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I will always pirate shows. I cut the cord 11 years ago due to my objection of cable company billing practices. The entire industry is greedy. I was a netflix s

by xfitm3 7y ago

I will always pirate shows. I cut the cord 11 years ago due to my objection of cable company billing practices. The entire industry is greedy. I was a netflix subscriber for awhile but I burned thru all the good stuff and left.

commandlinefan 7y ago
I don’t even know if I’m “pirating” or not. There’s pretty much nothing on Netflix anymore, and I can’t even figure out how to sign up for HBO streaming (I think I have to get a code from cable provider first?) if I even cared enough to do so. I have found a few ad-supported/free streaming sites like Tubi and Popcornflix, plus some public domain streaming sites like publicdomainflix and archive.org. Are they legitimate? I don’t know - I have no way of even finding out.
- thedaemon 7y ago
  HBO has 2 streaming apps. 1 for cable / satellite owners and 1 for HBO's own streaming service. You should look for HBO Now!
robertoandred 7y ago
YOU are greedy. You're not entitled to free things. Do you skip out on restaurant bills, too?
- guitarbill 7y ago
  Yeah, no, I don't buy this facile argument. Closest I can come up with is either an all-you-can-eat buffet you have a membership to, or Costco, and turning up one day and there's no pasta or burgers. And they say "sorry, Olive Garden/McDonalds bought the rights to that food and we can no longer serve it". It's absurd. Rights-holders absolutely deserve to get paid. But weaponizing that? Sorry, they lost me.
  - robertoandred 7y ago
    That doesn't mean you're entitled to getting Olive Garden and McDonalds for free.
    - guitarbill 7y ago
      I definitely would buy bootleg pasta though... I don't think OP is making the argument piracy = free = good. Just that if everything else is worse or broken, people will prefer piracy (and argument put forward in many other comments on this post)
      - robertoandred 7y ago
        People who want things for free will prefer getting them for free. Shocker. Everything being "worse or broken" is just at attempt at justification. Again, just because you don't feel like paying for something doesn't mean you're entitled to it for free.

by xfitm3 7y ago

commandlinefan 7y ago

I don’t even know if I’m “pirating” or not. There’s pretty much nothing on Netflix anymore, and I can’t even figure out how to sign up for HBO streaming (I think I have to get a code from cable provider first?) if I even cared enough to do so. I have found a few ad-supported/free streaming sites like Tubi and Popcornflix, plus some public domain streaming sites like publicdomainflix and archive.org. Are they legitimate? I don’t know - I have no way of even finding out.

thedaemon 7y ago
HBO has 2 streaming apps. 1 for cable / satellite owners and 1 for HBO's own streaming service. You should look for HBO Now!

robertoandred 7y ago

YOU are greedy. You're not entitled to free things. Do you skip out on restaurant bills, too?

guitarbill 7y ago
Yeah, no, I don't buy this facile argument. Closest I can come up with is either an all-you-can-eat buffet you have a membership to, or Costco, and turning up one day and there's no pasta or burgers. And they say "sorry, Olive Garden/McDonalds bought the rights to that food and we can no longer serve it". It's absurd. Rights-holders absolutely deserve to get paid. But weaponizing that? Sorry, they lost me.
- robertoandred 7y ago
  That doesn't mean you're entitled to getting Olive Garden and McDonalds for free.
  - guitarbill 7y ago
    I definitely would buy bootleg pasta though... I don't think OP is making the argument piracy = free = good. Just that if everything else is worse or broken, people will prefer piracy (and argument put forward in many other comments on this post)
    - robertoandred 7y ago
      People who want things for free will prefer getting them for free. Shocker. Everything being "worse or broken" is just at attempt at justification. Again, just because you don't feel like paying for something doesn't mean you're entitled to it for free.