>come home early to watch an 80s disney movie with the kids on a friday evening>oops Disney+ is down>oops Amazon AWS is also down and so is every other streaming service>can't watch any movies>day ruinedBefore you say this wouldn't happen to you because you pirate, then sure, but the average person is not competent enough and has to rely on what society is currently giving to them in the form of streaming.How do millennials have the gull to get rid of Cable TV and TVs on their own entirely when its still reliable and won't go down for XYZ factors outside of their control?
>>109089535because cable tv also sucks. the problem is that streaming just became, oh, you buy this service and buy access to this bundle. cable had actually started doing that years ago, surcharging for certain channel packages, so really this is to be expected. competition is usually a good thing, but in this case it's not competing over the better service, it's wanking over who owns the copyrights to what, which is just one of many reasons why copyright is fake and gay
>>109089535>Before you say this wouldn't happen to you because you pirateakshually pirate bay is down, too, sometimes.
>>109089693everyone has basically long moved on from the pirate bay though. much better quality exists elsewhere and i don't even mean obscure tracker sites
>>109089535These platforms all also suck dogshit at having a comfortable user interface that makes it easy to get to what you want. Almost zero customization for subtitles, and trying to scrub through video is a laggy pain. And no, I don't want to see anything about "Pride Month" or "Asian and Pacific Islander" voices or the Black experience or Marvel shit or horror movies so let me customize the interface to my personal preference.
>>109089711You mean you're ready to customize and save with LibertyMutual?
i'm a millennial and have pretty much exclusively only watched pirated media since at least 2003 (that's when i started using torrents, and around the same time i started copying rented dvd's) i haven't watched live tv since 2010, maybe a little earlier.>gulli think you mean gall>you're not the average millennial!no i'm not, no stop saying all millennials are like this
>>109089693the pirate bay hasn't been relevant in many years. other popular options like rarbg have come and gone since TPB was relevant. these days i use 1337x a lot, but also more recently my own bitmagnet instance.
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>>109089535>>come home early to watch an 80s disney movie with the kids on a friday eveningunrealistic fanficthe kids have been glued to a screen for most of the day already and so have i, and disney is peak brainwashing nonsense in the first placewe're playing catan again
We're not. Not only is it garbage if you send an email telling someone to fix something or ask permission to do something with their company IP, good luck with getting a response.At least in the telephone era someone had to pick up the phone and give you some sort of response. Tech bros aren't being bros
I'm not. But not paying theses fuckers isn't exactly working out
>>109089535>but the average person is not competent enough and has to rely on what society is currently giving to them in the form of streamingNot. My. Fucking. Problem.I spent almost two decades fighting for normalfags before accepting not only do they not deserve any better, this is what they want. They can scream, and cry and occasionally shit themselves over what they say they want but it has nothing to do with what they demonstrate actually wanting by paying for it and voting for it.
>>109089535>the average personWhy would anyone care about these retards?As far as they're concerned, TV went from being something you had to be there to watch, to something you can watch whenever you want and you didn't even need to set up your tivo or VCR. When the network is down for a week, then they'll panic. Until then? They'll just go mow their lawn or go out drinking.
Why do you make up scenarios that don't actually exist just to get mad about them? Do you not have a job or a hobby you could be doing instead?>How do millennials have the gull to get rid of Cable TV and TVs on their own entirely when its still reliable and won't go down for XYZ factors outside of their control?Do we have a bonafide boomer here repping his $120/month cable/satellite TV subscription he used to pay $30 to get the same number of stations on?
>>109092660Cable TV is free in my country
>>109089535Cable tv can go out of service too.
>>109089771> using tpb in 20241337x is fine but private trackers are the only way if you want quality and speed.
>>109089693TPB might be the last place I'd look if I wanted to watch some 80s Disney movie within 5 minutes.
