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If you torrent, you always get 4K, and VLC never has any issue with screenshots, either.

by sneak 2y ago

wruza 2y ago
You also get that warm feeling from sharing with others, which is more than 4k and hdr combined. All we need is connection.
mmh0000 2y ago
You'll also get an ad-free, offline first, non-tracked experience. Fly that black flag high!
- djfivyvusn 2y ago
  Why I still torrent even while paying for Netflix, prime video, YouTube premium, Spotify and audible.
selcuka 2y ago
Yes. Apparently Gabe Newell [1] was right: > We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. [1] https://www.escapistmagazine.com/Valves-Gabe-Newell-Says-Piracy-Is-a-Service-Problem/ https://www.escapistmagazine.com/Valves-Gabe-Newell-Says-Pir...
- chii 2y ago
  It's a pricing to service ratio problem. Unfortunately, the corporations that own the copyright thinks the price is zero for piracy, when it in actual fact, isn't "truly" zero. The fact of the matter is, these copyright owning entities want to extract the maximum amount of profit, rather than provide the lowest price, maximum service for the least cost. I'm glad there's piracy as a floor to how bad streaming can get.
  - sgc 2y ago
    We have Netflix. The quality is unusable. There is no price at which I think the service is worth the money. As with so many things by 2025, capitalism has eaten itself and utterly failed. I only have it for a sense of moral rectitude - of which it provides almost none as well. Let me give money to these unbelievably greedy jerks because that's the right thing to do???
    - andsoitis 2y ago
      > There is no price at which I think the service is worth the money. It’s fine if you don’t think there’s anything worth watching on Netflix. Worth knowing that more than 300 million people around the world disagree: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-300-million-q4-2024-1236280419/ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-300-mil...
      - Peacefulz 2y ago
        I would be in the metric as well, while detesting the service. However, I'm not the only person in my home and it's not always easy to transition the family onto my local solutions. It's why I have YouTube premium as well, while letting the family know it's easy to grab all of that content and self host. It's like the chance of seeing something to watch you didn't already know about outweighs the cost and quality of service.
      - rowanG077 2y ago
        The problem is not what you can watch on Netflix. The two main problems I have are that Netflix is not a one stop shop and that Netflix turns my device into my adversary. The latter means I won't ever use the anything Netflix had made.
      - sgc 2y ago
        We use Linux in my house. My problem is with the quality of the video they send to my device. It is not worth a penny because it is actively disagreeable to watch. There is some good content there, not more than a small percentage, but I understand their fight with other companies greatly impacts availability.
piperswe 2y ago
VLC even lets you save a full-res snapshot of whatever you're seeing, regardless of the window size!
Boldened15 2y ago
Since Netflix never (edit: rarely) releases Blu-Rays for their original content, there's no source to produce high-quality versions of their 4K content right? Could be wrong but I thought webrips that screen capture are relatively low quality because they're reencoding a video that's already being compressed for streaming. Don't know if I notice these things much personally but if someone already cares about 1080p vs 4K they probably would.
- throwaway48476 2y ago
  The scene has ways of getting the data without reencoding. Look for web dl.
  - avidiax 2y ago
    This is still far less bitrate than the equivalent BluRay. Netflix dropped their 4k bitrate during COVID and never looked back.
- bolognafairy 2y ago
  This is the difference between “rip” and “DL”. You can certainly pull content from Netflix without re-encoding.

If you torrent, you always get 4K, and VLC never has any issue with screenshots, either.

by sneak 2y ago

If you torrent, you always get 4K, and VLC never has any issue with screenshots, either.

You also get that warm feeling from sharing with others, which is more than 4k and hdr combined. All we need is connection.

mmh0000 2y ago

You'll also get an ad-free, offline first, non-tracked experience. Fly that black flag high!

djfivyvusn 2y ago
Why I still torrent even while paying for Netflix, prime video, YouTube premium, Spotify and audible.

selcuka 2y ago

Yes. Apparently Gabe Newell [1] was right: > We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. [1] https://www.escapistmagazine.com/Valves-Gabe-Newell-Says-Piracy-Is-a-Service-Problem/ https://www.escapistmagazine.com/Valves-Gabe-Newell-Says-Pir...

chii 2y ago
It's a pricing to service ratio problem. Unfortunately, the corporations that own the copyright thinks the price is zero for piracy, when it in actual fact, isn't "truly" zero. The fact of the matter is, these copyright owning entities want to extract the maximum amount of profit, rather than provide the lowest price, maximum service for the least cost. I'm glad there's piracy as a floor to how bad streaming can get.
- sgc 2y ago
  We have Netflix. The quality is unusable. There is no price at which I think the service is worth the money. As with so many things by 2025, capitalism has eaten itself and utterly failed. I only have it for a sense of moral rectitude - of which it provides almost none as well. Let me give money to these unbelievably greedy jerks because that's the right thing to do???
  - andsoitis 2y ago
    > There is no price at which I think the service is worth the money. It’s fine if you don’t think there’s anything worth watching on Netflix. Worth knowing that more than 300 million people around the world disagree: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-300-million-q4-2024-1236280419/ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-300-mil...
    - Peacefulz 2y ago
      I would be in the metric as well, while detesting the service. However, I'm not the only person in my home and it's not always easy to transition the family onto my local solutions. It's why I have YouTube premium as well, while letting the family know it's easy to grab all of that content and self host. It's like the chance of seeing something to watch you didn't already know about outweighs the cost and quality of service.
    - rowanG077 2y ago
      The problem is not what you can watch on Netflix. The two main problems I have are that Netflix is not a one stop shop and that Netflix turns my device into my adversary. The latter means I won't ever use the anything Netflix had made.
    - sgc 2y ago
      We use Linux in my house. My problem is with the quality of the video they send to my device. It is not worth a penny because it is actively disagreeable to watch. There is some good content there, not more than a small percentage, but I understand their fight with other companies greatly impacts availability.

piperswe 2y ago

VLC even lets you save a full-res snapshot of whatever you're seeing, regardless of the window size!

Boldened15 2y ago

Since Netflix never (edit: rarely) releases Blu-Rays for their original content, there's no source to produce high-quality versions of their 4K content right? Could be wrong but I thought webrips that screen capture are relatively low quality because they're reencoding a video that's already being compressed for streaming. Don't know if I notice these things much personally but if someone already cares about 1080p vs 4K they probably would.

throwaway48476 2y ago
The scene has ways of getting the data without reencoding. Look for web dl.
- avidiax 2y ago
  This is still far less bitrate than the equivalent BluRay. Netflix dropped their 4k bitrate during COVID and never looked back.
bolognafairy 2y ago
This is the difference between “rip” and “DL”. You can certainly pull content from Netflix without re-encoding.