zlacker

>>ksec+(OP)
I know it's morally dubious, but I'm completely back in pirateland because of all the changes/price hikes/partitioning in the streaming space. My interests make it so I only watch 1-2 shows per platform so I'd be approaching ~100$/month.

And even if I was swimming in money, it's often easier to just download the shows I want and watch them on Plex/Jellyfin than trying to navigate the (often ad-riddled) interfaces of the various platforms and finding where the content I want is.

One example is Rick and Morty, it's made by Adult Swim, but they don't have a streaming service in Canada. It seems to be on Primevideo but under a different system than their regular content. The other way to watch it is to buy it from my cable provider (I don't have cable). So to watch a 20-minutes animated show I'd have to take a +40$ subscription.

>>belval+Qg
I like how you use one difficult example (Rick and Morty) to justify a wholesale move back into piracy.

I use a Roku. It has all the apps. Sometimes I forget what show is in which app. JustWatch is helpful. I can legally buy Rick and Morty season 6 from iTunes. I’m laying in bed and could buy it in about 15 seconds.

If there was no such thing as piracy and streaming services were free then dealing with all the different services would be a mild nuisance. IMHO people pirate primarily because of money. Everything else is just a weak attempt to morally justify something they know is wrong.

At the very least pay for most of your content. Don’t pirate everything just because that one anime from Japan you love is hard to legally pay for.

>>forres+Xt
> I like how you use one difficult example (Rick and Morty) to justify a wholesale move back into piracy.

Ah yes, the ol' blame the user.

> streaming services were free then dealing with all the different services would be a mild nuisance

Sure.

> IMHO people pirate primarily because of money

The biggest video games are all free.

> At the very least pay for most of your content.

Because of piracy, all the streaming services operate like free to play games. Disney+ gets $80/yr from payers. Not bad. Compare to Clash of Clans which is closer to $10-15/yr (per payer).

They're doing a good job. I am not 100% sure what the payers are paying for. Lack of technical knowledge to pirate? You're right, nobody who would know how to do this would pay.

>>pirate+1y
> The biggest video games are all free.

Huh?

>>andsoi+yJ
https://steamdb.info/graph/ Top 5 currently and Top 4 all time peak.

And outside Steam others like Fortnite, Candy Crush, Roblox, Club Penguin...

Many at the top here have a free-to-play model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_game...