I was a happy Netflix user until 2018, before that I haven’t really pirated any movies (with very rare exceptions) for almost a decade but I recently started again. I’m was doing my monthly budgeting and realized I was paying for too many subscription services. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Shudder, Disney+, Hulu and Crunchyroll. My family likes to watch different types of content that is distributed on many different platforms.

I was never subscribed to these many services until a couple years ago. I was thinking which service I should cancel when I realized I had the option to cancel all of them this entire time. I’m torrenting again and I started saving a considerate amount.

The only service I’m paying for is Spotify which I think it’s fairly priced and offers all the music my family listens too (and it’s convenient). All the competitors pretty much offer the same content and that’s how streaming services should be.

I remember back in the day using eMule and BitChe (to look for torrents). Now I’m using Deluge as my torrent client and I I get my torrents from 1337x. What sites are you guys using?

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      1 year ago

      Seriously, I pay for streaming services and Blu Rays and still wind up just pirating the stuff I already own half the time because that’s somehow more convenient…

      • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Same here. Subscribed to some streaming services because my family members use them. For me, it’s simply much faster and more convenient to pirate. It’s not helped by the fact that the stuff I watch are more often than not unavailable on any streaming platform.