Thread 213874895

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>Provide streaming to computers that have access to free video capture
>Surprised people can freely access content right away

>>213874931
I'd say the bigger drive is how shit streaming services are now.
Every fucking service has like 1 or 2 decent things to watch on it (that aren't already decades old). You have to pay for multiple services just to get the 4 things you want to watch, and now they are even getting ads in there too.
Also a lot of the shit Netflix in particular funds is blatant propaganda or made for drama farming. I really don't feel bad about pirating their shit, assuming I'd want to see it.

Nothing new is worth paying for let alone watching.
Pirate old movies and games, simple as.
Hoard ebooks, buy pre-WW2 books.
Back up to DVDs, tapes. Store multiple copies outside your home.

>>213874895 (OP)
It's compounded by the streaming services removing shows they offered a few years ago.

>>213874895 (OP)
How can they be surprised when you're able to get a superior experience as a viewer when you pirate?
They continually gimp their services, lock things behind additional paywalls, restrict their library or outright censor or bury certain things, subject you to terrible content with perverted and inaccurate algorithms, inject ads and even with all the increasingly terrible things implemented to their service they have the audacity to increase prices. After all that they're seriously surprised that more people want to pirate instead?

>impoverished streaming services
Weird way of saying billion-dollar corporations that keep jacking up prices?

>>213875119
My biggest issue is quality, Netflix compresses their movies beyond recognition, both in terms of sound and picture quality. Watching a couple scenes of Dunkirk on a remuxed UHD file and then the Netflix version was an eye-opener.

If they ever crack down on piracy I'd sooner start buying physical disks than subscribe to streaming when 4K streaming looks worse than a 1080p BluRay while sounding like a wet fart.

>>213874895 (OP)
>people get poorer
>media gets more expensive
>????
>internet sharing surges

>>213875035
>Nothing new is worth paying for let alone watching.
I honestly believe that any movie worth watching is worth paying for in the theater experience. If it's shit then it's not even worth stealing. The only time I see file-sharing aka "piracy" as something I can rationalize is when seeking rare shit that's just not easily available. And thanks to a million streaming sites, that's a very rare case.

Brought a subscription to paramount plus caaus it was cheap a year sub at about 35 seemed reasonable. Thought I could watch old episodes of trek cheers and Southpark. THEY HAVE FUCKING UNSKIPPABLE 30 SECOND ADVERTS FOR TV SHOWS ON EVERY EPSIODE I just want to click around and fast forward and check out shit. But can't do that with this fucking bullshit. I have never stopped pirating for 30 years now, but I brought this for that little added convenience. But fuck ads. Will never buy again. Unironically torrenting nu trek and Dexter to watch latest EPs. EVEN THOUGH I HAVE A FUCKING UNUSEABLE UNSKIPPABLE PARAMOUNT PLUS ACCOUNT

>>213874895 (OP)
Based, we need to bump those numbers up. Intellectual property is monstrous communist nonsense.

Piracy was always more driven by convenience than avarice

>>213875315
Actually the opposite is true, and believing that no one has property rights and believing it's all public property is communism.

>>213874895 (OP)
Imagine being angry that they sell looks into other Universes, then calling God's creations shit.

>>213875443
You have everything upside down, intellectual property is not private property, to stop my freedom to reproduce intellectuall property on my very own private property is communism, piracy is essential to a free market.

>>213874895 (OP)
Unsurprising. Politicians and economists are quiet about it, but we are once again living through a financial crisis. Essentials like food, housing, and utilities are expensive, so people are saving on non-essentials like movies and games

>>213874895 (OP)
For Britain also factor in TV licenses as an economic restraint against the poor. Boris said he was eliminating them but that was a lie.

>>213875204
I still prefer physical media. It's tangible ownership, and it's private. You can watch anything you want without it under total monitoring like what you get on streaming services.


>>213875501
We're still under the effects of Bidenomics. It hasn't even been a year, and ecomomic recovery takes times. The worst part is food. We keep having "natural" virus outbreaks that cut down the food supply after the WEF declared that too much farting livestock is bad for the environment, counties keep siezing prime farm land to turn into windfarms and solar farms, and globalists keep on importing more mouths to feed to increase the demand against a shrinking supply.

>>213875645
Idiotic pic. But your logic high birth-rate is bad now,huh?

>>213875684
Explain what's so idiotic about the pic and how increasing a city's population without a proportional increase in housing supply does not cause housing prices to grow.

>>213875645
Bro Trump printed 2 trillion dollars during the COVID hoax you don't have a clue.

>>213875717
The President does not control the money supply, retard

>>213875713
I Told you, the same can be applied to the birth rate.

That having been said, all the big states like California, Massachusetts, and Illinois should build a new city or two. New York and Pennsylvania are a different story.

The USA could easily fit 2 billion people. Then Hollywood could stop pandering to China.

>>213875741
He literally said that he gave a "Trump check" to everyone, his most recent massive spending bill he called his "big beautiful bill", you are an ideologue and not to be taken seriously.

>>213874895 (OP)
>cant pay wont pay
I can pay easily 10 times over streaming is just inconvinient as shit
>crumbs of exclusives spread among a bunch of services
Piss off. When it was just netflix and you had it all I didnt mind paying out.

>>213875799
Not to mention that under Biden, the economy was okay. Ppl had money to spend on movies and games. Under Trump, even Barbieheimer would have underperformed

>>213874895 (OP)
Well, duh. When WWE was free on cable I didn't pirate it. Now it's on jewflix.

but i were told piracy is dead, what happen shill sisters?

