they "watch what they want, when they want, where they want, and they don't pay for it."
Damn. Are these guys trying to sell me on being a striminal now?
Whoever wrote that was definitely giggling to themselves as they were typing.
I'm pretty sure it was written by Strong Bad.
For me, piracy isn’t about the cost. I’ve spent 1000’s of dollars on home servers, Apple TVs, NAS, hard drives, Usenet/VPN subscriptions, and indexer subscriptions. Not to mention all the extra time it takes to set up and keep everything running.
I do it because I get a higher quality product. The last time I did the math, for the size of my collection and the cost of everything I’d spent would be the equivalent to having paid $10/Blue-ray for what I have.
I also do have many streaming services through different bundles, but the low bitrates and constant switching of services means it’s harder to find and lower quality to watch than just adding something in Radarr and playing it in Plex.
On the other hand I legally stream music all the time and am very happy with the product. You pick one provider of your choice, pay a reasonable price, get access to nearly all the world’s music, modern and historical, and the audio quality is more than reasonable.
It’s on the movie and TV industry to fix their piracy problem. The music industry has even provided them a template.
You've been pirated by a smooth striminal.
100% of Facebook employees are striminals who downloaded 80 TB of books from Libgen.
81tb actually.
Honestly im not even angery at Facebook for illegally torrenting 81tb of books from Libgen, im pissed that Facebook torrented 81tb of books from libgen and then didnt seed (apperantly they didnt want to be caught but they could have used a vpn like the rest of us).
I'm Gen X and I've been pirating since we bought a second VCR when I was a kid and used it to duplicate tapes and then return them to the rental store. Then they added copy protection, so we got a dual-deck VCR that beat it. Then DVDs came out, so we got a dual-deck DVD copier.
Did I mention that my dad was a film historian?
He also would sometimes xerox entire books for himself. And he got himself a CD duplicator and a cassette duplicator later on and started doing the same thing with CDs and audiobooks he got from the library.
Miss you, dad. You would love torrenting if you could figure it out.
Offer a better service for a better price.
Streaming services don’t sell content, they sell convenient access to content, and it’s been getting less convenient as time goes on. So less people feel like it’s worth paying them.
Yar, I don' be likin' this new diction, "striminal." I'll be a pirate 'till me dyin' day.
I'm a millennial, but I don't stream any pirated content whatsoever.
I download it from Usenet or sometimes torrents in its entirety. That way I don't have to worry about the site I use getting shut down.
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
A strooth miminal
Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books for their AI, and they’re the 4th biggest company in US
When no one was looking, the striminal watched forty episodes. He watched 40 episodes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
what they want, when they want, where they want
Saying this as if any current streaming service or even Netflix in its prime actually fulfilled this requirement.
Oh boy here I go strimming again
streaming content without paying for it
I'm sure I'm missing a few more. But there are so many ways to watch - even without explicit piracy - that the MPAA considers should be deemed illegal because they're not getting paid per viewer.
Seriously, they make it seem like this is new. Been a pirate since the early days of Napster. Hell, was pirating DOS games on floppy in the early 90's. Video stream pirating is just the latest form, and won't be the last.
I fucking love committing strime. I fucking love committing strime.
I don't want to do anything else but commit strime all damn day.
I FUCKING LOVE COMMITTING STRIME
It's strimin' time!
Strongly reccomend using Jellyfin for your media libraries. Even if you don't have a dedicated server and just want to watch on a pc, it works better than VLC.
Doesn't jellyfin require connecting to a server to even work though? Most VLC features work anywhere without any connection, obviously streaming would require a connection still.
The reason why I don't pay for a lot of media is because, if I pay for it I won't be able to watch what, when, where and how I want to.
If I could buy movies and TV series as h265 files with high bandwidth and no DRM I would pay for it.
I would also pay for streaming if it had all content available, no DRM that forces me to use Chrome to watch anything higher than 720p and a good interface.
But those things will never happen because executives are too greedy.
They don't even respect the integrity films and shows themselves anymore. Now in later releases they'll remove the music that was selected by the director to best pair with a scene, simply because they don't want to keep paying royalties for releases of old movies. And that's if they don't just stop selling them all together.
I'm in college, and a lot of striminals don't pirate streaming services like Netflix, but instead pirate live sports streams, because the legal alternative is pay like $70/mo for an ad-infested service. Nobody is paying that.
Of course not. I'm a law abiding citizen, I'm not smart or sexy enough to commit copyright infringement.
I'm a streamennial, but I know a few streazoomers, and also few bootreams.
Ok but that sounds based as hell
The way this is phrased makes it sound like more than a third (60% of 69%) of millenials only ever consume media through piracy, which I find very hard to believe. What seems more likely to me is that the survey asked people if they have ever used piracy and now they're trying to make this seem like a much bigger deal through misleading phrasing.
Literal disinformation and libel. Violating copyright is a civil tort, not a crime.
I don’t stream my pirated content like some pleb. I can afford storage space and know how to set up a server
New Rule: Any article that introduces a new tech-based slang term (eg. "phubbing", "striminals") is worthless
I'll start paying when they stop being racist with their region locks.
You've been hit by—
You've been hit by a smooth striminal
Ow!
Is this pro or anti piracy? Because it kinda makes pirating sound like a good idea.
My main thing that pushes me towards being a striminal is that every service has all exclusive content.
If I wasn't too watch star trek or star wars, hello Disney+. Stranger things? Netflix. The list is long, I won't bore you with what you're probably aware of.
Moving to bring a striminal, as they say, you can watch what you want, when you want, where you want. You get everything in one place, and don't have to flip flop between services to simply see what's available.
The cost of all of the services is a problem, sure, because it's so damn costly for all of them combined. But that's not my primary factor. It's just so damned inconvenient to maintain so many disconnected accounts, and agglutinate all of the information into a sensible list of what's new or available across all services.
I just want it to be easy and they've intentionally made it not easy.
I won't comment if, or how many Linux ISOs I may or may not have.
Doesnt streaming imply remotely accessing? Im not streaming, just watching a local copy
"Young" Millennials depending on your definition the youngest millennial is 29-32 this year.
YAASSS content:
• Ads/media where 'the man' tries to appeal to young people using their vernacular in a lame, pandering way
• Ads/media that tries to appeal to young people but is self-aware and/or well executed
Ratchet content:
• Children's media and commercials for children's products that don't involve inter-generational pandering (this isn't a place to collect all advertising and media that's aimed at kids) Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network/Disney/etc.
• Text messages, emails, PMs, or other forms of interpersonal communication not sent as an advertisement
