FellowKids

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Of course not. I'm a law abiding citizen, I'm not smart or sexy enough to commit copyright infringement.

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

I'm a streamennial, but I know a few streazoomers, and also few bootreams.

People actually pay for content?

Ok but that sounds based as hell

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.

You don't say?

You know, I nearly stopped piracy entirely for a brief period, back when Netflix was top dog of streaming platforms.

Didn't last very long...

Now I don't pay for any subscription platform but one; Humble Monthly. All series and movies I either watch with friends through a dedicated Jellyfin server (owned by one of those friends) or through stremio.

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.

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

New Rule: Any article that introduces a new tech-based slang term (eg. "phubbing", "striminals") is worthless

Nice

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.

Nice.

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.

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.

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

You've been pirated by a smooth striminal.

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.

Oh fuck, you're gonna make me strim

You've been hit by

You've been struck by

A strooth miminal

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.