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I have a Netflix account and I still torrent the content because unless I use edge I don’t get greater than 720p.

I torrent a lot of games because 2 hours (steam refund) is a very narrow window for a lot of games. The reality is 90% of them I don’t end up meshing with. The ones that I do, I buy.

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Netflix streams in 4k but you have to pay $4 extra for premium or whatever.

On Linux, there is no way to watch Netflix in 4k irrespective of the plan.

Yeah, and all because stupid DRM. Easier to torrent than to watch officially

4k is in the most expensive (4 screens) plan. If you only have 1 tv, that's 2 steps up (going to 2 screens for full hd, and 4 screens for 4k)

Even then, I don't believe they stream 4k to browsers. They only stream to devices like smart tvs or official Netflix apps with high quality. Your average browser is limited to 720p. This is the quintessential "pirating is better" example.

It’s so often a services problem. I honestly probably wouldn’t pay if it weren’t a family shared account, but my parents use it and they don’t know or care about the video quality like that.

I also just prefer the video player of my choice.

Paying customers should never have a worse experience than pirating customers. I think this is a huge reason for the success of music streaming. Less so for video streaming now with the huge fragmentation.

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