>>109089535I don't think we are. We just can't agree on what it should be and can't afford any meaningful boycott.>many things in society require a FAGMAN approved smartphone often including employmentY2K was obviously the superior era of tech. But how do you say "we need to go back" without saying it. "Going back" is useless and counter productive and relying on nostalgiabait will only get you into a niche rather than set a new precedent.For that matter do you think tech diverted from it's natural trajectory at some point from Y2K, or this was always going to be the outcome? Hell maybe tech itself is evil!>the average person is not competent enough and has to rely on what society is currently giving to them in the form of streamingIf they can't pirate that's on them. atp streaming subscriptions are the convenience fee of not pirating. I've also found PlutoTV enough in the rare cases that I do want normie streaming. Hollywood can have my money if they bring back Blockbuster.imo I believe in voting with my wallet. Every dollar I spend is enabling them to do practices I might not agree with. That's why I'm very careful with what I buy and will only compromise if it's absolutely necessary.I also think we diverted from the natural development of technology at some point. It might be something with how the industry is organized. The solution would be to pick up were Y2K left off, while integrating modern improvements, a cleaner version of the old aesthetic and not giving off a "retro" vibe.
>>109089535Consoom more product, don't think.
As a millennial I have been pirating since the early 2000s. Lots of things have changed about how media is delivered have changed. But how I consume it has changed very little. I'd be the first to tell you that the experience you get as a legitimate customer is complete bullshit. Everyone is treated as a potential criminal. In the past there were things like firewire output on cable boxes you could use to save transport streams, they even worked with D-VHS decks so you could archive broadcasts to tape. The industry has moved towards restricting these things even more with each new technology they introduce. The goal is to get you to rent the content, not own it in a local archive. You can't blame me for this because I opted out. If your complaint is that you're paying for something and getting shitty service why don't you start looking for something better?
I don't pay for subscriptions and I don't own a TV, watching anything feels like a waste of time.
>>109094448not really.
>>109095032>pirate netflix>4k, can use mpv to play them with my preferred settings and filters, can stream it from my server to any device, take them with me camping offline, can't be removed, etc.>pay for netflix>720p because i'm not a good boy windows/chrome user, have to use their player, must be online to watch, they can remove shows any time
>>109089535>How do millennials have the gullKILL YOURSELF PAJEET SHITSKIN
netflix was the golden era of streaming - one reasonably priced subscription got you access to everything worth watching now, there's a million different unreasonably priced services that everything which would be on netflix is split across, and all of the services are inferior in terms of quality and performance>>109092627nta, but this is a full retard take>what they demonstrate actually wanting by paying for itif service x is the only (legal) way to get content y, the average person who wants content y is going to pay for service xit doesn't matter if they don't "want" to pay for yet another service if content y is ONLY LEGALLY AVAILABLE ON THAT SERVICE AND NOWHERE ELSE
>>109097750*old netflix, not the shell of faggotry they are now
>>109089693There are infinite no name DHT scrapers and public trackers you can find on Google with all the same shit. Bittorrent is way more decentralized now than it was 20 years ago.
>>109089535>How do millennials have the gull to get rid of Cable TV and TVs on their own entirely when its still reliable and won't go down for XYZ factors outside of their control????I come home, go to nyaa, download new anime episode and play it in MPV. What are you talking about?
>>109097807half the time now if i'm looking for something uncommon i check on my own self-hosted bitmagnet instance. it's a DHT scraper you run yourself, this means it can't go down and it doesn't filter any results at all
>>109089771I usually use rutracker or yandex to search
https://uindex.org/
>>109094976why do you people want to watch modern satanicslop anyways
>>109097750>thinks I was talking about netflixI guess you did warn us you were about to drop a retard take.
>>109089535>>come home early to watch an 80s disney movie with the kids on a friday evening >oops the power is out >cant watch any movies >day is ruined Before you say this wouldn't happen to you because you have a generator, then sure, but the average person is not competent enough and has to rely on what society is currently giving to them in the form of the electric grid.
