I think overall that piracy is good.
It returns control over media, instead of being bound to specific platforms or stores.
It allows you to test things on your hardware, before committing to a purchase.
It makes it possible to recover old media that you physically lost.
It makes your media portable, able to copy it to a new device or hardware without being locked out.
It makes things sharable, able to give a copy to a friend to have them try it out.
But one thing I find difficult is just the sheer amount of things that exist nowadays.
I don’t know how you guys manage it, but I have more media on just my laptop (external drives and such excluded) than I could really enjoy in my lifetime. How to even make choice of what to watch, play, read, next?
I know, very much a first-world problem. But still, it boggles my mind.
Had a friend recently try to send me this “arr-stack” that automatically grabbed the top new movie/tv releases of every month. Since he heard I was “doing it the old way”.
When I told him the VAST majority of shit coming out isn’t stuff I’m interested in watching he tried to convince I could just blacklist those things…So almost everything your bot grabs? instead of just grabbing what I actually want?
You can actually select what you want to grab. I mean I use Sonarr and Radarr, and if I’m interested in something new I add it to the library, if all criteria are met (like quality, language, etc.), it queues the download. Pretty neat.