Yeah sorry the point of piracy is to be a cheapskate. If I’m gonna spend money might as well buy the damn thing.
Lol piracy isn’t a fucking political movement. It’s a “I want free shit” thing and that’s OK! we don’t need to justify shit to some stupid moral standards.
Netflix, Disney and Amazon limit the bitrate and resolution on Linux. Amazon is often at 540p or so.
That’s because of DRM, which they use to prevent piracy. Guess what, they lost a paying customer because of their terrible service.
Indeed, many pirates only want free things, but there’re many other valid reasons to pirate. E.g. I’m paying for energy, storage, a usenet provider and indexers. Though I agree I’m going the cheaper piracy route instead of buying Blurays and ripping them myself.
For some it is. It used to be a point for me. It still is a factor, but it is no longer the main point. Service and convenience is the most prevalent point for me right now.
What it comes down to for me is that I don’t want to subsribe to and pay for 7 streaming services to be able to watch everything I want. I had gotten used to Netflix being the primary streaming service which offered “everything” (it didn’t but it was plenty). I stopped being a pirate in that time. Then every asshole company pulled their shit from netflix and started their own streaming service. That’s when the convenience stopped and I went back to priacy. Funny how that works, right?
If you’re pirating purely because it’s free you’re an asshole.
If you’re pirating because the current platforms are too expensive, just as bad as cable, shows missing and routinely has service issues - you’re good.
alldebrid you mean? its pretty good, you can paste commonly downloaded torrents there and get instant direct links because of caching.
plex is mid though, too centralized.
idk, a debrid service is so cheap, it costs less to pay than to buy the hard drives and server + power. And it has pretty much everything already, so it’s more convenient, too.
It’s hard to justify dropping a pile of cash on 3 drives for a RAID when it will take about a decade to pay for itself vs. debrid, by which point I’ll need to replace the drives. Plus, it takes more time to set up, maintain, and load the desired media.
Isn’t that just asking for trouble? From the Real-Debrid TOS:
The User acknowledges not to use our service to download copyright infringement digital files punishable by a suspension of his account and reporting to competent organizations and authorities
Logging policy is not great:
Files links that Users download are stored in a database for legal concerns and our internal use. All saved links are erased within 1 month for security reasons and service needs. However all requests made on our site are stored for 1 year, the legal retention period.
Doesn’t look like you can sign up anonymously (unless you consider bitcoin and email anonymous, which they’re generally not).
How long until they get raided?
Doesn’t look like you can sign up anonymously (unless you consider bitcoin and email anonymous, which they’re generally not).
You can. Paysafecard bought with cash. Only issue is you have to use your normal IP to sign up with (not behind a VPN), though you could use a mobile one or a public one somewhere probably.
You could do the free wifi defense and set a super poor password and spend a month or so downloading legal stuff without a VPN before going arr using a VPN. And if someone comes knocking just say you don’t recall having a debrid account and claim you must’ve been hacked.
I suppose it depends on your jurisdiction. Uploading is what’s (potentially) illegal in Canada. Downloading is (probably) legal.
And neither have been tried by courts because mass John Doe suits have been shut down by our courts.
Regardless, the legal risk of downloading here is basically zero, so there’s effectively no risk to using a debrid service.
pirates. pussies
