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Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge
(www.bbc.com)
This Just In: Corporations Succeed In Ripping People Off Because People Are Fucking Lazy and Piracy Is "Too Hard."
As someone who pays for streaming and cable like a good boy and also pirates things that cannot be purchased, I assure you that using legit services is so much bigger a headache.
I'm buying up physical media of everything I want to keep while I still can.
There is a third option of not consuming this content.
That is such weird framing.
Not so sure about that. I'm actually surprised at the number of people that I would never have imagine, that have started to pirate. Maybe it's just anecdotal, but I have a feeling that we are going to start to see updated versions of " YOU WOULDN'T STEAL..." PSA ads for the cloud era.
Also, sometimes some people just decide that the content provided is worth the price charged.
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Cloudstream on android tv, hexated repo and boom everything. Fuck corporate streaming, hit the seas.
As an avid sailor I agree
It looks like a worse version of Stremio, unless there's something I'm missing?
Both apps are horrible. Just having to understand where the hell to find the magic codes to add content to cloudstream is a pain. Stremio is a whole other mess to understand the plugins and which types they are and what are the catalogs and all that stuff, and then it's torrent. But people online all jumped on some poor man solution where you pay for something debrid stupid thing to make stremio use http downloads instead of torrents.
Yeah the apps works, but no one sane can say they are good.
I haven't used stremio in a long time so it might have changed, but cloudstream will remember your currently watching list and will remember where you left off, which is why I like using it, but really it's just a newish streaming app that allows custom repos.
Stremio + torrentio + RealDebrid
This allows Stremio to stream any torrent using the RealDebrid service, which already has cached copies of the most popular downloads so you can watch it instantly from their servers. It also has a great library feature to save followed shows, and progress is saved and synced to your Stremio account.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/comments/yi5jdw/ultimate_guide_to_stremio_torrentio_rd/
The only caveat here is that RealDebrid is a paid service, but I only pay around $3 a month and it has literally everything that is on any of the streaming services.
This setup is now my primary means of watching tv and movies, and I say that as someone who has a couple of media servers filled with content and hosted with Plex - this Stremio setup is just too good.
The only caveat here is that RealDebrid is a paid service, but I only pay around $3 a month and it has literally everything that is on any of the streaming services.
This is a barrier, you would not believe all the people see me weird because I pay to watch pirated stuff lol, even if the amount is so insignificant it raises some eyebrows (here we don't even pay for VPNs because they are not needed, for surfing the seas at least).
So yeah, Cloudstream remains as a fair cheaper (free lol) alternative for Stremio in the Android environment at least.
Indeed CS worked for me better when the Kronch (Crunchyroll streams) addon worked, (last time I checked it was not working, I hope that is not the case) because newer stuff can take some time to make it to the public trackers (which is where Torrentio gathers its stuff).
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Interesting.................. Where might one find sources?
You're a gentleman and a scholar.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Because companies realize that giving us shit things will make us hand over more money and, with our hands bound behind our back, on our knees, bleeding from the lip, we’ll ask for another slap with lust in our voices?
Shitification continues.
Greed. Nuff said
Look at that Getty images girl, she is clearly happy with her Netflix. /s
I am going to get downvoted for this but yeah, this is kind of expected. We think that they will lose customers. Yeah they will lose us but they don't care. We're not part of the market that they're building on. Their markets are those who depends on them, those that can't live without them. And they don't care about about our generation that much because we are part of the experimental generations when they tested the market. The new generation are their targets because that's are what they're exposed to when they grow up.
Google is a good example as a case study. They took really long time to figure out how to make money. Instead of using ads banners like its counterparts during its time, it stayed on providing free services, Gmail, maps etc, so that we'll get hooked to them. It's only once we're hooked to them that they start changing things leaving the next gen with no much choice.
I have a subscription only because it was added on to another service. I wouldn't be surprise if they padded their numbers by giving out accounts as paired deals.
As many have said, it's just cable all over again
Yarrr
People are idiots
Yo ho ho and a bottle of netflix
Worst timeline
I was highly sceptical about this, too, because watching Netflix at more than one location and by more than one family member. Have to say that we haven't had any issue so far. Perhaps it helps that we still spend weekends at primary location together. 🤷♂️
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