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Re:New Game of Thrones episode appears in the wild by sprayk on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:39PM (#14930880)
I often find myself wanting to pirate when watching an official stream that just plain sucks. The worst is when I am forced to watch ads when I start and scrub, then the video fails for some reason shortly after starting (and watching the ad). I refresh the page, watch the ad, scrub to where I was watching, watch another ad, then it fails again a few more minutes in. Finding the pirated copy might be a PITA, but I at least will have a file on disk that I can do whatever I want with and there's no question whether I'll be able to watch all the way through.
Re:New Game of Thrones episode appears in the wild by rflrob on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:02PM (#14931076)
This is not my experience with HBO Go, however. There's one skippable "here's what else is on HBO" promo (I think it's skippable—usually I just queue it up while we're settling in to watch), then right into the show with no breaks. Is HBO Now different?
Re:New Game of Thrones episode appears in the wild by am1988 on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:17PM (#14931210)
It's the same obnoxious minute long ad before.

At least it's only HBO shows.

Re:New Game of Thrones episode appears in the wild by AznHisoka on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:58PM (#14931045)
Some shows either don't have English subtitles (or if they do, it's small, or is horribly displayed), which is a big reason why I want to pirate too.
Re:New Game of Thrones episode appears in the wild by tracker1 on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:48PM (#14931532)
I had something similar happen when I was watching a movie on an airline flight... I gave up after the third or fourth time it reset.