Piracy is surging… the fuck going on?
I mean it says it right there.>costs rise choices diminishYears ago I had Netflix DVD by mail and they had everything I could possibly think of.Years ago I couldn't find a single disaster movie kino at all. No Armaggedon no Deep Impact nothing like that at all.2 Christmas's ago I couldn't find a Christmas Story or Rudoplh or Peanuts Christmas or anything.I cancelled my netrlix through their website 3 times and they kept billing me. I had to block them with my credit card company.If for some unknown reason I wanted to watch Southpark I would need both hulu and Paramount+ only for them to block the good episodes. I've heard they do this with many shows such as Only Sunny In Philadelphia (the blocking not the splitting). Even the robo niggers know this:Splash (1984): Disney+ edited a scene to digitally cover Daryl Hannah's nudity with CGI.Lilo & Stitch (2002): A scene of Lilo hiding from Nani was altered on Disney+.God's Own Country (2017): Amazon Prime Video streamed a version with explicit scenes removed, prompting director Frances Lee to call it out as not the intended film.Apocalypse Now: Versions on streaming services have been noted to have several minutes cut out.Sadly even pirating can kind of suck I just wanted to watch Alien not Ridley Scott retconning Alien to pretend he came up with Aliens.>inb4 but muh footage still existsA it didn't make it into the movie and B I really wouldn't put it past that hack to film it afterwards and pretend it was original he's that big of a piece of shit. The physical media fags won. I mocked them but I was wrong.
>>217321170People are bored but they know that everything is going to be slop so they don't want to waste money on it and also actively want it to fail
Netflix conducted itself as if piracy was its main competitor. Every other platform treated Netflix like their main competitor.
I don't care enough about TV shows and movies to even bother trying to pirate them. It's a slop medium for peasants that shouldn't be taken very seriously.
>>217321170Well if (((they))) want to put out less poisonous content, maybe then I'll pay for it. Keep up this run of inappropriate race/gender swapping or filling up shows with nepobabies and Early Life Checks then I won't be handing over a single penny. It's just the way it is now. Maybe they shouldn't have overplayed their hand...
for me, pirated media is actually just way better quality than anything offered by streaming platforms4k netflix is basically 1080p bitrate, it's dogslop
>>217321170but where am i supposed to put all this pirated media
>>217321741Just ask your wife if she'll give up one of her porn drives.
>>217321593You’re brown
>>217321741Porn counts as pirated media too anon
yar har diddly dee the pirates life is the life for meeeeeee
>>217321741yeah you're supposed to be watching ads when you watch that shit buddy
>>217321170modern piracy streaming sites are so high quality and easy to use that it's a total no-brainer
No one really pirates, just streams illegaly
>>217323213>just streams illegalyfrom me
>>217321538this is me
>piracy is surgingwhy tho? there's nothing to watch>new movie/show: no matter what the genre, setting, place, time, the protagonist is an ugly stronk wymyn with a black boyfriend and the villain is a straight white man.not even torrented.
>>217323213>I gotta archive the 5/10 zogslop and make another 2 backups, ensuring that one backup is at a different location in case there's a fireyeah, I stopped bothering archiving any media 10 years ago. The only thing I'm saving now are AI models because I can imagine a future where they severely restrict them - considering the hysteria which surrounds them
>>217323350You do know you can watch older things, right?
Boomers were so rich they couldnt even imagine life without a $150/month cable package in the 90s now millennials and zoomers are sucking dick in alleyways to get a Netflix login long enough to watch a season of goyslop
If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t theft.
I started collecting media locally last year and it feels good to be safe. I have so many movies and shows, I can just start over if ever I watch it all.
It's almost like people don't like living in a corporate hellscape where every aspect of their existence is forced into an algorithm for generating maximum imaginary profit for faggots who hoard value and then do nothing of value with it. Go figure.
>>217321741>2.72 TB hd Pictures from 2013
>impoverishedbut they can buy other streaming bullshit?
>>217321480I saw for the first time Blade Runner with narration while over at parents' for Christmas, don't remember the service, but holy shit I made it in only 15 minutes in. Why did they choose this version?
