• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    With Netflix already having ads we are now 75% of the way to “cutting the cord” going back to reinventing cable again.

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      “Again”?

      I’ve still been out here since Napster. Welcome back aboard, we kept the torrents warm for you.

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        I like something I saw on here awhile ago that was something like " streaming services where only successful because they where slightly more convenient that pirating " for a while I mostly used a couple of streaming services despite most of the apps having really bad interfaces . But my Plex server has been growing in size lately while the streaming services are being cancelled.

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          My breaking point for paying for something that I could otherwise get for free is convenience. Doesn’t even need to be a lot, I just refuse to pay for a product that artificially more of a hassle than the identical product that I can obtain for free.

          It’s not so much that I want a superior product, it’s that I refuse to pay money for an inferior alternative.

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        As someone who doesn’t sail the high seas, I thank you. Sometimes it looks like there won’t be any classic media left without your efforts.

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          Honestly still just using Qbittorrent with a VPN; it’s a dream now that fibre is pretty ubiquitous. Mine hit 100MB/S yesterday, a 1.4Gb file takes about 10 seconds

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          Seedboxes. Download the torrent on someone else’s computer, and then directly download it to yours through an encrypted connection. Sorta like a “money-laundering” for pirated content.

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          I was using torrents for years before I started messing with Usenet. Now I’ve got it set up it’s easy to grab pretty much anything and at higher quality than before.

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      if it was still just netflix, and everybody didn’t have their own streaming service, that would be different.

      but when you add up netflix, prime, disney, paramount, peacock, max, and whatever else, the wallet definitely says it’s just like cable.

      do one at a time and rotate, maybe have one you ‘always’ have. you can’t watch 10 different services at once anyway.

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      @OldWoodFrame @ZeroCool yeah I will never, Comcast/Xfinity are total scum bags and I would pay extra to never give them money ever again. Unfortunately I am forced to use them for Internet, there’s no way I’m paying for their cable TV programming.