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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
(www.theguardian.com)
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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.
Like the article says, im someone whos been out of the game for a while, but definitely interested in how this has been going
Anyone care to enlighten me? DM is fine if youd prefer
"Community Add-ons" leads me to think this is probably Kodi. You can generally do IPTV streaming through it, or torrent streaming even.
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.
This.
Side note: I find it hilarious that we're paying for piracy. Gabe was right, it's a service issue.