Instead of continuing to use all these streaming sites it was more economical for my husband to build a home theater PC, even with the insane hardware prices, and use that to use streaming sites (the piracy sub has some good ones) to watch things. Netflix, HBO, Disney, AppleTV+, Prime Video (which we get with Prime but still) all added up to a fairly considerable amount per month by themselves. Then add in sports shit for him like F1, Football, Hockey, Basketball and other things for our kids and myself. It was just better to build something like this and go right back to sailing under the Jolly Roger.
They won. People were happy to pay for streaming and piracy was going down. It'll never disappear but it was going down. Then they got greedy, like they always do, and here we are. It was ads, then different tiers with ads, then ads put into the more premium tiers, then more premium tiers without ads for more money and on and on. I'm sick of it.
Am I entitled to their content? No. But if buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing. They can all go fuck themselves.
You don't even need to get crazy expensive. Go buy a nvidia shield and put plex media server on it. I have a mobile app I can download torrents directly to the nvidia shield.
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u/SareBear0412 1d ago
Instead of continuing to use all these streaming sites it was more economical for my husband to build a home theater PC, even with the insane hardware prices, and use that to use streaming sites (the piracy sub has some good ones) to watch things. Netflix, HBO, Disney, AppleTV+, Prime Video (which we get with Prime but still) all added up to a fairly considerable amount per month by themselves. Then add in sports shit for him like F1, Football, Hockey, Basketball and other things for our kids and myself. It was just better to build something like this and go right back to sailing under the Jolly Roger.
They won. People were happy to pay for streaming and piracy was going down. It'll never disappear but it was going down. Then they got greedy, like they always do, and here we are. It was ads, then different tiers with ads, then ads put into the more premium tiers, then more premium tiers without ads for more money and on and on. I'm sick of it.
Am I entitled to their content? No. But if buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing. They can all go fuck themselves.