Oh wow. Surprise, surprise! More streaming services equals more piracy!

[Himu]

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sites

Wow who would have thought

https://twitter.com/Blue__Striker/status/1047386004473241601

[Nintex]

Is Netflix going to play the "We poor because you all download things!" game like the DVD publishers did?

While at the same time pouring billions into Adam Sandler content? 

[Fifstar]

It's annoying although over here it feels like the market has kinda consolidated and there is not much choice besides Netflix. I guess the US is always more competitive with media stuff like that, maybe we will get other services by big publishers later on.

Also this reminds me that I haven used Netflix in maybe a year and I should cancel my subscription 

[Joe Molotov]

Paying for 6 different streaming services 

Paying boutique prices for obscure 80's garbage movies on Blu-Ray 

[Human Snorenado]

Paying for 6 different streaming services 

Paying boutique prices for obscure 80's garbage movies on Blu-Ray 

Joe over here keeping Shout Factory in business

[nachobro]

i only watch wrestling, football, and old star trek and seinfeld so i'm all good with the setup i have.

xfinity streaming + wwe network + amazon prime 

[Joe Molotov]

Shout Factory is for normies, I'm getting deep into the Arrow Video catalog. 

[Himu]

I was aight with just having Netflix and Hulu. Now I have those, HBO and Filmstruck but still pirate anyway because I always look for obscure shit

I’ve got Netflix, Hulu, Filmstruck, and occasionally Crunchyroll. Re-upping for CBS for Trek. Sigh.

[MMaRsu]

I only use Netflix. I pirate the rest.

Fuck yall corporations 

( How else am I going to watch It's Always Sunny or Curb? That shit doesnt air here )

[nachobro]

i'll pirate the new trek, fuck it

[Kara]

According to Sandvine, file-sharing accounts for 3 percent of global downstream and 22 percent of upstream traffic, with 97% of that traffic in turn being BitTorrent.

Sounds bad!

Back in 2011, Sandvine stated that BitTorrent accounted for 52.01% of upstream traffic on fixed broadband networks in North America. By 2015, BitTorrent’s share of upstream traffic on these networks had dipped to 26.83 percent, largely thanks to the rise in quality, inexpensive streaming alternatives to piracy.

JK nvm.

But Sandvine notes that trend is now reversing slightly, with BitTorrent’s traffic share once again growing worldwide. That’s especially true in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, where BitTorrent now accounts for 32% of all upstream network traffic.

Dialectical synthesis.

[Cerveza mas fina]

You know you poor when you cant afford netflix

I only use Netflix. I pirate the rest.

Fuck yall corporations 

( How else am I going to watch It's Always Sunny or Curb? That shit doesnt air here )

Its on hbo no?

Oh wait I remember HBO is not a streamable service in Holland loooool

[Joe Molotov]

Is HBO No the Euro pirate version of HBO Go?

[MMaRsu]

Actually HBO does have a streaming service if you're with Ziggo, which I am. But it doesn't even mention any Curb, Sopranos or any of those on the HBO Ziggo page. It's just a bunch of BS about Game of Thrones. When I had the first free month for HBO it didn't even have Sopranos available to watch... yea fuck that

I'm not paying them 7 euro's extra per month because I want to watch some Curb.

[Himu]

testing twitter link because it seems they're not working

https://twitter.com/Blue__Striker/status/1047386004473241601

[Cerveza mas fina]

Actually HBO does have a streaming service if you're with Ziggo, which I am. But it doesn't even mention any Curb, Sopranos or any of those on the HBO Ziggo page. It's just a bunch of BS about Game of Thrones. When I had the first free month for HBO it didn't even have Sopranos available to watch... yea fuck that

I'm not paying them 7 euro's extra per month because I want to watch some Curb.

Its not really a normal streamable service if you have to use a specific provider

Hbo has everythinh here in Denmark, Sopranos, Got, the Wire...

