>good acting >no cheesy dialogues >it's good cause it aligns with my values
cmon now, it was a very decent Godzilla film, especially with that budget, but there's no need to lie. The acting was subpar, the dialogues were anime-tier, and the whole plot about japan being completely blameless for godzilla was pretty weak.
a few years ago I got 2 separate copyright email notices from my old ISP after godzilla vs kingkong came out and I had some technical flub with a browser based torrent program, and the movie was so bad that the situation convinced me to give up on torrenting and new movies for good. Truthfully I don't think most things being made today are even worth wasting bandwidth on
I have zero problems downloading most anything but uber rare shit and I don't even use torrents. Maybe it's not as uber high quality as the torrent but I don't care.
Nope, people love trash
the problem is there are 50 subscription services
Pandoras box has opened for cheap movie rentals and people will not spend more than they already do
Oh shut the frick up anon. Even if the quality of the entertainment was absolutely top tier you would still pirate, it always boils down to: >I don't want to pay for it.
There's nothing wrong with that, but Black folk here need to stop saying they're doing it as some kind of 'protest'.
NTA but this simply isn't true. I live very comfortably and could easily afford every streaming service if that's what I wanted. I pirate because I'm not going to pay for trash, it's that simple.
No moron because what DOZENS of people here have literally said is they were paying for it. When it was in one place and not clutterrufked with ads and tons of garbage everywhere.
I've had Amazon Prime for years, I even forget I have it most of the time. Then they sent me a message asking for more money or they will bombard me with ads while still taking the original subscriprion price. So I cancelled instead.
This has frickall to do with it. Beef prices go up and people buy as much beef as ever. Because beef is not gay and black and does not overtly hate White people.
Depends on the setup. You're either gonna rustle on horseback/atv to a waiting truck or you're gonna shoot and dress innafield. Both methods have plusses and minuses and You're not gonna be able to hit the same spots very often. You gotta know the area you're working pretty well to not get caught.
Perfect example: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
I thought this was something a fansite made and dunkey used it in his video, NO the ACTUAL fricking pokemon website had to make this!
Hard times are here financially for many people and shit like streaming services are going to be the first round of fat that people start trimming, especially when the product is mediocre at best and you can get it all for free extremely easily.
>wanted to watch No Country for Old Men with friends last weekend >decided to be a good goy and use amazon prime trial and watch it on prime video >DRM embedded into the site stopped me from streaming it with video >cancelled trial, got a refund (they make you pay despite it being a trial?) and torrented it in 10 minutes >great movie
I use pluto app on a firestick and usually it works with no issues, occasionally (very rarely) the app will have some DMR message pop up and exit the app..Been using the app for a few years and this has only happened like 3 times
The worst part is how the fracturing lead to a lot of shows just not being available anymore, as the company that owns them pull the show to start preparing for their service and jack up fees for anyone else that still wants it, but then they fail to put it up or they take it down because it's less worth it for then to keep hosting it than it would've been for another service pre-gouging.
Gimme back my goddamn Cutthroat Kitchen you bastards.
These frickers have been kvetching about piracy killing entertainment industries for decades. 40 years later and they're making more money than they ever did.
It legitimately killed the music industry. Lars was factually correct, and it's why we're stuck with moronic lowest common denominator slop like "You think you the shit (fart)" by blatant industry plants like Ice Spice.
Fricking this. I would never have spent a cent on almost anything I've illegally downloaded/streamed but they want to assign value to it anyway like me downloading it means if I'd have paid full price at some point.
This. I think people are turning to piracy because stuff isn't worth paying for anymore. If people loved what was being made, they would pay for it. They always say >vote with your wallet
and that's what everyone is doing.
>If people loved what was being made, they would pay for it.
exactly. I pirate movies and if I really love it then I will pay for a blu ray afterwards. Sadly I havent had cause to purchase a bluray for around 2 years now.
>streaming catalogs are 90% poor quality "originals" and shitty theatrical releases from the past few years >have to pirate or pay money to watch anything actually good or from before 2015
Damn idk why so many people are pirating now
>>have to pirate or pay money to watch anything actually good or from before 2015
Dude. Bro. My guy. My brother in Christ. Check out YouTube's movie channel. They're constantly cycling free movies on there from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. And if you have a decent adblocker it's free, uninterrupted kino in a 99.9% legitimate way.
https://www.youtube.com/feed/storefront?bp=ogUCKAY%3D
For me personally it's the shit video quality
The bitrate on official streaming services is literally no different than pirate pajeet streams you can find by googling "free movies online". It's ridiculous
This is correct but 4k video usually looks good on TV. The problem is these services don't really let you adjust the quality manually, so if you're watching on a 1080p PC monitor you're locked to that
This. I have tried to explain this to people and they give me a fluoride stare. >What? looks good on my phone
I hate phone addicted homosexuals like you wouldnt believe
indeed. and for a while, we were close.
i think it was ca. 2015ish when even i, a grizzled, seasoned millenial pirate thought to myself >you know, maybe 10 bucks a month for streaming a giant catalog isn't such a bad idea. i could watch shit on my phone easily from everywhere
i mean, i wasn't going to abandon piracy as my main source of media, but for 10 bucks, having the ability to stream a pretty healthy selection of movies/shows from anywhere, easily, well, that wasn't a bad deal.
but then netflix started bleeding stuff from its catalog, prices rose, a million other services launched and content was fragmented, etc etc. oh, and ads, recently, lol.
and now im glad i never spent a dime on this homosexualry.
This. I am still confused over how many people I see on Cinemaphile going all "where can i watch this" or casually mentioning whatever subscription service theyre on. Why can't zoomers into piracy?
Considering how easy it is to stream pretty much anything for free I don't see why anyone would bother with the paid services that don't even have everything you want to watch. I don't mind bringing out the laptop and HDMI cable. Last year the Superbowl stream I had was even like 2 minutes ahead of people watching on cable.
>More and more streaming services than ever >Impossible to get everything in one place >Some things aren't available at all unless you pirate >Region coding mean some things still take forever to become legally available for purchase despite available for months elsewhere and being readily available to pirate >Movies demanding up to $20 for a digital rental when they first become available >Some streaming services can't implement subtitles only for foreign speaking dialogue
Man, I can't figure out why anyone would pirate with studios and streaming services treating their customer base with such disdain.
Also many services have terrible interfaces and it's actually more convenient to pull up a directory on your computer. >Want to watch a late season Star Trek episode >Have to scroll through each season >Episodes only load three at a time >Have to click "see more" like five times to reach the one I want >Thumbnails are often random snapshots that don't capture the episode theme at all
Intifada on Paramount+
>Region coding mean some things still take forever to become legally available for purchase despite available for months elsewhere and being readily available to pirate
In my country we need to wait 15 fricking month before the movie can be on netflix (it's was 36 before the covid)
why would I paid for the pleasure of waiting more than a year ?
Protip: all their Wednesday-tier shows are not as successful as you think. Otherwise, Netflix wouldn't be raising prices and throwing ads in. Their #1 original shows that spread like wildfire is just an ad campaign, because they don't have billboards or cinema trailers to use.
Vote to end corporate welfare. "Too Big To Fail" is the antithesis of a free market. All of these shitty ass mega corps SHOULD have died nearly 2 decades ago. But they got saved with our fricking tax dollars.
>Netflix had around 260 million paid subscribers worldwide as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
If you cant figure out a working model with 200million subs you don't deserve to be in business.
only autists claim they don't, for years it was talked about that around 200m subs was the point they needed to reach to sustain their spending long term.
>growing rapidly
How?
Didn't most people figure out how to find stuff like 10-15 years ago?
You literally google - this show/movie video free stream, and you get results.
Just use some adblock/popupblock, and try a few sites to see what works.
You can find sites that give a list of good stream sites for free shows/movies, and use those.
>Didn't most people figure out how to find stuff like 10-15 years ago?
Most people on Cinemaphile? Absolutely. There's no way normalgays are pirating in large numbers, or the entire industry would die. Then again, I used to have a video shop near me (it was a franchise store, so it was big) and it's gone now. I bet physical media died because more people are pirating now.
>Have a service that people like and are willing to pay for >Make it worse >Charge more money for it >People aren't willing to pay for it anymore
Crazy how that works.
Jay-Z is on spotify now. The only ones I care about who aren’t are Garth Brooks, Neil Young and Joanna Newsom who forever seethe about spotify and Joni Mitchell who stands with Neil.
