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I don’t even know how I’d get back into piracy. I used to have a seed box, accounts on all the big trackers, then it just became less hassle to sign up to streaming services and I let it all lapse

kind of regretting it now

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> I don’t even know how I’d get back into piracy. I used to have a seed box, accounts on all the big trackers, then it just became less hassle to sign up to streaming services and I let it all lapse

Private trackers aren't necessary 99% of the time. Set up Jackett, point it at all the big popular public trackers, and you can find nearly anything.

> Jackett

Prowlarr is the new cool kid in town

There are an endless number of websites that stream virtually every show and movie for free in HD that you can access simply with a websearch and the proper ad blockers.

I often see the intros of shows like Foundation and The Expanse and imagine all of the particles are there as a big F.U. to pirates trying to reencode their paid stream.

Particle Man, particle man. Does whatever a particle can. File size bloat on a pirate boat? Particle Man, particle man.

Business Man, business man. Extracts all the value he can. Residuals to pay, for old shows: no way! Business Man, businessman.

Reminds me of a Princess Chelsea song

https://youtu.be/vOLivyykLqk

  Why is the world in love again?
  Why are we marching hand in hand?
  Why are the ocean levels rising up?
  It's a brand new record for 1990
  They Might Be Giants' brand new album Flood

Oh heck that's 32 years old

You can grab the encoded but decrypted video out of GPU memory. So pirates usually don't need to reencode anything.

I don't know anyone who pirates on torrents any more for things other than video games, just streaming sites. Use yandex and search for the show + stream. Google works too honestly but isn't as good since they respond to dmca requests

In my experience it's the other way around. Most people I know just buy the game on steam because it's a much better experience overall, you get updates, you don't have to worry about malware, etc.

With movies/shows however it's the other way around. You get a better experience if you pirate. You get all the languages and subtitles. No ads. No annoying autoplay of other unrelated content. You get the actual video file so you can watch it without internet connection, on other devices, you get to keep it forever, etc. No invasive DRM. Much faster playback because it doesn't need to buffer.

you can also, uh, pay for music. I subscribe to three streaming services, buy vinyl and cds, and buy digital files as well.

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