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.

You've been pirated by a smooth striminal.

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

Oh fuck, you're gonna make me strim

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

I've stolen all my content since the 90s, never stopped. When a service for TV and movies like Steam comes along, I'll consider buying.

But know what? Such a service can't exist. Hollywood has spent too many dollars on Rube Goldberg machinations to protect their copyrights that it's a Bulgarian clusterfuck. Welp, fine by me, not my problem.

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.

"Young" Millennials depending on your definition the youngest millennial is 29-32 this year.

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.

Why stop there? Why not striminalennials.

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.

Only 69%? We gotta pump those numbers up. My Plex share accounts for at least 6 people.

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.

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.