices nowadays...
- scarface74 7y agoSee my previous comment... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005204
- Fabricio20 7y agoEver heard of Kodi? That's a set-top box OS but that also is an Android App.. Then watch some youtube videos on how to install the magic box addons and you have access to millions of movies for streaming. As hendersoon noted, nowadays, piracy is extremely low-friction.
- scarface74 7y agoTwo problems -- middle class households in the US are overwhelmingly iOS -- not Android and that still doesn't solve the problem of mobile and having to depend on cellular connectivity to stream. Disney+ and Netflix allow you to download shows.
- paulie_a 7y agoMiddle class households are not overwhelming iOS. But even if that were true Kodi works on iOS and the streaming add-ons have an option to download it also.
- scarface74 7y agoStudies show otherwise: https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhixon/2014/04/10/what-kind-of-person-prefers-an-iphone/#79f4a7afd1b0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhixon/2014/04/10/what-kind-... https://gizmodo.com/want-to-appear-rich-buy-an-iphone-1827431776 https://gizmodo.com/want-to-appear-rich-buy-an-iphone-182743... https://buildfire.com/ios-android-users/ https://buildfire.com/ios-android-users/ Kodi is not available for non jailbroken ios devices.
- ybahubali2018 7y agoSo, just pay for a good VPN provider and get all content for free?
- paulie_a 7y agoYou don't really need a VPN if you turn off the addons torrent feature. Standard Kodi doesn't share unless you use an add-on with that feature
- ybahubali2018 7y agoI am quite curious to know the existence of such services or hardware. Any pointers?
- hendersoon 7y agoI'm not really looking to provide a piracy tutorial here and I don't use these services myself, but another poster is correct in that they're Kodi addons. Kodi runs on pretty much everything but most of the streaming boxes are cheap Chinese android boxes or Amazon FireTVs.
- scarface74 7y agoEverything but iPhones, iPads, AppleTVs, most smart devices and Rokus......