[Assimilate]

Oh come on. Only stupid fucking people don't know how to game this system.

Netflix offers a family plan, split the family plan with your friends or family.

HBO doesn't care if you share your account.

Hulu & showtime come free with Spotify student discount, find someone in your stupid family that is still a student, use their credentials.

Amazon video is included with prime, who the hell doesn't have Amazon prime now? Not to mention you can split that with one other person as well.

Not to mention some of the above services are discounted with various cell phone providers. For example T-Mobile gives you a discount on Netflix.

It's so cheap to get these packages now than ever before.  And how much TV and entertainment can some people consume? It's overwhelming

[CatsCatsCats]

Yo right now Netflix, amazon, and cbs (big brother, big guilty pleasure) are all gettin my streaming money

spoiler (click to show/hide)

and I still pirate shit on the daily

[close]

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

I just use a website that's $40 a year that allows me to torrent unlimited files under 25gb and then I download an encrypted version of the file through their website.

[thisismyusername]

Paying for 6 different streaming services 

Exactly. This shit is starting to happen on PC gaming. People don't want millions of clients, who knew!?

[kingv]

Paying for 6 different streaming services 

Paying boutique prices for obscure 80's garbage movies on Blu-Ray 

You can pry my mint unopened criterion Remo Williams from my cold dead hands.

[Brehvolution]

Can't remember the last time I pirated something. It's been years.

[agrajag]

But of course.

People used to complain about paying for cable, but now they are in a worse predicament. In order to get their fix of all the media they want to consume, some of which is exclusive to different streaming services, they have to either pay for multiple ones, or pirate it.

On top of the expenses adding up, shit is just plain ol confusing for the customer.

Something is gonna give eventually and there will emerge a catch all service similar to cable that offers streaming packages from various platforms.

[Himu]

But of course.

People used to complain about paying for cable, but now they are in a worse predicament. In order to get their fix of all the media they want to consume, some of which is exclusive to different streaming services, they have to either pay for multiple ones, or pirate it.

On top of the expenses adding up, shit is just plain ol confusing for the customer.

Something is gonna give eventually and there will emerge a catch all service similar to cable that offers streaming packages from various platforms.

I think in the end cable might just be streaming in the future. If cable companies made their own streaming and all this shit went on it, and you could pick which channels you want, I think people would prefer that. But of course, they're digging their heels. It's inevitable I would think.

[agrajag]

But of course.

People used to complain about paying for cable, but now they are in a worse predicament. In order to get their fix of all the media they want to consume, some of which is exclusive to different streaming services, they have to either pay for multiple ones, or pirate it.

On top of the expenses adding up, shit is just plain ol confusing for the customer.

Something is gonna give eventually and there will emerge a catch all service similar to cable that offers streaming packages from various platforms.

I think in the end cable might just be streaming in the future.

Well yeah. And they already have that to some extent, it's just so dumb and clunky. On demand has been around forever. They just need to make everything on demand.

[Human Snorenado]

I'm currently paying for Netflix, Hulu, Prime, and the WWE Network. And I'm probably gonna drop the WWE Network, 1) because they're really, really fucking bad lately outside of NXT, and I can watch the weekly NXT show on Hulu and 2) I'll use that money on HBO Now in January once True Detective comes back.

I haven't torrented anything outside of the HD RE4 pc game mod in years. Honestly, I don't even bother to use most of the services I have regularly because I hate ongoing episodic tv.

[Himu]

The last thing I pirated was LOGH for my rewatch and that was last November/December. I pirate maybe once every few years now. Now that I've got money pirating seems so...pointless unless it's something that hasn't and won't be released in America.

[D3RANG3D]

Hidive has LOGH the old and new series.

[EightBitNate]

Disney is launching their own streaming service while also having a controlling stake in Hulu. I don’t understand this.

[Nola]

Worth mentioning that during this same time frame cable companies have squeezed consumers more and more trying to make up lost ground to cord cutters. And given the monopolistic stranglehold they have in most markets thats a pretty easy thing to get away with.

