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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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[–] Linkandluke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What happened when they caught you?

[–] Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very angry letter home threatening legal action that definitely pissed off my parents (I was in high school at the time)

Did not help that it was an adult movie that got me caught and this was apparent because the bastards included the movie title in the letter lmao

[–] BlackSpasmodic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fucking hilarious now. Super not cool then lol

[–] Digester@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's rough! I only received an email from my provider Telus telling me to stop torrenting, I didn't and I never received another email since. I don't use any VPN

[–] faladorable@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

when i got caught like 15 years ago all they did was send a letter in the mail asking that delete the downloaded game as if they would have any way of knowing if i actually did or not lol. I had a vpn but didn’t know about binding it to the downloader