Ten years ago BitTorrent was 1/3+ of internet traffic. And that was back when the average consumer connection's Mbps were in the double digits and hard drives cost so much more.
Now the only thing people are torrenting anymore is shitty cams of movies in theaters (because that's the only sector of the media industry that still artificially restricts their content).
At this point it's easier to get content legally—with instant gratification by streaming, too. No one wants to do the extra work of uploading torrents, seeding, breaking DRM, etc. when it's just to avoid a $5-$10/month subscription fee.
It's the end of an era.
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Anonymous2018-05-15 21:05
Spotify is really retarded. It feels like a stepback of about 10 years, I don't know what's the appeal of that.
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Anonymous2018-05-16 4:12
>>2 people really like streaming. not sure any other way to put it.
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Anonymous2018-05-16 6:49
I just listen to random music from youtube AMVs and videogame OST lists. >tfw paying for music and even for streaming
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Anonymous2018-05-16 21:31
remember when people were complaining about piracy and how providing affordable and easy to use streaming options would help the industry? well, it worked lol
How did it "help the industry"? It didn't, so just admit that.
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Anonymous2018-05-16 22:00
I just signed up for Apple Music. Fuck it. I'm joining the 21st century.
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Anonymous2018-05-16 23:25
I just bought winrar lol
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Anonymous2018-05-17 2:15
>>6 He's saying streaming helped the industry, not piracy. RIAA members have had their revenues and profits rise for the last few years, and are almost back to where they were in the late 1990s (not taking inflation into account, of course).
Torrenting is actually much better than it used to be. Private trackers are ramping it up, and there are less normies in the communities.
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Anonymous2018-05-26 1:55
>>25 I don't want to "reach 1.0 seed ratio", have a daily updated list of IPs to block(from copyright entities) and wait weeks to download from slow peers. The age of torrent is over. (unless you use I2p or some exotic darknet to seed/leech, its also incredibly unsafe and public)
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Anonymous2018-05-26 3:54
>>25 Private trackers are the cancer that are killing torrenting.
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Anonymous2018-05-26 4:02
>>27 Private trackers aren't that private, once a mole joins in, all your IPs are public.
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Anonymous2018-05-26 12:49
>>26 If you're doing that much work for fucking torrents, you've always been doing it wrong. >>27 Sour grapes.