It was this, it wasn’t just that more people were home more.

Covid didn’t make people pirate, the studios did. When it was just Netflix and it had everything and it was a reasonable price, piracy went down because Netflix was easier, affordable, and a “fair” price.

Then every studio started taking their stuff off Netflix so they could make their own streaming service, and all of a sudden the streaming world became a very expensive spiderweb of who makes what, what service is it on in my country, is every season on there if it’s a show, etc.

Then everyone just started raising prices like crazy so you’re paying significantly more every single year (sometimes multiple times a year), while giving you less content. It was a match made in heaven for piracy to explode once again.

People appreciated affordable, reasonably priced access to movies and content via Netflix. That was taken away. No surprise what happened next.

I don’t hide my opinions, clearly, you absolute pencil.

Communism/leftism has really done a number on you.

You’re acting like their CEOs political leaning makes any difference at all to the company. It doesn’t. All people like you are doing is making sure everyone just hides their opinions to fool numpties like yourself.

Run along and draw some swasticas on cars while calling yourself the good guys.

What on earth? Where did you get Zionist from? Lol

You’re talking about a community that supports piracy lol. Not exactly the moral compass you’re pretending they are.

“Racism is needed” - Asafum

Sorry friendo, but treating people differently based on their race is literally the textbook definition of racism. You’re saying that racism is needed to fight racism.

I’m sorry but treating people differently because of their race is the literal definition of racism.

You’d probably be surprised that the companies that spend the most money on advertising are the biggest and most successful companies on the planet.

They didn’t refuse to provide logs - they don’t have logs to provide.

Who knew pirates were such babies they can’t use a product simply because the ceo has differing political views. Insane.

That……confirms exactly what I said lol.

Someone else’s VPS……custom software that combines existing software……

How so?

You’re wanting to take the thing that people use precisely because they don’t want to pay anything and trying to make it not only paid, but a subscription service…….not for me but hey I’m always down to see new things get made. Good luck.

Edit: reading your other comments it seems like you’re just selling VPS’s that you’ll be renting off someone else and marking up, and you’ll just run some software on it that will try to combine stuff that already exists and is easy to set up.

If you’re going to be doing torrenting a nice easy way to do it is with a docker image for torrenting software that has built in VPN functionality. I use a transmission docker image that I put my VPN credentials into and then all traffic from that container goes through the VPN.

For security, use docker for everything and open only the required ports. Use something like Tailscale or RustDesk to access the server, and limit access to only your IP address if possible.

You think no one has USB cables?

Put it on your website and it will end up on a torrent site if anyone wants it.

Private Internet Access. Been using it for probably 10 years at this point, never had a single issue. Their “no logging” claim has been tested successfully in court.

Does it count as tracking though? What private or personal data is it? I’d also say that it’s at the very least grey area since all they’re doing is trying to prevent people from using their service in unintended ways, ie without ads.

Their obvious solution to this is make you consent to it or you can’t use YouTube.