There is an entire generation out there who only have their music on Spotify. It's actually nuts because Spotify has a billion ads if you use the free version. I rip all my music off YouTube too, using yt-dlp.
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Spotify free sucks of course. But premium is worth it. Time is money too, and having immediate access to any of like 90 million songs beats using my time to rip from youtube. Plus the algorithms are great.
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Maybe it's worth it if you're into following current year Black person slop so you don't miss the latest episode of who's beefing with who. I tend to consume music like I do every other form of media in a very methodical way. I build up my personal library of favorites over the years of exploring artists and genres. Like I listen to the entire Beatle's catalogue and there's 18 songs I actually give enough of a frick about to listen to again. Then there's "standards" in genres that have a million renditions but I only like one. For example is this specific version of this jazz standard on spotify? I didn't think so.
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Nope I listen to very little music from the past few years. And you can add specific renditions to spotify if you want, which I do.
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In other words, youre autistic and your time is worthless.
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Time is the most valuable commodity there is anon. You're not trading yours for israelite fiat are you?
Streaming services don't like to run well on desktop PC's connected to an external display. I guess every company assumes you're running it through a capture card if they can't communicate with the HDMI device? Idk the cause, but the quality is dog shit. My friends and I have stopped watching a movie on a service we pay for and downloaded a pirated copy instead, because the video was running at a choppy frame rate.
>My friends and I have stopped watching a movie on a service we pay for and downloaded a pirated copy instead, because the video was running at a choppy frame rate.
Yeah, that's a real problem with streaming. What if someone has bad internet? The quality would be bad. A downloaded movie is always the same quality. If someone has no internet? Can't even watch. That means you get a better product when not paying.
i dropped Netflix when you couldn't share accounts anymore.
dropped Amazon Prime when they added ads, and Hulu at the same time was dropped as collateral damage.
frick em. i used to have Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, Peawiener, Paramount, Disney, WWE, & NJPW all at the same time. now i'm paying for only 1 of those, and i'm thinking about dropping everything to move to piracy. their greed pushed me to this, i thought i was done with piracy.
>dropped Amazon Prime when they added ads
u got amazon prime for the video service? dude it was never about that. ive been paying for prime for like prob 10 years now and it’s always been about the free shipping. so who cares if amazon prime video is shit now. ya it sucks, but it was always just a convenient side dish and not the main dish if you know what i mean
shipping is free over $25 or 35 anyway, and they've never (in my experience in the midwest anyway) actually shipped stuff faster than 3 days even with Prime
shipping is free over $25 or 35 anyway, and they've never (in my experience in the midwest anyway) actually shipped stuff faster than 3 days even with Prime
got rid of Prime, added Walmart+
$50 for a whole year of unlimited free delivery. totally worth it to not have to go grocery shopping for a year
streaming services are annoying to use, every single mass media conglomerate wants their own shitty service with their own app and interface
spotify is convenient because a single subscription gives you access to the vast majority of relevant music
what's the best way to pirate these days?
i know a few people who use these chinese boxes that apparently you can find anything on, don't know what they're called. i imagine they're monitoring you if that is anything worth worrying about.
i have Fire TV if there's something that works well with that.
not a fed i promise, just been out the game a while.
price, the fracturing of the libraries, and the quality of new content
why pay for six services to maybe watch what you want when you can just download what you want for free
>sign up for MOVIE SERVICE >$9.99 a month for basic movies >$4.99 per viewing for all the movies not included in the basic package >every single movie ever made is on offer >every single fricking special edition, unrated extended Black person dick director's cut >it's sunday night 9pm >want to watch Emanuelle and the last Cannibals >type the title into the search bar >click RENT NOW >-$4.99 on my account >click play
That is what i want. I don't give a frick about who owns the rights to what movie for which territory of the world. I just want to watch that fricking movie right now.
This is the real reason they’re pushing DEI is to justify the massive remake/reboot with better streaming rights and nog remakes get sucked off by critics for this.
This is the direct result of every company wanting to create their own streaming service. People originally adopted Netflix because one cheap subscription made streaming easy. It thrived because it was better than cable and better than piracy. That´s it.
Now media quality has decayed and is scattered among several services that offer less features but are more expensive. Off course people ain´t going to pay for every single platform. They´ll pay for one at most (the one that offers more value for their money) and pirate the two shows they consume from the other ones.
>What's to blame?
People are poorer. The top gets richer and the bottom gets poorer. More poor people = more piracy. It is that simple. So all you have to do is point your finger ad any millionaire/billionaire and you will be pointing at the cause for piracy.
because its a better experience. >all content available though 1 searchbar >all content available in the highest quality its ever been released >all content available within the time it takes to download it >all content available without ads >all content playable in the player of your choice, without regard for DRM protocols and other homosexualry
the main appeal of piracy isn't that its free. in fact, its not free, not if you want to have a collection stored locally. HDDs cost money (tho its still much cheaper than buying blurays).
the appeal is that its a better experience.
the only downside is having to wait a while for the content to download, but with modern internet connections, that's not a big deal. even a 4k remux will download in a couple hours max.
and ofc, downloading is afkable. even if downloading takes longer than driving to your local brick&mortar store that sells blurays (assuming you have one of those near you and they have what you want to watch), it doesn't require any work on your part. you don't have to get up, you don't have to wear pants, you don't have to go outside etc etc.
Sometimes it's a problem of not having an actual official release in certain countries, so as much money as I could have, I have no way of watching pic related legally in my country, for example, but the distribution company really has no reason to complain if I torrent it, since they're not losing money, in fact, piracy is making sure the show becomes known worldwide
This show is a great example of them getting israeliteey and I did pirate season 2 there's no way I'm paying a whole streaming service just for one show frick off. Smart move making season 1 free on prime tho bet that hooked a few morons
>I(my family lol) pays for the maximum tier on several streaming services >everything streams in total dogshit quality even on maximum quality settings, only advice I get from support is automated "you must just have bad internet :)" messages despite having gigabit >new "originals" are 99% crap >streaming services are progressively being geared more and more towards this new crap and keep removing old stuff that I actually like >bits of old content are constantly edited, censored, or outright removed because they offend the blue hairs that run these companies >oh and im white and male so these companies constantly insult me and say im evil and the world would be better off if I didnt exist
Why the frick WOULD I stream? Why would I give people who treat me like shit money for bad content streamed in low quality?
They themselves with their constant price increases and ads.
People have been saying for years that piracy is increasing because of their idiotic economics
Studios only seethe about piracy because they have such shitty business models and nothing of value to provide.
Piracy laws are obscenely outdated and make no logical sense besides protecting corporations' rights to unlimited passive income.
Ironically, netflix was one of the first to inadvertently highlight this by providing a convenient useful hub to watch all your content. And people were prepared to pay for that. But then everyone noticed how much moeny netflix was making and pulled their shows and now none of the streaming services provide a worthwhile service on their own.
Notice how the music industry never has these issues anymore? The music licensing drama is various artists whining that spotify/tiktok isn't paying them enough. Because those services literally adapted to what people actually wanted and did it in a way that generated money. But the artists can't comprehend that a billion people wanting to listen to your shitty 3 minute pop song while scrolling social media doesn't mean you're entitled to a billion dollars for that song.
Likewise, a legion of neet autists watching your shit just to meme on it doesn't entitle you to a billion dollars for your shitty content either. True artists are just glad that people appreciate their work (and can pay their bills doing what they love).
Greedy vampires whine that they aren't getting rich enough.
>Piracy laws are obscenely outdated and make no logical sense besides protecting corporations' rights to unlimited passive income.
Yep, absolutely. Piracy being illegal is just to prevent them losing money, and they don't care about consumers at all. If they don't care about us, why should we care about them? We shouldn't, and that's why you shouldn't pay for anything. I don't even watch most of the stuff they make.
>But the artists can't comprehend that a billion people wanting to listen to your shitty 3 minute pop song while scrolling social media doesn't mean you're entitled to a billion dollars for that song.
This. I mean, it gets fricking obscene after a while honestly. Music is beloved. It amplifies even basic elements. Black Sabbath fricking amplifies this clip and helps making the entire thing worth remembering. But artists going
"PAY ME A BILLION DOLLARS AND ITHEN I'LL LET YOU HAVE THE HONOR" sucks dick. Like, why are you even doing it at that point then? Royalties and people going "dude I'll pay you if you let me use your music" should be a positive bi-product of your achievement not the be-all end-all where it justifies you being a total c**t.
