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"Again"?
I've still been out here since Napster. Welcome back aboard, we kept the torrents warm for you.
I like something I saw on here awhile ago that was something like " streaming services where only successful because they where slightly more convenient that pirating " for a while I mostly used a couple of streaming services despite most of the apps having really bad interfaces . But my Plex server has been growing in size lately while the streaming services are being cancelled.
My breaking point for paying for something that I could otherwise get for free is convenience. Doesn't even need to be a lot, I just refuse to pay for a product that artificially more of a hassle than the identical product that I can obtain for free.
It's not so much that I want a superior product, it's that I refuse to pay money for an inferior alternative.
My line is ads if I'm paying for something I'm not watching ads . I actually pay for YouTube premium because it's worth it in my opinion for the amount I use for it and I use YouTube music alot too .
As someone who doesn't sail the high seas, I thank you. Sometimes it looks like there won't be any classic media left without your efforts.
What are the cool kids using these days?
Seedboxes. Download the torrent on someone else's computer, and then directly download it to yours through an encrypted connection. Sorta like a "money-laundering" for pirated content.
Honestly still just using Qbittorrent with a VPN; it's a dream now that fibre is pretty ubiquitous. Mine hit 100MB/S yesterday, a 1.4Gb file takes about 10 seconds
Qbit+VPN to grab, radarr/sonarr to catalogue, overseerr to request, and plex/jellyfin to watch.
I was using torrents for years before I started messing with Usenet. Now I've got it set up it's easy to grab pretty much anything and at higher quality than before.