Pirate Site Visits Dip to 216 Billion a Year, But Manga Piracy is Booming (torrentfreak.com)

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Fresh data for 2024 reveals that while overall pirate site traffic dipped to 216 billion visits, the landscape is shifting dramatically. Publishing piracy is booming, largely driven by an insatiable global demand for manga. In stark contrast, both music and film piracy have tanked. Despite these changes, the United States remains the top traffic source for pirate sites.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

There haven't been many good movies lately. It's been 3 years since there was one good enough for me to watch in a theater. Hollywood has just been producing large volumes of low quality crap lately.

Most of the music I listen to is from the 70's through the 90's. I already have just about everything I want to listen to.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

There's been lots of great movies lately, they've just drowned in the massive marketing budgets of copy pasta bullshit sequels.

What I do instead is mostly rely on specific directors that I know produce high quality content like Guy Ritchie, Wes Anderson, and Christopher Nolan (especially work done together with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, but IIRC Jonathan mostly focused on series like Westworld and Fallout after Interstellar).

Another thing to look for is A24 movies. They're quite unique and usually pushes the limits with story telling. Their older stuff, while great, might though not be everyone's cup of tea but it seems like they're trying to mellow it a bit out lately to cater to a larger audience.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Would you mind sharing which movie it was?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The last movie I watched in a theater was Top Gun Maverick.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Not judging your tastes, as I personally enjoy this type of movie as well, but a basic-ass action flick sequel that is nothing but a thinly veiled military propaganda piece with the bare minimum amount of plot needed to glue together a bunch of cool action sequences is your bar for "good enough to see in theaters", yet you claim you haven't gone in 3 years because the new movies aren't any good anymore?

Something isn't adding up here...