>>213875834
Lol Biden screwed the economy even more than Trump, anyone who supports either is just not a very perceptive person.

>>213874895 (OP)
I pirated a couple of films the other day. Here is the retarded thing; I went on fucking YouTube to rent them, rented one and found out despite paying 6 bucks or whatever it is for the HD stream, youtube LOCKS playback to 480p...to "prevent piracy". So I just went and downloaded the rest. Hollywood truly is managed by mongoloids.

>>213875799
Are you retarded? The President is not in charge of money supply - it's a simple factual statement.

The money supply is controlled by the Federal Reserve, which makes its decisions in an impartial way and with no influence from Congress or the President. Trump putting his name on a bunch of checks does not change how the political system of this country works

>>213875437
They basically self-sabotaged the whole industry over about maybe 2% if that of their potential consumerbase. Moreover they saw lost revenues where there were none because a large majority of people would never have bought certain albums or movies at retail but were happy to experiment with their tastes when there was nothing to lose. If anything the 'try before you buy' nature of this greener subset of 'pirates' had potential to expand fanbases further down the line.

Now their 'victory' is giving everything away for pennies on the dollar and they have no budgets to produce anything in ilk of yore.

>>213875684
No one 20 years ago who was stuck in traffic on his way home to his $120,000 2-story house said "let's fix the traffic by adding millions more cars to the road, and let's make this nice house unaffordable by bringing in millions of people to bid up the demand and price." And they sure as shit didn't give you permission to do just that, either.

3rd-world poverty levels would fall overnight with responsible birthrates. That's a fact. Constantly keeping the population above the ability of resources to catch up guarantees total poverty. And no one gave you permission to "solve it" by dumping it onto other countries and force other people to bear the expense. But that's your one-sided narrative to put all burdens on what WE have to do to accomodate the bullshit instead of what THEY have to do to stop being a fucking problem.

>>213875753
You never explained how the pic is idiotic.

Also when we had high birth rates they came with multi generational housing. It was common for grandparents, parents and 3-4 children to all live under the same roof.

That's completely gone now with only children thinking they need their own place at 19

>>213875315
>Intellectual property is monstrous communist nonsense.
So "communist" is now another hollow buzzword for "thing I don't like"?

>>213875280
Indeed. I'm just about to change my cable setup. They wanted to put me on an all-streaming box but I payed a one-off fee to make it so I can still record live TV because every streaming app has super-shitty rewind/ff AND forces ads into everything.

The reason for the resurgence of piracy is absurdly obvious.
Streaming used to be cheap and convenient.
Now it's no longer cheap or convenient.

if i pay for a service, i expect no ads. simple as.

>>213874895 (OP)
>Open a gazillion streaming services spreading content everywhere
>STILL, in 20 fucking 25 region lock films or shows out
>Charge a fortune for them because you are spending billions on slop that should cost millions
>Make legal rentals as annoying and cumbersome as possible, and in the case of places like Google, literally lower the quality to stop you...I don't know, not watching on your phone or something?
>AND because some studios want to force you on to their platform subscription to watch ONE movie, charge 30 bucks a rental
>Have to have a VPN half the time anyway to use half the services due to regional licensing laws
It's like they don't want to take your money. I don't understand how buying fucking video games is so simple, yet just streaming a fucking movie is so convoluted

>>213875881
>which makes its decisions in an impartial way and with no influence from Congress or the President.
That's just not true the president does influence the FED regularly. But you know this and are purposefully ignoring it for ideology.

>>213875909
To be clear it is socialist, i just like calling socialists communists because it annoys them.

>>213875906
>You never explained how the pic is idiotic.

Because it can be applied to birthrate.
Should government introduce genophage in us of a?
what about immigrants that work in construction? or who buy from local business, supporting local economy?

>>213875967
The President TRIES to influence the Fed, but there is nothing that gives him power over it. Trump has been screaming for lower rates ever since he was sworn in and he got nothing.

There is simply no mechanism in the government that allows the President to decide to print more dollars

>>213875280
This blew my mind.
>gf is streaming slop
>constant ads
>Is this the free version?
>no it's the cheap version
>Cheap version is the normal version from last year

>>213876007
1. It can't be applied to birthrate, because like I explained to you - high birthrates lead to multigenerational housing, low birthrates lead to everyone having their own place

2. Even if it could, children of Americans are a priority over third world fence jumpers

>>213874931
I think it's more to do with the fact nobody want's to pay for 10 diffrent streaming platforms, on the off chance you would wanna watch Farscape and Babylon 5 this week. Streaming shit made sense when everyhting was on one place.

>>213875943
the honest to god truth is that the video game analogy won't work. movies are 90-180 minutes of entertainment on average. if we follow steam metrics for what an appropriate price for this time is, you'd pay about 2 or 3 bucks. a film that needs to make $500 million for profit would need to sell a billion copies (since the service would take a profit). in other words, hollywood blockbusters would need to service 20% of the population just to break even, which is obviously never happening.

however i can see a service similar to steam working for indie films.

>>213875741
Then why use "muh bidenomics" as argument to begin with?

>>213875280
>>213876049
oy fucking vey

>>213876082
A game costs 80 bucks. But you get a huge amount of content. A movie should cost a tenth of that. To buy. To rent should be even cheaper. Movies SHOULD cost far less. They are simply terrible at managing the industry.