It’s either going to do dystopian nightmare mode and these parasitic streaming ((media)) organizations try to sap the life out of your internet browsing freedom, or these gay Black person companies will gradually begin to die and some will possess the intelligence to evolve
Studios are either going to have to merge (Warner and Paramount) or get bought out by tech giants (Apple and Disney). Either way it's coming to the point where 90% of movies and TV shows are being produced by like 3 mega corporations. And they all have the same identical values they push from the top down.
Studios are all leveraged to frick and back, merging is suicide. WB was the last time anyone is going to buy an entire studio, because buying a studio means inheriting all their debt.
my friends and I wanted to watch the Hunger Games movies this weekend and the only service it was on was AMC+. What the FRICK is AMC+?
I have 30 streaming services but then I have to subscribe to yet another to watch a pretty popular movie series from the last 10 years? Embarrassing and pirating it was an easy decision
My girlfriend loves the hunger games movies. I downloaded all of them in quality that is stunning and also downloaded all the bonus features and making of documentaries.
You get so much more from pirating that you ever will with streaming.
>Piracy is difficult to compete against
I don't know a single normalgay that knows how to pirate a damn thing. Are they counting using another person's account credentials as piracy?
I don't know, it's the one I always use. They limit access when it's busy though. But everything is good quality and loads instantly. I pay for vip membership so I always have access now.
>paying for pirate streams
jesus christ just fricking install qbtorrent you mongoloid cretin give me your address i will come over and help you i feel so fricking bad for you
This is key. There's no reason to care about piracy because the vast majority of people have no idea how to do it. It's just greed going after the tiny minority will won't pay even if they can't pirate
>enjoy a show/movie on netflix >it's removed and never comes back >have to either buy it or just download it >feel like you've been paying for it this while time via streaming even though it's no longer on that streaming service >decide to pirate a download
If piracy was somehow made impossible tomorrow I still wouldn't pay for any streaming services
it's all just total slop even if you don't take into account the diversity and feminism bullshit that make all their garbage insufferable
A diverse or female lead cast by itself isn't even the problem. Plenty of old shows had them. The problem is the characters are boring and the dialogue is mean spirited. There's no tension because black and female protagonists never lose.
>A diverse or female lead cast by itself isn't even the problem. Plenty of old shows had them
Why are you trying to speak for everyone? I didn't watch those shows in the past either. Diversity and women IS the problem. If you disagree then go discuss those things, because Cinemaphile is "diversity and women: the board" now.
>Go to Yandex (or any non-google engine) >Install adblock >[Insertmoviehere]123streaming >Pick from tons of options
Until it becomes that easy to watch what I want, when I want, a pirate life for me.
Startpage works for me, if I'm searching for something, it just works giving me the closest to what I'm looking for, without the promoted sites like google, better results for piracy than bing, it allows you to search and open images without having to enter the sites, and without being dishonest about privacy like duck duck go
Streaming intially took off because it was cheap and convenient. Now that it's all been splintered off into 200 different services and is more expensive it's lost both of those criteria. No shit numbers are dropping.
numbers aren't dropping, netflix and disney keep getting bigger, the ones struggling are the smaller platforms that were always going to have a hard time competing for a market share.
argie here, from time to time we got an influx of cancelled american series (those that last like 1 season), dozens and dozens of indian 90s movies and lots of chinese/korea products
You could stop all forms of piracy and make Netflix $1 tomorrow and I would still not give them a cent.
There is nothing worth watching in 10+ years. The art is dead, and I'm only here to see how it ends.
Streaming services suck ass. Every FRICKING time I want to watch something, I search for it on <insert streaming service here>: "<insert movie title here> not found:. Fricking worthless. No wonder a shit load of people pirate.
How is watching a movie “piracy?” These israelite red tape beurocracy distribution laws or whatever are bullshit, I would suicide by cop and take as many of them down as I could if they rolled up to my house to drag me away for watching shitty movies.
I got a free month sub to Hulu with ads, watched 3 episodes of Its Always Sunny. Didn't see a single ad that entire time with a straight white male involved in any capacity. Cancelled sub immediately.
No thanks, I'll just stick to pirating.
The only streaming service worth subbing to is Viki since their subtitles are usually better quality than Netflix or iqiyi. But they've been slacking I notice now a lot of time the "subtitle teams" for each show are more and more just copying the subtitles the show runners put out.
>gorillions of different companies try to get on the streaming bandwagon and make everything they own exclusive to that one platform >followed by then nickle and diming everybody just to watch said shows and movie >then they force them to watch fricking ads, the one thing many got into streaming to avoid >followed by more ads >then many also start cracking down on account sharing to further nickle and dime their customers >then followed by making it so certain shows or episodes aren't allowed because of some culture war shit despite the fact anybody that would care about that wouldn't be watching said content to begin with
as gaben one said, piracy is a convience issues, and most streaming platforms have made it far to inconvient for many so they resort to old reliable
I'm okay with paying money for entertainment, but not okay with paying money for overt propaganda messaging. If the cast is almost entirely white and male, it lessens that feeling and the liklihood of my paying money increases, but, I won't put effort into learning about your show individually, and so your show needs to be part of a strong overall industry trend in order to effectively communicate to me that it is okay to start paying money again.
There's only one way to fight piracy and that's offering a good service, this is why the original Netflix killed piracy but now that everything is shit again people are going back to piracy, is not rocket science, there is just no other way to fight piracy and I'm starting to wonder if fighting piracy is even a good idea since it's basically a rule of the universe by now that when you take down 1 piracy site 10 more open.
All that will do is hurt theatre chains and non-netflix services. Why pay $10 to see a single movie in theatres when you can have movies for a month with that much? People will choose 1 or 2 services they want to keep and unsubscribe from the rest. Netflix is a keeper for sure for most people
I want to pay for Netflix and did for years but I can't justify it. It's inexcusable to pay someone to feed you propaganda and constantly try to manipulate you. When they lost the rights to all the old content like Star Trek there was nothing left and I'm not going to pay a monthly fee just for fricking old Star Trek I can get for free anyway and I already paid for 20 times.
I was even willing to pay for Youtube premium, once upon a time. The consumer goodwill these morons have lost will never come back. They had the golden goose and they fricking cooked it like the useless morons they are.
>pay for Youtube premium
Why? while checking the revanced subreddit, sometimes I've seen what the youtube sub posts, and apparently, a lot of people have posted that you can also get ads while having premium activated now, it's a complete scam
It used to be ultra convenient and cheap to stream stuff and their collections were huge, I even started paying for media for the first time in my life just because it was so convenient and cheap, after being a life long pirate
Then they got israeliteey and decided to start splitting into a billion different services that want at minimum 10 bucks a month like another cable channel scheme
Frick that I went back to piracy I only have Netflix through my wife's family, Hulu because it's an extra 2 bucks on my Spotify, and prime because we order tons of Amazon slop. Not paying for max, yidsney, MGM, paramount, apple, the rest of them can frick off unless they manage to attach themselves to a service I regularly use
theres a few shows made over the last 10 years I'd buy as a box set day 1 if I could but more and more today these c**ts don't even give you the option so the only real route to ownership is piracy.
I'm not paying 500 monthly fees to 500 different streaming platforms and I'm not buying digital when they can pack all sorts of dodgy DRM into the downloads so they can still rip that shit away even if you paid for it.
I use fmovies. Literally have everything, even stuff exclusive to specific services. Free, just need basic b***h popup blocker to get rid of the tiddy virus ads.
And if I like a show or movie good enough to support it, I buy the official physical version, because frick paying digital anything, when they can delete that shit at any moment and you wouldn't be able to do shitall about it.
I don't even watch movies or tv shows anymore. Piracy has nothing to do with this. Social media and other alternatives like youtube have stolen a large portion of their market, they are just too israeli to admit this and blame *****piracy*****
they will randomly pull shit from their streaming service just so they can get a tax right off. Frick they aren't even about giving people a large library, they push only what THEY want you to watch at any given time.
Gee maybe you should be making things people want to pay for so they have more future good content they can count on durrrrr. Idk just an idea duhhhhhhhh.
