Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It::Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest earnings call reveals Max shed 700,000 subscribers in the past three months, even as it made money. That might work for Wall Street, but what about viewers?

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    There are difficulties with pirating. I had friends over to watch the Singles Inferno 2 finale, but didn’t have Netflix so I torrented it. The download made it to 95% before stalling. The video player on my roku tv would move on to the next episode whenever it encountered a glitch, so it was unwatchable.

    I’m sure it works better for good shows, but if you want to watch trash, pirating isn’t as easy as it used to be.

    • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Pirating is way easier than it used to be, you just can’t expect torrents to be grabbed immediately. Modern setups like an *arr stack with a bunch of configured trackers (or even better, usenet) will find basically anything you want, trash included, with enough seeds to avoid stalls. The niche stuff might need to run for a day or two, but it’ll finish.