>>213875904
I'm going to throw my two cents in here since no one has corrected you yet.

I work for a company that sells pool chemicals/pumps/filters/etc, directly to big businesses in a major city in the south. I mainly work with investment firms, hotels, and apartment complexes. More than half the properties are empty, the guys who upkeep the pools for the houses say most of them never see one person in them for months to years at a time, and even then, they may have them as Airbnb for a few months.

Birthrate means nothing to the cost of homes/housing when it's not even close to being affected by it. It is currently a buyer's market where the sellers refuse to accept the price the house is worth for most buyers and opt to sell to an investment firm that can afford to sit on a vacant property.

And on the subject of food cost, population also means nothing as well, since companies are more than happy to throw away close to 16 billion pounds of food. We produce so much food that the cost should be much lower for the consumer, but "bing bing wahoo line must always go up".

So in short, no immigration doesn't raise cost to the levels we have now, greed does.

>>213876064
>high birth-rates lead to multigenerational housing

Hello time traveller. No one wants to live with parents in the 21st century. + life expectancy is long and boomers aren't dying to leave something for millennials/ zillennials

>>213875753
>I Told you, the same can be applied to the birth rate.
No you retard, a child spends at least 18 years of its life living with his parents. This is not at all the same of adding population that needs new housing immediately.

>>213876154
>So in short, no immigration doesn't raise cost to the levels we have now, greed does.


I googled >n the US, there are significantly more vacant homes than people experiencing homelessness

Any idea how many empty homes and flats in USA? vs how many homeless?

i never stopped pirating and i never will

Where do you guys get your torrents nowadays?

>>213876134
bold of you to assume i pay for games i don't 100% want to support.

>>213876243
In my town, nearly 20% of apartments and about 5-10% for homes (airbnb throws off this a bit). Pools that have no body using them you only really need to throw in shock and make sure no dead animals are in it.

>>213876283 https://www.cineby.app/ You can get all Your slop here

>>213876134
you don't understand. yes, movies should cost less. the point is that hollywood films have budgets so large that if movies are individually priced correctly on an analog to steam, none of their films would turn a profit.

>>213876243
This is one of the most retarded stats I've ever seen that falls apart after 5 minutes of research.

Vacant doesn't mean - house that's perfectly ready to move in but is kept off the market by a greedy capitalist. It means:
>dilapidated properties unsuitable for housing
>houses under renovation
>houses listed for sale or rent that haven't found a buyer
>housing under pending legal issue, mostly connected to inheritance.
There are virtually no cases of someone buying a housing property and then taking it completely off the market.

>>213876041
Whatever, the president signs off on and influences the spending bill which the Fed has to print money for and in turn it influences their policy, you know that you're just gish galloping.

>>213876394
>There are virtually no cases of someone buying a housing property and then taking it completely off the market.

I love it when someone says something so full-chested, knowing they are wrong.

>>213876090
Kek, gottem.

>>213875119
>you're able to get a superior experience as a viewer when you pirate?
This. Gaben was right.

>>213874988
>Every fucking service has like 1 or 2 decent things to watch on it (that aren't already decades old).


Don't forget it's like $10 per sub. Most of there content should be free since it's old and not worth a rewatch.

I think it is worth mentioning that streaming stuff is way easier to rip than ever before same day sometimes the only difference being a few hours and I am positive when they say Pirated this includes watching it on sites online and not downloading it traditionally.

>>213874895 (OP)
I cancelled my netflix almost 10 years ago because the only original content they were producing was globoshlomo propaganda. if I were a brain damaged retard who didn't find that reason enough, I would have still cancelled it as soon as they brought back commercials.

>>213875935
It use to be better. Everything was on Netflix with zero ads.

>>213876442
The Fed does not print money and hand it over to the government to cover budget deficits, retard.

>>213876451
I'm right for a very simple reason - your scenario makes no sense.

If you own an extra house and are greedy, then the only options are to either sell it now, or rent it out. If you're keeping it to rot then you're missing out on potential income, so you can't be greedy and do that

>>213876989
You are aware of how tax write-offs work, right? Also, you can track massive housing developments for apartments that now stand unused; the land is worth more down the line than right now.

Over a million homes are bought every year by investment firms and taken off the market. How are You justifying this? They are not bad homes; on my block alone, nearly a third of the houses sit empty.

I can see the proof, I can Google the proof, you got "trust me bro"

>>213877100
>You are aware of how tax write-offs work, right?
I am, but you seem to be using the Kramer definition of a write off

>Also, you can track massive housing developments for apartments that now stand unused
Unused = waiting for a buyer

>the land is worth more down the line than right now.
And by not renting it out you're missing out on potentia income while you wait for the land to be worth more down the line

>Over a million homes are bought every year by investment firms and taken off the market. How are You justifying this?
I'm justifying it by telling you it's bullshit

>>213876332
So it's a skill issue.

>>213875119
Theyre suprised their paypig niggercattle can do something like this

https://youtu.be/F5D6rtwOPE0?si=Q1yLtcyt4Z_E-icT

Watching this in 2025 is funny, tragic, and not all that shocking now.

I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said before, but people would be willing to pay if it was (largely) one flat fee a month for whatever they wanted to stream. Instead you have a $5+ monthly fee for a million things and then people wonder why they resort to streams and piracy.

