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> People who were torrenting were not buying DVDs. I am a counterexample, and there's never only one. My usual workflow is: 1. Watch a movie on a streaming s
by LeoPanthera 3y ago
> People who were torrenting were not buying DVDs.
I am a counterexample, and there's never only one.
My usual workflow is:
1. Watch a movie on a streaming service. If I enjoy it:
2. Pirate a local copy. When the physical copy becomes available:
3. Rip the physical copy, delete the pirated version.
Without a physical release, there's no step 3, and step 1 becomes increasingly pointless.
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd the majority of people aren’t doing that. You hardly ever hear the music industry complaining about piracy once iTunes and especially Spotify came online. “convenience beats free”. I had a Plex server set up at home with over 1000 movies collected over the years from 2007 - 2020. It got to the point where I would just rather buy/rent a movie than deal with torrenting or the Plex server. Eventually, I just copied all 2TB+ to AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive and got rid of it.