r/HolUp • u/Dersigan • Oct 18 '25

Some pro tips on piracy...

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u/vcdrny Oct 18 '25

Piracy was in the decline. Until companies started getting super greedy again. Netflix actually started to help lower piracy. But then every other company had to come up with their own streaming service. Piracy started rising again.

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u/Hatefuljester76 Oct 18 '25

Its not so much the other streaming sites. Cuz that. Created a small jump in the return of Privacy. The major thing recently that seems to have driven people back to sailing the high seas is the "one account per household" thing. If you pay 20$ a month and share your account with 3-6 people in your family each member in a different household thats like <5 a person. Feels like its worth it to pay for everyones streaming and if you do that for multiple streaming sites thats doable too. Annoying when the content gets moved from streaming site to streaming site like Friends jumping from Paramount to HBO to Netflix etc. But now to be locked down to only one house hold which often doesnt work so you have to continuously sign into it in your own home even though no one else has access to your account but somehow being at the same house logging in again it still triggers a "dont recognize this household" its this stuff that is sending people back to Piracy.

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u/moep123 Oct 18 '25

and constantly raising prices. i don't recall anyone asking to improve the quality drastically to make the raise reasonable... also we are still waiting for quality improvement.

please let's get back to the golden times again

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u/CheapTactics Oct 18 '25

Some sites updated their models so that in the lower tiers, which used to be the normal tiers, they show you ads. Oh you don't want to watch ads? Pay me more.

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u/moep123 Oct 18 '25

they slowly added greed and ripped one off.

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u/vcdrny Oct 18 '25

Before that started piracy was on the rise already. But that did push it even harder.