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Would a "widespread upswell in piracy amongst the general public" ultimately be a good thing? How much more accessible can it get? If A.) clicking through a software installer and B.) reading file names is too high a barrier of entry... Streaming services will gladly take your money.

A small-scale solution could be setting up a Jellyfin or similar server for all your friends + family members. Curate it with what they ask for, maybe give them access to a Sonarr instance so they can add content themselves. There are client apps for smart TVs, phones, and a web player. Maybe they'll like it so much they tell their friends, or want to set up their own :)

>>Liquix+(OP)
A few friends in different US regions running Jellyfin in a container with an Hdhomerun (~$100) and rabbit ears (~$50) could effectively reproduce the DirectTV Sunday ticket (~$300).

I anticipate some version of family and friend supported distributed services to continue growing in the near future.

>>Liquix+(OP)
There used to be an app called Popcorn Time which had a Netflix-like UI but was actually serving the videos from torrents. It would attempt to download the torrent data sequentially so you could stream the show/movie after about 10 seconds of buffering.

>>Liquix+(OP)
I’ll admit that A) and B) are ultimately really simple things that most people should be able to manage. However I’ve come to learn that most people are not nearly as comfortable using computers as we would think. They use computers very narrowly and are hesitant to break them.