These articles are great but I believe there are also people like me. Folks who don't pay for any streaming services and don't pirate. So if somehow they stamped out piracy folks like me won't be coming back and I think many of the pirates would still opt out which would lead to basically the shows becoming even more irrelevant as much of the talk around a show and reviews and such are from pirates.

[–] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Like the article says, im someone whos been out of the game for a while, but definitely interested in how this has been going

One commonly used app is legal but can, through community add-ons, channel illicit streams.

Anyone care to enlighten me? DM is fine if youd prefer

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know, but i use stremio plus real debrid. I had to grab the torrentio add on to do it so it kind of fits the bill.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This.

Side note: I find it hilarious that we're paying for piracy. Gabe was right, it's a service issue.

[–] kolorafa@szmer.info 1 points 6 days ago

Correct, It is not a price issue, for me (Linux user) I can pay for legal site and watch in shitty quality, or pay for "alternative" distributors which not only have better quality but also have more content.

And I pay for multiple more-or-less shady services, so in turn I pay more than some of my friends that use only one service and periodically switch to another.

I want a service that "just work", not shitty ones that I need to look for the content I want to watch on multiple services and even then get idiotic region locked or ass quality.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

"Community Add-ons" leads me to think this is probably Kodi. You can generally do IPTV streaming through it, or torrent streaming even.