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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This isn't the reason piracy is coming back in my friend group. That reason would be the diversification of streaming sources. There's no way I'm paying $100 a month for streaming from all the major players, especially if they include ads.

When Netflix was all you needed, streaming was great and reasonable. It quickly became more trouble than it was worth over the last decade.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a consequence it's also often far easier to pirate something than to find it legally -- and even when you do find it, there's still the DRM woes and having to play by the arbitrary rules of the service. Most of these streaming outlets have forgotten that their entire business model is actually based on being more convenient than piracy, which isn't really the case anymore since it's all fragmented to hell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've never had an easier time watching movies and shows then when I finally setup sonarr and radarr. Only bad thing about it is waiting for downloads, but it always finds the thing I want.

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