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Open to it? I practice it when I find it the appropriate response to the market. I will usually pirate video under one or more of the following conditions: -

Open to it? I practice it when I find it the appropriate response to the market. I will usually pirate video under one or more of the following conditions: - I already own or owned a copy of the film at some point in my life - The film or show isn't available for streaming or even purchase - The streaming quality is vastly inferior to the format I can pirate - The film or show can be streamed but with no option besides "free with ads" - I have good reason to believe that those responsible for making the film won't receive a red cent I've been finding myself pirating more often recently because I find the quality of streaming video to often be intolerable. It may be alright for brand spanking new shows, but I like to watch a lot of older content, and the quality of the video often totally blows. I'm talking a crapton of compression, and what I suspect to be upscaled standard def rather than actual HD or 4k. What blows my mind is that a ~250mb mkv file I torrented in under 30 seconds usually blows streaming quality out of the water. I get that torrents are on a much smaller scale, but come on, it's peer to peer file delivery that it almost immediately ready to watch with no buffering or ads or massive disk space needed.

wintermutestwin 4y ago
>"free with ads" I am learning to despise Amazon for this crap. As someone who still finds massive value in AMZ, they have poisoned the well and I feel that it is just a matter of time before I flush this company out of my life.
- ravenstine 4y ago
  Yeah I feel the same way. Though I've yet to be truly scammed by their regular storefront as others have claimed, their catalogue is becoming increasingly useless to me. Way too much crap from Alibaba being sold on there under fake sounding brand names (OFTEN IN UPPERCASE FOR SOME REASON) and with thousands of reviews that don't sound legit. At this rate of decay, I don't see how Amazon isn't destined for some kind of correction. Same goes for YouTube, despite being a very different kind of service. Their search is now virtually useless, everyone is using codewords to get around their draconian content policies, the number of ads that appear on the YouTube smart TV app is completely absurd, their web interface is full of bugs, old content is now difficult if not impossible to surface in many cases, and the overall kind of content now is repetitive and PG rated in all categories. Though I doubt that YouTube ever made a profit (or at least a sustained one), it just seems like the status quo is neither a good one nor one that can be sustained even by The Google. All of these companies seem in trouble long-term, really. The one thing Amazon really has going for it is AWS. Yeah, The Google has their own cloud stuff, but let's face it, enough people have learned their lesson that anyone in their right mind wouldn't be hosting a new web service through them.

wintermutestwin 4y ago

>"free with ads" I am learning to despise Amazon for this crap. As someone who still finds massive value in AMZ, they have poisoned the well and I feel that it is just a matter of time before I flush this company out of my life.

ravenstine 4y ago
Yeah I feel the same way. Though I've yet to be truly scammed by their regular storefront as others have claimed, their catalogue is becoming increasingly useless to me. Way too much crap from Alibaba being sold on there under fake sounding brand names (OFTEN IN UPPERCASE FOR SOME REASON) and with thousands of reviews that don't sound legit. At this rate of decay, I don't see how Amazon isn't destined for some kind of correction. Same goes for YouTube, despite being a very different kind of service. Their search is now virtually useless, everyone is using codewords to get around their draconian content policies, the number of ads that appear on the YouTube smart TV app is completely absurd, their web interface is full of bugs, old content is now difficult if not impossible to surface in many cases, and the overall kind of content now is repetitive and PG rated in all categories. Though I doubt that YouTube ever made a profit (or at least a sustained one), it just seems like the status quo is neither a good one nor one that can be sustained even by The Google. All of these companies seem in trouble long-term, really. The one thing Amazon really has going for it is AWS. Yeah, The Google has their own cloud stuff, but let's face it, enough people have learned their lesson that anyone in their right mind wouldn't be hosting a new web service through them.