• catloaf@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      Some things are only available on one or the other. Live sports, for example.

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      For a lot of people, especially young people, their phone is the only computer they have. For those folks streaming is often the only viable option.

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      4 days ago

      Because my ISP gets mad about torrents, I don’t usually rewatch things, I don’t have to wait for the download to finish, I can do it on my tablet, and I don’t want to deal with cleaning up old video files every time I need to make room for the next 100+GB game install.

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        Not trying to convince you but you should use a VPN either way when pirating and you don’t have to wait if you enable sequential downloading. You just have to wait a few minutes depending on your connection. Your download speed also has to be at minimum as fast as the movie is playing

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          if i had money to pay for a VPN i’d just use something like real debrid. and if my ISP is middlemanning my https certs then a VPN probably isn’t going to help much.