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The UX of piracy is simply incredible compared to streaming services. I visit one website that has everything I'd ever want to watch, download and start watchi

The UX of piracy is simply incredible compared to streaming services. I visit one website that has everything I'd ever want to watch, download and start watching with one click, in 4k, with no streaming degradation, in a video player I like, with features like upscaling and which works offline.

lostlogin 4y ago
Could you name what you’re using? Not because I want to use it, more to see what it is. My piracy stack is not changing any time soon.
- cercatrova 4y ago
  I'm using rarbg as my main source which has magnet links that qBittorrent detects on click. I use mpv with Anime4k for animated content or an Nvidia Image Scaling glsl filter which is a decent upscaler/sharpener. I also use SVP for frame interpolation with an RTX 3080 which supports optical flow, and I assume it'll be even better in the RTX 40 series given their DLSS 3's frame interpolation exclusivity. It all looks incredible on my LG OLED TV/monitorm with 4k HDR 10 bit support. Imagine doing all this on Netflix, it's simply not possible unless you have the physical media files, and for that reason, even if I had Netflix, I'd still pirate. Curious to hear your stack. I assume something with Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, etc? I like looking for files manually so I haven't set those up since I'm not sure how to precisely select for the file with specific 4k/HDR support.
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    Mine setup is as you describe. Sonarr and Radarr have quality filters that allow you to choose file size limitations, and they work almost 100% in my experience.
ModernMech 4y ago
UX of my weed dealer is also better than my local dispensary, and I don’t have to pay any taxes. It’s easy to have better experiences for yourself when you just ignore laws and other people’s rights in order to do whatever you want.
- cercatrova 4y ago
  That's an even better example then, because it shows that most people will and do go for the weed dealer. UX matters regardless of laws in terms of what people actually do, not just what they say they would do.
- happytoexplain 4y ago
  It sounds like you're making a favorable comparison, since marijuana has historically been perhaps the number one most famous example of something that most clients partake in harmlessly despite any illegality, and that has had the most senseless and damaging laws surrounding it. But then you go on to imply that your comparison is intended to demonstrate the opposite position.
  - ModernMech 4y ago
    If a community or society decides on boundaries as to the consumption or distribution of something, it doesn’t matter that you personally decide those standards and laws don’t apply to you. You can try justify your behavior by saying “no one gets hurt” but really all you’re doing is rationalizing selfishness, which seems to be what everyone is doing here w.r.t. piracy. You want what you want, rules and laws be damned.
    - cercatrova 4y ago
      If laws are made via societal consent, sure, that's a fine assertion. However, laws like marijuana possession are not based on societal consent. In fact, there's this famous quote by Nixon's Chief of Staff who literally admits the drug laws were created for targeting groups, not because the drugs themselves are bad: > You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. So too with copyright laws written by corporations.

lostlogin 4y ago

Could you name what you’re using? Not because I want to use it, more to see what it is. My piracy stack is not changing any time soon.

cercatrova 4y ago
I'm using rarbg as my main source which has magnet links that qBittorrent detects on click. I use mpv with Anime4k for animated content or an Nvidia Image Scaling glsl filter which is a decent upscaler/sharpener. I also use SVP for frame interpolation with an RTX 3080 which supports optical flow, and I assume it'll be even better in the RTX 40 series given their DLSS 3's frame interpolation exclusivity. It all looks incredible on my LG OLED TV/monitorm with 4k HDR 10 bit support. Imagine doing all this on Netflix, it's simply not possible unless you have the physical media files, and for that reason, even if I had Netflix, I'd still pirate. Curious to hear your stack. I assume something with Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, etc? I like looking for files manually so I haven't set those up since I'm not sure how to precisely select for the file with specific 4k/HDR support.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  Mine setup is as you describe. Sonarr and Radarr have quality filters that allow you to choose file size limitations, and they work almost 100% in my experience.

ModernMech 4y ago

UX of my weed dealer is also better than my local dispensary, and I don’t have to pay any taxes. It’s easy to have better experiences for yourself when you just ignore laws and other people’s rights in order to do whatever you want.

cercatrova 4y ago
That's an even better example then, because it shows that most people will and do go for the weed dealer. UX matters regardless of laws in terms of what people actually do, not just what they say they would do.
happytoexplain 4y ago
It sounds like you're making a favorable comparison, since marijuana has historically been perhaps the number one most famous example of something that most clients partake in harmlessly despite any illegality, and that has had the most senseless and damaging laws surrounding it. But then you go on to imply that your comparison is intended to demonstrate the opposite position.
- ModernMech 4y ago
  If a community or society decides on boundaries as to the consumption or distribution of something, it doesn’t matter that you personally decide those standards and laws don’t apply to you. You can try justify your behavior by saying “no one gets hurt” but really all you’re doing is rationalizing selfishness, which seems to be what everyone is doing here w.r.t. piracy. You want what you want, rules and laws be damned.
  - cercatrova 4y ago
    If laws are made via societal consent, sure, that's a fine assertion. However, laws like marijuana possession are not based on societal consent. In fact, there's this famous quote by Nixon's Chief of Staff who literally admits the drug laws were created for targeting groups, not because the drugs themselves are bad: > You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. So too with copyright laws written by corporations.