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[–] [email protected] 266 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (47 children)

Remember, streaming only has a business model as long as it has a better user experience than piracy. That's why iTunes took off in the era of Napster. When a streaming service's user experience drops below that of digging up pirate treasure off a shitty ad-ridden torrent site, that service is not long for the world.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (31 children)

I cancelled Netflix and prime and went back to piracy a few months ago, it's been a nice blast from the past

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m just always spooked by viruses and shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Use yts.mx, if you use any other site, try checking comments first if they have them, if not you can use torrent file viewer to check the download is actually a video file before downloading

Lastly you could try anti virus, but don't rely on it to do your job for you, they can catch most but not always all viruses

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

You can't get a virus from a video or music file. Viruses have to be executable.

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