Streaming quality is often shit. That is one reason. Another reason people will just subscribe to a service instead of torrenting everything is that torrenting takes time and they place more value on their time than their money.
VPNs prevent the ISP warning letters and search function is built right into Qbittorrent (to be fair, it requires a bit of configuration, installation of Jackett, etc.). I can download most shows within minutes behind VPN.
Personally, I bought a computer on eBay for under $40 several years back, upgraded processor and RAM on the cheap over time, and decked it out with TBs of storage. I purchased most of the enterprise drives used on eBay and they were practically brand new (this is when many corporate databases were getting moved over to M.2 drives, so was perfect time for my purposes). It runs 24/7 on my home network and hosts a Plex and Subsonic server.
Never watch much TV myself, but the wife loves it.
Streaming quality is often shit. That is one reason. Another reason people will just subscribe to a service instead of torrenting everything is that torrenting takes time and they place more value on their time than their money.
I get all my stuff at 1080p, and it's usually available in 4k but I don't have a 4k screen.
You need to find better sources, I guess!
VPNs prevent the ISP warning letters and search function is built right into Qbittorrent (to be fair, it requires a bit of configuration, installation of Jackett, etc.). I can download most shows within minutes behind VPN.
Personally, I bought a computer on eBay for under $40 several years back, upgraded processor and RAM on the cheap over time, and decked it out with TBs of storage. I purchased most of the enterprise drives used on eBay and they were practically brand new (this is when many corporate databases were getting moved over to M.2 drives, so was perfect time for my purposes). It runs 24/7 on my home network and hosts a Plex and Subsonic server.
Never watch much TV myself, but the wife loves it.