FleetingTit,
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I only pirate because it is more convenient than any alternative.

The best example I experienced was when I tried to watch an apple tv original show with my cousin (who has family access to the service). He wanted to log in to his account on my laptop and needed to verify his dad’s credit card to do so. No problem, but it took a while. After that we still couldn’t watch, because the player didn’t load the video for some reason. Cue my cousin fiddling about trying to fix the issue.

In the meantime I had started to download the first two episodes and copied it on a thumb drive.

tun,

It’s like leasing warehouses to store all our treasures.

These days pirates do not use islands to bury treasures.

sederx,

They never did

figaro,

I did when I was 6. It was a plastic bag full of bark. I buried it in the school playground sand box one day, and came back for it a week later.

I found it, along with some cat poop. Overall 9/10 experience, would recommend.

mwguy,

Piracy is a service problem.

limewire,
@limewire@lemmy.mywire.xyz avatar

I can’t imagine any company every wanting to do it the way I would want. I want a single service/platform that houses all the content, that way the experience is the same. For example I don’t know if in one app I can double tap to the right to skip ahead and does it work on the other apps as well? probably not.

GreenMario,

Yeah sorry the point of piracy is to be a cheapskate. If I’m gonna spend money might as well buy the damn thing.

sederx,

Its absolutely not the point XD

abbadon420,

For some it is. It used to be a point for me. It still is a factor, but it is no longer the main point. Service and convenience is the most prevalent point for me right now.

What it comes down to for me is that I don’t want to subsribe to and pay for 7 streaming services to be able to watch everything I want. I had gotten used to Netflix being the primary streaming service which offered “everything” (it didn’t but it was plenty). I stopped being a pirate in that time. Then every asshole company pulled their shit from netflix and started their own streaming service. That’s when the convenience stopped and I went back to priacy. Funny how that works, right?

blindsight,

idk, a debrid service is so cheap, it costs less to pay than to buy the hard drives and server + power. And it has pretty much everything already, so it’s more convenient, too.

It’s hard to justify dropping a pile of cash on 3 drives for a RAID when it will take about a decade to pay for itself vs. debrid, by which point I’ll need to replace the drives. Plus, it takes more time to set up, maintain, and load the desired media.

GenderNeutralBro,

Isn’t that just asking for trouble? From the Real-Debrid TOS:

The User acknowledges not to use our service to download copyright infringement digital files punishable by a suspension of his account and reporting to competent organizations and authorities

Logging policy is not great:

Files links that Users download are stored in a database for legal concerns and our internal use. All saved links are erased within 1 month for security reasons and service needs. However all requests made on our site are stored for 1 year, the legal retention period.

Doesn’t look like you can sign up anonymously (unless you consider bitcoin and email anonymous, which they’re generally not).

How long until they get raided?

blindsight,

I suppose it depends on your jurisdiction. Uploading is what’s (potentially) illegal in Canada. Downloading is (probably) legal.

And neither have been tried by courts because mass John Doe suits have been shut down by our courts.

Regardless, the legal risk of downloading here is basically zero, so there’s effectively no risk to using a debrid service.

gerbilOFdoom,

I’ve found that for single person purposes, a RAID array is unnecessary. I just buy beefy 8TB drives. If it dies, just download any recent torrents again or pull a backup

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