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opengrass 5 hours ago

Piracy is for teenagers and poor people.

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lostlogin 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Browse r/homelab and your view might change.

Wondering which of the 8 providers has your show is lame.

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xienze 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Wondering which of the 8 providers has your show is lame.

Yep, but there is a solution. Buy physical media and rip it. You get basically the best quality available _and_ a backup at the same time. You don't have to resort to piracy to avoid streaming services.

	▲	duskwuff 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not all TV shows get a physical media release. Even when they do, it's not uncommon for them to be lower quality than the streaming release. (For example, the streaming release of The Expanse was 4k HDR, but the Blu-Ray release is 1080p SDR.) I expect this will only get worse in the future - physical media is an increasingly niche product.

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bix6 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How many middle class families can legitimately afford an extra $100/mo+ on multiple streaming services?

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opengrass 5 hours ago | parent [-]

$100 is unheard of in Europe.

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bix6 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Netflix, Disney, HBO, Amazon, Apple, Movistar, DAZN. $100/mo estimate for that combo in Spain.

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opengrass 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I see, we're talking combos now. The lowest end Moviestar package with soccer is 9 Euro.

	▲	bix6 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Correct, I said “multiple” in my original post. I don’t doubt you can watch one stream for 9 Euro. What happens when the game you want is with the other provider?

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geodel 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If watching this much videos from such large array of services is that important for a family I am sure they can easily cut down on other leisure and entertainment and come up just fine.

	▲	prmoustache 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A lot of spanish people live with less than 1000€ a month. You can barely rent a 2 bedroom flat in many cities with that. 100€ for leisure and entertainment is already a huge sum of money when filing the tank of their cars to earn their salary cost them 2 to 3x 80€ already.
	▲	watwut 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They dont need to wach "much videos". The argument is about "specific movies and series". And for that, there are three options: piracy, pay many services, constantly juggle sign ins and sign outs.

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PowerElectronix 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess I just wanna feel young again.

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walletdrainer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I’ve spend hundreds of thousands on just the hardware to store for all my pirated home theatre content.

I’d gladly pay money for it, but that’s not actually possible. The main cost of not pirating would be time, which is unacceptable because I’m neither a teenager nor poor.

Similarly, as a rich person who travels a lot, official sports streams just aren’t available for me.

Just for fun, I tried to Google and find an official site to watch LaLiga games:

“DAZN ISN'T AVAILABLE IN THIS COUNTRY”

“The request is blocked.” -https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/where-to-watch-laliga-easports

Movistar plus is in Spanish, probably not for me

But yeah, even fucking googling “laliga official stream” brings zero working paid alternatives for very very rich me.