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    55 minutes ago

    I’m in college, and a lot of striminals don’t pirate streaming services like Netflix, but instead pirate live sports streams, because the legal alternative is pay like $70/mo for an ad-infested service. Nobody is paying that.

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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      Pay a ridiculous amount ($479 for a season of NFL Sunday Ticket right now) and still maybe not be able to watch the game due to blackouts. Or this one is on ESPN. Or this one is on Amazon. Can’t watch this one just because fuck you. This one is in London and requires a subscription only accessible in one county of England.

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    Straight up the only way to watch some content. I could not figure out where to watch pantheon season 2 legally so I could literally only pirate it.

    Unrelated but damn that show had so much wasted potential, season 1 is quite possibly my favorite western animated season of all time.

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    4 hours ago

    Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books for their AI, and they’re the 4th biggest company in US

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        I have the same trio (Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid) setup and it works great. You might need to relink Real Debrid and Stremio–it happened to me once when I let my Real-Debrid subscription lapse for a bit.

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        It’s working fine for me. The number of torrents went way down, but picked up and are nearly back to normal now 👍

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        It’s working fine for me. The number of torrents went way down, but picked up and are nearly back to normal now 👍

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    I’m a millennial, but I don’t stream any pirated content whatsoever.

    I download it from Usenet or sometimes torrents in its entirety. That way I don’t have to worry about the site I use getting shut down.

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    I fucking love committing strime. I fucking love committing strime.

    I don’t want to do anything else but commit strime all damn day.

    I FUCKING LOVE COMMITTING STRIME

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    17 hours ago

    100% of Facebook employees are striminals who downloaded 80 TB of books from Libgen.

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    13 hours ago

    Doesnt streaming imply remotely accessing? Im not streaming, just watching a local copy

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      That’s correct, you’re a “pirate” matey. There’s also a rising trend in using these iptv apps some else is hosting and they’re desperate to find a bad name to give them, I believe this is what the article is aimed at

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    I’ve stolen all my content since the 90s, never stopped. When a service for TV and movies like Steam comes along, I’ll consider buying.

    But know what? Such a service can’t exist. Hollywood has spent too many dollars on Rube Goldberg machinations to protect their copyrights that it’s a Bulgarian clusterfuck. Welp, fine by me, not my problem.