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Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by rhino369 »

iruoy wrote: post #3

With the current trends in streaming piracy must be on the rise again. Are there any numbers on that? Ideally plotted against streaming subscriber numbers

I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on—not that Netflix cares. If an unpaid user falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound?

But I can’t help but feel that 90% of the “back to the high seas” comments on Reddit or social media discussions of streaming is just pirates justifying the piracy they were already committing.

Pirates love having some moral justification. Shit, they should just admit they prefer getting something without paying for it.

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by godzillabrennus »

rhino369 wrote: post #11
iruoy wrote: post #3

With the current trends in streaming piracy must be on the rise again. Are there any numbers on that? Ideally plotted against streaming subscriber numbers

I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on—not that Netflix cares. If an unpaid user falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound? But I can’t help but feel that 90% of the “back to the high seas” comments on Reddit or social media discussions of streaming is just pirates justifying the piracy they were already committing. Pirates lo…

I think with price hikes and tools like Plex / Jellyfin making it easier to create your own streaming service for content you want the social media posts are accurately representing a shift of consumers back to piracy.

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by awaythrow42 »

I always felt blocking such sites meant even worse for the users. If you google a pirate or ahem porn right now, it will just send you even more shady sites because all legit ones are blocked. Even searching "websitename bla bla" will send you to a copy of websitename that looks like it but it is with more adware and possible malware

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

rhino369 wrote: post #11
iruoy wrote: post #3

With the current trends in streaming piracy must be on the rise again. Are there any numbers on that? Ideally plotted against streaming subscriber numbers

I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on—not that Netflix cares. If an unpaid user falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound? But I can’t help but feel that 90% of the “back to the high seas” comments on Reddit or social media discussions of streaming is just pirates justifying the piracy they were already committing. Pirates lo…

> I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on

I pay for Netflix and Prime but typically stream their content on pirate sites - because pirate sites at least try to deliver a good experience.

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Post by npn »

bluescrn wrote: post #4
iruoy wrote: post #3

With the current trends in streaming piracy must be on the rise again. Are there any numbers on that? Ideally plotted against streaming subscriber numbers

How long until popular YouTube content ends up torrent sites, as the war on ad-blockers escalates?

already there, as there is no guarantee that a video will exist forever on Youtube.

many people hoard youtube videos just because they fear that those video will disappear when they need them.

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by somenameforme »

One ironic thing is that one of the easiest ways to find good 'pirate' sites is to simply search for the takedowns. One indirect way to do this search Google for some term like [movie_name torrent] and then go to the links in the inevitable "In response to multiple complaints that we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 results from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaints that caused the removals at LumenDatabase.org: Complaint [1], Complaint [2], Complaint [3]." message.

Those are the results from 'interstellar torrent'.

The takedowns are largely free advertising for the legitimate sites. It requires some basic level of knowledge, but that's true of even just using e.g. torrents on average, so it's probably a quite meaningful factor in this.

[1] - https://lumendatabase.org/notices/32859507

[2] - https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34353453

[3] - https://lumendatabase.org/notices/24237273

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by wkat4242 »

rhino369 wrote: post #11
iruoy wrote: post #3

With the current trends in streaming piracy must be on the rise again. Are there any numbers on that? Ideally plotted against streaming subscriber numbers

I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on—not that Netflix cares. If an unpaid user falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound? But I can’t help but feel that 90% of the “back to the high seas” comments on Reddit or social media discussions of streaming is just pirates justifying the piracy they were already committing. Pirates lo…

Netflix used to advertise sharing your account with family and friends even those outside of the family. At least here in Holland they did. Clearly that made it ok and not piracy.

But since they clamped down I'm pirating again. Until then there was no need.

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by endisneigh »

Instead of not consuming, pirates use all sort of mental gymnastics to justify their consumption without paying or following the terms involved.

I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?

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