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pirate. I keep seeing people use the word steal in this comment section.
No, it's stealing. Just because saying "pirate" makes you feel better doesn't mean it's not stealing.
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Expanding on this, I wonder how much money all these supposedly "struggling" companies are burning building data centers and the required backbone to support all these stupid streaming services for the various walled gardens of content? I mean they could just host their stuff on Netflix/iTunes/Amazon but no let's build an entire new server farm doing the exact same work, likely on the exact same hardware and the exac…
If all use Amazon or Google to stream then there is not that much extra expense. IMO I prefer to buy a game from the developer and get it cheaper or give the money to the creator but this days most games are on stores and not on the dev website, a good example is Minecraft ,it would probably be more expensive if it would have been on Steam and I would have to install the Steam client to play the game, and I could not…
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It has already happened to me as well. Look, I want a convenient way to watch movies. I would even be ready to pay more than I do right now to Netflix to have a library of ALL the movies I want to watch. 1 library, not 10, especially if they may or may not contain the movie I want to see. My honeymoon period with Netflix and co is over. - I feel that their original content has dried out : there is even more of it, bu…
If you’re willing to pay, why not rent from the iTunes Store / Amazon Prime? Pick one, they’ve had all the movies / TV shows I wanted to watch, which are not all mainstream. If there’s an exception and there’s something you don’t find it there - well, do you, but I really don’t understand how piracy is the default answer to convenience with people claiming they have the willingness to pay. Someone else commented abou…
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Finding the sites themselves is easy with a VPN, reverse SSH shell or proxy. Make sure all of your torrents are encrypted and it'll be more difficult for them to actively block packets (which is the way it will eventually go).
If that is the way it eventually goes, what's the next move for pirates?
The next approach is probably VPNs, although they won't last forever. Governments could always just pass a law outlawing encryption (China has banned VPNs) or compelling services to allow them to man-in-the-middle for any connection. Once it becomes illegal to hide your online activities, there's very little you can do and remain legal.
That said, tricks also exit for hiding data in plain sight (see steganography [1]). Then you end up in this weird territory of illegal numbers and representations of them [2].
"May" drive them back? This has already happened in my circles.. People who had cut the cord but all but walked away from casual piracy and signed up for Netflix and HBO (and probably Prime Video because they had Amazon Prime already) are openly talking about the fact they're definitely not signing up for more streaming services, and are seeking out torrenting again for the stuff that's being pulled from Netflix (esp…
It has already happened to me as well. Look, I want a convenient way to watch movies. I would even be ready to pay more than I do right now to Netflix to have a library of ALL the movies I want to watch. 1 library, not 10, especially if they may or may not contain the movie I want to see. My honeymoon period with Netflix and co is over. - I feel that their original content has dried out : there is even more of it, bu…
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Valve is right. I haven't pirated a single game since I started using Steam, and I have spent dollars on games I will never ever have time to play. There is no way I will subscribe to 10 different movie streaming services. I want it all in one client. If they want to charge me 50 dollars for the latest movies, so be it. I just want the convenience of one single source available 24x7 wherever I am. Until then, /r/usen…
Most everything is available on the streaming services now people are just going back to piracy again because they don't want to pay the aggregate cost of all the streaming services combined. Again it all just comes down to folks wanting unlimited everything from everywhere for $12.99/month.
In terms of video streaming choices ... yeah, it's going to be the case there will be a few of those. What's the alternative? Netflix gets a monopoly?
My ISP (UK, Sky) has recently started blocking torrent/magnet sites. So I'm not convinced.
No surprise. Even we (HN) predicted this the moment the first content company withdrew their content from Netflix. Two reasons: 1. People only have so much money. 2. When people compare it to what they used to payit seems unfair. People complain when gas prices increases by a few percent, no wonder they complain when they suddenly have to pay twice or even three times for the same content they used to pay one low mon…
Did you need to predict anything? Why would you think that Netflix would get to be a monopoly for all content delivery?
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It has already happened to me as well. Look, I want a convenient way to watch movies. I would even be ready to pay more than I do right now to Netflix to have a library of ALL the movies I want to watch. 1 library, not 10, especially if they may or may not contain the movie I want to see. My honeymoon period with Netflix and co is over. - I feel that their original content has dried out : there is even more of it, bu…
If you’re willing to pay, why not rent from the iTunes Store / Amazon Prime? Pick one, they’ve had all the movies / TV shows I wanted to watch, which are not all mainstream. If there’s an exception and there’s something you don’t find it there - well, do you, but I really don’t understand how piracy is the default answer to convenience with people claiming they have the willingness to pay. Someone else commented abou…
I wonder why that is, and I'm assuming it is because of some cumbersome contractual relations.
On a DVD I'm pretty certain I could have gotten English subtitles.
So now I'm paying, but I still get sub-par content?
I ended up using a plugin to add the subtitles back in, but that plugin works on pirate streams too. Could've pirated it in the first place.