Yeah, def leave them alone for the most part.
The “show P2P links” option should only be used if you’ve set yourself up with a VPN, since that’s just straight streaming torrent files. I personally never use it, since it’s usually slow and laggy, and will look for the media on another source if necessary.
For the subtitles, there’s should def be other options to try in the same language, but sometimes for more obscure media you’ll have to adjust the timing on what subtitles are available.
This is when you put a small pebble under each of the tire valve caps and screw them down tight enough to depress the spring, open the valve, and let the air out all of the tires
The only good Lifehacker articles are old Lifehacker articles.
Well, an EU study a few years back found that online piracy has little affect on actual legal sales, except for newly released movies which took like a 4.4% knock on their box-office sales.
Games apparently see an increase in sales, with 100 illegal downloads spurring 24 additional legal transactions than would have otherwise occurred.
Here's a link to the study itself for anyone interested in getting into the weeds.
That said, I support studios/musicians/devs that I care about by buying their stuff.
I refuse to subscribe to the 10+ mainstream streaming services, though. I’m voting with my money, and the current streaming landscape is just as anti-consumer as cable TV was before it.
Idk that anyone in their right minds would ever call Big Mouth’s Elliot Birch “well-adjusted,” but he’s certainly different from classically idiotic Homer Simpson or unhinged Randy Marsh.
You guys are buying shows and movies?
Bocci!
Wow, this is totally out of left field, so excited
It’s “mind-bogglingly,” fyi, unless you’re using “mind-bottlingly” in an intentionally ironic way