Can someone explain to me why normalfags insist on paying for slop? Why would you ever do this behavior?
Because they arent a depressed schizoid like you
>>83996103Longtime pirate. Started in 2008 and live in country where piracy is completely legal, you don't even need a VPN. Even the normalfags who pay for subscriptions have pirated something at least once.>why normalfags insist on paying for slop?Pretty much all of them think regularly pirating stuff is going to give your PC AIDS. Even when you explain to them that it's very easy to avoid malware and I've never gotten any in 18yrs, they say it's too complicated. They think it's worth wasting $50 a month on subscriptions just so they don't have to spend 10mins learning how to install qbittorrent and read a wiki on /r/piracy. My only conclusion is that they are stupid and don't want to learn something new, even if it will eventually make their lives cheaper and more comfortable.
Theyre retarded. Its the only answer. Every other answer is cope, especially the one above me.
>>83996130>>83996126Let me quote him for you
>>83996103torrenting software and piracy websites look "le heckin sketchy" and they genuinely are afraid they might get a virus from literally anything associated with piracy. there's a reason FMHY and those "free anime websites" that shove ads up your ass before you can play a video are so popular. they're scared of pre-web3.0 css.
They don't understand the process for torrenting and are scared to learn ANYTHING about computers. To them, any torrent is automatically going to turn your computer into a bomb. It's very frustrating when you're trying to relax at home and have to go fix the same simple issue for the tenth time because they refuse to learn how to do anything more advanced than turning it off and back on.
>>83996103They either have never heard about pirating, or they're too lazy to pirate. That's it. It's infinitely more convenient to just fire up your TV and browse the native streaming apps than it is to sift through files on your PC and then phenagle a way to put said content on your TV
>>83996188>phenagle a way to put said content on your TV???
>>83996103I almost always pirated and pirate, for multiple reasons.That said, I pretty much don't watch tv or film anymore, so I don't pirate it.
>>83996167that wasn't the post I was talking about so you quoted the wrong person retard. gj trying to be a smart ass.
>>83996207These are normies, man. The ones I know at least can't even figure out that unplugging their desktop during an OS upgrade is a bad idea, even when the screen says "DO NOT TURN OFF COMPUTER". Expecting them to even figure out something as simple as downloading a movie and plugging in a cable is like expecting a cat to drive a car.
Not really worth the time investment unless you don't have a job or already have the knowledge from doing it when you were a kid. Also perpetually borrowing accounts makes it cheaper than you'd expect.
>>83996215you realize that your intention doesn't matter for shit right? that is who would interpret the message as being directed at them, that is who the post reads as being directed at, until you make some assumption about your typing speed and 4chan's refresh rate.
>>83996103Because they want to support the people that worked on the media they consume.If everyone was pirating the industry would cease to exist and we would have no new content.
>>83996349>the industry would cease to exist and we would have no new content.
it's theft, simple
>>83996188>TVThat is another big aspect of it too. Normies tend to watch stuff on their TV rather than computer, so they prefer a platform that lets them do that even if they have to pay for it.
>>83996188But most fucking things are not even on any streaming services? You'd have to use 5+ different ones to watch stuff, and if you want to watch anything older than 6 months you just can't?
>>83996349>Because they want to support the people that worked on the media they consume.I would never want to support those "people">the industry would cease to existThat's a good thing. There's enough good media to last any normal person literal years of watching. You can even watch Japanese anime or movies instead.
>>83996103Back in the day, Americans used to have the cops knock on their house's front door and give them a cease and desist warning from their ISP. Or they sometimes paid a huge fine or went to jail. That was the excuse back then for why people didn't pirate from like 2007 to about 2017?After that time period and given how it gets easier to torrent. I honestly don't know why normalfags don't pirate. I tend to think its because most new audiences are older people like Gen Xers finally having free time to watch movies, and so they have enough disposable income to purchase Netflix, at least.
They prioritize convenience over saving money. Why bother sifting through torrent sites looking for the specific thing you want to watch which might not have enough seeders for you to download it anyways then wait for it to finish downloading when they can just fire up their favorite app and just watch it?I do think the paradigm is shifting though. What was once convenient is starting to get bogged down with streaming rights bullshit that adds and pulls media seemingly at random, region locking making a VPN a requirement depending on what you want to see, and streaming services start getting greedier and greedier with things like pricing and ads, even normies are starting to look for alternatives.
>>83996171if your willing to use "free anime websites" you probably have an AdBlock so I don't see why that's moral or any more complex than tor
>>83996838As far as I know you would have to be more computer literate to have a sophisticated enough adblock installed on your browser (they probably even watch it on their phones) that works on websites that specifically try to prohibit it, than to just download 1 program and download a torrent
Normies out here watching ads fr. I bet even Netflix has ads, or can you pay extra to remove that, goy?