I know that in my area for instance Cox has raised the price of their high speed internet to nearly $110 a month for 100MB downloads(which you never get) after the introductory rate. Less than 2 years ago that non-introductory rate was $64.99.

[Himu]

Hidive has LOGH the old and new series.

Who?

[thisismyusername]

Now that I've got money pirating seems so...

I pirate because the companies that aren't iTunes won't let me download shit to watch offline. And finding Netflix's series off-Netflix is like pulling teeth. Fuck all the companies. Until they give me the means to "archive" the shit I buy off them, they can fuck themselves.

[Himu]

I mean buying physical

[Momo]

If streaming services do the following I will stop pirating -

- Each service must create an api, so I or someone like me can create a uniform front end that serves all these in the background, with me only having to enter my api key for the service.
- Regions need to fuck off.

I'll happily pay, but not it you're asking me to pay AND be inconvenienced, fuck that. I only buy obscure blu rays and anime movies ( ) these days lmao 

[jorma]

Oh come on. Only stupid fucking people don't know how to game this system.

Netflix offers a family plan, split the family plan with your friends or family.

HBO doesn't care if you share your account.

Hulu & showtime come free with Spotify student discount, find someone in your stupid family that is still a student, use their credentials.

Amazon video is included with prime, who the hell doesn't have Amazon prime now? Not to mention you can split that with one other person as well.

Not to mention some of the above services are discounted with various cell phone providers. For example T-Mobile gives you a discount on Netflix.

It's so cheap to get these packages now than ever before.  And how much TV and entertainment can some people consume? It's overwhelming

"Gaming the system" sounds like a stupid amount of work when you can achieve better coverage just from a public torrent site. It's not like your way of not paying for content is morally superior to just downloding the shit you need.

[D3RANG3D]

Hidive has LOGH the old and new series.

Who?

Sentai filmworks animu service.

[Billy Big Bollocks]

I still quite like putting the tv on and watching something random tbh. channel flicking and then getting hooked on something.

someone needs to make like a shuffle function but for an on demand service

[nachobro]

torrenting is for dunces/olds anyway. everything is streamable now and the chromecast exists.

downloading

[chronovore]

Can't remember the last time I pirated something. It's been years.

This is me, too.

I was the guy that wanted to support digital sales and rentals from the outset. Unfortunately the region-lock bullshit has turned me into an expert on which content providers will screw me (summary: Amazon can get fucked, Apple has my back). I have refused to use VPN to bypass: if I'm a customer, let me have my goods without having to monkey around with additional technology.

Also, carriers have stated they're working to combat VPNs — WHY? Yeah, I know there are contracts covering regional distribution rights - blah, blah, blah — we're talking about customers who have valid accounts for the region in which they're paying. That's the only thing the IP owners and distributors are allowed to police, IMNERHO.

But by-and-large I'm using the local streaming services, no VPN, and it's easier than pirating.

[Great Rumbler]

I only ever pirated anime, so after Crunchyroll took off it's just become way easier for me to just grab a subscription to that and watch anime on my TV instead of going through the effort of downloading stuff off some torrent site and then putting in its proper Plex folder. Also got a sub to Prime Video, Netflix, and HIDIVE, but I don't watch those nearly as much.

[Human Snorenado]

I mean buying physical

In 2018???

[Madrun Badrun]

Can't remember the last time I pirated something. It's been years.

This is me, too.

I was the guy that wanted to support digital sales and rentals from the outset. Unfortunately the region-lock bullshit has turned me into an expert on which content providers will screw me (summary: Amazon can get fucked, Apple has my back). I have refused to use VPN to bypass: if I'm a customer, let me have my goods without having to monkey around with additional technology.

Also, carriers have stated they're working to combat VPNs — WHY? Yeah, I know there are contracts covering regional distribution rights - blah, blah, blah — we're talking about customers who have valid accounts for the region in which they're paying. That's the only thing the IP owners and distributors are allowed to police, IMNERHO.

