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Pretty much everyone I know (admittedly mostly techies) have gone back to pirating. It’s ridiculous how many streaming services you need, and how much each cost
by sen 3y ago
Pretty much everyone I know (admittedly mostly techies) have gone back to pirating. It’s ridiculous how many streaming services you need, and how much each costs, to get access to the popular shows of the season.
It doesn’t matter if I use Apple Music and my friend uses Spotify, we can both listen to the same new albums, but we can’t watch shows each other recommend because we regularly have (now “had”) different video streaming services.
- reportgunner 3y agoParadoxically netflix et al made pirating even better because now we don't have to wait for the DVD release to get good video and audio quality.
- stackedinserter 3y agoAlso, I'm in full control of what I downloaded ("pirated" in disneyspeak). That Peppa.pig.2003.eng.subs.m0tiv8.mkv is mine, won't disappear from my catalog, and I can push it to children's iPad before flight or share with a friend.
- lethologica 3y agoYep, I certainly have. With just two trackers I’ve got access to pretty much every TV show and movie in existence.
- crossroadsguy 3y agoMy experience has been different. While I have myself gone back a bit I really do not see that happening in my circle. You see, most of the people I knew didn't really want or need specific or high quality content - I reckon they only needed something they could fix their eyes to and spend hours and days. Netlix and the ilk gives them that and probably they are happy just doing that.
- walthamstow 3y agoMy normie male/coupled friends are mostly doing churn and burn. Disney for The Bear, churn, HBO for Succession, churn, repeat. The actual quality shows are few and far between so it has to be done if you aren't pirating. For my women friends though, Netflix just has them dialed for reality stuff. Selling Sunset, Below Deck, Love is Blind, Too Hot to Handle, Queer Eye. Educated women with serious jobs, they love to escape with this stuff, IME.
- l72 3y agoI have done this too. I set up a jellyfin, and re-ripped all my old dvds and blu-rays. I am also renting and ripping blu-rays from my library a lot too. It isn't just the lack of content, content suddenly being removed, or even the expense and hassle of dealing with 5+ different services; it is that the overall experience has really degraded. I find jellyfin with the content I want to be a superior experience in every single way. IF content providers would offer a digital version DRM free, I would purchase a ton of TV shows and movies directly.