"Something something piracy is a service issue."
-Gandhi, probably
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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I admit, I took the bait for a while and subscribed to a few streaming platforms. A few bucks a month to not deal with the inherent risks of pirating, or headaches trying to find a bootleg stream that works? Why not?
Then came the price increases. Shows abruptly moving to other streaming platforms with little to no warning. Ads with tiered services ("pay $10 more to see just two minutes of ads instead of five!").
Suddenly pirating started to look good again.
there's something to be said about the renaissance of a 30 year old technology that remained the same while the world changed around it and i wish i knew what it was. lol
As the dude from this picture, let me tell you that piracy was reeeally different 30 years ago (more like 25 for me). We were years away from DSL, downloading a piss-poor CAM rip of Star Wars ep1 took hours. Then you'd invest in a CD burner and exchange movies with your friends.
When I cancelled my subscriptions a year ago, I found out about Jellyfin and the *arr stack, took a couple of hours to set them up, and now I can download a whole show in a couple of taps while my friend is telling me about it, and watch it on my TV in 4K, or on my phone in the subway like 15 minutes later.
Sure, the underlying methods of acquisition haven't changed much since BitTorrent came out, but the ecosystem is on a whole other level.
Every time I've dove back into the high seas the landscape had changed.
I enjoyed my last go around w Kodi using it as you described and I'm glad to know it's gotten better.
Reject modernity, embrace tradition!
Watching live sports for 50$ per year, is cheaper than paying for any sport service out there.
Happily I didn't need to look for my "old" hat as I never took it off
what's wrong with their eyes, is this a frog?
You wouldn't pirate your optic nerve...
Binging eyes, it can happen to anyone
Kero kero?
How many shrimp do you have to eat to make your skin turn pink?
Also Kerro Kerro is so much more fun than “Croak”
Seriously, like I want to watch the new fallout but I don’t want to subscribe to Amazon for just that. I hate Amazon in general as a company but also I just wish I could buy a bluray of the season and be good but I don’t think they even offer physical releases until later on and often they don’t even do physical releases for a majority of them anyway.
If I can’t buy it on disc and it’s not on a streaming service that is already bundled in something I pay for (Apple tv being the only one tbh) then I will just download it myself.
I think even if you get Prime you still get ads unless you pay an extra monthly fee.
"We are not increasing the price of your subscription, we are simply changing the benifits you have and adding a tier above yours that's identical to what you used to have" was basically whe announcement they made alongside that IIRC
"We are upgrading you subscription! (Asuming you pay us more money of course.
I’ll add that Disney+ is on the BDS list, so I consider pirating Andor to be a moral imperative.
I've been at it since my buddy had an FTP server in the mid to late 90s, I've never stopped even with many of the streaming services with horrible closed captioning and bad sound, I would sail the high seas and download proper sub files.