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And those companies wonder why piracy is back on the rise. We have been duped.

by nblavoie 3y ago

catach 3y ago
Is piracy on the rise? That seems like a difficult thing to reliably track.
- aqme28 3y ago
  Anecdotally, I've found myself doing it again. I used to when I was young, but totally stopped up until about a year ago. Illegal streaming sites have become impressively good. Better UX than Netflix.
- Fluorescence 3y ago
  There are lots of decent signals out there if someone did want to track it: standard site/search term tracking, the number of leechers of torrents, activity in pirate subreddits/discords, installs of Jellyfin/Plex servers etc. FWIW I can't say I have noticed any radical increase in popularity. The number of Leechers on the most popular piratebay torrents are only in the 100s so I assume it's very niche. I suspect that "playing an .mkv file" is already too technical/clunky for much of the public compared to using streaming app. Let alone setting up a seedbox and media server behind a VPN or whatever for the best experience.
  - aqme28 3y ago
    I think (from my and my friend's behavior), that a lot of movie streaming has moved away from torrents and onto free streaming sites. There's no longer any reason to download a movie you're going to watch once, and it's harder for ISPs to track you down.
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kervantas 3y ago
I cancelled nearly all my subscriptions and set up an old notebook at home with Jellyfin and qBittorent + search plugins. Pretty simple and satisfies my needs.
ilyt 3y ago
I have no problem paying for content, I pay for Spotify and video games, but I refuse to pay for video until company delivers a non-DRMed video file to my hard drive that I can watch where and how I want. Piracy is a service problem, as Gaben says so it is.
- CaptainZapp 3y ago
  My TV provider allowes me to store up to 2000 hours high definition TV in the cloud. Combined with 6 movie channels, which show virtually every movie synchronized and in its original language[0] version without ad interruption this setup works for me. [0] Granted, the original version wasn't too helpful in watching Parasite, which I had to enjoy in the German dub.
  - jayknight 3y ago
    > My TV provider allowes me to store up to 2000 hours high definition TV in the cloud. That you are free to watch until you stop paying for their service. Those movies do not belong to you.

And those companies wonder why piracy is back on the rise. We have been duped.

catach 3y ago

Is piracy on the rise? That seems like a difficult thing to reliably track.

aqme28 3y ago
Anecdotally, I've found myself doing it again. I used to when I was young, but totally stopped up until about a year ago. Illegal streaming sites have become impressively good. Better UX than Netflix.
Fluorescence 3y ago
There are lots of decent signals out there if someone did want to track it: standard site/search term tracking, the number of leechers of torrents, activity in pirate subreddits/discords, installs of Jellyfin/Plex servers etc. FWIW I can't say I have noticed any radical increase in popularity. The number of Leechers on the most popular piratebay torrents are only in the 100s so I assume it's very niche. I suspect that "playing an .mkv file" is already too technical/clunky for much of the public compared to using streaming app. Let alone setting up a seedbox and media server behind a VPN or whatever for the best experience.
- aqme28 3y ago
  I think (from my and my friend's behavior), that a lot of movie streaming has moved away from torrents and onto free streaming sites. There's no longer any reason to download a movie you're going to watch once, and it's harder for ISPs to track you down.
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kervantas 3y ago

I cancelled nearly all my subscriptions and set up an old notebook at home with Jellyfin and qBittorent + search plugins. Pretty simple and satisfies my needs.

ilyt 3y ago

I have no problem paying for content, I pay for Spotify and video games, but I refuse to pay for video until company delivers a non-DRMed video file to my hard drive that I can watch where and how I want. Piracy is a service problem, as Gaben says so it is.

CaptainZapp 3y ago
My TV provider allowes me to store up to 2000 hours high definition TV in the cloud. Combined with 6 movie channels, which show virtually every movie synchronized and in its original language[0] version without ad interruption this setup works for me. [0] Granted, the original version wasn't too helpful in watching Parasite, which I had to enjoy in the German dub.
- jayknight 3y ago
  > My TV provider allowes me to store up to 2000 hours high definition TV in the cloud. That you are free to watch until you stop paying for their service. Those movies do not belong to you.