Oh well they'll never learn and they'll just resort to even more desperate actions to try and curb piracy instead of trying to understand the root cause/frustration. I give Spotify at least some credit for doing what they did for people who pirated music all their life.

I stopped paying for any streaming service when they started removing certain episodes of TV shows I like just to virtue signal, and 5 years later they still haven't added them back so fuck em.

>>213877271
It’s like the cable days when everybody was screaming that they just wanted the channels they watch why the fuck do I have to pay for the bundle with ESPN4810293 and the Oprah network and in response they just rubbed their nipples and said oh that sucks. People will watch what they want to watch. You as a provider can either offer it to them in a convenient way or they will cut you completely out of the equation through a torrent or some .ru site, and I don’t understand why this is a hard concept

>>213876486
It's so fucking simple. Paying should feel like a premium service where you get high quality, vast library and other additional perks. Piracy should be a bare bones experience where you tolerating shit quality to make up for it being free. Somehow those two expectations have been flipped.

>>213874895 (OP)
I pirate everything and if I really liked it I will buy it physical, if it exists. Simple as.
Aside from books, I hate ebooks with a passion. But that's why I still have my public library card.

>>213875280
>pay for a plan that clearly states it has ads
>there are ads

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME????

>streaming sites will literally crash my PC because of their drm software

Why should I not pirate

>>213877425
OY VEY

>>213876321
That's shit. Everything is 720p and downloads at limewire speed

>>213875280
>sticks cactus in his ass
>WHY DOES IT HURT?!
Never change.

>AAAAAARGHH IT BURNS!!!!!!
>WHY, WHYYYYYYYY DID I DOWNLOAD THOSE AXXO RIPS AND DEPRIVE HOLLYWOOD OF RIGHTFUL MONETARY GAINS

>>213877657
it is a streaming site you fucking moron

>>213877448
On zen cpus firefox cannot even use drm so all those piracy websites just stall forever. I have to use brave if I want to watch something lol.

>>213875204
>My biggest issue is quality, Netflix compresses their movies beyond recognition
only a problem in browser, they offer the hevc high bitrate codec to some tvs if you pirate you can get that version and it's on par with bluray even if it's a lossy "starved" compression

>>213875881
To be fair the FED can influence the money supply with special QE which they did in 2020.

>>213874895 (OP)

Piracy is theft. Be a Christian and pay for the degenerate entertainment made by usually Leftist, Liberal Democrats. Stealing goes against the "You must not steal" commandment.

>>213875035

That's cool. But I'm still going to buy old movies, games and books as much as I can. If they are out of print and not easily accessible, then I will resort to piracy. Piracy of media, although not ideal, is a way to preserve old media that can be considered art.

>>213877271
They are simply charging too much for shit services. If they just lent you rent movies for 1 or 2 dollars on google or wherever in HD and maybe charged another buck for 2/4K it wouldn't matter. That sounds like too little, but that's because you have dog shit executives who can't manage an industry. As an example, that new Superman movie cost 300mil. Movies should now be WAY cheaper to make, not just because of improved technology but what should be hugely streamlined practices. It should be a third of that price, if that.

Shit, even just make it a staggered release 5 bucks for first few months, and then 2 bucks.

>>213878352
Paypig kek

>>213878370

You should have supported Blockbuster and your local VHS/DVD rental store a decade ago, then, instead of paying for streaming.

>>213878228
The highest bitrates I've seen on Netflix are around 20 mbps, that's still crap for a 4K movie when UHD BluRays offer 50-80 mbps

>>213878408
Anon, it didn't matter how much those were supported. They would never keep up with the evolving tech

>>213877737
>>213878352
>Mr. Goldstein won't be happy about this!

>>213874895 (OP)
>pirate everything
>watch illegal streaming sites & apps
I'm just not going to pay.

>>213878408
I was renting way into the streaming era. And I was pirating way before I ever tried a streaming service.

>>213874895 (OP)
Maybe don't charge 30 bucks for a 4K stream without adds, mmkay? They can only blame themselves.

>>213878408
>support Blockbuster
They were worse than any streaming service.

All this hand wringing.
They make a shit product and can't run a business, hence retarded costs.

I told my friend about an amazing film so he buys a ticket. Am I entitled to a portion of money for my work?

I'm subscribed to Prime and HBO (Sky here on the germoney)
The rest I just pirate (private torrent tracker)
Maybe I check out Disney + for that Alien show, once every episode is out

>>213878610
This is why I never recommended anyone a movie, ever. Even if I liked many.
They're financial products at the end of the day and I don't want to advertise them.

>>213874895 (OP)
It’s not even cost. Streaming was good because it was convenient and had what you wanted. Now you have to search for which streaming service your film or series is in and hope that it’s even on streaming. If you’re watching a series, the episodes will be spread across the hundreds of streaming services, some more obscure than others. This sums it up well
https://youtu.be/yvhv7bgmz64

>>213875035
Local libraries have dvd rentals for free and have a great range of films, including foreign art films

Lmao at Hollywood destroying their entire industry chasing the streaming slop meme.

>>213874988
a decade ago it was Netflix and Hulu with everything you'd want to watch split between them
then the cable networks saw the writing on the wall that nobody wants to watch their retarded ad-filled AIDS bullshit so instead of reflecting and adapting to the audience tastes they strongarmed their way into the streaming world, every single one of them, and stripped all their shows from Netflix and Hulu so to be able to watch what you used to be able to watch now you need to pay a subscription to each of these cable networks, turning streaming into just cable 2

THat's not a good thing
This is just gonna lead them to crack down harder on piracy

>>213874895 (OP)
Maybe they should try launching another streaming service that costs twice as much as the last one and where you can only buy year-long subscriptions? And of course, make sure it only has one good show/film worth watching.
I'm sure that will help!

