Let's have a thread about piracy. I think piracy is pretty

>>1555819
Why do people hate streaming when it's objectively the safest way to pirate media?

>>1555822
Quality. Intrusive ads. Garbage connections. There are plenty of valid reasons for not streaming.
Private trackers are extremely safe.

Also, seedboxes and VPNs exist. If you use them on public torrent trackers you aren't going to get a DMCA notice or anything.

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>>1555819
>Where do you get most of your media?
Only public sites. I hate the stress of dealing with the private trackers.
>DDL? Streaming?
Definitely prefer having it on my drive.
>Do any of you buy all/most of your media legitimately?
I buy stuff from small studios most of the time.

I don't really care to blog about being a hiki, so I'll just say that I still feel guilty for pirating, but it makes my life tolerable.

i use animebytes and have never had trouble keeping a ratio, but if i had a job i'd like to buy blurays of shows i liked to encourage the studios to make more. what sucks though, is that imported disks are an order of magnitude cheaper than japanese domestic ones so the american market will never matter but the domestic ones don't have subtitles. but, maybe that's a good thing too

Man, it would be a drag if I had to pay for all of my media. I just wouldn't consume it in the first place.
There is no way I could pay for all of that shit.

Private trackers all the way, they are the comfiest thing ever. A few clicks and you have the thing you want. No hassle.

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Private tracker for everything, anime, TV, film, music & books. I find a mix of torrenting/DDL is easier for mango though. I like owning physical media but I only own some of my favourites.

>>1555819
Private trackers, regional stuff, mix of public and private. I tend to go to public ones because I'm lazy.
Torrent master race, the laws in my country only punish you if you have bad taste (dling things from said country) or downloading the latest HBO show episode I'll never watch.
I don' buy stuff desu.

>Where do you get most of your media?
Anime: AnimeBytes, Nyaa
Manga: Nyaa, random DDL sites
Eroge: Anime-Sharing/girlcelly's blog, AnimeBytes, /jp/ archive/random /jp/ anons, AnimeBytes, Nyaa, random DDL sites
Music: SLSK
Books: Libgen
>Do you use public or private sites?
See above.
>DDL? Streaming?
DDL.

how does everyone in this thread have an animebytes account...

>>1555952
Step your game up fucking pleb.
t. AB TM

What is wrong with you faggots?
If you can't afford it, you don't deserve it.
Stop being criminals.

>>1555822
Not an expert on the topic, however, the general complaints are terrible video/audio quality with shitty encoding and constant bitrates, awful basic webplayers that don't give you any options or good rendering, often times garbage subtitles with terrible fonts, terrible sites with dreadful layouts riddled with annyoing ads and way too often superimposing watermarks on top of the videos.

It's just inferior and awful experience in almost any case, though it's probably possible for streaming to match the quality of downloading in the future, however, it doesn't seem like we're nowhere near there yet.

>>1555952
Super secret 4chan tracker invite club.

>>1556230
Nobody cares. Fuck off.