>Used to pirate movies because poorgay in uni (Around 2012-2013l >Putlocker, Project Free TV etc. >Had Netflix which roommates paid me so they could use it >Roomies move out so I canceled Netflix >Netflix didn't have every single movie and TV show (e.g. Game of Thrones was not on Netflix and never would be) >Figured I could just watch everything and anything on different streaming sites >Hell, I torrented the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series as PDF files on my old laptop because I didn't have the money for all of the books
>Be me at 30 >Have respectable job >Able to pay for streaming services >If I have a date over and she wants to watch something but it's not on any of the streaming service I stream the movie on Putlocker or some shit >She gets impressed with my "tech savvy hacking skills" (she might be an autist or something) >We frick >Says I'm the father >Pretty excited to be a dad >Due date >Baby comes out and it's mixed >Clearly not mine >Turn 360 degrees >Walk away while wishing good luck to chick on being a single mom
It turns out she died from a mass loss of blood. I'm not sure what happened to the kid. I hope his dad found him and is raising him. As for me, I mostly just use Disney Plus and Spotify for streaming. I use my sister's Netflix in return for lending her my Disney plus account. The odd time I have to pirate or stream a move. For example I had to go on 123movies to watch Road to Perdition because it wasn't on any streaming service. Good movie. Reminds me of the son I never had
Streaming sucks. The libraries that used to be on Netflix and Prime are split across 6 different services.
Most of what you wanted are a handful of rewatchable shows like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Star Trek, etc - and the new stuff sucks. Just buy the Blu-Rays or yar-har. It's more convenient.
Streaming won for a while because Netflix was more convenient than pirating, but now pirating is more convenient.
The fricking studios of course. You know what almost killed pirating? Netflix streaming when it was new. It's library was so gigantic that it had damn near anything you'd want to watch. It virtually eliminated the need to pirate for most people. Hell, I stopped pirating almost entirely during that time because Netflix was actually worth it.
And here's why. Convenience. You know what fuels media pirates? Convenience.
The studios fricked up, again, by making it so accessing their programs legitimately was more inconvenient than just pirating it. Want to beat pirates? Make it more convenient than downloading a torrent. Like old Netflix did.
The reason for streaming having such success in the first place was a better experience compared to cable
- No ads
- Everything in one place
- Cheap
Streaming turned back into cable now.
I wish there was a bandcamp equivalent for films. You pay 10 bucks or more and you get a perfect quality download with all subs and all dubs that you can keep on your hard disks forever, with most of the money going to the people who made the film instead of middlemen.
because the market became saturated with all these competing streaming platforms, it's literally just different tv channels again except this time you need to pay 10 bucks a month for each one
The overall decline of quality across all entertainment mediums.
This and having to pay $10 a month for nine separate streaming services.
Frickin this. I can't remember the last movie I was excited for.
I can
Frickin weebslop.
>good acting
>no cheesy dialogues
>it's good cause it aligns with my values
cmon now, it was a very decent Godzilla film, especially with that budget, but there's no need to lie. The acting was subpar, the dialogues were anime-tier, and the whole plot about japan being completely blameless for godzilla was pretty weak.
Either you are a zoomer or had no childhood
a few years ago I got 2 separate copyright email notices from my old ISP after godzilla vs kingkong came out and I had some technical flub with a browser based torrent program, and the movie was so bad that the situation convinced me to give up on torrenting and new movies for good. Truthfully I don't think most things being made today are even worth wasting bandwidth on
I have zero problems downloading most anything but uber rare shit and I don't even use torrents. Maybe it's not as uber high quality as the torrent but I don't care.
I struggle to sit through an episode of anything anymore, everything is 20 minutes of story at best stretched to an hour
just came home from the movies, Poor Things was a riot. Best role Mark Ruffalo ever did. Hilarious
fpbp
Nope, people love trash
the problem is there are 50 subscription services
Pandoras box has opened for cheap movie rentals and people will not spend more than they already do
Oh shut the frick up anon. Even if the quality of the entertainment was absolutely top tier you would still pirate, it always boils down to:
>I don't want to pay for it.
There's nothing wrong with that, but Black folk here need to stop saying they're doing it as some kind of 'protest'.
NTA but this simply isn't true. I live very comfortably and could easily afford every streaming service if that's what I wanted. I pirate because I'm not going to pay for trash, it's that simple.
No moron because what DOZENS of people here have literally said is they were paying for it. When it was in one place and not clutterrufked with ads and tons of garbage everywhere.
>people here
you'll find that people outside of Cinemaphile dont stop paying netflix because they show a black person.
Not true. Most of the racists I know don't browse here
fpbp
i can watch 'blockbuster' capeshit for free. but i don't
iraq. you should invade.
What a way to reboot generation kill.
Companies got too greedy and they fricked around (increased prices/ads and launching 500 new services) and are now finding out.
I've had Amazon Prime for years, I even forget I have it most of the time. Then they sent me a message asking for more money or they will bombard me with ads while still taking the original subscriprion price. So I cancelled instead.
I got that message, no ads yet though. first unskipable ad gets an unsub from prime from me.
I signed a whole year in advance while it was cheaper, mostly for Hazbin Hotel and free shipping. But that was probably the last time.
This
This has frickall to do with it. Beef prices go up and people buy as much beef as ever. Because beef is not gay and black and does not overtly hate White people.
A digital good and a physical good are not the same thing.
Only because I can't pirate beef.
You can though. It's just more work than clicking a torrent.
What do I need to click
Depends on the setup. You're either gonna rustle on horseback/atv to a waiting truck or you're gonna shoot and dress innafield. Both methods have plusses and minuses and You're not gonna be able to hit the same spots very often. You gotta know the area you're working pretty well to not get caught.
>piracy
>t. never owned a land yacht
You don’t rustle cattle? All you need is a horse and a losso.
leave, child.
Well, that and old men in prison.
Which is why those movies and shows do so poorly.
Exactly. It's not even the price it's that shit is spread out over 50 services. Sometimes a single show will have seasons on 2 or 3. Frick that.
Perfect example: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
I thought this was something a fansite made and dunkey used it in his video, NO the ACTUAL fricking pokemon website had to make this!
Hard times are here financially for many people and shit like streaming services are going to be the first round of fat that people start trimming, especially when the product is mediocre at best and you can get it all for free extremely easily.
>wanted to watch No Country for Old Men with friends last weekend
>decided to be a good goy and use amazon prime trial and watch it on prime video
>DRM embedded into the site stopped me from streaming it with video
>cancelled trial, got a refund (they make you pay despite it being a trial?) and torrented it in 10 minutes
>great movie
its on pluto right now too
thanks anon, never heard of the site
not sure if ill be able to stream though, its got the same DRM shit in the url that prime did
its just another free streaming app like tubi. not sure about DRM stuff
use a chrome based browser
turn off hardware acceleration in settings
I use pluto app on a firestick and usually it works with no issues, occasionally (very rarely) the app will have some DMR message pop up and exit the app..Been using the app for a few years and this has only happened like 3 times
The worst part is how the fracturing lead to a lot of shows just not being available anymore, as the company that owns them pull the show to start preparing for their service and jack up fees for anyone else that still wants it, but then they fail to put it up or they take it down because it's less worth it for then to keep hosting it than it would've been for another service pre-gouging.
Gimme back my goddamn Cutthroat Kitchen you bastards.
These frickers have been kvetching about piracy killing entertainment industries for decades. 40 years later and they're making more money than they ever did.
It legitimately killed the music industry. Lars was factually correct, and it's why we're stuck with moronic lowest common denominator slop like "You think you the shit (fart)" by blatant industry plants like Ice Spice.
Even though studies have shown piracy barely amounts to any real lost revenue. Eat shit netflix make better shows.
Fricking this. I would never have spent a cent on almost anything I've illegally downloaded/streamed but they want to assign value to it anyway like me downloading it means if I'd have paid full price at some point.
They'll eventually stop making anything for you to pirate and you will still complain.
There is a literal 100 year backlog of kino to watch. Go frick yourself zoom zoom
Isn't that the stuff worth paying for? You're just a bum.
>Pay
lol, get rekt zoomie
>pays his isp
what a loser amirite fellow neckbeards?
fail
>pay
pay who, a bunch of dead actors?
They stopped making things I like years ago. I won’t subsidize 99% of their shit to watch one show.
>release mostly shit
>the good stuff now has ads unless you pay for the more expensive package
Why would I pay money to get pozzed propaganda shoved down my throat?
This. I think people are turning to piracy because stuff isn't worth paying for anymore. If people loved what was being made, they would pay for it. They always say
>vote with your wallet
and that's what everyone is doing.