>>217323455buying stuff second hand is the only way to go. zero goes to the yids, costs 1/20th of the inflated price they sold it for, no attachment to it since it's a throwaway price.
>>217323579They meant the streaming services, they're impoverished somehow.
>tfw realized my internet is fast enough to grab 4k rips of films in like 5 minutes tops >just started downloading and keeping them instead of using pirated streaming sites >now have a catalog of 150+ movies which never need to buffer, and I can watch them without internet It even makes deciding what I want to watch easier, because I’m only having to scroll through a selection of stuff I like. With how cheap SSDs are now, I don't see why everyone doesn’t do this.
>Netflix becomes popular because it's cheap, convenient, and ad-free >Less people pirate because there's a convenient and legal alternative>Netflix becomes filled with ads unless you pay extra, while also becoming more expensive, while also having more competition so you have to subscribe to multiple services>More people start to piratewow.......
Glad to be leading the charge on this.I’ve tried juggling streaming services, and many of the (older) films I want to watch aren’t even available. I just don’t care anymore. I can pirate a film in 10 seconds and just be done with it.
Streaming services have fragmentedTHE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SUCKSIf I had every streaming service on Earth for free I would STILL pirate, because it's a superior experience
>>217323979You don't see why because you have a boomer mindset. Non-boomers recognize that it's pointless to hoard something you're only going to watch once.
>>217321593Very true. The fact that someone can count on one finger the amount of ACTUAL good TV shows, shows that it is not a good format for good storytelling. Garbage medium.
>>217321741>2 TB hard drivesAre you using them as RAID or something?
>>217321741Just download 1080p films.
>>217324214Who the hell only watches films they like once? You’re out of your fucking mind lol
Unless you’re an unemployed, it takes too much time and effort to keep up with up to date piracy tactics. I’ve given up on it. If there’s something I want to watch on a streaming platform but I don’t want to pay for, I just buy a month, immediately cancel, and watch everything that it has offer in that month and wait until it has enough new shit that’s worth paying to buy another month and cancel again.
>>217324492Regular normal people do
>>217324493>using 1337x and Deluge is too hard!You didn’t have to out yourself as a retard like that, anon.
>>217324493Piracy has never been easier. Who gives a shit about “up to date piracy tactics” or whatever the hell you’re talking about. Just click the magnet or search whatever on qbittorrent.
>>217321170shit got more expensive AND worse
>>217324508Good b8 you got two (You)s out of me
>>217324493>it takes too much time and effort to keep up with up to date piracy tacticsI have been doing the same thing for decades now and it takes less effort than jumping through all the streaming bullshit hoops, with a better experience.
>>217324493lol how is launching brocoflix or cataz hard. only a problem if you're not an english speaker.
>Lord Beckett, they've started streaming.
>>217324492Women and zoomers (the most effeminate generation), they watch the current things small hat media tells them to
>>217324492This is bait right?
>>217324214Yeah man I'm definitely only ever gonna watch a movie once over the next 60 years
>>217324374This, except bigly.
>>217324493Torrenting is simpler than doing that.
>>217324492i have a good memory so i find it extremely difficult to watch the same movie twice without at least a decade in between viewings
Oh I've been data hoarding like a mother fucker ever since sadpanda was threatened to go off line.
>>217324920good thinking
>>217321170Yup.
>>217321170Streaming services are retarded, you pay a massive premium for things you don't watch just so you can watch the 1 or 2 things on that service that you actually want. Buying physical media is much better value for money because it's a one off payment but since that's not really convenient anymore when movies can be on demand I guess piracy is the go instead.
>>217323660As in they decided to divide all of Netflix’s library between a dozen imitators and people are correctly assessing them all as not worth anything
>>217321170I mean a subscription to a good VPN costs way less than 4 different streaming services and I get to pick film quality
>>217324861The answer to that problem is alcohol.
>>217321170https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imf-QeQCexk&t=1s
>>217325509it wasn't, i tried. all alcohol does is make me extremely angry and then extremely depressed. fuck all that shit.
