After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians ready to return to piracy

Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by WA on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @05:39AM (#11578929)

Exactly. They try to sell you their HBO Whatever thing, which isn't even available outside of the US. The amount of revenue lost because of the unnecessary complex process is mind-boggling.

Also: It's not that piracy is without hassles. The piracy-process could easily be outperformed by making it as simple as payment button in front of a media player or downloadable file.

Because when I want to download GoT as a torrent, I have to install a BitTorrent client, I have to go find the torrent files, I must look at ads for porn sites, I often must find the right download button in spammy-looking sites, I need to distinguish which file I actually want and see if it's a fake or not.

The piracy process is difficult enough for most people, but it's still so much easier than the process of watching the show legally.

I simply can't wrap my head around this.

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Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by xbmcuser on Friday April 29, 2016 @09:40AM (#11595616)

You don't really have to do that just setup something like sonarr. Select the shows you want the episodes are downloaded as released and you don't have to visit spammy sites etc. It will check and download all the correct files and rename them to a naming convention of your choice etc. Setting up an app like that once is a lot easier than going through the hassle of drm or georestrictions. Netflix used to boast that with them entering the market piracy went down but now with georestrictions they will go back up.

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