But by-and-large I'm using the local streaming services, no VPN, and it's easier than pirating.

You guys are either liars or worse, you pay for porn. 

[CatsCatsCats]

Porn streams for free bro

[Rahxephon91]

I download and buy things because it’s easy and of higher quality usually.

[Madrun Badrun]

Porn streams for free bro

Only the real vanilla stuff. 

[Rahxephon91]

Porn streams for free bro

Only the real vanilla stuff.

  Oh that’s not true.

[Kara]

Arvie's porn drift is so pronounced at this point in his life that it is true from his perspective.

[Rahxephon91]

Hey those random Russian adware porn sites go hard.

[Madrun Badrun]

Arvie's porn drift is so pronounced at this point in his life that it is true from his perspective.

Its real bad at this point.  Like straight to dvd with Vin diesel only giving a six second cameo bad, but give it a few years and it will be all about family and blowing up planes. 

[Joe Molotov]

Arvie can't get it up unless both people deeply love and care about each other. What a sick fuck.

[TVC15]

I pay for:

Netflix
Hulu
Amazon Prime
Fandor (got a year for 40 or 50% off)
FilmStruck (also got a deal on, but not as good as Fandor)
Shudder

I think that’s it.

[Madrun Badrun]

wow, you a subscription ho.

[Kara]

Arvie can't get it up unless both people deeply love and care about each other. What a sick fuck.

[toku]

one day we'll all be dead lol

[Human Snorenado]

If streaming services do the following I will stop pirating -

- Each service must create an api, so I or someone like me can create a uniform front end that serves all these in the background, with me only having to enter my api key for the service.
- Regions need to fuck off.

I'll happily pay, but not it you're asking me to pay AND be inconvenienced, fuck that. I only buy obscure blu rays and anime movies ( ) these days lmao

I mean.. that's the direction things are going.

My Xfinity box when I do searches shows results from Netflix and soon to be Amazon prime;  my PS4 has a "TV" tab that shows Netflix / Hulu / Amazon Prime because I'm logged in.. I believe Xbox extends that to searching across all of those services.

What you are asking for.. essentially exists.

My smart tv's roku interface basically does the same thing.

[chronovore]

Can't remember the last time I pirated something. It's been years.

This is me, too.

I was the guy that wanted to support digital sales and rentals from the outset. Unfortunately the region-lock bullshit has turned me into an expert on which content providers will screw me (summary: Amazon can get fucked, Apple has my back). I have refused to use VPN to bypass: if I'm a customer, let me have my goods without having to monkey around with additional technology.

Also, carriers have stated they're working to combat VPNs — WHY? Yeah, I know there are contracts covering regional distribution rights - blah, blah, blah — we're talking about customers who have valid accounts for the region in which they're paying. That's the only thing the IP owners and distributors are allowed to police, IMNERHO.

But by-and-large I'm using the local streaming services, no VPN, and it's easier than pirating.

You guys are either liars or worse, you pay for porn.

The '70s established that porn is not legitimate media. 

[Momo]

If streaming services do the following I will stop pirating -

- Each service must create an api, so I or someone like me can create a uniform front end that serves all these in the background, with me only having to enter my api key for the service.
- Regions need to fuck off.

I'll happily pay, but not it you're asking me to pay AND be inconvenienced, fuck that. I only buy obscure blu rays and anime movies ( ) these days lmao

I mean.. that's the direction things are going.

My Xfinity box when I do searches shows results from Netflix and soon to be Amazon prime;  my PS4 has a "TV" tab that shows Netflix / Hulu / Amazon Prime because I'm logged in.. I believe Xbox extends that to searching across all of those services.

What you are asking for.. essentially exists.

My smart tv's roku interface basically does the same thing.

you guys dont have to deal with regions. roku is essentially useless here

[Tasty]

Chromecast