• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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      I think they were just pointing out that this is the problem with subscription services. You own nothing and you’re screwed when the service goes down.

      It really doesn’t take “ludicrous amounts of time and money” to build a private library. It’s interesting how the subscription giants have managed to change people’s perceptions - when you buy content to keep, you keep some of the value, but when you subscribe you’re just getting a time pass to use someone else’s library and won’t see that money again.

      They sold the proposition on convenience when everything was in one place, but now it’s all fragmented it’s a waste of money.

      And of course plenty of people are building media libraries for free by sailing the seas.

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      lmao, buddy you can get a 10tb hard drive for like $200 and fit all the pirated media you want on it. that’s less money than two mainline subscriptions for a year.

      the VAST majority of data hoarders are pirates. very very few actual spend fortunes on their media collections. that’s why everyone is dogpilling you. it felt like you were attacking a strawman of the average user here and they feel the need to correct you about their nature.

      it’s not about pirates feeling moral or superior. it’s about you being wrong about data hoarders.

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      Just let us be excited

      This is our version when there’s a big storm and your neighbourhood dads start going around with chainsaws offering to cut up downed trees.

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      You know you can setup a stack for piracy in less than 10min on a $40 microcomputer or even on an old android phone. And with the right setup you can automate the downloads meaning you just search for stuff and it downloads it without effort.

      Time and money, not so much.

      Checkout YAMS

      https://yams.media/

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      Dawg even pirate stream sites don’t host on AWS and GCP, you can still watch your content for free online without worrying about a cloud outage because pirate sites actually distribute their files on several cloud platforms since they’re technically always at risk of DMCA lol.