That’s normal, it’s the same infrastructure cost then the licensing costs
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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Corporations like google and amazon damage the market and the industry more than "piracy" does
That just makes sense though? The legit sites have to pay for, fund, or in some way support the content which does cost money. The piracy sites obviously don’t have that cost so they don’t need as much income.
The piracy sites also pay a lot less in infra, since they rely on the user to store, seed to others, and serve the content to the local users. All that infra is offloaded to the user.
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After Amazon said there'd be more ads recently, yep, more ads tonight. Done with it. My living room is not a marketing platform. It's finally time to go back to the convenience and ease of piracy.
The new model is based around pirating Clarkson's Farm and donating to farmers. That's the point anyway. No need to bring Jeff into it.
Somehow "legit" sites won't try to install malware on my laptop. So, I take more regular ads over piracy crap.
I remember my first time on the internet
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I decided to be helpful for others instead of just a smart ass. Not you OP, you have it coming for spreading misinformation
Ah no, most "malware" is just false positive of AV software, since repacked games look pretty similiar. And no such dangers with media files, as long as your system is uptodate.
Wasn't there statistics a while ago already, that most malware comes from "legit" sites, especially newspapers (malvertising), by quite a margin? Hard to find now, too much noise.
Not to say you don't need to be careful. But not much more than always with executing something from the internet.
One rule of thumb: torrent sites usually have a colorful pirate skull things for torrents from reputable groups (if not, look for a better site). They have a reputation to lose if malware gets slipped in. And they do what they do mostly for reputation and competition.
Edit: found this, SO had maintenance today.
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Not at all true
edit: oh piracy streaming sites. Probably true for that. I wouldn't know.