Pirates have known this for decades. Buy DRMed media means you can lose access to it at any time. And these subscription services that limit access for paid services e.g as soon as you travel, access to certain stuff is lost, sometimes the access to the entire service is lost. Additionally, for some reason, pirated stuff often has better quality than paid stuff - it's something I cannot fathom.

It was possible to get pirated 4k stuff as soon as it was released years ago, but most paid services couldn't provide that. The biggest reason being you couldn't buffer it. It only buffers a few seconds and then stops. Pirated stuff can be downloaded ahead of time and watched without buffering on a shit connection.

Fuck Netflix. What I hated most about them was they decided during the pandemic that too many people were watching stuff at 1080p, so they dropped the quality of streams to 720p. Lol. A great way to get people to pirate.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

Additionally, for some reason, pirated stuff often has better quality than paid stuff - it's something I cannot fathom.

Right!? This is the most baffling part to me. Random people with camcorders at theatres have better video quality than Netflix's garbage-tier 720p that we saw in this video.