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Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
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Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#62Nope not open to piracy. I'm not going to pirate a movie just because I can't afford the streaming service.
What if there is no alternative? Imagine you're already paying for 3-4 streaming services but none of them have the content available, would you result to piracy then or just give up to watch it?
What if they had the provided content, but not dubbed/subtitled/cc'ed in the language you need?
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#63The one that blows my mind are the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) pay-per-views. You have to be subscribed to one service that charges monthly, ESPN+ I believe, for the 'privilege' of buying a PPV at ~$80. Not only is it quite expensive IMO, but it is a complete pain in the rear compared to the alternative of googling a couple of stream links.
Hah. Yeah pirate that shit lol. It’s almost as if these people think we’re not tech savvy.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#64I pirated a lot when I was younger and couldn't afford it. It's a headache I don't need anymore - worrying about VPNs or seedboxes, torrent sites moving to different domains or being shut down, maintaining ratios, letters from your ISP... Nowadays entertainment is quite accessible through subscriptions and I just wait for decent sales on the games I want to play.
while I agree that despite fragmentation, it is more accessible, this can be a US-centric view. Even if you're aware of the service that can provide a series, you might need a VPN to subscribe and use.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#65I do it all the time but I pay for all the services too. Everything about the quality of streaming is worse, but it’s convenient for the rest of the family and occasionally me. I’d gladly buy full quality DRM free stuff directly if anyone would make it available.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#66Piracy has driven and given political cover to all all sorts of abusive technology.
This was entirely predictable, I and others pleaded decades ago that exactly this would happen, but people just wanted free stuff. And here we are.
Yes, the big media companies are often unlikeable. But US piracy gives up any high ground, and helps grease the push of further anti-consumer conventions and legislation. "Lawmakers, don't let big media do this latest anti-consumer thing (while we are taking their paid product for free)!" doesn't have a lot of credibility.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#67Yeah I started seriously considering piracy once again a few months ago. Partly because I've started worrying that we will see some major failure in AWS/Azure/GCP at some point in the near future leading to cascading failures, taking a long time to recover from. So, sudden failure of service is one thing. Another is that it is sometimes hard to find a show or movie you are looking for in any of the streaming services I subscribe to. Third, I want more freedom, piracy gives some back.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#68I'd like all of the subscription providers to provide an API so that I can have a unified front-end, in order to improve discoverability & just save my sanity. I preferred the old days, with just a single cable/sat set-top box. Might not have been able to stream on-demand, but at least I only had to look in 1 place to record (series link etc) or work out what was available.
Agreed, there are services like Just Watch, but an official API from each streaming service would be nice.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#69I never 'left' piracy. Part because third world issues, part because I couldn't get much sense of that: never went into any streaming service. At home we "still" consume cable TV (4 families with 5 tvs, via coax cable, 118 channels and a fee of around USD$6/month). I admit I pirate music though half of my catalog is stuff I downloaded from Jamendo.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#70Why pay when you can take for free, is the idea?
It is not a zero sum game.
A better phrase would be: "Why pay when you can copy for no cost".