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Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

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Re: Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

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Post by js2 »

diggan wrote: post #7
0x38B wrote: post #6

It’s funny how much better the Russian torrent tracker «Rutracker» is for foreign movies and serials, this show included. I love foreign movies and shows, and sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it.

> sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it. Yup. Top 2 reasons I became a pirate again after not being a pirate since maybe 15 years ago: #1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted #2 I was paying someone money to watch/listen to something and then they removed it Even popular things like Saturday Night Live are still impossible to acquire legally in my country. Edit: Forgot anothe…

I sometimes pay for things and then pirate them anyway because I can adjust the subtitle position on the pirated version. Or I can rely on being able to play them offline. Or a dozen other reasons where the pirated version offers a better UX.

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Post by bazoom42 »

rightbyte wrote: post #10
diggan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it. Yup. Top 2 reasons I became a pirate again after not being a pirate since maybe 15 years ago: #1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted #2 I was paying someone money to watch/listen to something and then they removed it Even popular things like Saturday Night Live are still impossible to acquire legally in my country. Edit: Forgot anothe…

A big bullet point for me is that I find it unethical to support most of the studios and media companies.

How about just not consume their products then?

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Post by yieldcrv »

diggan wrote: post #7
0x38B wrote: post #6

It’s funny how much better the Russian torrent tracker «Rutracker» is for foreign movies and serials, this show included. I love foreign movies and shows, and sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it.

> sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it. Yup. Top 2 reasons I became a pirate again after not being a pirate since maybe 15 years ago: #1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted #2 I was paying someone money to watch/listen to something and then they removed it Even popular things like Saturday Night Live are still impossible to acquire legally in my country. Edit: Forgot anothe…

#3 it ultimately got more inconvenient than pirating, just like 20 years ago. the streaming apps simply matched parity with the early 2000s piracy experience and then surpassed it, but then the content licensing system made it lose its advantages

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

rightbyte wrote: post #10
diggan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it. Yup. Top 2 reasons I became a pirate again after not being a pirate since maybe 15 years ago: #1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted #2 I was paying someone money to watch/listen to something and then they removed it Even popular things like Saturday Night Live are still impossible to acquire legally in my country. Edit: Forgot anothe…

A big bullet point for me is that I find it unethical to support most of the studios and media companies.

Agreed.

I'd love a better way to pay the artists of the content I end up torrenting--just so long as it actually gets to the people who made the content and not the people turning the world into a pile of telescreens.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

thisislife2 wrote: post #3

I think this article is jumping the gun ... Give it time ... I hadn't even heard of this show, and so obviously wasn't even looking for it ... And if it is in Swedish, I'll also have to wait for the complete English subtitles before I can watch it. (And personally, I've found that pirated TV shows / movies that are not English are, in general, difficult to find online).

They want to talk about the series so the article isn't really jumping the gun. The title is just their hook.

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Post by Suppafly »

diggan wrote: post #7
0x38B wrote: post #6

It’s funny how much better the Russian torrent tracker «Rutracker» is for foreign movies and serials, this show included. I love foreign movies and shows, and sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it.

> sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it. Yup. Top 2 reasons I became a pirate again after not being a pirate since maybe 15 years ago: #1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted #2 I was paying someone money to watch/listen to something and then they removed it Even popular things like Saturday Night Live are still impossible to acquire legally in my country. Edit: Forgot anothe…

>#1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted

This, I'm constantly seeing reels and clips of shows and then searching for "where to stream x" on google and finding out that not only is the show not available on any of the 5 or so paid services that I have access to, it's not available for streaming at all, or if it is, it's by paying $3 per episode.

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Post by karaterobot »

Suppafly wrote: post #16
diggan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it. Yup. Top 2 reasons I became a pirate again after not being a pirate since maybe 15 years ago: #1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted #2 I was paying someone money to watch/listen to something and then they removed it Even popular things like Saturday Night Live are still impossible to acquire legally in my country. Edit: Forgot anothe…

>#1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted This, I'm constantly seeing reels and clips of shows and then searching for "where to stream x " on google and finding out that not only is the show not available on any of the 5 or so paid services that I have access to, it's not available for streaming at all, or if it is, it's by paying $3 per episode.

In case you don't use this resource, try justwatch.com for figuring out who streams what.

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Post by bena »

bazoom42 wrote: post #12
rightbyte wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A big bullet point for me is that I find it unethical to support most of the studios and media companies.

How about just not consume their products then?

Right? "I don't like what you stand for or your views on certain topics, but I do want to enjoy the product you make, so I feel justified in not compensating you for partaking in the services you provide."

Can I stiff my Uber driver if I don't agree with their politics? If I don't like their car? Can my boss not pay me for developing software if I didn't laugh enough at his jokes?

We find it easy to say "no" in those cases. But because media piracy is pretty easy to do and pretty difficult to punish, we simply stop caring.

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