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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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[-] Sheltac@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

I wish streaming companies would take notes from Spotify. It’s not too expensive, non-exclusive, acceptable quality even on higher end gear.

Doesn’t shove idiotic recommendations on my face, doesn’t bug me about my address, doesn’t randomly drop in quality because my neighbour is taking a piss. Looking at you, Netflix, you expensive useless piece of shit.

(I’m fact, Spotify’s recommendations are so good that I’m constantly finding new stuff I actually like.)

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Personally I find the recommendations really bad lol, I never stray outside of my library or playlists. I find music looking at artists I like then seeing other songs they wrote, or search what I hear playing in the world around me, or what I'm watching.

[-] slugger@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

I use an AI playlist creator called songslikex.com which builds a Spotify playlist based on one song. Think it's better than Spotify recommendations and I have found a few new artists that I really like with it.

[-] Tiefa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There's also, everynoise.com. you can find any genre of music and it will link to a Spotify playlist. I've found so much cool stuff on there.

[-] slugger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Must try. Thanks for suggesting.

[-] Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much! I read about this a couple weeks ago and was trying to remember the name last night. Et voilà!

[-] Xer0@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, this is awesome. Thanks for sharing it.

[-] Outrage9622@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is amazing. Thanks

[-] LostCause@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

It‘s probably going to be the other way around if anything, Spotify eventually doing various moves worsening the experience in an effort for more money. It‘s surprising how long it is holding out (and I‘m still using and enjoying it too), but ever since I learned about Enshittification, I‘m expecting it to worsen eventually.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

3 companies own like 90% of all music copyrights and they are getting a fucking sweet deal from Spotify.

Artists are starting to get screwed and it's only a matter of time before they come for the customers.

Buy CDs, use Bandcamp, install Nicotine+ (preferably in that order)

[-] Sheltac@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh it’s gonna enshittify, that’s for sure. It just hasn’t yet.

[-] float@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

The "exclusive content war" already started with podcasts. Wait a few years and let's say Miley Cyrus will sign an exclusive contract with Apple Music and there you have it.

[-] Snekeyes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My spotify recommends are hilarious. I played a track white noise that went for like 6 hours. Spotify recommended ai has all white noise tracks ignoring music choices.