Hey fellow anons, what are your favorite sites to download copyrighted content?

>>213877405
>Piracy should be a bare bones experience where you tolerating shit quality to make up for it being free.
That's what it used to be. I remember the early 00s I still had 56k internet so download speeds were slow, most of pirated movies were garbage quality, very bad compressed rips, so renting and buying was still my preferred option. At some point I got better internet, pirates standards went up and piracy became a no-brainer.

Hollywood should pay me for watching their shit.

>>213875272
>media gets worse and more expensive*

protip to newfriends: read the piracy megathread on plebbit

>>213878352
Buying isn't owning
Piracy isn't theft

>>213880588
one of the (very) few useful subreddits still in existence

>>213875491
Movies and shows aren't intellectual property.

>>213878455

They could have at least kept the older movies. At one of the local media rental stores at the village I live in, they were selling their old DVDs to make room for bpurays. So bummed I didn't buy their Asian horror film, The Eye 3. I think today they are just a normal convenience store.

>>213878551

How were they worst? At least they had a good selection of snacks you could buy.

>>213878529

I used to pirate heavily as well. These days I just check out comic books at comic pirate websites and now will be buying the actual products.

>>213878459

>Joker stealing money from crime lords.

What if people through piracy stole all of Harvey Weinstein's movies?

>>213880733

You sound like Antifa here, but piracy is theft.

>>213880510

They have movie critics for that but they usually get paid by fanatical movie consumers. Mobile video game content creators, if they get a lot of views, can usually get a bunch of free stuff as long as they advertise the mobile game they play.

>213881246
bait, look at that spacing

>>213881367
>>213881246

I'm just replying to everyone who replied to me.

>>213875280
Paramount has the worst fast forwarding feature of any service. That and removing episodes deemed offensive was the line for me. I paid foe 2 months at the price of like 4$ and I wouldn't get it again at that same price

has streaming piracy killed downloading? i dont see why it wouldnt

>>213880018
And now Hulu is getting absorbed into Disney Plus.

>>213881246
Double-linebreaks after post tags should be an automatic permanent ban at the device level.

>>213882126
Second.

>>213875035
This

>>213880018
Reminder that Tubi was founded in 2014 and is still Free.

>>213874895 (OP)
How many people watch antenna television though?
Brits need not respond

>Netflix won because it gave a good service at a low price
What part of this is so hard for companies to understand?

>>213882466
It's complicated. Netfix has a lot of content. most bad,some good. HBO is not productive and no longer as high quality as if was.
I would rather buy dvd of The Wire and Sopranos and watch Looney Tunes on Youtube.

>>213882466
>good service at a low price
Netflix doesn't understand this anymore either, kek

>>213882614
Looney Tunes is coming to Tubi.

>>213874895 (OP)
>Produce increasingly poor slop.
>People stop watching the slop.
>People stop paying for slop.
>People don't even want to pirate your slop.

They did this to themselves when they decided that the future of entertainment was in pushing their own ideological beliefs instead of giving the public what they actually wanted to see. Now the entertainment industry and its customers are ideologically opposed enemies but the entertainment industry doesn't seem to understand that they are actually the ones in danger of being erased in this war.

>>213874895 (OP)
>pirates and watches alone
get on with the times old man
>https://kick.com/category/other-watch-party?sort=viewers_high_to_low&languages=en

>>213882108
I mean it should. There's no reason to operate both.

>>213874895 (OP)
i went back to piracy a year ago when i found out how many netflix originals and disney+ exclusives have been deleted and made completely unavailable. nearly all the listed movies were garbage but that's for me to decide when i watch it, not for them to decide and memoryhole it.
for that reason, i was out. i have a lifetime of old media to go through, i don't need to fund any more

>>213874895 (OP)
I try to play nice and let Youtube's ads play to support content creators, if I have it on as background noise I let the hour long ads play out. Everytime I use youtube without adblock though, it sarts FUCKING WITH ME. First it randomly AI voice dub a carribbeanpot video I was watching into Japanese, and yesterday it demanded that I login to prove I'm not a bot, this after I clicked through a lot of crappy Hollywood crap with AI bot comments. I left, watched Tubi on Chrome, and 12 hours later Youtube magically decide I'm not a bot again -- I just downloaded a few music videos and then left, sick of it.

As for Tubi, it used to be great, I hated autoplay but at least it lets the end credits finish playing, and there there is a pause of around 9 minutes before going onto the next movie, now it skip the end credits, sometimes the end scene. The ads also got more intrusive, much louder, when I click to pause it instead try to take me to another website. Now that I'm not sure if actors even gt residuals, I'm using Adblock.

moviejoy got blocked from where I am, there i still internet archive, and I CAN Read A Book.

>>213882906
It was inevitable honestly just something that I can't get used to fully.

>>213882459
I do. Digital broadcast is underrated; only downside is poor signal has atrocious quality compared to analog broadcasts; with analog poor signal would get fuzzy picture and sound might have some noise in it, but poor signal on digital causes tearing, pixelization, and audio cutting that makes it insufferable. Too bad a lot of new TVs are not adapted for broadcast and have no signal meter functions or anything like that because they are expected to be always on the wifi internet streaming pieces of phone home shit like every other consumer electronic in the modern age.

