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Start using torrents. The good old ways are better. Don't feed the corporate motherfuckers undeserved money. I even cheated disney+ for a subscription. I was getting disney+ subscription for one year (with ads) in my credit card if I spent a certain amount. I spent that amount and got the subscription for free and cancelled the order and got my money back. Now I have one year of disney+ which I will watch in the browser with ublock origin. No ads with all content unlocked. Do I care or regret?. No fucking way.
But to use torrents you have to use a VPN on top (preferably a paid one that is as anonymous as possible), or you get bent over and railed by either your ISP or the copyright holders.
Instead of paying for a VPN I can just pay for the legit service (in better quality and on demand).
The only other option I can somewhat safely use are direct downloads and streams (no seeding), but even without a VPN they are shoddy performance wise.
A VPN is $5. That’s half a streaming service, and most use more than one.
Uh no. Any streaming service for $10+ will have limitations on what is on there. Piracy does not have those limitations.
It has the limitation of terrible quality 99% of the time.
Streaming through apps has terrible quality most of the time based on their server loads etc. Even with fastest internet steaming from Disney+ quality is shit most of the time. When I am torrenting, i can get a high quality print and can watch it without any issue or buffering. It takes a few minutes to download a few gb's. I am from a third world country and the internet here is so fast to download movies in 5 minutes max.
Just shows you've been going to the wrong places.
It has other limitations, like worse quality for example. But actually the biggest limitation is shoddy subtitles. Yes, you can add subtitles, but they are often off (timing wise).
I do like to watch movies and series in OV, but then switch on English subtitles when I'm watching alone, or German ones when I watch with family back home. Not an (easy) option with pirated movies :-/
If you complain about quality of pirated content its clear you haven't actually pirated much. 1080 or 4K is easy to get. I am not even torrenting.
Subtitles, ok I give you that. You can always find a fitting one or just have to adjust timing but that is sometimes a bit of pain to find if it doesn't come with the file.
better don't start using torrents in germany though.