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"youtube doesn't have films / series" Yes, it does, if you pay. It works the same as Google Play Movies.
but it cost 5 euros for only one movie, so nobody use it. Netflix doesn't have much content outside of US. So torrents are still a huge thing
So, why would you stream something that is designed to be downloaded? How is that better in any way? The whole advantage of streaming is from the publishers' point of view.
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what hassle? During the day: go to torrent site click link watch film that evening. Browse video review sites of new releases, find a film to watch. No more hassle that finding a film on netflix. Only extra hassle is, you have to click a link a few hours before you want to watch it. I have not used US netflix, but torrents have more content than the netflix I have seen (UK and Latin America)
In some countries, torrent consumers' IPs are tracked and they get sued => hassle. Besides, I have all Netflix, Amazon Prime, Twitch Prime. The last time I watched any of them is months ago, I am too busy with life to watch some random torrents I have to download hours before.
source: lol me three times :^)
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Any suggestions on how to do that? Asking for a friend
Even the popular registrars accept Bitcoin payments and offer free whois protection. All that is left is a temporary email address and not using your own IP. I'd call that reasonably anonymous. Pay attention to the TLD, because it might be against ToS to register some of them anonymously (mostly ccTLDs). There's plenty that don't have such restrictions.
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what hassle? During the day: go to torrent site click link watch film that evening. Browse video review sites of new releases, find a film to watch. No more hassle that finding a film on netflix. Only extra hassle is, you have to click a link a few hours before you want to watch it. I have not used US netflix, but torrents have more content than the netflix I have seen (UK and Latin America)
In some countries, torrent consumers' IPs are tracked and they get sued => hassle. Besides, I have all Netflix, Amazon Prime, Twitch Prime. The last time I watched any of them is months ago, I am too busy with life to watch some random torrents I have to download hours before.
The highest video quality that Netflix offers is worse than even a bad rip, since their demographics don't care.
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netflix content is crap in a lot of countries outside major western countries. youtube doesn't have films / series twitch, I don't really know what this is, I thought it is where you watch people play games? Why the hell would I want to watch this? fortnite, I think is a game? Again, why would I want to watch this? Also, a lot of places connection speeds make streaming difficult, so downloading a torrent to watch lat…
"youtube doesn't have films / series" Yes, it does, if you pay. It works the same as Google Play Movies.
You're getting errors as your API is dead: https://carsonplay.herokuapp.com/video/errors This is a waste of time, herokuapp will get a DMCA and your app will die. How is this trash on the HN front page? Is there no moderation at all?
Please remain civil. While I agree that this is not frontpage material, there is no reason to talk like that.
the only reason I can think it might not be good material for such is the common perception that torrents exist basically solely to facilitate actions of a criminal nature, namely piracy, and while I agree that's a fair assessment, it's always been sort of a doubleface thing with torrents. they have plenty of valid and legitimate uses, obviously, it's just that piracy is a specific configuration of one of those uses, but it goes without saying that you can't really claim "become a pirate today easy!" as one of the features it provides ;)
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Not all good shows and movies are legally available around the world, so even if you had the money to pay you can't. Youtube and twitch are limited, you can;t watch a good SciFi movie on youtube .
Yeah I know but is it really all the hassle? There's tons of great stuff on Netflix. If you are really into video then all those monthly subs won't kill you. Plus amenities like where did I stop watching, great clients for any platform, always top-notch quality up to 4K, multiple languages incl. subtitles. A decade ago torrents made sense. Then, official offerings were rare/poor/expensive but now? The current most ex…
There are also websites where you just search what you want and click on play.
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Because?
Copyright holders sue you (scare tactics, go to local pirate party for legal assistance)
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netflix content is crap in a lot of countries outside major western countries. youtube doesn't have films / series twitch, I don't really know what this is, I thought it is where you watch people play games? Why the hell would I want to watch this? fortnite, I think is a game? Again, why would I want to watch this? Also, a lot of places connection speeds make streaming difficult, so downloading a torrent to watch lat…
What I meant: nowadays, there is such a huge and great offering for your media consumption needs and all of the above are competing for your airtime. All are so good that it got quite tough for all the market players. The urge to watch some stellar movie as a torrent is not that big anymore as years ago because of the good competition.
> The urge to watch some stellar movie as a torrent is not that big anymore as years ago because of the good competition.
Maybe for some (younger generations), but watching films is still a huge activity for vast numbers of people
After 12 hours are work, I want to watch a film. I could buy legal DVDs in this country with a lot of effort (3 hour trip to the city) probably could find legal DVDs in an upmarket mall.
Yes there is netflix, but the content here is terrible, I couldn't watch a film I wanted to, just have to watch "something" that is on offer.
End of the day, if I want to watch a film / documentary / series I have chosen, I have no choice but for torrents. They work. They are simple. All I have to do is click a link by early afternoon.