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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 yummypaint »

endisneigh wrote: post #20

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?

At least within the us, theft associated with things like shoplifting is dwarfed by wage theft. Companies steal from their customers and employees more than the other way around. I would argue this is the purpose of the streaming model, to make sure people can't pass their media collection on to their descendants so it has to be repurchased. Theft.

Piracy is an activity within the scope of the free market, just like this institutionalized theft. Giving companies a blank check while holding individuals to the highest standard is a more impressive feat of mental gymnastics.

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by Yeul »

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…

This is not entirely true. There are services that provide pirated TV and streaming for a subscription.

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/150656/europese-politiekorpsen-r...

Remember there was a time when criminals made lots of money selling bootleg DVDs and CDs. Obviously those buyers had money.

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by yieldcrv »

mcv wrote: post #30
rhino369 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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've always been really happy with Netflix. I was still happy with Disney+. But now I'm also paying for Amazon Prime. And then some of the things I want to see are on something called Paramount+, and I don't even know where to get that. A single, cheap streaming platform is awesome. Fragmented streaming platforms that raise their prices while offering less content, is significantly less awesome. Maybe I should cancel…

I just cancelled Amazon Prime completely.

Just found out you dont even need it for Amazon Video anymore, and most of the good stuff you had to pay for there anyway.

For deliveries it was always barely worth it for me with prime same/one/two day free shipping being novel 10 years ago, but always hard to quantify how much I used it and the speed has gotten worse and worse, with Amazon Video being the extra thing to keep it just interesting enough.

For the low volume I order I’m often on a retailer’s website. Same day delivery is just gone in my area, and actually Uber and Doordash will just go straight to retail stores for you and its actually 20 minute delivery. They have subscriptions too that reduce some fees.

And if I’m not saving money while using something more convenient, then Amazon Prime time to go! Thanks for the last decade, obsolete this decade.

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by slikrick »

endisneigh wrote: post #33
jncfhnb wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2023-crime-trends/ Theft rates are falling excluding vehicle theft

Why are you arbitrarily excluding vehicles?

why are you arbitrarily pretending that makes up for all other forms of theft?

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by bt4u »

yard2010 wrote: post #37
somenameforme wrote: post #18

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 co…

Nice trick, but you can just use Yandex to look up anything you can't find on google. No DMCA takedowns there :)

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Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by yard2010 »

endisneigh wrote: post #20

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?

Calm down satan. Until you manage to manufacture physical products for free (one time cost then get inf copies, as digital content) retail theft !== digital pirating

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by jjulius »

Mindwipe wrote: post #31
wkat4242 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, they didn't.

This is just what I could find with a quick, cursory Google search...

>In a March 10, 2017, Twitter thread that was promoting its original series Love, Netflix wrote, "Love is sharing a password." The single tweet in the thread garnered more than 15,000 likes and more than 4,600 retweets.[0]

>Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK[1]

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/netflix-encouraged-subscribers-shar...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/netflix-ceo-says-account-s...

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by yard2010 »

wkat4242 wrote: post #23
Alifatisk wrote: post #9

Pirating movies has become so easy that people can almost not tell they are pirating movies. One example is popcorntime or webtorrent + finding the movie in Yify.

Yes but be careful. In some countries like Germany with low consumer protections you will get extortion letters from random lawyers when you use popcorn time.

Always use a good vpn.
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