A curated list of warez and piracy links
How are films supposed to get funded if people get them for free?<p>The current status quo is that we have two methods of obtaining a film:<p><pre><code>  - Via file sharing. You have to wait for the whole film to finish downloading before you can watch it. This is inconvenient.
  
  - Via streaming services. You can watch a film before it&#x27;s finished downloading.
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The latter costs money, but is more convenient. While certainly some of that money goes towards bandwidth and infrastructure, some of it also goes towards paying the studios themselves. If sharing films were to stop being illegal, then the fixed overhead from paying the studios would go away, and the savings could be passed to users of streaming services. Illegal streaming services are not viable because they&#x27;re centralised and easy to crack down on. The conclusion is that obtaining films legally via streaming services remains the most convenient option only because copyright gets enforced.<p>So for people who say &quot;MAFIAA&quot; etc. What is your model for how films should get funded?<p>[edit] It&#x27;s interesting that this is getting so many downvotes, even though it&#x27;s asking a question and the premises are currently true. As other commenters have pointed out, BitTorrent downloads a file in random order and not from beginning to end, and this is less convenient than streaming.<p>[edit] Even if you can configure your client to download a file in a non-random order, this will still have some trade-offs. I suppose though that this might be less of an issue than I thought. ;) I still think you&#x27;re a bunch of entitled nobodies and freeloaders tho. (My sympathies to the people battling streaming service fragmentation and region locks).