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I started pirating movies again after a decade (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Digester@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I feel like I must be the only person in the world still still using Piratebay! I switch between that and Kickass Torrents and have done for years. They've been through a variety of guises but seem to have settled down now. I use Tixati to leech and seed, never used a VPN and never had any trouble from my ISPs. It's been interesting reading the comments though, might look at some of the suggestions.

[-] hyhachi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

once in a while when i download a disney movie, it triggers an email from the isp. i payed the fee tho so they need to shut up, in canada there's a tax, or was, on blank cd's that went to the entertainment industry to compensate for pirating. they charged me so i feel entitled to sail on.