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Makes sense to me.

If you torrent a movie, you have to find it from a decent place (otherwise it could be a completely different movie, shitty release etc) then you may need to find captions for it, if you need them. This kind of thing isn't actually easy for non-technical people.

However I think it comes down to the fact: most people want to pay but shit is just so expensive otherwise.



I don't have a hard time with most of these obstacles anymore. It seems that good quality rips of movies are pretty easy to find. However, I think torrent clients are just slightly beyond the scope of most people's technical expertise.


Indeed. Peer review of files available will notify you of any problems. You only need one person with the technical expertise to set it up.

I used to have my mother set up with torrents. All her tv shows were downloaded automatically. Often times she would watch it live and then delete the file, but if she missed watching it live then she had that file waiting for her. Also if she wanted a movie or older tv show, then all she had to do was click on a link on her desktop and search the website for what she wanted. Click on the torrent and it would download to the proper folder.

These days it's the same except she clicks on something she wants and it is a nzb file. As well newly aired tv shows download for her automatically. I've noticed she doesn't watch as much live anymore. Though she is using Netflix more often now as well.


With netflix streaming you generally can't get captions at all -- unless that's changed recently?

(I'm hard of hearing and their streaming is useless to me except for foreign movies, which do get English subtitles.)




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