>If people loved what was being made, they would pay for it.
exactly. I pirate movies and if I really love it then I will pay for a blu ray afterwards. Sadly I havent had cause to purchase a bluray for around 2 years now.
>streaming catalogs are 90% poor quality "originals" and shitty theatrical releases from the past few years
>have to pirate or pay money to watch anything actually good or from before 2015
Damn idk why so many people are pirating now
>>have to pirate or pay money to watch anything actually good or from before 2015
Dude. Bro. My guy. My brother in Christ. Check out YouTube's movie channel. They're constantly cycling free movies on there from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. And if you have a decent adblocker it's free, uninterrupted kino in a 99.9% legitimate way.
https://www.youtube.com/feed/storefront?bp=ogUCKAY%3D
>still using israelitegle
get the frick outa here
For me personally it's the shit video quality
The bitrate on official streaming services is literally no different than pirate pajeet streams you can find by googling "free movies online". It's ridiculous
This is correct but 4k video usually looks good on TV. The problem is these services don't really let you adjust the quality manually, so if you're watching on a 1080p PC monitor you're locked to that
netflix isnt even 1080p on browser. yes you heard that right.
This. I have tried to explain this to people and they give me a fluoride stare.
>What? looks good on my phone
I hate phone addicted homosexuals like you wouldnt believe
It's over
>price goes up
>more people commit to pirating
wow... really activates the neurons there...
I started with piracy over 20 years ago and never once relied on streaming since then you spoonfed zoomers.
Same. But point is that there's a breaking point for most people where the cost is not worth the convenience
indeed. and for a while, we were close.
i think it was ca. 2015ish when even i, a grizzled, seasoned millenial pirate thought to myself
>you know, maybe 10 bucks a month for streaming a giant catalog isn't such a bad idea. i could watch shit on my phone easily from everywhere
i mean, i wasn't going to abandon piracy as my main source of media, but for 10 bucks, having the ability to stream a pretty healthy selection of movies/shows from anywhere, easily, well, that wasn't a bad deal.
but then netflix started bleeding stuff from its catalog, prices rose, a million other services launched and content was fragmented, etc etc. oh, and ads, recently, lol.
and now im glad i never spent a dime on this homosexualry.
I’ve been pirating since you got downloads in parts through email via AOL chat rooms.
I was taping songs off the radio you spoonfed genYner
>I AM TEH L33T INTERNET HAXX0R
Sir, you posted a picture of an HDMI port.
Oh yeah? Well I would copy VHS tapes from the videostores in the 90s.
This. I am still confused over how many people I see on Cinemaphile going all "where can i watch this" or casually mentioning whatever subscription service theyre on. Why can't zoomers into piracy?
Was that Penis Prager?
Considering how easy it is to stream pretty much anything for free I don't see why anyone would bother with the paid services that don't even have everything you want to watch. I don't mind bringing out the laptop and HDMI cable. Last year the Superbowl stream I had was even like 2 minutes ahead of people watching on cable.
no it wasnt
>unlimited ads
>remakes shitting down on the originals
>nothing new good
>1000 services and exclusives
>More and more streaming services than ever
>Impossible to get everything in one place
>Some things aren't available at all unless you pirate
>Region coding mean some things still take forever to become legally available for purchase despite available for months elsewhere and being readily available to pirate
>Movies demanding up to $20 for a digital rental when they first become available
>Some streaming services can't implement subtitles only for foreign speaking dialogue
Man, I can't figure out why anyone would pirate with studios and streaming services treating their customer base with such disdain.
Also many services have terrible interfaces and it's actually more convenient to pull up a directory on your computer.
>Want to watch a late season Star Trek episode
>Have to scroll through each season
>Episodes only load three at a time
>Have to click "see more" like five times to reach the one I want
>Thumbnails are often random snapshots that don't capture the episode theme at all
Intifada on Paramount+
Does anyone have a solution to the subtitle's not being embedded into the file?
>Region coding mean some things still take forever to become legally available for purchase despite available for months elsewhere and being readily available to pirate
In my country we need to wait 15 fricking month before the movie can be on netflix (it's was 36 before the covid)
why would I paid for the pleasure of waiting more than a year ?
Since no one else has mentioned it,
jews.
morons have been saying netflix is finished and everyone is going to stop subscribing for years now.
All it takes is one Wednesday-tier show or one bright-colored anime and dumbfricks subscribe en masse.
Protip: all their Wednesday-tier shows are not as successful as you think. Otherwise, Netflix wouldn't be raising prices and throwing ads in. Their #1 original shows that spread like wildfire is just an ad campaign, because they don't have billboards or cinema trailers to use.
it really doesn't matter which shows are more successful if people are still subscribing, their constant stream of revenue isn't going down.
At some point all these propped up companies that don't actually make a profit must fall. The free money infusions can't last forever.
Vote to end corporate welfare. "Too Big To Fail" is the antithesis of a free market. All of these shitty ass mega corps SHOULD have died nearly 2 decades ago. But they got saved with our fricking tax dollars.
A decline in quality at the same time they want more money.
>Netflix had around 260 million paid subscribers worldwide as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
If you cant figure out a working model with 200million subs you don't deserve to be in business.
only autists claim they don't, for years it was talked about that around 200m subs was the point they needed to reach to sustain their spending long term.
They’re mostly non-American, thus worthless.
>growing rapidly
How?
Didn't most people figure out how to find stuff like 10-15 years ago?
You literally google - this show/movie video free stream, and you get results.
Just use some adblock/popupblock, and try a few sites to see what works.
You can find sites that give a list of good stream sites for free shows/movies, and use those.
People need to know how to use internet. Right?
>Didn't most people figure out how to find stuff like 10-15 years ago?
Most people on Cinemaphile? Absolutely. There's no way normalgays are pirating in large numbers, or the entire industry would die. Then again, I used to have a video shop near me (it was a franchise store, so it was big) and it's gone now. I bet physical media died because more people are pirating now.
streaming services and online shopping killed stores, not piracy.
Oh, okay. I don't pay for any of it, so I wouldn't care if it all died.
>Have a service that people like and are willing to pay for
>Make it worse
>Charge more money for it
>People aren't willing to pay for it anymore
Crazy how that works.
their convenience is over
spotify still rules with music (don't rock the boat) but movies and series are a sequestered mess
they also produce propagandist trash, so the goodwill has faded
Imagine how shit spotify would get if artists were exclusively on one streaming service like TV shows are.
jay z does that
Jay-Z is on spotify now. The only ones I care about who aren’t are Garth Brooks, Neil Young and Joanna Newsom who forever seethe about spotify and Joni Mitchell who stands with Neil.
I just rip any music I want off of youtube.
There is an entire generation out there who only have their music on Spotify. It's actually nuts because Spotify has a billion ads if you use the free version. I rip all my music off YouTube too, using yt-dlp.
Spotify free sucks of course. But premium is worth it. Time is money too, and having immediate access to any of like 90 million songs beats using my time to rip from youtube. Plus the algorithms are great.
zoomies a truly moronic
Maybe it's worth it if you're into following current year Black person slop so you don't miss the latest episode of who's beefing with who. I tend to consume music like I do every other form of media in a very methodical way. I build up my personal library of favorites over the years of exploring artists and genres. Like I listen to the entire Beatle's catalogue and there's 18 songs I actually give enough of a frick about to listen to again. Then there's "standards" in genres that have a million renditions but I only like one. For example is this specific version of this jazz standard on spotify? I didn't think so.
Nope I listen to very little music from the past few years. And you can add specific renditions to spotify if you want, which I do.
In other words, youre autistic and your time is worthless.
Time is the most valuable commodity there is anon. You're not trading yours for israelite fiat are you?
I still have mp3 files dating back decades
Spotify is even easier to pirate than movies and tv shows. Google block the spot. Thank me later. You can even get free premium on your android.
nobody is abandoning anything though.
Streaming services don't like to run well on desktop PC's connected to an external display. I guess every company assumes you're running it through a capture card if they can't communicate with the HDMI device? Idk the cause, but the quality is dog shit. My friends and I have stopped watching a movie on a service we pay for and downloaded a pirated copy instead, because the video was running at a choppy frame rate.
>My friends and I have stopped watching a movie on a service we pay for and downloaded a pirated copy instead, because the video was running at a choppy frame rate.
Yeah, that's a real problem with streaming. What if someone has bad internet? The quality would be bad. A downloaded movie is always the same quality. If someone has no internet? Can't even watch. That means you get a better product when not paying.
