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Comment by bambax

2 years ago

Buy a movie on YT or DVD, and then... watch a torrented version? This isn't the future we were promised, but it sure is the future we have.

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Vicinity9635  2 years ago

Not youtube specifically, but I wanted to watch the wheel of time series on my ipad and:

#1 You cannot stream in a browser on iPadOS anymore. Amazon won't let you, you must use their app.

#2 They don't seem to give a fuck about making sure you're getting a quality stream in their app. Full of artifiacts and horrible compression way more often than is warranted on my symmetric gigabit connection.

So I added it to my Sonarr instance (pirated it legally) and watched it in a browser from there with perfect quality and no pre-stream ads.

Once again: A paid service so bad that it couldn't compete with the pirate experience even if it was free.

Which once again confirms Gabe Newell's statement to be true: "piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue"

chii  2 years ago

> Buy a movie on YT or DVD, and then... watch a torrented version?

in which case, why buy it at all? A torrent isn't going to load as fast as what you paid YT for.

  • nusl  2 years ago

    The further time goes on toward segmented streaming platforms and DRM bullshit, the deeper my piracy hedge grows. Eventually there will be a streaming service aggregation service a la Cable channels and we're back at square 1. Add to that streaming services pushing new ad schemes now that they've captured enough market share for the risk to be worth it, and we've got a great storm brewing for a resurgence in piracy and media execs going "but y?"

    BTW modern piracy setups are far more streamlined and easier to manage/use than modern streaming platforms. Assuming you have some tech ability anyway.

    • bambax  2 years ago

      Jellyfin on a NAS is just great. You don't even need a NAS. A Pi with a large SSD attached will do fine.

    • fckthisguy  2 years ago

      A half decent NAS, with Dockerised *rr is the gold standard of torrenting. I never knew it could be so painless.

  • MiddleEndian  2 years ago

    >A torrent isn't going to load as fast as what you paid YT for.

    Unless you want to rewind the video without it re-buffering...