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01011 ( @01011@monero.town ) English32•1 year agoI still think it’s crazy that people prefer streaming to downloads.
UntitledQuitting ( @UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com ) English33•1 year agoI don’t have infinity storage space, and if the intention is to erase after watching then why not just stream on stremio?
I’m saying this as someone with 70TB usable storage in nas
matcha_addict ( @matcha_addict@lemy.lol ) English20•1 year agoHow are you complaining about having to delete with 70TB? I have 5 TB drive and I haven’t had to delete anything yet.
Download is usually higher quality, more customizable (subtitles, video player client, audio refinement, etc), and is more censorship proof model in the grand scheme.
UntitledQuitting ( @UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com ) English15•1 year agoI didn’t complain. And I don’t need to hoard anything that I’m not going to watch again.
I get all of what you’re describing with stremio/premiuimize. I watch 4K high bitrate HDR content flawlessly. All I do is open the app, select a stream and it plays.
Alfiegerner ( @Alfiegerner@lemm.ee ) English6•1 year agoSame, real debrid or premiumize on kodi makes downloading mostly unnecessary. Occasionally I get something a bit niche I need to hunt down on torrent or Usenet, very rarely.
Dumbkid ( @Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•1 year agoYeah been using real-debrid and kodi for almost a decade only thing I have issues with is foreign content. 99% of the time it’s super practical vs maintaining a library or buying storage. I also always stream 4k bluray remuxes which is not what I would want to store anyway
Alfiegerner ( @Alfiegerner@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year agoWhat add on do you use on kodi out of interest. I’ve been on Ezra for a couple of years.
Dumbkid ( @Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•1 year agoSeren, tried ezra before but still mainly just use seren
RachelRodent ( @WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•1 year agostremio is the perfect mix in my opinion. You can pick any torrent and it gets deleted after you finish watching
kratoz29 ( @kratoz29@lemm.ee ) English12•1 year agoWell, it is more convenient, but do you know what is even more convenient? Using a service that has all the catalogue of all paid streaming sites together, with no ads whatsoever, I’m talking about Stremio or Kodi along with a debrid account.
In a nutshell Stremio turned the hoarding me into a streaming guy.
partmussels ( @partmussels@feddit.nl ) English5•1 year agoJup, debrid is the way to go.
DaGeek247 ( @DaGeek247@fedia.io ) 32•1 year agoArticle notes this doesn’t account for VPNs.
yeehaw ( @cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ) English4•1 year agoHow is that relevant though? Are they only monitoring what’s occurring in Canada?
If it’s global, then it wouldn’t matter. BitTorrent traffic doesn’t care what IP it egresses out of.
DaGeek247 ( @DaGeek247@fedia.io ) 11•1 year agoIt’s not just limited to Canada, it’s limited to a single ISP in Canada posting their traffic stats.
leanleft ( @leanleft@lemmy.ml ) English19•1 year ago"New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that cloud storage, YouTube, and other apps have taken over. "
aCosmicWave ( @aCosmicWave@lemm.ee ) English12•1 year agoInformation wants to be fast and free. Corporations want information paywalled. It’s a fact that streaming is faster and more convenient than downloading and storing. Until we live in a society where anything is accessible to anyone at any time… both methods will need to exist, otherwise information will be lost.
RogueBanana ( @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ) English10•1 year agoOn an unrelated note, I fucked up and used my limited 1.5 tb data for the month in 2 weeks because of torrent and buying extension packs for the rest of the month. At least it probably helped someone else out there.
CouncilOfFriends ( @CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net ) English2•1 year agoWhen I moved into my otherwise shitty apartment, having Google Fiber was the selling point. Paying Comcast a monthly fee for unlimited bandwidth is something I vow never again to do.