Most services don't seem to load the entire movie into local cache, so buffering is always going to be an issue.
I would rather wait 20 minutes for a movie to download, then run without stopping in 4K, then have a stream constantly stop or drop in quality.
do people really still have internet connections this shit in current year?
in rural america, absolutely.
and they still have to tip when the movie's over.
No, but they run these apps on shitty weak devices . Smart TV's, older apple TV's, Roku's, fire sticks, etc.
what are the good & cool devices?
streaming apps take nothing to run,if you're buffering it's your shitty internet.
>streaming apps take nothing to run
Yet they run like shit on basically any device short of a laptop. And even run like shit on laptops.
stop watching tv on your phone zoom zoom
How about I just don’t use shitty paid apps and pirate instead?
I’m also older than you.
Max lets you download 100-300 shows/movies depending on your sub.
I hate the antichrist and I refuse to willingly fund his propaganda.
Also, the rise in vidya consumption factors in somewhat.
Barry is not getting his Shekels, and he mad.
i dropped Netflix when you couldn't share accounts anymore.
dropped Amazon Prime when they added ads, and Hulu at the same time was dropped as collateral damage.
frick em. i used to have Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, Peawiener, Paramount, Disney, WWE, & NJPW all at the same time. now i'm paying for only 1 of those, and i'm thinking about dropping everything to move to piracy. their greed pushed me to this, i thought i was done with piracy.
forgot about YoutubeTV
frick what a joke
I’m still mad about wayne
>dropped Amazon Prime when they added ads
u got amazon prime for the video service? dude it was never about that. ive been paying for prime for like prob 10 years now and it’s always been about the free shipping. so who cares if amazon prime video is shit now. ya it sucks, but it was always just a convenient side dish and not the main dish if you know what i mean
shipping is free over $25 or 35 anyway, and they've never (in my experience in the midwest anyway) actually shipped stuff faster than 3 days even with Prime
got rid of Prime, added Walmart+
$50 for a whole year of unlimited free delivery. totally worth it to not have to go grocery shopping for a year
streaming services are annoying to use, every single mass media conglomerate wants their own shitty service with their own app and interface
spotify is convenient because a single subscription gives you access to the vast majority of relevant music
>when you ask your date if she just wants to order in and watch a movie and you break out the laptop and hdmi cable
Those illegal streaming sites make it too easy. All the ads can be circumvented without issues. I wonder how they are making any money off of this.
>I wonder how they are making any money off of this.
Their solution is to double down on the israelitery.
Most people don't know how to use ad blockers, I also sometimes disable it so the bros keeping the sites up can get some ad money.
what's the best way to pirate these days?
i know a few people who use these chinese boxes that apparently you can find anything on, don't know what they're called. i imagine they're monitoring you if that is anything worth worrying about.
i have Fire TV if there's something that works well with that.
not a fed i promise, just been out the game a while.
price, the fracturing of the libraries, and the quality of new content
why pay for six services to maybe watch what you want when you can just download what you want for free
It's pretty niche, but I like my shows to be 60fps. So, I download and I interlace.
>sign up for MOVIE SERVICE
>$9.99 a month for basic movies
>$4.99 per viewing for all the movies not included in the basic package
>every single movie ever made is on offer
>every single fricking special edition, unrated extended Black person dick director's cut
>it's sunday night 9pm
>want to watch Emanuelle and the last Cannibals
>type the title into the search bar
>click RENT NOW
>-$4.99 on my account
>click play
That is what i want. I don't give a frick about who owns the rights to what movie for which territory of the world. I just want to watch that fricking movie right now.
This is the real reason they’re pushing DEI is to justify the massive remake/reboot with better streaming rights and nog remakes get sucked off by critics for this.
>people actually pay for israeliteflix
Can Hamas kill the rest of the Netflix producers?
one can hope
Hating israelites in 2024 is a sure sign that you are a troony lover.
Nice try rabbi
the entire global supply of HRT is manufactured in Israel
/qa/ lost
This is the direct result of every company wanting to create their own streaming service. People originally adopted Netflix because one cheap subscription made streaming easy. It thrived because it was better than cable and better than piracy. That´s it.
Now media quality has decayed and is scattered among several services that offer less features but are more expensive. Off course people ain´t going to pay for every single platform. They´ll pay for one at most (the one that offers more value for their money) and pirate the two shows they consume from the other ones.
>What's to blame?
People are poorer. The top gets richer and the bottom gets poorer. More poor people = more piracy. It is that simple. So all you have to do is point your finger ad any millionaire/billionaire and you will be pointing at the cause for piracy.
If something's worth paying for, it's worth paying for at a discount.
Piracy is that discount and the only thing I spend besides money is my time.
>What's to blame?
"jews"
Piracy is a service problem.
I have a netflix sub.
I don't know a single thing they recently added to the catalog that would be worth a pirate, much less a subscription.
I'd still pirate even if i was a billionaire
That makes no sense. Why would you pirate if the cost of things didn't matter?
because its a better experience.
>all content available though 1 searchbar
>all content available in the highest quality its ever been released
>all content available within the time it takes to download it
>all content available without ads
>all content playable in the player of your choice, without regard for DRM protocols and other homosexualry
the main appeal of piracy isn't that its free. in fact, its not free, not if you want to have a collection stored locally. HDDs cost money (tho its still much cheaper than buying blurays).
the appeal is that its a better experience.
the only downside is having to wait a while for the content to download, but with modern internet connections, that's not a big deal. even a 4k remux will download in a couple hours max.
and ofc, downloading is afkable. even if downloading takes longer than driving to your local brick&mortar store that sells blurays (assuming you have one of those near you and they have what you want to watch), it doesn't require any work on your part. you don't have to get up, you don't have to wear pants, you don't have to go outside etc etc.
who the frick wants to support any of these companies?
are you an actual moron or just an indian shill?
Sometimes it's a problem of not having an actual official release in certain countries, so as much money as I could have, I have no way of watching pic related legally in my country, for example, but the distribution company really has no reason to complain if I torrent it, since they're not losing money, in fact, piracy is making sure the show becomes known worldwide
This show is a great example of them getting israeliteey and I did pirate season 2 there's no way I'm paying a whole streaming service just for one show frick off. Smart move making season 1 free on prime tho bet that hooked a few morons
>I(my family lol) pays for the maximum tier on several streaming services
>everything streams in total dogshit quality even on maximum quality settings, only advice I get from support is automated "you must just have bad internet :)" messages despite having gigabit
>new "originals" are 99% crap
>streaming services are progressively being geared more and more towards this new crap and keep removing old stuff that I actually like
>bits of old content are constantly edited, censored, or outright removed because they offend the blue hairs that run these companies
>oh and im white and male so these companies constantly insult me and say im evil and the world would be better off if I didnt exist
Why the frick WOULD I stream? Why would I give people who treat me like shit money for bad content streamed in low quality?
Didn't Sunny also make fun of handicapped and disabled people, but those episodes are still up?
Too bad the israelites have precogs that send me a notice when I think about torrenting these days
What the frick was his problem?
Pretty self evident
They themselves with their constant price increases and ads.
People have been saying for years that piracy is increasing because of their idiotic economics
Studios only seethe about piracy because they have such shitty business models and nothing of value to provide.
Piracy laws are obscenely outdated and make no logical sense besides protecting corporations' rights to unlimited passive income.
Ironically, netflix was one of the first to inadvertently highlight this by providing a convenient useful hub to watch all your content. And people were prepared to pay for that. But then everyone noticed how much moeny netflix was making and pulled their shows and now none of the streaming services provide a worthwhile service on their own.
Notice how the music industry never has these issues anymore? The music licensing drama is various artists whining that spotify/tiktok isn't paying them enough. Because those services literally adapted to what people actually wanted and did it in a way that generated money. But the artists can't comprehend that a billion people wanting to listen to your shitty 3 minute pop song while scrolling social media doesn't mean you're entitled to a billion dollars for that song.
Likewise, a legion of neet autists watching your shit just to meme on it doesn't entitle you to a billion dollars for your shitty content either. True artists are just glad that people appreciate their work (and can pay their bills doing what they love).
Greedy vampires whine that they aren't getting rich enough.
>Piracy laws are obscenely outdated and make no logical sense besides protecting corporations' rights to unlimited passive income.
