Still have to be careful with some of those programs. The “stream”, but i think it still pulls for torrents which may appear as downloads to the internet provider.
I thought streaming was supposed to save money
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Stremio with a vpn for $3-$10 a month and you can even get the app on your smart TV.
Been with DIRECTV stream since day 1 with the $35 Att tv now too good to be true no price increase go big plan. Plan has nearly tripled since. It is convenient to have tv wherever though, and I don’t think cable lets you have access to all channels while on the go.
You should cancel Paramount and sign up through your Amazon. The subscription is cheaper and the app is way better. I signed up and it's a $1 or 2 cheaper starting out, but they you go to cancel and they'll offer you to keep it for $4.99 a month, same with AMC+, Peacock, etc. Then you only have one app to use also so the movies are consolidated better.
Sling is the best deal based on cost per channel. Pluto TV and Tubi are excellent free apps that i use. Philo is also good if you don't care about news channels. It's only like $25 per month.
You can go the IPTV route, but they are sketchy. Most are unreliable and always getting shut down every few days.
There were guys selling at the company I work for but thing was upper management was buying from them.
Everybody loves a deal
Even if you are 100% spot on it's kind of a lost cause.
Majority is going to side with RR's point of view and you probably won't live long enough to reap any financial benefits from an " anti piracy campaign"
Most people just don't GAF so if someone has copy of the new Mad Max for $5 I say knock you yourself out
Mine rarely ever buffers.. If does I'll switch between 5 ghz and 2.4 and one of them usually fixes it,, may actually not but in my head it does.. Its all I've watched live sports on for years..
It’s probably been 20 years ago now, but there was a guy at work who was fired for that, but he was selling them out of his office during working hours. It probably wouldn’t have mattered if he’d been selling homemade cupcakes. My employer was pretty easy to work for, but operating a side business while you were on the clock was a no-no.
Argh, me matey. I see plenty of ye scallywags flying the Jolly Roger. Ter no law on the high seas! Sail on!
Actually if I watch a Tom Cruise movie for free instead of renting it I might be costing Tom and the movie company 1/1000 of a penny each but in reality I am not making that choice. The movie has no real value to
me and I'm making a choice of whether to watch the movie for free or not watch at all. Either way they make
the same amount of money off me...nothing. I'm paying $85 per month for my internet when folks in other developed countries pay far less because their government puts limits on what they can charge when ours
says "soak them for all you can get". All these American companies are selling cheaper to non-Americans
and gouging Americans so I'm not at all worried about their profits.
Louisville media box. He’s being sued but I think he’s still selling them. Basically he just puts Kodi on an android box, but if you don’t know what that means, it’s tricky to do it yourself
I used to be a huge pirate. I stopped when Netflix had all the content I wanted for cheap, so why bother with the hassle?
Recently I canceled Netflix after 12 years. Seeing if my private tracker still exists…
Yeah. Especially kodi. I use a vpn with Kodi(unknown source repos). But I've never heard of any issues with the stand alone apps.
That's not what i said. Just saying the laws exist. My isp "flagged" me the one time I downloaded a movie, without using a vpn, via torrent. But never heard of anyone getting arrested.
Edit: it's also possible an isp will cancel your account if you're flagged too many times. Never heard of that happening either. Still...never know. So downloading, I'd use a vpn. Streaming? Never been flagged for it with or without a vpn.
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FWIW, if you have Verizon you can bundle Netflix and HBO Max for just $10 a month. I was paying over $20 a month on Netflix alone, until I recently upgraded my phone and the agent told me that I could bundle them and other streaming services through them. It was a lot cheaper and is added to my monthly cell phone bill.
You can also bundle the other services like ESPN+,Hulu and Disney+ through Verizon for a significant discount.
You can also bundle the other services like ESPN+,Hulu and Disney+ through Verizon for a significant discount.
His question was serious and he got some good and serious answers; yours was not one of them...
It did save you money until all the studios decided they wanted a bigger piece of the pie and created their own streaming services to house their money making content.
But also nothing is forcing you to stay subscribed to all of them every single month.
But also nothing is forcing you to stay subscribed to all of them every single month.
Sorry.
The answer is yes. He’s doing multiple things wrong.
If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing.
My mom lives a mile from me and has had it for the past 2 or 3 months and has no issues. I've also seen no issues when at her house. The problem they advertise against it is that walls cause issues. I think I solved that potential problem.
I connected a decent wifi router to her modem and haven't seen any issues. I have a much better wifi router on my system. I figure the wifi router penetrates the walls much better. As long as the T-Mobile modem gets a good signal, there's no problems.
There's a tower between our houses and might belong to T-Mobile with our signal being so good. I just ran a speed test and got 348 mbps down and like 8.6 up with a 20 ping. Ran it with Spectrum and got almost identical numbers. So $30+ more a month for the same thing doesn't seem worth it.
Direct TV is your issue there. $70 for YouTube TV or Sling TV ($55).
Also, do you need all of those? The idea of streaming is to pick and choose from a buffet. It looks like you chose the buffet as a whole.
This. You're getting more channels(plus locals)/sports channels with youtube tv vs directv base package for around the same price.
Use Real Debrid with it and it will solve a majority of buffering problems and available streams with movies and shows. I use it for my Cinema HD and Crew add on with Kodi and works great. It’s pretty cheap, about $9 for 3 months, but you can get longer or shorter terms.
I have a free real debrid account. Never tried premium. Does it make a difference with iptv channels in kodi?
Edit: I have the crew addon. Lots of iptv streams. some of them work well, but buffering is an issue.
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I do the ole Hulu/ESPN+/Disney+ thing plus Netflix and off and on the others to binge somethings for a month then stop til the next year. and its getting up there to around 100$ a month but still not the 130$ i was paying with Direct tv back in 2014
after the NCAAT ended I paused Hulu and will pay for it again when Football season starts.
after the NCAAT ended I paused Hulu and will pay for it again when Football season starts.
I had a buddy at WKU in the early 2000s who was running a giant P2P server in his dorm room of pirated movies, TV shows, music and porn. He got “caught” by the MPAA and ratted out by WKU. Received threatening letters from the MPAA and the university. He shut down his server voluntarily and nothing else came of it.
He was downloading and uploading multiple TBs a day using a T3 dorm server. We were all dialup era kids and went wild with the pirating after our first taste of broadband. Lol
All of those stories come out of the early 2000s lol. Nowadays you just get a letter from the ISP maybe.
Now that I recall they were using an app called Stream Killer to get around something like that.
Even then, the most punishment most offenders got was “stop doing that, please.”
I would imagine pursuing pirates in 2024, especially those watching a livestream they won’t be keeping on their own machines, is a massive waste of time and resources.
I have the Crew add in as well. I usually start with Cinema just because I like the interface if I’m looking for a movie to watch, since it has more of a preview than Crew. However if I’m searching for a specific movie or show, I may start with Cinema and switch over to Crew if I can’t find it there.
