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yeroii t1_j9lxykt wrote

Streaming is far more convenient than pirating. It's not really surprising that people opt to stream.

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twbrn t1_j9m4hbf wrote

It's more convenient right up until it isn't. When you were looking at two to four streaming services--say Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and HBO--it was convenient.

When you're looking down the barrel of eight to ten streaming services to get the same amount of content, there's going to be a sharp rise. Especially with services like HBO and the like now farming out a bunch of their content to smaller streamers.

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yeroii t1_j9mi7o8 wrote

>It's more convenient right up until it isn't.

It is still more convenient tho.

Besides it's better than there are a bunch of streamers, it doesn't only force them to keep making amazing content but prevents a monopoly. Which would only lead to a sharp increase of prices or far less content... Likely to both.

Pirating can be dragging and slow.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really surprise me why less people are pirating now. it's not really worth my time, when I can just subscribe to whatever streamer I like to watch something in particular and then cancel and rinse and repeat.

It's peak convenience.

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Skavau t1_j9o001m wrote

It takes me about 10 seconds to pirate an episode

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LaJolla86 t1_j9o26dd wrote

You don’t have a properly setup seedbox / download machine but I have a one click interface for all the services mentioned.

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qtx t1_j9ntapr wrote

Pirating is way more convenient though. I can download a higher quality release faster than searching through a handfull of streaming sites.

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lkn240 t1_j9mvnt0 wrote

Except for sports - sports streaming is a disaster.

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LiKwId-Gaming t1_j9ntc06 wrote

Yeah, then it’s pulled while you’re mid season. Or worse they have season 1-3 but season 4-5 is exclusive to another service.

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