Sometimes I’m just too lazy for torrenting because downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off. Whenever I give chance to streaming it’s always low quality and sucks. I checked streaming links on reddit’s r/piracy, you know the wiki, year is 2025 and it’s still slow and sucks. Maybe I don’t know good sites. Can you link me up, and what do you think about streaming vs torrent way in general? Thanks guys.

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    Yeah I’ve tried it a couple times and don’t see the appeal. It’s like watching nothing but cam copies except half the time the files won’t load. I don’t understand how streaming became so popular.

    Also set up radarr and sonarr because it makes everything easy.

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      I don’t understand how streaming became so popular

      Have you ever found yourself using someone else’s PC for some reason and they’ve got 20 browser toolbars, 3 anti-viruses and no ad blocker, and they’ve just been using computers that way forever, thinking it’s perfectly normal?

      Yea, some people have extremely low standards.

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      It’s like watching nothing but cam copies except half the time the files won’t load.

      I dunno what sites you tried but this hasn’t been my experience, especially if I’m just going through whatever current season of show XYZ is running. Even recent movies don’t generally have cam quality unless you’re trying to watch them very close to the release date.

      Sometimes you get broken links or stop and start with load times and in those cases I’ll take the time to fire up TPB, but mostly it’s been no problem finding decent quality streams that load right away, and that’s been true for me for at least 15 years since using shit like icefilms back then.