Why Do People Pirate ?

[FourCorners 9]

Corporate greed 

Broken apps

Ads on paid subscriptions

 

Anyone else care to chime in 

[FourCorners 9]

Hard to believe in 2026 that these big million and billion dollar companies still waste money on clowns that can't build an app when all they need to do is sell api keys. If they sold api keys per month they would save millions & millions and gain billions.

If I had a disney api to put in emby I would be happy as can be

[arrbee99 1849]

Don't forget the whole 'you paid for it but you don't own it' scheme.

[Q-Droid 1044]

It's the outfit, most definitely.

 

[FourCorners 9]

1 hour ago, arrbee99 said:

Don't forget the whole 'you paid for it but you don't own it' scheme.

Agreed and is the reason I spent my last cent on hard drives so I own it on a hard drive. I buy 100 packs on ebay for $30 copy them to puter then resell them. I bought 40 tv series on ebay for $13 copied them all resold the dvds. If I had an api I would have no reason to buy or copy anything but the greed continues.

[FourCorners 9]

No one said this yet but pirating is actually easier than signing up for a subscription, we need API keys this will be the winner for the company that does this so we can enter an API key into emby and have a one stop shop.

[arrbee99 1849]

While I should, as a mere user, point out that neither Emby nor its users would ever condone marauding the high seas of piracy, I imagine a one stop shop would be quite popular.

[FourCorners 9]

3 minutes ago, arrbee99 said:

While I should, as a mere user, point out that neither Emby nor its users would ever condone marauding the high seas of piracy, I imagine a one stop shop would be quite popular.

I said API key from the companies.

[arrbee99 1849]

Understood.

[speechles 2101]

Usenet and binary newsgroups are awesome. I agree. Prone to DMCA takedowns. Spools might have missing pieces. Might not have enough Par2 recovery blocks. Then you REQ and they will post. I remember those days well.

But we cannot really delve into details and specifics here. We need to keep on the saner side and while it does exist not make it easier for those who do it to find it easier by reading these forums. Those who want to need to figure it out on their own. We aren't giving out maps and directions to our buried treasures. No sir.

In the 1600s, people became pirates for physical survival, economic profit, and anti-imperial power struggles, often stealing tangible goods like gold, sugar, and spices. Conversely, software piracy today is primarily driven by avoiding the high costs of digital goods, bypassing restrictive licensing, or accessing geo-blocked media without physical risk.

We'll brave the squalls and we'll bust your balls. Somalian Pirates, we!

Edited Monday at 03:28 AM by speechles

[seanbuff 1386]

@FourCornersthere are plenty of more appropriate places to discuss this topic out on the interwebs.

This forum is not one of them, thanks.

[One2Go 124]

The question has often popped up why is IPTV so popular and the common consensus is that everything is in one place, navigation to find what you want dead easy because the UI interface was designed by competent coders. But since live TV is basically dead except for sports we all navigate what we want in our own ways. For the World Cup Fox's pundits and coverage is terrible compared to ITVX or even the BBC who never send someone to the US. Will I reward Fox for their dismal coverage of the World Cup? Don't think so.

[FourCorners 9]

On 7/13/2026 at 3:30 AM, seanbuff said:

@FourCornersthere are plenty of more appropriate places to discuss this topic out on the interwebs.

This forum is not one of them, thanks.

I understand, I'm just a silly nerd in a basement 

[FourCorners 9]

On 7/13/2026 at 12:25 AM, speechles said:

Usenet and binary newsgroups are awesome. I agree. Prone to DMCA takedowns. Spools might have missing pieces. Might not have enough Par2 recovery blocks. Then you REQ and they will post. I remember those days well.

But we cannot really delve into details and specifics here. We need to keep on the saner side and while it does exist not make it easier for those who do it to find it easier by reading these forums. Those who want to need to figure it out on their own. We aren't giving out maps and directions to our buried treasures. No sir.

In the 1600s, people became pirates for physical survival, economic profit, and anti-imperial power struggles, often stealing tangible goods like gold, sugar, and spices. Conversely, software piracy today is primarily driven by avoiding the high costs of digital goods, bypassing restrictive licensing, or accessing geo-blocked media without physical risk.

