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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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Like the article says, im someone whos been out of the game for a while, but definitely interested in how this has been going
Anyone care to enlighten me? DM is fine if youd prefer
I don't know, but i use stremio plus real debrid. I had to grab the torrentio add on to do it so it kind of fits the bill.
This.
Side note: I find it hilarious that we're paying for piracy. Gabe was right, it's a service issue.
Correct, It is not a price issue, for me (Linux user) I can pay for legal site and watch in shitty quality, or pay for "alternative" distributors which not only have better quality but also have more content.
And I pay for multiple more-or-less shady services, so in turn I pay more than some of my friends that use only one service and periodically switch to another.
I want a service that "just work", not shitty ones that I need to look for the content I want to watch on multiple services and even then get idiotic region locked or ass quality.
"Community Add-ons" leads me to think this is probably Kodi. You can generally do IPTV streaming through it, or torrent streaming even.