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[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If there was a paid service that let me stream shit with the same variety and ease as torrentio then I would pay for it in a heartbeat. But to get almost the same variety I would need to buy every streaming service and even if I did that it would be a pain in the ass to manage every streaming service. The media corps did this to themselves.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

If there was a paid service that allowed me to download a file instead of having to buy a Blu-ray and rip it myself or be DRM attached to Amazon or something, I'd buy my movies for the higher quality than whatever odd torrent I find. The movie industry needs to do what steam has done. Make it more convenient to do it legally and people that have money will pay instead of stealing.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

The movie industry needs to do what steam has done. Make it more convenient to do it legally and people that have money will pay instead of stealing.

They had that. It was called Netflix. Then they got greedy and everyone decided to have their own Netflix. Now piracy has gone up.

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

And have fun with regional licensing. Subittles only in German sorry. Audi only in German sorry. This title is only available in USA. This title is only available until midnight.

And you would still need to pay extra to watch the newest or older titles even if you subscribed to every service, and there are plenty of movies that just aren’t available regardless of which service you subscribe to.

It’s all enshittified.