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Piracy is for teenagers and poor people.
by opengrass 6mo ago
Piracy is for teenagers and poor people.
- bix6 6mo agoHow many middle class families can legitimately afford an extra $100/mo+ on multiple streaming services?
- opengrass 6mo ago$100 is unheard of in Europe.
- bix6 6mo agoNetflix, Disney, HBO, Amazon, Apple, Movistar, DAZN. $100/mo estimate for that combo in Spain.
- opengrass 6mo agoI see, we're talking combos now. The lowest end Moviestar package with soccer is 9 Euro.
- bix6 6mo agoCorrect, I said “multiple” in my original post. I don’t doubt you can watch one stream for 9 Euro. What happens when the game you want is with the other provider?
- geodel 6mo agoIf watching this much videos from such large array of services is that important for a family I am sure they can easily cut down on other leisure and entertainment and come up just fine.
- watwut 6mo agoThey dont need to wach "much videos". The argument is about "specific movies and series". And for that, there are three options: piracy, pay many services, constantly juggle sign ins and sign outs.
- prmoustache 6mo agoA lot of spanish people live with less than 1000€ a month. You can barely rent a 2 bedroom flat in many cities with that. 100€ for leisure and entertainment is already a huge sum of money when filing the tank of their cars to earn their salary cost them 2 to 3x 80€ already.
- lostlogin 6mo agoBrowse r/homelab and your view might change. Wondering which of the 8 providers has your show is lame.
- xienze 6mo ago> Wondering which of the 8 providers has your show is lame. Yep, but there is a solution. Buy physical media and rip it. You get basically the best quality available _and_ a backup at the same time. You don't have to resort to piracy to avoid streaming services.
- duskwuff 6mo agoNot all TV shows get a physical media release. Even when they do, it's not uncommon for them to be lower quality than the streaming release. (For example, the streaming release of The Expanse was 4k HDR, but the Blu-Ray release is 1080p SDR.) I expect this will only get worse in the future - physical media is an increasingly niche product.
- lostlogin 6mo ago> Buy physical media and rip it. Last time I tried to watch a dvd I rented it. I tried to watch it on a projector from my laptop. DRM prevented me. So I tried to watch in a standalone dvd player. It was region locked to a different region. I’ve pirated ever since. I subscribe to a fair few services but don’t watch stuff there. My *ars provide a better experience. It’s more expensive with the various services and hardware but it works. My conscience is clear, I tried the ‘correct’ approach.
- walletdrainer 6mo ago[flagged]
- PowerElectronix 6mo agoI guess I just wanna feel young again.