>>213880588
Have a qrd? I don't wanna go there

>213882225
Nice upvote faggot

>>213875904
The only advantage we have over the goblins is our immune system since goblins are older and their young are extremely inbred. Those who are 'super spreader' -- you get infected buy you don't get sick, even if you don't need the money, get a job as a waiter where the goblins are and party on between work.

>>213883036
i love youtube ads. it's a constant reminder that the almighty algorithm has no idea who i am or what my interests are. validation that i'm not giving my life history away to the lowest bidders.
Youtube seems to think i'm a relatively wealthy boomer that needs to be shown travel and car ads. i'm broke as shit and hate driving.
my wife gets ads perfectly tailored to her womanly bullshit and my kids get video game commercials.

>>213883130
>a relatively wealthy boomer that needs to be shown travel and car ads
Youtube used to assume that about me but once I started watching anti-immigration stuff it figured me out.

>>213874895 (OP)
Ive seen people upload streamed content on archive.org like the day after it gets posted

>>213883225
it really seems to be refusing to use my viewing history to decide on ads. i watch cooking, vidya, and dumb shit like huggbees. it'd be so much more sensible to shill video games and kitchen gadgets at me.

>>213883130
Try UblockOrigin on Firefox for an ad free experience, it also stops Google from reading you as well.

All media companies have to do is make a centralized hub where customers can watch whatever they want and profit from unobtrusive ads go to whoever owns the video. But instead every single media company needs a streaming service, they train customers to never want to see ads, and as a result the whole model is unsustainable and will likely just become "cable but on the internet".
This is why Steam succeeded but Netflix will fail.

>>213874895 (OP)
Metallica was fucking right and I’m tired of pretending that they weren’t. I made an essay why Lars is a better drummer than Neal Peart as an apology.

>>213883294
archive.org is being misused so the powers that be have an excuse to completely shut it down. it's on borrowed time. get everything off it you feel you may need ASAP

>>213883078
Can confirm they demand wifi.
My TV thinks it is 4 AM right now and everytime I open the guide it goes to the first channel. That has however helped me remember the channels, but my remote is largely just a controller than something for a TV

>>213883309
>i like ads and clearly google isn't getting my info anywhere
>"you should block the ads because that will also stop youtube from getting your info"

>>213875987
They are basically the same thing, which is why the USSR called themselves socialists

The moment shit like Peacock and Paramount+ started to exist, it was all over for streaming. Their entire business model is people who forget to cancel after the free trial. This is not a sustainable business model. They deserve to be pirated.

>>213883332
I get archive.org is cool but it’s been really weaponized lately, Drudge Report’s uses it to link to conservative media and Citizen Free Press uses it on liberal media. I feel bad for people where I think they worked hard on making their newslop but I steal from them. Also I don’t see why I have a right to read some of the things I do for free and feel guilty at times.

I didn’t know that you can get free music and movies with it.

Personally this year, I bought about 100 dollars of streaming services but pirated stuff like Alien Earth. I felt better about handling the.jews my sheckles but I just really need to cut back.

Makes me sad if pirating got so bad nobody can make money anymore because I want more stuff. It seems like Spotify and .Netflix are doing really well still shrug.

>>213883505
>feeling bad about not paying for news
What kinda cuck are you? The internet exists as means to have information flow freely around the world

>>213883493
paramount's TV channel and their streaming service were such awful, terrible things. i HATE them. there should be 4 hour youtube essays on it and novel-length blogposts but they were also so irrelevant that nobody cares enough to do so

>paramount TV channel is like 480p with huge black bars around the sides
>watch an ad for bar rescue that is just a scene taken from the show and 'bar rescue every day from 1-5pm' slapped in the corner, watch that exact scene in bar rescue, back to commercials again and it's the same ad

>watch old spongebob on paramount+
>it has random blacked out moments where the modern commercial breaks interrupt a joke (originally the ad break was solely between the two separate 10 min stories)
>audio desynced
>any episode with a slighly offensive joke is missing

>>213880018
This. For the first few years, Netflix had literally everything on it and was much cheaper, it only made sense to sub to it. But now if you want to watch 4 shows, you need to sub to 4 different platforms that all cost over $15/month, and some will still show ads even though you're paying for it. Streaming today is in no way better than a classic TV plan.

>>213883647
This is why you just pirate all the seasons or use an illegal streaming site/app like 456movie and get to watch all of them whenever you want.

>>213883314
The problem is that they all want the metrics.
Additionally, you underestimate how much money there is to be made on subscriptions vs revenue for a single product. Why invest money in making good content when you can charge a hefty monthly fee for the slop you've made since the beginning? It costs comparatively nothing to pay for the hosting.

>change nothing
>win

I used to be a good pay piggy but once they started putting in fucking aids medicine ads in my PAID streaming services and turing netflix into the worst fucking slop imaginable I am all in on pirating again. 10 dollars for a VPN and you can watch anything you want for free without ads. match or beat that offer streaming companies like you did with music or kiss my ass

>>213875035
That's why the last game I made a couple years ago was free, and if you liked it and played to the very end, you were welcome to donate if you wanted to support me. Made a lot more than I thought I would.

>>213882870
>dude i NEED a chat window with spamed pepes to watch anything

fuck off zoomie

>>213884175
What game?

