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Do you stream/torrent sport/movies?

  • 07-11-2014 9:04pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭


    With cheap movie and sport streaming options now online do you still stream/torrent?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    No, of course not.



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    I record all the movies on RTE on my VCR!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Ssshhhhh your not aloud talk about that naughty stuff on the internet!.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Yeah I try to watch sports events by climbing up a tall tree and watching the action with a set of binonoculars.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Joo0 wrote: »
    With cheap movie and sport streaming options now online do you still stream/torrent?

    Do you OP?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Oh no. I ain't falling for that!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Joo0 wrote: »
    With free movie and sport streaming options now online do you still stream/torrent?

    Ftfy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    Amazon instant video for the legal stuff. . .and other thingies for eh. . .the other stuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Yes, I stream the living fuck out of everything. I take particular pride in being able to stream live GAA abroad despite the GAA thinking they can charge me 14 god damn euros for the privilege.

    I won't apologise for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    No i am a law abiding citizen

    ^^^^^

    Above statement may or may not be true


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Frank O. Pinion


    Buying DVDs/Blu-rays costs money, Netflix costs money, "torrenting" movies is FREE...you do the math.

    I haven't paid for a movie in nearly 10 years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭Calibos


    What legal sports streaming?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭Squeedily Spooch


    TV yes, movies sometimes but I go to the cinema a lot so I've already paid to see it. Sports not so much, the Superbowl maybe or the odd UFC fight. Have netflix and use spotify/itunes for music so it's not all piracy.

    *Awaits high horse brigade telling us we're all filthy thieves*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,038 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I'm not paying ~€15 for two Sky Sports Day Passes just to watch one Grand Prix weekend. When the BBC aren't showing the full action from the weekend, of course I'm going to stream.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    No, I don't stream or torrent copyrighted content.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    I stream sports, and torrent movies/shows/games everyday!

    Come at me!

    I even downloaded a book once!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Yep, don't even have a TV sub anymore, no point in paying for Sky when I can download everything I want to watch, when I want to watch it.

    UPC 120gig internet, and in fairness, they do send down 17 free channels analogue which does the wife for the soaps and Jermey Kyle or whatever, but I can watch everything whenever I like.

    My brother has a Sky sub, and I use his SkyGo to watch football.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Joo0 wrote: »
    With cheap movie and sport streaming options now online do you still stream/torrent?

    Hi Garda McGettigan :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    keith16 wrote: »
    Yes, I stream the living fuck out of everything. I take particular pride in being able to stream live GAA abroad despite the GAA thinking they can charge me 14 god damn euros for the privilege.

    I won't apologise for it.

    This. The GAA always talk about promoting the game abroad but they don't make it very easy for us to watch it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Brego888


    keith16 wrote: »
    Yes, I stream the living fuck out of everything. I take particular pride in being able to stream live GAA abroad despite the GAA thinking they can charge me 14 god damn euros for the privilege.

    I won't apologise for it.

    Where are you streaming live gaa from?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Yep, don't even have a TV sub anymore, no point in paying for Sky when I can download everything I want to watch, when I want to watch it.

    UPC 120gig internet, and in fairness, they do send down 17 free channels analogue which does the wife for the soaps and Jermey Kyle or whatever, but I can watch everything whenever I like.

    My brother has a Sky sub, and I use his SkyGo to watch football.


    120 gig d/load cap or?...

    Jelly of the sky go also, used to do the same but they got rid of sky sports :'(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    I stream electricity up onto the grid for 60 cents a kW and but it back at 20 cents a kW so I can be even more in front when I torrent movies and the PayPerViews, Poker I stream from Pokerstars.TV

    You mean to tell me some people pay for things. Being a true Aussie I just get what I can for free.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Where are you streaming live gaa from?

    I get mine from RTE with a little help from a ghost


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Where are you streaming live gaa from?
    theteal wrote: »
    I get mine from RTE with a little help from a ghost

    Yeah, I use the friendly ghost too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 304 ✭✭Panda_Turtle


    keith16 wrote: »
    Yes, I stream the living fuck out of everything. I take particular pride in being able to stream live GAA abroad despite the GAA thinking they can charge me 14 god damn euros for the privilege.

