On Friday 3 December 2021 at 06:58:19 UTC, rtr wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 21:09:51 -0000 (UTC)
> Johnatan Duck <pa...@thunder.local> wrote:
>
> > On 2021-11-28, rtr <r...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > > I doubt piracy will ever end. There will always be a demand for
> > > people who don't want to spend money for content and there will be
> > > people who will do whatever they can to do so.
> > >
> > > Also the current trend of increasing web subscriptions for
> > > video-on-demand services is really itching the pirate scratch in me.
> > >
> > > Why would I pay $15/month for every media mogul where I want to
> > > watch the latest content from? I can just jump to an indexer and
> > > with a decent usenet provider I will be done in no time. Plus, I
> > > get the added value of actually having the content in my hard
> > > drive. That's cool if I want to go without internet when I'm
> > > travelling.
> > >
> > > So yeah, it's a long winded way of saying that I don't think piracy
> > > ended or will end.
> >
> > Agreed on all the line. I would like to add that,
> > these services are often not keeping the content I
> > like, or maybe they do but you never know when they'll
> > remove it.
> >
> > Having my own private copy is much better.
> Oh for sure! It does annoy me from time to time whenever a series or
> movie that I want to watch isn't on Netflix and I'm just reminded that
> it's better to just yank it off somewhere rather than pay for a service
> that doesn't even have a complete library of stuff that I want to
> watch.
>
> And yes. A private copy is certainly much better, it never made any
> sense to me to not have a copy of a media that I wanted to read, watch
> or listen to.
> --
> Give them an inch and they will take a mile.