>>213874895 (OP)
Streaming has come full circle into being cable 2.0. There's too many of them and most of the shows they put out are garbage and not worth paying for.

>>213874895 (OP)
Been watching 90s kinos on crappy glitchy stream sites
Been not bothering to watch anything new

>>213884175
How much did you make and and type of game?

>download qb torrent
>install the search plugin build-in with a dozen of free trackers
>two clicks away from a free access to any media content that's even remotely popular
you can't possibly justify paying for tv content in the year of our lord 2025

>>213883294
There's a fuck ton of classic cel anime on there

Just start choking off hands again for stealing.
It's that simple.

Whenever a pirate is caught, chop a hand off. That would solve the problem.

>>213876082
>however i can see a service similar to steam working for indie films.
So... MUBI
And yeah I use mubi because for a lot of these weird indie kinos it's really not worth the time or effort to go hunt for a torrent

>>213885104
>hurt nobody
>lose hand
post face pic

>>213884676
I would rather cable at this point.

>>213884107
I didn’t know they added ads to Netflix. That’s just sad, that company is nothing like it was in the 2000’s.

>>213876049
>twice as expensive for ads
retard

they probably make more money from the ads than they do when you pay for it. it's decoy/prohibitive pricing.

People who pay for any streaming services are too lazy or dumb to use torrents but god bless em because thats what keeps the studios from going nuclear about piracy. I always chuckle to myself that those dimwits allow me to keep eating for free

>>213885222
meant for >>213877425

>>213874895 (OP)
internet id laws and remote attestation will solve this. the days are numbered for criminal scumbags.

>>213883130
YouTube seems to really think I should start gambling
That being said, I use AdNauseam so it's hilarious when I turn it off for one reason or another and due to how AdNauseam works I get all sorts of ads for midget tranny porn and crack pipes (miniature flower vase) etc

>>213885265
I’m sorry I don’t want to pay 25 fucking dollars to rent a digital file

>>213875909
>So "communist" is now another hollow buzzword for "thing I don't like"?
yea

>>213883130
I love when I click on a video that must have a different tag than I usually watch, and it poisons my entire feed with only those videos for the next fucking 2 hours.

I very rarely get any videos in my feed from any of my subscribed channels. And even then, it's only from like ~5 out of ~100 channels.

the algorithm is so dogshit it's not even funny.

thankfully normie dumdums pay for amazon netflix hulu and all
I pay my sit at the cinema and that's all

Look that's Lars Ulrich, the drummer for Metallica, sitting by his pool. This month he was hoping to have a gold plated shark tank bar installed right next to the pool, but, thanks to people downloading his music for free, he must now wait a few months before he can afford it.

>>213874895 (OP)
I just tried to watch Are You Afraid of the Dark Online, and it sounded very strange, at first I thought it was coming unevenly from the speakers, but it actually hurts my ears, are people actually uploading something with bad sound to muddle the waters of what's available?

Episode: "The Tale of Station 109.1"
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7dc8hs

24:31
Are You Afraid Of The Dark? S5-E13: The Tale of Station 109.1
Uploader
Dylan Renaud / The Riff Alyum
Date published
Jun 30 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flP0JQJ1ASw

I tried another episode of the same series and same ear pain. It got worse as the episode got on, the youtube copy is less bad, but I couldn't listen past 4 minutes, and comments are turned off.

>>213874988
Sorry, goy, we're gonna start running ads unless you pay the premium shabbos sub.

>>213876243
>>213876394
>213876394
what happened here?

>>213874895 (OP)
Every day thousands of pajeets get access to internet.

>>213885778
STOP DOWNLOADING! I WILL TAKE YOUR FUCKING HOUSE. Errm, I mean, fight the power, fuck capitalism.

>>213885778
>>213886157
Ever since I find out Metallica were such douchebag I avoid listening to their music even if it's for free. My attention span is valuable too.

>>213874895 (OP)
>2015 $10 and stream nearly everything
>2025 $15 each for 7 different services goyim!
>OY VEY THE PIRACY!

>>213874931
Gaben was right again when he said piracy was a service issue
>Shitty selection
>Shitty pricing
Most people are willing to pay for something, if the price is reasonable and the something isn't shit

>>213886066
I give it 5 years before premium subs also get ads
Just got to slowboil that frog

>>213885778
>>213886235
it's commendable that they were so dedicated to fighting piracy that they started making music so dogshit that nobody even wanted to pirate it

>>213886914
>Hey, kid, wanna buy physical media?
>THAT'S HIM OFFICER! He tried to sell me Sesame Street.

>>213886108
>thousands
don't downplay it anon. surely it's at least 100k new jeets coming online daily

>>213886581
>2015 $10 and stream nearly everything
???

>>213885127
>Steal
>Surprised that there are consequences

>>213886949
I notice the musicians who are loudest about anti-piracy actually have shitty music -- it's like they knew people judged their stuff isn't worth paying for. Likewise, the 'writers' most anti-fanficiton, Anne Rice and George RR Martin, either butchered the series that made them famous or couldn't fucking finish.

A long while ago I was listening to synthwave an I loved the soundtrack to Drive (2011), downloaded it, and ended up buying the movie...there it sat in its wrapped DVD till tubi has it and I finally watched the film of the soundtrack, very good.
I do have a DVD player but it's just such a pain to dig it up I ended watching a lot of my faves on pirate sites even though I have the DVDs: Lord of the Rings, Pirates of Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, First Blood (Rambo).

