• GONADS125@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Steam and Netflix are the sole reasons I stopped pirating as a teenager/young adult.

    I canceled Netflix long ago at this point and have been on the brink of going back to pirating films/TV. Too many streaming services… it’s just like TV packages before Netflix disrupted the model.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Honestly, with services like Jellyfin/Plex and the Sonarr suite, pirating has never been more convenient.

      I add something to my Plex watchlist, and it automatically appears on my Plex server in 1080p or 4K (whichever format I prefer, with subtitles and metadata ready to go,) in like 20 minutes. And I can stream that to as many devices as I want. Hell, I can even give friends access to my server, and I can access theirs too. All through a single UI, with no regional restrictions or “sorry you can’t watch that without signing into your home wifi, because we want to make sure you’re in the same household” BS.

      Streaming services were supposed to save us from the hassle of physical media, and be better than cable TV…