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For every person torrenting there’s multiple getting movies off friends on USB sticks and stuff. One member of my family does the torrenting for a dozen others
by Sendotsh 7y ago
For every person torrenting there’s multiple getting movies off friends on USB sticks and stuff.
One member of my family does the torrenting for a dozen others in my family, and I know plenty of others that work like that.
I personally do a mix of paying for content and pirating. I’m 100% happy to pay for content if I can, but with geoblocking and platform restrictions and all the other bullshittery, it’s legitimately impossible for me to legally buy half (or more) of the content I’m actually interested in, so I pirate it, and I don’t feel bad for doing so in the slightest.
I also regularly have to pirate things I already own thanks to DRM that doesn’t work on my devices, missing subtitles, etc.
The entire industry is broken and it’s their own fault.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoNot sure if applicable to your region but have you given movieseverywhere a shot?
- Sendotsh 7y agoDo you mean Disney Movies Anywhere? That’s a US exclusive, like just about all content these days.
- Freak_NL 7y agoMostly so. With some interesting exceptions, luckily. You can watch Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix in 32 countries, including most of Europe, but not in the US (there it's an exclusive on CBS or something like that).
- giancarlostoro 7y agohttps://moviesanywhere.com/ https://moviesanywhere.com/ This website, it's not Disney specific, but that sucks. It would mostly be the convenient solution to this problem. If you have a movie on iTunes or Play, it unlocks in the other, and vice-versa.