>>213886949
I love that that was the entire point of the episode and metallica responded by just following it to a tee.
>fine, we'll keep making music, but it will be shit!

>>213887876
the selection in nigflix was objectively MUCH better back then

>>213878408
I last rented DVDs (not even Blu-Rays) in 2017. They were low-budget Australian movies I literally couldn't even find at the time to torrent anywhere online.

>>213875035
>buy pre-WW2 books.
Totally, but there are some cool post-WWII books around too. El Señor Presidente and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion are kino.

You don't even have to fully torrent stuff. You can just visit some sites that already have most of everything on Russian servers.

>>213881246
Blockbuster were one of the worst things to happen to the industry. Whether it was censoring movies or just the fact they had garbage content, because they would focus on 50 copies of the latest slop and leave no room for range. The industry couldn't resist the allure though, because you were guaranteed huge returns on your tentpole slop because every franchise would auto-order a dozen copies of it. No competing with smaller DTV companies going region to region peddling traditional VHS content like horror or action films. It was the reason 80's horror slop got replaced by an endless stream of Disney animated sequels and indie studios had to be purchased by, and shape their content to, mega corps, so they could get into the blockbuster pipeline (since blockbuster killed so many real video stores). Them being killed by Netflix is one of the great poetic justices of the film industry.

>>213874931
That's not how it works though, you can't normally capture the screen because of drm and even if you could, capturing video is inefficient as fuck, scene groups break the drm and copy the video file or encode it onto a more common format wich is infinitely faster than capturing.

Unironically piracy is the only way to get the highest quality while watching on PC. Apple TV is the worst about this, I swear to god they limit it to 720p

>>213890931
yeah, you can't even screenshot on the netflix app

>>213874895 (OP)
We won.

>>213884936
your little search plugin gives women the ick

>steam and netflix treat piracy as their primary competition
>huge success ensues
>competition enters
>competition treats stream/netflix as their competition
>great failure ensues

>>213874895 (OP)
Streaming isn't real piracy honestly. A rip of Django Unchained on youtube has millions of views and there are thousands of other popular films uploaded in their entirety.

>>213874895 (OP)
They go about everything in the most retarded way and then get perplexed when goys won't play their retarded game.
>Increase the price
I'll pirate it for free.
>Have a limited library
I'll pirate from somewhere with a library decades old that has everything I could possibly want.
>Put in anti-cracking measures in video games
I'll download the cracked version that runs better, is smaller, and ironically has less spyware.
>Put ads on Jewtube unless you pay for some garbage
I'll use an adblocker.
Despite Jewish attempts to corner the internet the way they corner everything else it remains the freest market on earth. Which explains why new laws are coming in to restrict it. For all of the "smarts" Jews have, they can never win unless the deck is heavily, heavily stacked.

What the fuck are these yids smoking?

>>213891335
It doesn't help when Tarantino, on his own podcasts, frequently says "you can watch this one for free on youtube, good quality rip too" whenever he's talking about old films.

>>213876486
Hollywood is greedy to a fault. Hell, Gabe's perspective itself is rare enough in the video game industry. That kind of new age thinking won't catch on for streaming thankfully, and people will pirate movies/TV shows as usual.

>>213883130
I also get car ads but they're Japanese even though I don't live in Japan.

>>213883130
>search for a local storage business once
>nearly all my ads are about storage businesses
It is pretty funny

>>213875437
>Piracy was always more driven by convenience than avarice
Underrated and true. People will pay even high amounts if the user experience is easy, pleasant, and cohesive. They pirate because, despite ever rising prices, the experience deteriorates, fragments, and gets more difficult or pain-in-the-ass.

>>213874895 (OP)
no point buying something you watch once …

>>213886235
If I stopped listening to music/watching movies/reading books because some or all of the people involved were douchebags there wouldn't be anything to watch/listen/read.

If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't theft.

>>213874931
>create streaming services
>cheap
>tons of content
>no ads
>easy to use
>piracy becomes too much of a hassle when you can get access to everything for $10 a month
>price increases
>ads added
>content gets fragmented across 10 different platforms all asking for $20 a month
>people go right back to piracy
The issue is corporate greed. They expect more for a product than people are willing to pay. Therefore people stop being customers.

>>213876134
>a game costs $80
I don't buy any games over $10.

>>213883130

I watch youtube on my tv before bed sometimes and I get ads. It's all Liberty Mutual and Taco Bell. I don't have Liberty Mutual and I haven't been to Taco Bell in probably 4 years.

Great, now they're going to crack down on piracy. I was able to pirate everything I wanted for the last 15+ years because normgroids and then zoomers were too stupid to know how to torrent.

>>213892022
youtube TV is basically nu cable. I can remember when it was $50/mo though, that was before all the sports deals caused the price to jump by leaps and bounds.

>>213874895 (OP)
I have not paid for any digital entertainment in nearly 20 years. Not a single fucking dollar.

>>213874988
fucking this.

>>213874988
>a lot of the shit Netflix in particular funds is blatant propaganda or made for drama farming
What? You don't love hate watching shows, my fellow 4chan hate monger?

>>213874895 (OP)
>watched Marvel movies
>they put how many jobs they created during the production
Why do they think I care? Those jeets already got paid.

>>213878352
>e a Christian and pay for the degenerate entertainment
It's all good I asked jesus to forgive my sins so now I'm good