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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'll start paying when they stop being racist with their region locks.

Hell yeah

Look man, not one goddamn person who worked on Xam'd is getting a red penny from me paying to watch it legally. I'm not gonna reward some corporation whose only contribution was having enough money to buy the rights to make money off of it. Piracy is actually the only ethical way to consume most older media

Only 69%? Nice. Thought it would be way higher though. I mean. The youngest of us are almost 30 now.

People actually pay for content?

Nice

Nice.

You've been pirated by a smooth striminal.

100% of Facebook employees are striminals who downloaded 80 TB of books from Libgen.

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.

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?

I'm a download a car kinda guy, so a downiminal?

You've been hit by

You've been struck by

A strooth miminal

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.

Oh boy here I go strimming again

streaming content without paying for it

• Watching TV at a friend's house
• Watching videos off a PLEX server or other private local network
• Watching freemium with ad blockers

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.

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.

Only a little

Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books for their AI, and they’re the 4th biggest company in US

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

Yar, I don' be likin' this new diction, "striminal." I'll be a pirate 'till me dyin' day.

I don’t stream my pirated content like some pleb. I can afford storage space and know how to set up a server

Literal disinformation and libel. Violating copyright is a civil tort, not a crime.

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.

Doesnt streaming imply remotely accessing? Im not streaming, just watching a local copy

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.