    I won't apologise for it.

    Not really live, 30-40 seconds behind the satellite signal..you could get a text about a score thirty seconds before you see it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,050 ✭✭✭gazzer


    Torrents and Dreambox all the way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    I try to stick to Netflix but some things aren't on it or it can be slow to get updated.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Calibos wrote: »
    What legal sports streaming?

    Bein sports.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I try to stick to Netflix but some things aren't on it or it can be slow to get updated.

    And there is some amount of shyte there. I only subscribe to it so I can feel less guilty about streaming illegally.

    Like others here I don't even have a TV subscription. I used to torrent but since I got the showbox app and a chromecast I don't even do that. The only time I see adverts now is on youtube (Or if some fecker here puts a link to the indo)

    If there were a legal service like showbox I'd pay a lot more than I'm paying for netflix just to get it.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭Tugboats


    To pay is to fail


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Mean Laqueefa


    Yeah of course i do, i have netflix, itunes, prime and fightpass and i still find a need to. Example living in the UK how else am i gonna see the Ireland rubgy today ?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭Tugboats


    Yeah of course i do, i have netflix, itunes, prime and fightpass and i still find a need to. Example living in the UK how else am i gonna see the Ireland rubgy today ?

    :confused:
    Pay for sky sports


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Mean Laqueefa


    Tugboats wrote: »
    :confused:
    Pay for sky sports

    Why ? i pay for plenty as is, and i have sky but don't want to pay for the sports as i can get it elsewhere and wouldn't use it


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭Tugboats


    Why ? i pay for plenty as is, and i have sky but don't want to pay for the sports as i can get it elsewhere and wouldn't use it

    I agree but earlier you tried to justify your streaming by saying you have no other choice in the Uk to watch the match.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    There are 2 types of people in this world: people who stream/torrent and people who are liars.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Getting Sky Sports on a decent package deal (£150 for 10 months with Virgin Media) has greatly reduced our streaming needs, but will still stream something if it isn't being televised here (Chicago Marathon was the last thing I streamed).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,665 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Only sport. My sport consumption rarely consists of more than one rugby match per week and I refuse to pay for two different sports packages, on top of my TV license and standard Sky package, to get it. That kind of greed ruined soccer and it's in the process of ruining rugby too.
    I'll occasionally look for a dodgy PDF copy of a book, but only if the author is dead. The vast majority of my reading is paid for or legally free.
    I've never illegally streamed a movie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 Smurph90


    Absolutely, Have all the sports channels and I still dont get to watch the team I support 90% of the time but americans have full access to all UK matches so there you go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Molester Stallone II


    Of course I stream.... Was even tapping into someone else's broadband for 2 years to do so....thieving barsteward that I am!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    Pretty much every sporting thing I need to watch is on Sky. The very odd time I might stream a movie.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 824 ✭✭✭Shiraz 4.99


    I'm steaming the Liverpool Chelsea match as we speak. Sky took box sets off me cause I wouldn't upgrade to a HD sub. I'll take their sports for free as compensation.

    Sanity is bringing me a combo box so it'll goodbye Sky for good. Netflix sub will be my only media contribution.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 Boris Pecker


    Sport and old films but not new ones.

    Don't see the attraction of downloading a film a month or so before it's released just to see it as soon as you can.

    Surely seeing something like Interstellar on a big screen for example, is worth shelling out the cash for.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    Ssshhhhh your not aloud talk about that naughty stuff on the internet!.
    Can we whisper it?


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Currently have Hulu Plus and Netflix and will be getting HBO Go and Amazon Instant in the coming months. Hulu covers pretty much all my TV needs and it's far handier to be able to turn on my PlayStation and watch last nights American TV. Sure it has the annoyance of ads but they're short and I recently discovered that if you skip back and forth early on 9 times out of 10 the episode will play without ads. Hulu is also fantastic due to the presence if the Criterion collection in it. You have access to some of the greatest films ever made and anyone with an interest in cinema will be in heaven.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Vandango


    Do you OP?

    Looks like we'll be waiting on this one Corvus.


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