Streaming is enshittifiying fast, with content fragmentation, and crackdowns on VPN usage and account sharing. People will start to migrate back to good old piracy, just because it's more convenient again.
GP was talking about pirate streaming, not paid legit streaming services.
They're referring to pirate tube sites.
Those who don't want to be dependent on the whims of a conglomerate and would like to actually possess the data files.
That's not exactly a widely held viewpoint by the younger generation. Besides, it's not like the offshore streaming sites are engaging in revisionism or dropping shows to subscribing reasons.
Not everyone knows about alternatives to streaming. For the daily 10000 (xkcd for reference), that's all they know. It's up to "us" to show them there are alternatives.
The "streaming" referred to here referred to pirate sites a la Fmovies or Couchtuner. They're not quite as front and center as they were before Google decided to be the Internet police but there's always foreign search engines to light the way.
I looked at FMovies, it's all like VHS 320x240 quality streams, with rare 720p exceptions.
On the Frontpage for me the only camrips are polite society and guardians 3,and both of those will be updated pretty soon I'd bet.
Yeah I do torrent sometimes (if the streaming sites have too low bitrate) but mostly I just use whatever FMHY links to.
torrent is usually available a few hours before streaming sites and you can get higher quality, so a bunch of people are still using them