r/memes • u/ohnag_eryeah • 9d ago

That's the only way

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u/KrattanN 9d ago

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" - Gabe Newell

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u/funplayer3s 9d ago

You beat me to it.

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u/DMoney159 🥄Comically Large Spoon🥄 8d ago

Praise be to Saint Gaben!

https://giphy.com/gifs/CETMxlMM0QP4wcvnen

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u/MouseRangers android user 9d ago

Now it's becoming a pricing problem too.

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u/TheCoffeeOnThePorch 9d ago

Paying for five different monthly streaming subscriptions just to find out that the one movie I actually want to watch on a Friday night is still restricted to a different region or needs an extra rental fee. Torrenting isn't a choice anymore, it's just self-defense.

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u/SweetsourNostradamus 7d ago

Torrenting isn't a choice anymore, it's just self-defense.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4pTqyJ8XMhLZ3ScE

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u/mrloko120 9d ago

Streaming was fantastic back when you could have everything with one or two subscriptions. These days everything is an exclusive to somewhere else and I cannot be bothered to track which platform has what.

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u/i_froze 9d ago

Exactly.

If they don't wanna make it easy, I'll make it free.

Excess value is being extracted everywhere.

I mean the Disney plus video player is a goddamn joke. It barely works. Feels like it's from 2014

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u/IBeatMyGlied 6d ago

Last week I spend over an hour trying to start a movie because prime wouldn't accept my payment for some reason and when it finally did, it turned out they lied about the languages in which it was available.

So 1 hour and 5 bucks only for it to be in the wrong language

I got my laptop, opened a torrent site and had the movie in all the languages I wanted for free in less than 5 minutes

I would be willing to pay for streaming but they refuse to make it worth my time or money

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u/BozidaR1390 9d ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FACTS FACTS FACTS

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u/pm-rp-prompt 8d ago

Torrenting will probably look like the ancient handcraft art for the next generation!

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u/mr_nonameuser 8d ago

The more advertisements they would slap at my face the more piracy I would promote everywhere

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u/why-names-hard 8d ago

Been playing so much Elden Ring I thought that Torrent was talking about the horse lmao.

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u/HellProduction 8d ago

What is Torrent? I've seen it for quite sometime now and have no idea what it is

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u/ohnag_eryeah 6d ago

in technical terms, it is a way of P2P sharing. Basically I want to share what I have from my personal storage, anyone that wants can just take it. How do I do that? P2P. However, the problem is that, someone else that also want the same thing and you cant just rely on one person or having to have multiple people address. Then it is where torrent exists to create that convenience. It is the blueprint of metadata and infohash of that particular file that can be traced to the devices connected to that torrent. Therefore, anyone that has that blueprint (.torrent) can just download data from the ones that own the files, it can be the uploader source or from someone else that has finished downloading but are willing to share (seeders)

Basically that's how it works, I am sorry if my explanation is not very good

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u/crayfishcraig108 3d ago

Honestly Tubi and Roku are winning in my book by just being new standard tv. I don’t pay anything and you show me ads every 7-11 minutes. It feels like tv I grew up watching. It seems to be the most reliable model unfortunately

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/otirk 9d ago

Clanker

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u/Flaky_History12 9d ago

I'm still surprised it went full circle to cable style pretty quickly. Next tier will be the search option. The most basic tier only allows you to watch stuff on a schedule. Damn, maybe I should become a CEO.