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OK but most of us probably get away with just the 1TB drive we might not have otherwise added to our current computer. I'm a life long pirate and honestly never knew about "indexer subscriptions" or that usenet was something you could pay for.

Your fiscal problem is data hoarding, not piracy.

Your commitment to making sure your favorite TV shows never disappear into the void of indefinitely buffering cloud rentals is commendable.

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It's not actually a problem, by any means. I live quite comfortably. The point I'm really trying to make here is that I would pay for things if it was convenient to do so. I'm already spending more money to do this myself, and if the industry was a bit better that money could be going to artists instead of hard drives.

I think the point being made by other people here still stands though. It's not piracy that costs you money. It's your desire to store/hoard huge amounts of data. Whether or not that's a problem is up to you, but if you deleted things after you watched them the costs would go down to nothing except 4the normal costs of running a computer.

I don't disagree with that point, you could probably find everything I've got on sketchy streaming sites if you spent enough time.

That's pretty much my method now a days.

Used to torrent a lot, but realized I'd forget what I actually had and ended up re-downloading a lot.

So now I just go on sketchy streaming sites. I have 2 that are good for movies/ty, 1 for animated content.

Maybe once a year something will go down and I'll find a new site, but it really is as easy as clicking through the first 10 links when googling "watch $movie online free" and picking the most reliable one.

In the extremely rare case I can't find something, I'll drop the 4 bucks or whatever on youtube movies or amazon prime. Probably only happens a few times a year.

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Unrelated to the discussion, but still HN worthy, is how interesting these sites are when they operate.

Websites will constantly lift not just content but entire pages from each other. A lot of the time they'll even just change a X.com to an X.biz and add a banner saying "THIS IS THE REAL X, UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS!".

What are they going to do, take legal action?

I'm also suspecting everyone sources their movies from a very small set of places.

I tried watching the movie Multiplicity on one of these sites, but every single site hosted the first 4 minutes 27-ish seconds of it, exact same cut. It makes sense content propagates out, likely by automation. Everysite is a race to get the most ad clicks before getting shutdown.

A very interesting "industry"!

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