The real winner of the streaming wars.

  • shortrounddev@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I was perfectly happy with streaming services for a couple years when there were only like 2 good ones. I stopped torrenting for a long time and now I’m back to torrenting again

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      7 hours ago

      Do you use a VPN? I downloaded a random movie a few years ago and got the email from my cable company stating something along the lines of “we recently notice a download of blah blah blah was detected on our network. Please call to re activate your Internet”. So I called and told them “I just got my son a computer I didn’t know you could download movies”

      But laying for a VPN will cost as much as a streaming service and it’s so slow. And I guarantee sooner or later VPNs won’t even work in a few years (meaning your ip could be backtracked to the original computer)

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        6 hours ago

        The best, most reputable VPN, Mullvad costs $5 USD. Plenty are cheaper than that if you pay in advance for a few years.

        The cheapest streaming service will roughly double that.

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            5 hours ago

            When I had Mulkvad my speed test would go from about 335mbit to like 327mbit when connected to a somewhat close server.

            Connected to servers across the ocean it’d be like 310.

            They got a money-back guarantee if you don’t pay with something completely anonymous like cash in the mail.