• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I doubt it. Streaming sites like Fmovies are used almost entirely by technologically illiterate users. It’s for people who want to pirate, but don’t want to learn anything.

      These users are going to remain helpless until the next malware-laden streaming website enters their lives.

      They’re not about to install additional software to try to access anything, or at least not software like I2P or BitTorrent, because that would require effort and some amount of technical understanding to accomplish.

      This is like wondering why so many people still use Twitter two years into Elon’s hostile takeover. People will resign themselves to defeat if it saves them from having to learn anything new.

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    1 year ago

    That’s it folks, they got the big boss. Wrap it up and let’s go back to spending hundreds of dollars a month across dozens of platforms to not own any of the media we consume.

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    1 year ago

    This sounds a bit like declaring victory in the war on drugs after shutting down one (1) cocaine operation

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      Yes, I literally laughed aloud. The sheer arrogance in certainty projected is a dead giveaway.

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      I’ve head about private tackers forever, is it that much better than public? I have never really had an issue with public trackers ,but also never had an invite to a private one

      • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
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        IMO, yes. Just for the consistency of quality and absence of fuckery. Damn near any TV show/movie/documentary is on there in at least 1080p, usually in 4K for newer stuff. For music I use SoulSeek and for eBooks I use LibGen.

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    This is like the time the MPAA declared “victory” when they had all of the original Pirate Bay founders arrested. But Pirate Bay still continued because it was no longer ran by them.

    But you know, this is now the opportunity for people to let the MPA think they won. Just let them think so. If they think so, they’ll give a little less of a shit. If we keep screaming to the high heavens about piracy, this shit will just continue.

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    Cool,so we can defund the MPA now that their job is done.

    It is done, right?

    Right?

    • Dwemthy (he/him)@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      It’s not like it’s a government agency, it’s a film company group. Defund it by never paying for a movie and getting everyone everywhere to never pay for a movie

  • letsgo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Fmovies? Never heard of… wait, sorry, what I meant to say was OH NO!!! Not Fmovies!!! Guess I’m going to have to buy everything now!!!11!1

    Arr.