The banning technology growing more sophisticated.
in australia, piracy used to just be the default that absolutely everybody openly used to get their media content, because new stuff always came a year or two late if at all, and was marked up ridiculously when it arrived (even if it was digital and didn't have the excuse of shipping costs). there was never any of this reddit-esque moralistic shaming of people who pirated because your mum and your boss and everyone else pirated too
that only really changed when netflix and steam and spotify etc made it more convenient and not crazily expensive to just open an app to get all your consolidated slop, and yeah everyone understood that the more dedicated folks would use a vpn to get around region restrictions to get more slop but hey they were still paying $15 a month or whatever
with this sort of shit and the fragmentation of media into a million separate streaming services that people are expected to subscribe to, i look forward to seeing australia return to the warm loving embrace of bittorrent
During my pirating hiatus, when you could have a sufficient amount of slop for a reasonable price (well I still pirated some, but a lot less), I ended up setting up a desktop PC that can conveniently double as a home media server. It's now running a Plex server and my pirating has been taken to a whole new level. I load up tons of new and old movies onto there just so me and my partner can have the fun of scrolling through actually good options on a netflix-like interface. I've started sharing it with friends who are tired of having 5 subscriptions, and so far it's been working great.
if i ever get free time i want to take one of my many old pcs and do a plex so bad. you make it sound so fucking awesome.
in their defense, its taken the government many years of repeated failures but its now legitimately tricky to access decent torrent sites in australia if you dont know what youre doing
but these young whippersnappers are good with the computers and the internets and whatnot, im sure theyll figure it out
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Not least because piracy actually lets you watch anything made before 2000.
Joke's on them, I've already banned Netflix by simply pirating it
I use a VPN with Netflix to watch shows in another language so I can get accurate subtitles, because they don't exist on English Netflix and they are hard to find elsewhere. Even with piracy these things are generally harder to find.
Can't even make good use of modern global communications because of capitalism.
They keep getting sold to shittier companies, I used to spend a lot of time there 😥
i don't even use a vpn and netflix only lets me watch originals; as always DRM measures end up stopping legitimate users more than pirates
Interesting that Netflix originals aren't blocked. Makes me think it's the copyright holders pissing and moaning for Netflix to block VPN's or they will pull their content.
Funny, my torrent tracker hasn't banned me or my VPN:thinkin-lenin:
For about the same price of a fancy VPN subscription you can get your own VPS.
I personally go with cheapo vpn and sing seafaring bandit songs with shots of rum if there's something on Netflix, Amazon prime, whatever, that catches me eye.
Just have a friend in another country dead drop a pi somewhere with public internet and install wire guard on it. Then you do the same for them
