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> Sure enough, The Software Alliance—a Washington, D.C. anti-piracy organization—claimed digital piracy declined by 37 percent in 2017. Since The Software Alia

> Sure enough, The Software Alliance—a Washington, D.C. anti-piracy organization—claimed digital piracy declined by 37 percent in 2017. Since The Software Aliance only estimates piracy of PC software, this seems like a weird source to quote in an article about media piracy. I also wonder, now that people get scary notices from their ISP whenever they torrent anything, if more people are turning to less-easy-to-track alternatives?

hightrix 3y ago
> I also wonder, now that people get scary notices from their ISP whenever they torrent anything, if more people are turning to less-easy-to-track alternatives? Do people still get these notices? I recall getting one many years ago, but after starting to use a VPN for any torrent traffic, I haven't gotten one. As an aside, the moment a streaming service removes the ad-free plan, or drastically increases price of ad-free, will be the moment that service is canceled for many people. I've recently canceled Prime and am now downloading the shows I hadn't yet finished or wanted to watch again. Additionally, I fully understand this is my own entitlement, but if I've paid licensing fees[0] for content for a period of time then I feel zero guilt about downloading that content if the service changes the terms of the deal, such as by removing ad-free viewing. [0] - A subscription to a streaming service
jncfhnb 3y ago
I bring this up fairly often but I do not understand why people’s default privacy mental image is torrenting and not the perfectly convenient Netflix clones like Sflix that require no software
- calamari4065 3y ago
  Because that isn't private? Instead of Netflix tracking what you watch, it's some other site. Sites which usually come with awful ads and tracking to pay for the gargantuan amount of bandwidth a streaming platform needs. When I say private, it means that absolutely no one except me and my computer needs to know that I'm watching Xena for the hundredth time.
  - jncfhnb 3y ago
    Piracy*
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
  I doubt that very many people here even knows how civilians pirate things. These threads are always full of people describing how they have a 80PB ZFS array on OVH with a Plex server, unlimited Usenet block account, and 50 private trackers, acting like they’re describing anything relevant to anyone besides the ultra-nerdy. Sharing streaming service passwords. 16-part Family Guy episodes on TikTok, and ridiculous ad-ridden streaming websites ending in odd TLDs are all the rage. The latest generation of young adults grew up on Chromebooks.
  - jncfhnb 3y ago
    Like, sure. But SFlix is easier than all of those things and is a perfect match to a Chromebook. I just don’t understand why it’s not in the public conscious.

hightrix 3y ago

> I also wonder, now that people get scary notices from their ISP whenever they torrent anything, if more people are turning to less-easy-to-track alternatives? Do people still get these notices? I recall getting one many years ago, but after starting to use a VPN for any torrent traffic, I haven't gotten one. As an aside, the moment a streaming service removes the ad-free plan, or drastically increases price of ad-free, will be the moment that service is canceled for many people. I've recently canceled Prime and am now downloading the shows I hadn't yet finished or wanted to watch again. Additionally, I fully understand this is my own entitlement, but if I've paid licensing fees[0] for content for a period of time then I feel zero guilt about downloading that content if the service changes the terms of the deal, such as by removing ad-free viewing. [0] - A subscription to a streaming service

jncfhnb 3y ago

I bring this up fairly often but I do not understand why people’s default privacy mental image is torrenting and not the perfectly convenient Netflix clones like Sflix that require no software

calamari4065 3y ago
Because that isn't private? Instead of Netflix tracking what you watch, it's some other site. Sites which usually come with awful ads and tracking to pay for the gargantuan amount of bandwidth a streaming platform needs. When I say private, it means that absolutely no one except me and my computer needs to know that I'm watching Xena for the hundredth time.
- jncfhnb 3y ago
  Piracy*
cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
I doubt that very many people here even knows how civilians pirate things. These threads are always full of people describing how they have a 80PB ZFS array on OVH with a Plex server, unlimited Usenet block account, and 50 private trackers, acting like they’re describing anything relevant to anyone besides the ultra-nerdy. Sharing streaming service passwords. 16-part Family Guy episodes on TikTok, and ridiculous ad-ridden streaming websites ending in odd TLDs are all the rage. The latest generation of young adults grew up on Chromebooks.
- jncfhnb 3y ago
  Like, sure. But SFlix is easier than all of those things and is a perfect match to a Chromebook. I just don’t understand why it’s not in the public conscious.