• Hazzia@infosec.pubEnglish
    32·
    4 months ago

    It’s something we should do to show our respect to creators

    Yeah pretty based

    and content producers

    • lazycatEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      That text is included in every site that was shut down. All I can do is speculate, but I think the site owners were forced to write that. It’s unlikely that every pirate site owner suddenly had a change of heart in regards to piracy.

    • fin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      If there will be a service for paying the creators directly, will you pay for that?

      • Hazzia@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Probably. Unless they’re only using that as a hook where there are still other forces not directly involved in the creative/hosting process that are taking 90% of the profits.

        EDIT: just realized you’re probably talking about stuff like patreon where you actually just pay the creators, in which case, absolutely! I’ve got a number of patreons I’m actively supporting

          • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netEnglish
            28·
            4 months ago

            That sounds like a very strange model comparing to how empowering and decentralized real torrenting is.

            There even us btfs which allows to mount filesystems over bittorrent and access on demand.

            And I am sure that bittorrent over Javascript on a Website would be possible.

            Like Snowflake runs as a browser extension and people connect over WebRTC

            • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              17·
              4 months ago

              Pirate websites like this usually rely on the shadier ad networks baked into these kinds of video streaming sites to make their money.

              There’s no financial incentive to use BitTorrent based streaming, and if they did I feel the torrents would die rapidly just due to the amount of leechers with barely any seeders to offset the ratio disparity (Unless some kind of webseed was available ?)

              • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netEnglish
                12·
                4 months ago

                I mean it is likely also safer as it is encrypted?

                Using a VPN service and installing qBittorrent is pretty easy though

                • Hazzia@infosec.pubEnglish
                  7·
                  4 months ago

                  If there’s one thing I’ve learned working in IT, it’s to not underestimate people’s inability to grasp even to most simple of technical tasks.

                • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  2·
                  4 months ago

                  You won’t get caught torrenting. This has nothing to do with encryption. You are at the mercy of the site owner, who has a lot of server bills and can make money by putting viruses on your computer.