We'll brave the squalls and we'll bust your balls. Somalian Pirates, we!

I decided to cancel all my newsgroup accounts it costs too much, I like to copy from dvd blueray the quality is that way always better and ebay always has good deals for dvd's in 100 packs. I just hope they don't stop making dvd's and turn everything into streaming only so we can no longer copy from disk 

[FourCorners 9]

21 hours ago, One2Go said:

The question has often popped up why is IPTV so popular and the common consensus is that everything is in one place, navigation to find what you want dead easy because the UI interface was designed by competent coders. But since live TV is basically dead except for sports we all navigate what we want in our own ways. For the World Cup Fox's pundits and coverage is terrible compared to ITVX or even the BBC who never send someone to the US. Will I reward Fox for their dismal coverage of the World Cup? Don't think so.

I just like watching the news, years ago when I had lots of live channels I would have each channel on a different subscription so for people on my server they never got the nag screen about too many users on one subscription had like 120 channels or so. Now I don't have many channels nor do I even like live channels except the news is about all and I just record everything anyway so I can skip over the ads which I hate. Now that emby recordings work flawless I was able to delete tivimate unless I get bored tinkering with crap or something. 

[One2Go 124]

On 7/14/2026 at 2:45 PM, FourCorners said:

I just like watching the news, years ago when I had lots of live channels I would have each channel on a different subscription so for people on my server they never got the nag screen about too many users on one subscription had like 120 channels or so. Now I don't have many channels nor do I even like live channels except the news is about all and I just record everything anyway so I can skip over the ads which I hate. Now that emby recordings work flawless I was able to delete tivimate unless I get bored tinkering with crap or something. 

Not recording a single channel or other content provider. I use a website like pogdesign and mark the TV shows I want to watch and then go about either watching them or getting them. All the content available for free has ZERO advertisements. Live sports that I watch like Soccer, F1, Rugby have no commercials. In addition they have VOD so again no need to record. I have a total of 46TB of video content on 2 Unraid servers that I rarely touch these days. The routine for watching has changed for me and many others yet Emby still plays an important roll. For the WAF the BBC "Great British Sewing Bee" just started with season 12 and that is for Emby.

Usenet is too expensive, really? You must have missed when Newshosting / Easynews ran a massive 2025 Black Friday promotion offering 15 months of unlimited Usenet for around $25 which you could add to existing subscriptions. Add to that a decent NZB indexing site and you are set. Waiting for the 2026 BF deals. 

Edited 17 hours ago by One2Go

[FourCorners 9]

Meh, I just get bored of things easy and I tried every single indexer and almost all of the servers for downloading I'm just bored of it. I like using makemkv and copy from dvd is more fun imo and you get good quality.

[One2Go 124]

Good quality from DVD is an oxymoron! The only thing that I still have in 480 or 576 is content that doesn't exist in any other format. Optical media is dead and has no future in today's landscape. Your statement of "every single indexer and almost all of the servers for downloading" plus you joining on July 9th sounds to me that you are more interested in starting a controversy rather then being a serious member in the Emby community. Hope you get a handle on your boredom.

[FourCorners 9]

1 hour ago, One2Go said:

Good quality from DVD is an oxymoron! The only thing that I still have in 480 or 576 is content that doesn't exist in any other format. Optical media is dead and has no future in today's landscape. Your statement of "every single indexer and almost all of the servers for downloading" plus you joining on July 9th sounds to me that you are more interested in starting a controversy rather then being a serious member in the Emby community. Hope you get a handle on your boredom.

Thanks for the info 

[arrbee99 1849]

I don't wish to nitpick, but while DVD's should be dead, you really can't beat a 4K disc.

[FourCorners 9]

35 minutes ago, arrbee99 said:

I don't wish to nitpick, but while DVD's should be dead, you really can't beat a 4K disc.

I agree and it's the reason I got more hard drives while some people like newsgroups I like to copy 4k discs to my computer even though the file size is big the quality is good and emby plays them perfectly. I think eventually they may stop making dvd's but I hope they don't.