Hell yes I'm gonna get exactly what I deserve. Because I actually pay for these crappy streaming services and what I get is horribly compressed "high definition" video loaded with artifacts on even 90% black frames that I can't even download to my device which means service is interrupted if I lose my internet connection. Meanwhile the "pirates" are getting DRM free extremely high quality Blu-Ray encodes they can watch whenever they want on a player that doesn't suck such as mpv.
Nope. You can easily find subtitles for literally anything on the internet. Some players even download them automatically. "Pirates" in the anime community pretty much invented this subtitling technology. You bet this data is included, either in the container file or as separate subtitle files.
Meanwhile HBO lacks english closed captioning for most of its content. They give me subtitles for spanish sometimes even though it's not my native language. Not to mention the obnoxious censorship and inaccurate translations.
You're right, I think I misunderstood the comment. I'm probably too angry to reply coherently right now so I'm gonna disappear for a while. I apologize to the person I replied to above.
Here's my average Netflix experience: I want to watch X. I search X on Neflix, and learn that Netflix doesn't have it because they only have a few thousand movies which is abysmal. I then spend the next two hours aimlessly browsing the Netflix catalogue searching for something kind of similar to X, but nothing is and I have to give up having watched nothing.
Here's my average pirating experience: I want to watch X. I search X on TPB and find exactly what I want with a few seeds. Half an hour later I am watching X.
Your experience is completely different than mine. I find one slow seeder that doesn’t have what I want or find a low quality rip in a language I don’t know.
Or I can just search on Google and usually find it either on a streaming service I subscribe to or it will give me a list of places I can rent it.
I will gladly pay three bucks not to have to deal with bit torrent
Honestly that's pretty weird. Most pirate sites have high quality 4k rips. I'm not sure where you're looking if you're only finding low quality rips with one seeder.
Yeah, in my experience it's common for streaming sites to have worse quality than is available to a pirate.
A concrete example: I want to watch Sharpe. Netflix doesn't have it, which isn't surprising because they never have anything I'm looking for. Amazon has it for $4 an episode at SD quality, and I have to watch it in my browser with their shitty webplayer because they're afraid I'm going to save it to my harddrive (lmao.)
So instead I pirated it and got 720p for free. It's now on my hard drive and I can watch it with my proper media player. Pirating being free is really just the icing on the cake, I might have paid $4 an episode if they would give me a DRM-free 720p downloads, but that simply isn't an option. Why isn't it an option? I can and do buy DRM-free albums from Amazon. Albums which are smaller and easier to share than movies or TV shows, yet are still offered DRM free. The TV/movie industry get away with offering inferior crippled products because not enough people know how to pirate movies. But I do, so I'm not their chump.
No, music is DRM free because Apple had a stranglehold on digital music purchases. The music industry wanted Apple to license its DRM and Apple refused and came up with the alternative of letting everyone sell DRM free music.
Here’s my average work experience: I go into the office and have to deal with annoying customers. Then I have to respond to emails. Finally, I get my paycheck and it isn’t even that much money.
Here’s my average fraud experience. I send out a few thousand scam emails and money starts pouring into my bank account.
Do you think this analogy can guilt-trip me into paying for a product that doesn't give me anything I want? Think again.
It's a crap analogy, not least because you don't actually have the experience you describe but I do have the experience I described above. You have not lived a life of crime, probably because you don't really believe it would go as well as you suppose in your analogy. Do you really believe that crime would be more profitable for you in the long run? Career criminals work harder and make less. They do this because they can't cope with some aspect of regular employment, like staying off drugs and showing up on time. They get caught eventually and their life becomes a ruin. If you really think you have what it takes to become one of the rare successful robber-barons who can steal your way to luxury, then you're probably mistaken. But I can get the movies I want to watch, but not with Netflix. Netflix doesn't have what I want, so I'm simply not going to pay for it. Throw all the insults you want, none of it will change anything.
I actually get better quality streamed sports games over VLC network streams than the NBA can offer me for money.
I did pay for a League Pass. I still watched the illegal stream instead. The streamer would even play music over ads and put gifs and images over the in-game ads during free throws and the like.
