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I don't pirate because I just can't be bothered. It's all too much work for a short temporary experience, but I do remember the promises. Streaming was going

I don't pirate because I just can't be bothered. It's all too much work for a short temporary experience, but I do remember the promises. Streaming was going to "save us" from the big cable companies. No ads, just pay that small subscription fee and watch what you want when you want it. Now there are a dozen subscription fees, I'm getting ads anyway, and I'm not getting content I want to pay money for. Some are even streaming live TV now, with no way to watch what you just watched again.

oefrha 4y ago
Pirating popular shows is actually pretty darn easy, and you get the benefit of watching it with your favorite player wherever you want to, not with the crap player they offer under scenarios they dictate. Want to watch an HBO show offline on a plane or train, no problem. I actually “pirate” some of stuff I pay for.
- ModernMech 4y ago
  > the benefit of watching it with your favorite player wherever you want to, not with the crap player they offer under scenarios they dictate This is the part I don't get. Why do you feel you have this right? FYIW, HBO Max allows you to download episodes for offline viewing, so it's not exactly true they are dictating the scenarios. I watch HBO all the time on plane rides.
  - jjulius 4y ago
    You seem to have missed the key line: >I actually “pirate” some of stuff I pay for. So, if someone pays for HBO Max and watches the latest episode of Barry at home via the app, but, as I do, feel that HBO's UI/UX is dogshit, and they then download a copy of it and slap it on their phone or laptop in a way that's more comfortable to them for their flight tomorrow, what's the difference? OP continues to pay HBO, but that next view is just on a local device. Edit: HBO Max downloads "expire" after 30 days, and you have 48 hours to finish it once you've started[1]. You're also limited to 30 downloads at once. This is hardly 'convenient' for some people. [1]https://help.hbomax.com/us/Answer/Detail/000001242 https://help.hbomax.com/us/Answer/Detail/000001242
    - monetus 4y ago
      I had a power outage recently, and everything I had downloaded but a children's movie had expired... This feature really got eaten by that policy.
wincy 4y ago
I use Apple Shortcuts + VPN + seed box and the shortcut grabs the magnet link and hits my torrent boxes API. I shared the Shortcut with my wife and it has made pirating so dang convenient and easy we’ve filled up 20TB of space, whoops, time to delete some shows. It’s also fantastic because I know -exactly- what my children are watching and if there’s some episode of Paw Patrol that’s particularly annoying it get deleted.
jjulius 4y ago
>I don't pirate because I just can't be bothered. It's all too much work for a short temporary experience, but I do remember the promises. This is the opposite of my experience. It took next-to-no effort, maybe an hour or two one time, to set up my Synology NAS box with Plex, Sonarr and Radarr. The result isn't something temporary, it's a fully-working system that obtains all of the shows and movies I want to watch and drops them onto Plex almost immediately. All I have to do is fire up Plex and the latest episodes of everything are right there, often within an hour of them airing on the east coast. I'm on the west coast, so this sometimes means I get to check them out before they air here. The result is a carefully curated library that's far more tailored to my tastes than any algorithm has offered me on any service.
- doubled112 4y ago
  Easier than ever! And I have a home server to run it from. It is just that I'm never going to consume it.
Gareth321 4y ago
I put far too much time into my server but now that it's up and running it requires zero input. I tell it what I want to watch and it serves it to me on a gold platter.

oefrha 4y ago

Pirating popular shows is actually pretty darn easy, and you get the benefit of watching it with your favorite player wherever you want to, not with the crap player they offer under scenarios they dictate. Want to watch an HBO show offline on a plane or train, no problem. I actually “pirate” some of stuff I pay for.

ModernMech 4y ago
> the benefit of watching it with your favorite player wherever you want to, not with the crap player they offer under scenarios they dictate This is the part I don't get. Why do you feel you have this right? FYIW, HBO Max allows you to download episodes for offline viewing, so it's not exactly true they are dictating the scenarios. I watch HBO all the time on plane rides.
- jjulius 4y ago
  You seem to have missed the key line: >I actually “pirate” some of stuff I pay for. So, if someone pays for HBO Max and watches the latest episode of Barry at home via the app, but, as I do, feel that HBO's UI/UX is dogshit, and they then download a copy of it and slap it on their phone or laptop in a way that's more comfortable to them for their flight tomorrow, what's the difference? OP continues to pay HBO, but that next view is just on a local device. Edit: HBO Max downloads "expire" after 30 days, and you have 48 hours to finish it once you've started[1]. You're also limited to 30 downloads at once. This is hardly 'convenient' for some people. [1]https://help.hbomax.com/us/Answer/Detail/000001242 https://help.hbomax.com/us/Answer/Detail/000001242
  - monetus 4y ago
    I had a power outage recently, and everything I had downloaded but a children's movie had expired... This feature really got eaten by that policy.

wincy 4y ago

I use Apple Shortcuts + VPN + seed box and the shortcut grabs the magnet link and hits my torrent boxes API. I shared the Shortcut with my wife and it has made pirating so dang convenient and easy we’ve filled up 20TB of space, whoops, time to delete some shows. It’s also fantastic because I know -exactly- what my children are watching and if there’s some episode of Paw Patrol that’s particularly annoying it get deleted.

jjulius 4y ago

>I don't pirate because I just can't be bothered. It's all too much work for a short temporary experience, but I do remember the promises. This is the opposite of my experience. It took next-to-no effort, maybe an hour or two one time, to set up my Synology NAS box with Plex, Sonarr and Radarr. The result isn't something temporary, it's a fully-working system that obtains all of the shows and movies I want to watch and drops them onto Plex almost immediately. All I have to do is fire up Plex and the latest episodes of everything are right there, often within an hour of them airing on the east coast. I'm on the west coast, so this sometimes means I get to check them out before they air here. The result is a carefully curated library that's far more tailored to my tastes than any algorithm has offered me on any service.

doubled112 4y ago
Easier than ever! And I have a home server to run it from. It is just that I'm never going to consume it.

Gareth321 4y ago

I put far too much time into my server but now that it's up and running it requires zero input. I tell it what I want to watch and it serves it to me on a gold platter.