You've been pirated by a smooth striminal.
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You've been struck by
A strooth miminal
I'm a millennial, but I don't stream any pirated content whatsoever.
I download it from Usenet or sometimes torrents in its entirety. That way I don't have to worry about the site I use getting shut down.
Oh boy here I go strimming again
streaming content without paying for it
- Watching TV at a friend's house
- Watching videos off a PLEX server or other private local network
- Watching freemium with ad blockers
I'm sure I'm missing a few more. But there are so many ways to watch - even without explicit piracy - that the MPAA considers should be deemed illegal because they're not getting paid per viewer.
I'm Gen X and I've been pirating since we bought a second VCR when I was a kid and used it to duplicate tapes and then return them to the rental store. Then they added copy protection, so we got a dual-deck VCR that beat it. Then DVDs came out, so we got a dual-deck DVD copier.
Did I mention that my dad was a film historian?
He also would sometimes xerox entire books for himself. And he got himself a CD duplicator and a cassette duplicator later on and started doing the same thing with CDs and audiobooks he got from the library.
Miss you, dad. You would love torrenting if you could figure it out.
Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books for their AI, and they’re the 4th biggest company in US
Yar, I don' be likin' this new diction, "striminal." I'll be a pirate 'till me dyin' day.
Literal disinformation and libel. Violating copyright is a civil tort, not a crime.
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You've been hit by a smooth striminal
Ow!Is this pro or anti piracy? Because it kinda makes pirating sound like a good idea.
For me, piracy isn’t about the cost. I’ve spent 1000’s of dollars on home servers, Apple TVs, NAS, hard drives, Usenet/VPN subscriptions, and indexer subscriptions. Not to mention all the extra time it takes to set up and keep everything running.
I do it because I get a higher quality product. The last time I did the math, for the size of my collection and the cost of everything I’d spent would be the equivalent to having paid $10/Blue-ray for what I have.
I also do have many streaming services through different bundles, but the low bitrates and constant switching of services means it’s harder to find and lower quality to watch than just adding something in Radarr and playing it in Plex.
On the other hand I legally stream music all the time and am very happy with the product. You pick one provider of your choice, pay a reasonable price, get access to nearly all the world’s music, modern and historical, and the audio quality is more than reasonable.
It’s on the movie and TV industry to fix their piracy problem. The music industry has even provided them a template.
"Young" Millennials depending on your definition the youngest millennial is 29-32 this year.
Only 69%? We gotta pump those numbers up. My Plex share accounts for at least 6 people.
The reason why I don't pay for a lot of media is because, if I pay for it I won't be able to watch what, when, where and how I want to.
If I could buy movies and TV series as h265 files with high bandwidth and no DRM I would pay for it.
I would also pay for streaming if it had all content available, no DRM that forces me to use Chrome to watch anything higher than 720p and a good interface.
But those things will never happen because executives are too greedy.
When no one was looking, the striminal watched forty episodes. He watched 40 episodes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
At least one? I mean, how many do you want to use? When you set up your system, you don't need more than one.
The way this is phrased makes it sound like more than a third (60% of 69%) of millenials only ever consume media through piracy, which I find very hard to believe. What seems more likely to me is that the survey asked people if they have ever used piracy and now they're trying to make this seem like a much bigger deal through misleading phrasing.
Who the fuck says striminals?
Seriously, they make it seem like this is new. Been a pirate since the early days of Napster. Hell, was pirating DOS games on floppy in the early 90's. Video stream pirating is just the latest form, and won't be the last.
My main thing that pushes me towards being a striminal is that every service has all exclusive content.
If I wasn't too watch star trek or star wars, hello Disney+. Stranger things? Netflix. The list is long, I won't bore you with what you're probably aware of.
Moving to bring a striminal, as they say, you can watch what you want, when you want, where you want. You get everything in one place, and don't have to flip flop between services to simply see what's available.
The cost of all of the services is a problem, sure, because it's so damn costly for all of them combined. But that's not my primary factor. It's just so damned inconvenient to maintain so many disconnected accounts, and agglutinate all of the information into a sensible list of what's new or available across all services.
I just want it to be easy and they've intentionally made it not easy.
I won't comment if, or how many Linux ISOs I may or may not have.
I'm a streamennial, but I know a few streazoomers, and also few bootreams.
Striminal Platoon 42069 leader, reporting in!
All information should be free, everywhere, forever.
Of course not. I'm a law abiding citizen, I'm not smart or sexy enough to commit copyright infringement.
Ok but that sounds based as hell
Based striminals
100% of GenX'ers in this household.
Awwww, that's so cute how they side-stepped "... what they want, how they want, "; You know? That bit of it all that we can't buy their way because they won't sell it to us.
Sell full quality 4k video files, with no DRM, and I’ll never use a sketchy streaming site ever again.
I haven’t infringed on a single game that’s available on GoG
Sorry but I'm streamennial not striminal.
They are saying that like it is a bad thing.
Bad for shareholders maybe.
Looks fake, but still funny af.
Who is "we"? I have to know who came up with this amazing addition to the English language.
I'll start paying when they stop being racist with their region locks.
People actually pay for content?
Yeah, I used a modified Spotify client without ads, uninterrupted skipping, etc. to set random songs as my alarm. I download what I like through various sources, music wise, however to find new artists I use YouTube Music so have a client for that too (I have random tastes, and over the years got into artists who never really made it big at all: YT is good for the very obscure stuff most folks would call "people screaming into the mic" which, I mean, I guess it is but it could be music too..)
Nice.
Nice
Hell yeah
Look man, not one goddamn person who worked on Xam'd is getting a red penny from me paying to watch it legally. I'm not gonna reward some corporation whose only contribution was having enough money to buy the rights to make money off of it. Piracy is actually the only ethical way to consume most older media
My posse don't walk around like striminals or flex like big gorillas
Only 69%? Nice. Thought it would be way higher though. I mean. The youngest of us are almost 30 now.
Nice!
Straight up the only way to watch some content. I could not figure out where to watch pantheon season 2 legally so I could literally only pirate it.
Unrelated but damn that show had so much wasted potential, season 1 is quite possibly my favorite western animated season of all time.
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