Piracy never got anywhere close to dying. TV and movie piracy dropped a bit when there were decent streaming services though.
Lots of people got used to watching what they want, when they want it. Now that the streaming services have all enshittified, loads of people are turning to piracy because it provides better service.
In general I agree, but my understanding is that the pirate streams of live sporting events were cracked down on quite hard. There was definitely a dip at one point where the high quality SopCast and Ace Stream broadcasts that had become very popular for competitions like the Premier League (e.g. Bloodzeed) disappeared quite suddenly and weren’t replaced with anything comparable.
I get a stellar service from my mate’s Plex server that he doesn’t charge me to access. If there’s something I want, I request it through some automated service he has and within no time at all it’s ready to watch.
Piracy never got anywhere close to dying. TV and movie piracy dropped a bit when there were decent streaming services though.
Lots of people got used to watching what they want, when they want it. Now that the streaming services have all enshittified, loads of people are turning to piracy because it provides better service.
In general I agree, but my understanding is that the pirate streams of live sporting events were cracked down on quite hard. There was definitely a dip at one point where the high quality SopCast and Ace Stream broadcasts that had become very popular for competitions like the Premier League (e.g. Bloodzeed) disappeared quite suddenly and weren’t replaced with anything comparable.
True, good sport streams are a lot harder to find than they used to be.
I get a stellar service from my mate’s Plex server that he doesn’t charge me to access. If there’s something I want, I request it through some automated service he has and within no time at all it’s ready to watch.
Feels like there’s more to it than that. But yeah, we did believe the ads and want what we were promised.
They pretty much nailed it as far as I’m concerned.