Yep, absolutely. Piracy being illegal is just to prevent them losing money, and they don't care about consumers at all. If they don't care about us, why should we care about them? We shouldn't, and that's why you shouldn't pay for anything. I don't even watch most of the stuff they make.
>But the artists can't comprehend that a billion people wanting to listen to your shitty 3 minute pop song while scrolling social media doesn't mean you're entitled to a billion dollars for that song.
This. I mean, it gets fricking obscene after a while honestly. Music is beloved. It amplifies even basic elements. Black Sabbath fricking amplifies this clip and helps making the entire thing worth remembering. But artists going
"PAY ME A BILLION DOLLARS AND ITHEN I'LL LET YOU HAVE THE HONOR" sucks dick. Like, why are you even doing it at that point then? Royalties and people going "dude I'll pay you if you let me use your music" should be a positive bi-product of your achievement not the be-all end-all where it justifies you being a total c**t.
Forgot clip
I cancelled my Netflix sub once they banned password sharing. They can frick right off. My VPN is $3/m
Why is Netflix so popular and beloved among the American People?
I thought less and less people knew how to turrent?
Enthusiasts know how to get what they want.
Normies take what they are given.
Simple as.
That’s a meme based on how overall number of peers are shrinking due to VPNs.
Watching media on pirated sites counts as piracy too.
So a person typing Stranger Things Watch on a search engine counts the same as torrents.
It’s either going to do dystopian nightmare mode and these parasitic streaming ((media)) organizations try to sap the life out of your internet browsing freedom, or these gay Black person companies will gradually begin to die and some will possess the intelligence to evolve
Studios are either going to have to merge (Warner and Paramount) or get bought out by tech giants (Apple and Disney). Either way it's coming to the point where 90% of movies and TV shows are being produced by like 3 mega corporations. And they all have the same identical values they push from the top down.
Studios are all leveraged to frick and back, merging is suicide. WB was the last time anyone is going to buy an entire studio, because buying a studio means inheriting all their debt.
All that remains is collapse.
I've always assumed you buy another studio for their IP and trash everything else.
That’s what discovery did and now they’re half dead.
>Get greedier
>Or get smarter
Hopefully some autist figures out a way around the internet Id
my friends and I wanted to watch the Hunger Games movies this weekend and the only service it was on was AMC+. What the FRICK is AMC+?
I have 30 streaming services but then I have to subscribe to yet another to watch a pretty popular movie series from the last 10 years? Embarrassing and pirating it was an easy decision
My girlfriend loves the hunger games movies. I downloaded all of them in quality that is stunning and also downloaded all the bonus features and making of documentaries.
You get so much more from pirating that you ever will with streaming.
Adding commercials and raising prices will certainly help combat piracy, right guys?
I'm sorry at current drive prices it's even too expensive to pirate your shows.
Why would you save garbage shows? Also there are lots of streaming sites to watch it on instead
>at current drive prices it's even too expensive to pirate your shows.
If you don't have storage space, then just watch stuff on Fmovies.
You don’t need SSD for movies ya frickin moron
>Piracy is difficult to compete against
I don't know a single normalgay that knows how to pirate a damn thing. Are they counting using another person's account credentials as piracy?
They are counting going to a streaming site like flixtor as piracy. No one is downloading the content.
>They are counting going to a streaming site like flixtor as piracy
Is that better than Fmovies? I've bookmarked it, so I guess I'll try it eventually.
I don't know, it's the one I always use. They limit access when it's busy though. But everything is good quality and loads instantly. I pay for vip membership so I always have access now.
>paying for pirate streams
jesus christ just fricking install qbtorrent you mongoloid cretin give me your address i will come over and help you i feel so fricking bad for you
This is key. There's no reason to care about piracy because the vast majority of people have no idea how to do it. It's just greed going after the tiny minority will won't pay even if they can't pirate
>pay for 5 streaming services
>all they have is garbage anyway
Imagine paying for shitty propaganda.
>enjoy a show/movie on netflix
>it's removed and never comes back
>have to either buy it or just download it
>feel like you've been paying for it this while time via streaming even though it's no longer on that streaming service
>decide to pirate a download
Piracy is a customer service issue
If piracy was somehow made impossible tomorrow I still wouldn't pay for any streaming services
it's all just total slop even if you don't take into account the diversity and feminism bullshit that make all their garbage insufferable
A diverse or female lead cast by itself isn't even the problem. Plenty of old shows had them. The problem is the characters are boring and the dialogue is mean spirited. There's no tension because black and female protagonists never lose.
>A diverse or female lead cast by itself isn't even the problem. Plenty of old shows had them
Why are you trying to speak for everyone? I didn't watch those shows in the past either. Diversity and women IS the problem. If you disagree then go discuss those things, because Cinemaphile is "diversity and women: the board" now.
moron
>Go to Yandex (or any non-google engine)
>Install adblock
>[Insertmoviehere]123streaming
>Pick from tons of options
Until it becomes that easy to watch what I want, when I want, a pirate life for me.
>Yandex
Yandex of today is more censored than Bing of 10 years ago FYI. Are there any non-cucked search engines left? I haven't found any.
Startpage works for me, if I'm searching for something, it just works giving me the closest to what I'm looking for, without the promoted sites like google, better results for piracy than bing, it allows you to search and open images without having to enter the sites, and without being dishonest about privacy like duck duck go
Streaming intially took off because it was cheap and convenient. Now that it's all been splintered off into 200 different services and is more expensive it's lost both of those criteria. No shit numbers are dropping.
numbers aren't dropping, netflix and disney keep getting bigger, the ones struggling are the smaller platforms that were always going to have a hard time competing for a market share.
>netflix and disney keep getting bigger
By what metric?
jimmies rustled
And that translates to money how?
>money?
How netflix in your country guys?
argie here, from time to time we got an influx of cancelled american series (those that last like 1 season), dozens and dozens of indian 90s movies and lots of chinese/korea products
I started pirating in the 90s and never stopped.
80s BBS veteran here. We also unironically had floppy copy parties.
You could stop all forms of piracy and make Netflix $1 tomorrow and I would still not give them a cent.
There is nothing worth watching in 10+ years. The art is dead, and I'm only here to see how it ends.
The only media of any kind I have paid money for in any form since 2008 are Japanese kaiju movies and non-fiction books that are on the rare side.
Streaming services suck ass. Every FRICKING time I want to watch something, I search for it on <insert streaming service here>: "<insert movie title here> not found:. Fricking worthless. No wonder a shit load of people pirate.
Greedy _ _ _ _
Most streaming services are shit, and they region-lock an absolute frickton of content, so why would I NOT pirate instead?
How is watching a movie “piracy?” These israelite red tape beurocracy distribution laws or whatever are bullshit, I would suicide by cop and take as many of them down as I could if they rolled up to my house to drag me away for watching shitty movies.
I got a free month sub to Hulu with ads, watched 3 episodes of Its Always Sunny. Didn't see a single ad that entire time with a straight white male involved in any capacity. Cancelled sub immediately.
No thanks, I'll just stick to pirating.
Zoomies can't into torrenting doe
me
the economy
I know! They should actively make their service worse, like YouTube! That'll surely get people to sign up.
The only streaming service worth subbing to is Viki since their subtitles are usually better quality than Netflix or iqiyi. But they've been slacking I notice now a lot of time the "subtitle teams" for each show are more and more just copying the subtitles the show runners put out.
They made it a pain in the ass to watch anything.
If Netflix made content that I actually wanted to see instead of homosexual Africanus propaganda, then I wouldn't feel the need to pirate in Minecraft
>gorillions of different companies try to get on the streaming bandwagon and make everything they own exclusive to that one platform
>followed by then nickle and diming everybody just to watch said shows and movie
>then they force them to watch fricking ads, the one thing many got into streaming to avoid
>followed by more ads
>then many also start cracking down on account sharing to further nickle and dime their customers
>then followed by making it so certain shows or episodes aren't allowed because of some culture war shit despite the fact anybody that would care about that wouldn't be watching said content to begin with
as gaben one said, piracy is a convience issues, and most streaming platforms have made it far to inconvient for many so they resort to old reliable
can skip to whenever i want without lag
with torrents: yes
with free stream sites: kinda?
with paid streaming: lol
I'm okay with paying money for entertainment, but not okay with paying money for overt propaganda messaging. If the cast is almost entirely white and male, it lessens that feeling and the liklihood of my paying money increases, but, I won't put effort into learning about your show individually, and so your show needs to be part of a strong overall industry trend in order to effectively communicate to me that it is okay to start paying money again.
good. until they learn with spotify/deezer/apple music/amazon music, piracy MUST grow
So, the pirates have fricking studios now?
