Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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Don't use streaming services they suck.
If you're gonna pirate at least do it properly, by downloading.
Lol, what?
For convenience and price, you simply can't beat free streaming sites.
The quality and experience is horrible though.
Torrenting always wins. But maybe you have poor internet and don't want to wait for a download (although you can watch a movie while downloading it.)
A Plex server with automatic downloading is way more convenient.
Usenet is even better. I have my *arrs set up to run both and tdarr transcodes everything to h265 10 bit.
I'm scared to do torrent man. I didn't care about it when I was in Indonesia. Now I live in Germany, and now I'm scared of doing it.
Just use a good paid VPN and bind the VPN network Interface to your torrent client so that it's impossible to torrent without the VPN turned on.
Not everyone wants to torrent.
He's right, downloading gets you better encodes that prioritize quality over getting the smallest possible file to keep upload totals down.
But yeah you're also right, for 99% of people avoiding downloads is the right move.
Never had Disnkey, so this is more about Netflix. Back at the beginning, I didn't mind paying a fair price for a service that made discovery and streaming easy and convenient. Plus subscriptions going to fund more interesting content? Amazing! Yeah, it's a bit of platform capitalism, but the fees were reasonable and they spread the wealth in a way I agreed with.
I'm still not against a service that keeps its fees reasonable for what it's providing.
No, I like https://himovies.sx/home.