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I know a ton of people that used to pirate, but since netflix and hulu became fairly decent, do not anymore. Most people don't want to pirate, but do so when th

by choko 15y ago

I know a ton of people that used to pirate, but since netflix and hulu became fairly decent, do not anymore. Most people don't want to pirate, but do so when there is no reasonable alternative. Yes, you will always have people that pirate. A lot of them do it for no good reason too. I know one such person that has gigs and gigs of movies he has never watched and will never watch. I think a lot of those people wouldn't have paid even if there were no alternative.

cabalamat 15y ago
> Yes, you will always have people that pirate. A lot of them do it for no good reason too. I know one such person that has gigs and gigs of movies he has never watched and will never watch. Sounds like that person was motivated by as compulsive desire to collect things rather than a desire to watch movies.
- JonnieCache 15y ago
  Progress bars are a cheap dopamine hit.
  - Blarat 15y ago
    http://progressquest.com/ http://progressquest.com/ maybe this should be a better "hit" than pirating then :P
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- paul9290 15y ago
  I know i use to horde media for the purpose of hording I guess. I would just have to have the latest media released on sharereator.com and suprnova.org(dating my downloading habits to circa 2002-2006). Overall all that crap I collected most I never watched and it ended up getting hosed from the various hard drives stored on. Even had them backed up on multiple hard drives, yet I don't know why? A year or so ago I saw an episode of The Office on Hulu where the character Andy was like Im cool I got the latest movies in the theatre right here on my computer. You will like me and think I am cool because of this please watch with me. Yeah I am cool! Thankfully years later Im no longer Andy ... are you?
ChrisMac 15y ago
Yeah that's me. An insignificant monthly cost to watch movies from the comfort of my couch, all with a handy recommendation system to turn me on to things I never would have found otherwise vs. the comparative hassle of having to hunt around streaming sites, or waiting for giant downloads to complete.

by choko 15y ago

cabalamat 15y ago

> Yes, you will always have people that pirate. A lot of them do it for no good reason too. I know one such person that has gigs and gigs of movies he has never watched and will never watch. Sounds like that person was motivated by as compulsive desire to collect things rather than a desire to watch movies.

JonnieCache 15y ago
Progress bars are a cheap dopamine hit.
- Blarat 15y ago
  http://progressquest.com/ http://progressquest.com/ maybe this should be a better "hit" than pirating then :P
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paul9290 15y ago
I know i use to horde media for the purpose of hording I guess. I would just have to have the latest media released on sharereator.com and suprnova.org(dating my downloading habits to circa 2002-2006). Overall all that crap I collected most I never watched and it ended up getting hosed from the various hard drives stored on. Even had them backed up on multiple hard drives, yet I don't know why? A year or so ago I saw an episode of The Office on Hulu where the character Andy was like Im cool I got the latest movies in the theatre right here on my computer. You will like me and think I am cool because of this please watch with me. Yeah I am cool! Thankfully years later Im no longer Andy ... are you?

ChrisMac 15y ago

Yeah that's me. An insignificant monthly cost to watch movies from the comfort of my couch, all with a handy recommendation system to turn me on to things I never would have found otherwise vs. the comparative hassle of having to hunt around streaming sites, or waiting for giant downloads to complete.