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.
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.
~~~
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"!