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Your experience is completely different than mine. I find one slow seeder that doesn’t have what I want or find a low quality rip in a language I don’t know.

Your experience is completely different than mine. I find one slow seeder that doesn’t have what I want or find a low quality rip in a language I don’t know. Or I can just search on Google and usually find it either on a streaming service I subscribe to or it will give me a list of places I can rent it. I will gladly pay three bucks not to have to deal with bit torrent

cercatrova 4y ago
Honestly that's pretty weird. Most pirate sites have high quality 4k rips. I'm not sure where you're looking if you're only finding low quality rips with one seeder.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago
  Yeah, in my experience it's common for streaming sites to have worse quality than is available to a pirate. A concrete example: I want to watch Sharpe. Netflix doesn't have it, which isn't surprising because they never have anything I'm looking for. Amazon has it for $4 an episode at SD quality, and I have to watch it in my browser with their shitty webplayer because they're afraid I'm going to save it to my harddrive (lmao.) So instead I pirated it and got 720p for free. It's now on my hard drive and I can watch it with my proper media player. Pirating being free is really just the icing on the cake, I might have paid $4 an episode if they would give me a DRM-free 720p downloads, but that simply isn't an option. Why isn't it an option? I can and do buy DRM-free albums from Amazon. Albums which are smaller and easier to share than movies or TV shows, yet are still offered DRM free. The TV/movie industry get away with offering inferior crippled products because not enough people know how to pirate movies. But I do, so I'm not their chump.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    No, music is DRM free because Apple had a stranglehold on digital music purchases. The music industry wanted Apple to license its DRM and Apple refused and came up with the alternative of letting everyone sell DRM free music. It had absolutely nothing to do with piracy https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_posts_rare_open_letter_thoughts_on_music/ https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_pos...

cercatrova 4y ago

Honestly that's pretty weird. Most pirate sites have high quality 4k rips. I'm not sure where you're looking if you're only finding low quality rips with one seeder.

MichaelCollins 4y ago
Yeah, in my experience it's common for streaming sites to have worse quality than is available to a pirate. A concrete example: I want to watch Sharpe. Netflix doesn't have it, which isn't surprising because they never have anything I'm looking for. Amazon has it for $4 an episode at SD quality, and I have to watch it in my browser with their shitty webplayer because they're afraid I'm going to save it to my harddrive (lmao.) So instead I pirated it and got 720p for free. It's now on my hard drive and I can watch it with my proper media player. Pirating being free is really just the icing on the cake, I might have paid $4 an episode if they would give me a DRM-free 720p downloads, but that simply isn't an option. Why isn't it an option? I can and do buy DRM-free albums from Amazon. Albums which are smaller and easier to share than movies or TV shows, yet are still offered DRM free. The TV/movie industry get away with offering inferior crippled products because not enough people know how to pirate movies. But I do, so I'm not their chump.
- scarface74 4y ago
  No, music is DRM free because Apple had a stranglehold on digital music purchases. The music industry wanted Apple to license its DRM and Apple refused and came up with the alternative of letting everyone sell DRM free music. It had absolutely nothing to do with piracy https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_posts_rare_open_letter_thoughts_on_music/ https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_pos...