Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

It’s yours because there is a technical debt, which can flummox some. Some of the torrent places, have javascript messes that are trying to do drive-bys.

I have been using NoScript for a long time, and it helps.

Live TV is so bad that I would take $65/mo of corporate streaming services over FREE cable.

I choose neither, but if those were the only two options there's no contest.

You’re also paying the ISP so that’s another cost on top of these subscriptions.

My 7 year old is always telling her friends that she watches such-and-such show on Jellyfin. 😅

Lol that's how i always get caught.

wanted to watch a show with the family on the weekend

the slowest more interruptive part of the process of getting it on the TV was when I forgot to move the downloaded files to my Plex library folder. forty seconds later and it was fixed. and the controls actually worked and weren't all fucky like most apps are on the AppleTV with the shitty apple remote

While I've moved to arr stack and usenet these days, I've literally never had an issue with TPB

I think it's more a generalised phrase, like when you Google something, but you don't actually use Google. Saying to look at / use pirate bay doesn't mean the exact site, just means to pirate it somehow.

Shady how? It ends up being the right place for 99% of my torrents.

Everytime I look for alternates I end up with sites that offer torrents of movies that end in .exe. so I end up going back to TPB.

Books are better than TV anyway. Once you own a book, no corpo fuckwad can take it away from you.

In a sense I do think this kind of approach matters more than people give it credit for. Most people tend to see piracy as a way to consume media without supporting the rightsholders of that media, but even pirated consumption is still support.

A person who is, say, pirating Harry Potter books and other media is still giving Rowling and her franchise and ideas space in their head, maybe contributing to further conversations about her, and overall inadvertently promoting her whether they like it or not - as opposed to having used that time and energy to consume media from someone more worth the time and effort, like say, Ursula Le Guin.

For example I was watching a video from a YouTuber who does controller reviews. In that video he briefly mentioned two controllers that were of such poor quality that they were literally unusable. He went on to say that he would not be making videos about them, because he found that even when he goes out of his way to give a controller the worst review possible, tons of people still buy them.

Personally, I think that information freedom matters enough that anything published under licenses that are more restrictive than copyleft, permissive ones, or straight public domain is unethical. If private property is theft, and it is, that absolutely extends into knowledge and culture as well. If I were a purist about that, I would go out of my way to use things like the fully free Linux distros, and only consume media under those aforementioned licenses. Truth be told I don't though, I do pirate corporate media sometimes. But I do try to give space where it counts too - trying to use some time and energy to seek out any kind of media that's more open.

Tl;dr: play Battle for Wesnoth.

I mean nobody is going to give you a medal for doing it so why deprive yourself?

I've been doing Stremio for over a year now. I used to have RealDebrid but it started having issues for me so I started using Premiumize instead. The last year has been INCREDIBLE. I think it's ridiculous to have to pay for something monthly and STILL get hit with ads. It's bullshit.