Technically Crunchyroll was a pirate site when it started and now is a studio.
There's only one way to fight piracy and that's offering a good service, this is why the original Netflix killed piracy but now that everything is shit again people are going back to piracy, is not rocket science, there is just no other way to fight piracy and I'm starting to wonder if fighting piracy is even a good idea since it's basically a rule of the universe by now that when you take down 1 piracy site 10 more open.
I pirate stuff but the stuff I pirate is old or unavailable. I'm sure as hell not pirating what they're streaming.
you should. I pay 4-5 streaming services for the people in my house, but I find everything better and fast at stremio lmao
Economy is terrible and everything is expensive.
All that will do is hurt theatre chains and non-netflix services. Why pay $10 to see a single movie in theatres when you can have movies for a month with that much? People will choose 1 or 2 services they want to keep and unsubscribe from the rest. Netflix is a keeper for sure for most people
I want to pay for Netflix and did for years but I can't justify it. It's inexcusable to pay someone to feed you propaganda and constantly try to manipulate you. When they lost the rights to all the old content like Star Trek there was nothing left and I'm not going to pay a monthly fee just for fricking old Star Trek I can get for free anyway and I already paid for 20 times.
>people are abandoning streaming
says who, netflix added something like another 30m subscribers this year
>What's to blame?
jews, per usual
I was even willing to pay for Youtube premium, once upon a time. The consumer goodwill these morons have lost will never come back. They had the golden goose and they fricking cooked it like the useless morons they are.
>pay for Youtube premium
Why? while checking the revanced subreddit, sometimes I've seen what the youtube sub posts, and apparently, a lot of people have posted that you can also get ads while having premium activated now, it's a complete scam
It worked a few years ago. In theory I was willing to pay to help keep yt up, now I'm not. I want them to fail and frick off.
wtf i dont even bother with netslop
It used to be ultra convenient and cheap to stream stuff and their collections were huge, I even started paying for media for the first time in my life just because it was so convenient and cheap, after being a life long pirate
Then they got israeliteey and decided to start splitting into a billion different services that want at minimum 10 bucks a month like another cable channel scheme
Frick that I went back to piracy I only have Netflix through my wife's family, Hulu because it's an extra 2 bucks on my Spotify, and prime because we order tons of Amazon slop. Not paying for max, yidsney, MGM, paramount, apple, the rest of them can frick off unless they manage to attach themselves to a service I regularly use
im just not gonna pay is all
>Willingly giving israelites money
>Not giving israelites money
Choices, choices...
I mostly watch old stuff because new stuff is garbage. Why would I pay to watch something that no one involved in its production is even alive?
do you know how many movies you can buy for a year of streaming?
$200 buys you a shit ton of blu-rays. I buy blu-rays used at my neighborhood disc replay for like 2.50 a piece. averaging across sales.
than I buy stuff on sale. Usually around christmas.
You have physical that's superior to 4k streaming and all the special features. commentary tracks are better than any e-celeb dweeb.
also audio is fricked in the ass on streaming. it's the 1st thing that gets the long dick of compression.
theres a few shows made over the last 10 years I'd buy as a box set day 1 if I could but more and more today these c**ts don't even give you the option so the only real route to ownership is piracy.
I'm not paying 500 monthly fees to 500 different streaming platforms and I'm not buying digital when they can pack all sorts of dodgy DRM into the downloads so they can still rip that shit away even if you paid for it.
I use fmovies. Literally have everything, even stuff exclusive to specific services. Free, just need basic b***h popup blocker to get rid of the tiddy virus ads.
And if I like a show or movie good enough to support it, I buy the official physical version, because frick paying digital anything, when they can delete that shit at any moment and you wouldn't be able to do shitall about it.
tubi is free and better than every streaming service.
tubi + pluto is all i need
tubi has motherfricking unsolved mysteries.
So much great slopkino on Tubi.
Toxic Avenger, Hell Comes to Frogtown…
What more do you want? The Russian miniseries are great too, not a single brown person in the whole thing.
Shit content, splintering of content over many streaming platforms and rising prices.
Netflix worked because was cheap and convenient. But that is gone now.
>Netflix: "No one is watching our garbage"
>"It must be piracy"
I don't even watch movies or tv shows anymore. Piracy has nothing to do with this. Social media and other alternatives like youtube have stolen a large portion of their market, they are just too israeli to admit this and blame *****piracy*****
Jews.
they will randomly pull shit from their streaming service just so they can get a tax right off. Frick they aren't even about giving people a large library, they push only what THEY want you to watch at any given time.
Gee maybe you should be making things people want to pay for so they have more future good content they can count on durrrrr. Idk just an idea duhhhhhhhh.
i haven't torrented anything except anime in the last decade. is tbp still the way to go?
yep
If all you watch is anime, why not get a crunchyroll account? Seems like it might be worth it if anime is all you watch
because they don't got half the good shit, and why do that when anime is free everywhere?
Netflix limits quality. I can get HD 4K or whatever the frick if I pirate.
>Used to pirate movies because poorgay in uni (Around 2012-2013l
>Putlocker, Project Free TV etc.
>Had Netflix which roommates paid me so they could use it
>Roomies move out so I canceled Netflix
>Netflix didn't have every single movie and TV show (e.g. Game of Thrones was not on Netflix and never would be)
>Figured I could just watch everything and anything on different streaming sites
>Hell, I torrented the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series as PDF files on my old laptop because I didn't have the money for all of the books
>Be me at 30
>Have respectable job
>Able to pay for streaming services
>If I have a date over and she wants to watch something but it's not on any of the streaming service I stream the movie on Putlocker or some shit
>She gets impressed with my "tech savvy hacking skills" (she might be an autist or something)
>We frick
>Says I'm the father
>Pretty excited to be a dad
>Due date
>Baby comes out and it's mixed
>Clearly not mine
>Turn 360 degrees
>Walk away while wishing good luck to chick on being a single mom
It turns out she died from a mass loss of blood. I'm not sure what happened to the kid. I hope his dad found him and is raising him. As for me, I mostly just use Disney Plus and Spotify for streaming. I use my sister's Netflix in return for lending her my Disney plus account. The odd time I have to pirate or stream a move. For example I had to go on 123movies to watch Road to Perdition because it wasn't on any streaming service. Good movie. Reminds me of the son I never had
Streaming sucks. The libraries that used to be on Netflix and Prime are split across 6 different services.
Most of what you wanted are a handful of rewatchable shows like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Star Trek, etc - and the new stuff sucks. Just buy the Blu-Rays or yar-har. It's more convenient.
Streaming won for a while because Netflix was more convenient than pirating, but now pirating is more convenient.
No money.
The fricking studios of course. You know what almost killed pirating? Netflix streaming when it was new. It's library was so gigantic that it had damn near anything you'd want to watch. It virtually eliminated the need to pirate for most people. Hell, I stopped pirating almost entirely during that time because Netflix was actually worth it.
And here's why. Convenience. You know what fuels media pirates? Convenience.
The studios fricked up, again, by making it so accessing their programs legitimately was more inconvenient than just pirating it. Want to beat pirates? Make it more convenient than downloading a torrent. Like old Netflix did.
57 streaming platforms and nothing on
>what's to blame?
Inflation depreciating everyone's income
Entertainment and media is more expensive
Quality of media plummeted
Not hard to figure out
Inflation, essential stuff is getting too expensive and things like eating outside and streaming services is the first stuff people cut off
How do you put those kinos on the... the compooter
Sekrit
the secret ingredient is crime
The reason for streaming having such success in the first place was a better experience compared to cable
- No ads
- Everything in one place
- Cheap
Streaming turned back into cable now.
>charge customers more money for less service
Gee I dunno.
>THEY'RE TOTALLY PIRATING OUR WOKE PROPAGANDA!
>THEY'RE STILL WATCHING IT WE SWEAR!!!!
I wish there was a bandcamp equivalent for films. You pay 10 bucks or more and you get a perfect quality download with all subs and all dubs that you can keep on your hard disks forever, with most of the money going to the people who made the film instead of middlemen.
because the market became saturated with all these competing streaming platforms, it's literally just different tv channels again except this time you need to pay 10 bucks a month for each one