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Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money (torrentfreak.com)

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A new survey from Norway reveals that 50% of young people under 30 believe that pirating content is an acceptable way to save money. The survey, conducted by Ipsos, highlights that the high cost of streaming services is a key driver behind this attitude. Links between piracy and organized crime or malware, appear to be of less concern.

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[-] remon@ani.social 14 points 3 hours ago

You guys are saving money?

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

Yep, roughly $400 a week.

I run lean, dude. You don't want my life.

If it's about the hobby, the low end is what an old laptop and a crap hard drive? Cycle out new releases as they come and go.

I could set someone up with Jellyfin and a full arr suite for $50.

[-] remon@ani.social 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

Yep, roughly $400 a week.

Huh? How? Were you subscribed to every single streaming service that existed?

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

It saves a lot of money for each subscription service you can skip.

I only had to buy a VPN and a cheap mini PC as a server. And then a 1tb SSD. Then I needed to buy another 2tb. And then I had to run Ethernet upstairs for it since the WiFi card couldn't keep up. Then I had to upgrade the router to support the new gigabit cabling...

Eh, well, at least I get to keep something out of it.

[-] remon@ani.social 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I'm going for a bit more storage, currently sitting at 108TB. The price of my home server could pay for around 75 years of Netflix.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Selection is probably better though

[-] remon@ani.social 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

Selection is probably better though

You mean at Netflix? Maybe, but only temporarily. If I'm missing a piece of media I want I'll simply download it and add it to my server. And contrary to Netflix once it's on my server it'll stay there.

[-] Grippler@feddit.dk 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If you only leech and you're not a hoarder, it really doesn't require much. For most people there's not really any need to store every single piece of media they've ever consumed or hope to consume...some day...maybe. Or setup tools to automate their uncontrollable hoarding.