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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by Fabricio20 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:51AM (#21004813)
Ever heard of Kodi? That's a set-top box OS but that also is an Android App.. Then watch some youtube videos on how to install the magic box addons and you have access to millions of movies for streaming.

As hendersoon noted, nowadays, piracy is extremely low-friction.

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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by scarface74 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @09:43AM (#21005330)
Two problems -- middle class households in the US are overwhelmingly iOS -- not Android and that still doesn't solve the problem of mobile and having to depend on cellular connectivity to stream. Disney+ and Netflix allow you to download shows.
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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by paulie_a on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:31PM (#21009802)
Middle class households are not overwhelming iOS. But even if that were true Kodi works on iOS and the streaming add-ons have an option to download it also.
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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by scarface74 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:37PM (#21009891)
Studies show otherwise:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhixon/2014/04/10/what-kind-...

https://gizmodo.com/want-to-appear-rich-buy-an-iphone-182743...

https://buildfire.com/ios-android-users/

Kodi is not available for non jailbroken ios devices.

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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by ybahubali2018 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:53AM (#21006645)
So, just pay for a good VPN provider and get all content for free?
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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by paulie_a on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:33PM (#21009823)
You don't really need a VPN if you turn off the addons torrent feature. Standard Kodi doesn't share unless you use an add-on with that feature
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