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Why do people spend time and money setting up illegal streaming links?
If you buy an Android TV box with Kodi installed, you access thousands of very recent movies etc.
Now I understand why a viewer would buy the box but what's in it for the people who set up computers to stream the content? As far as I know there is no revenue in it and it must take fairly decent computing power and bandwidth to do it.
So why bother?
Lots of revenue in it, just look at the number of pop-ups and adverts you get on streaming sites...so I've been told
Lots of revenue in it, just look at the number of pop-ups and adverts you get on streaming sites...so I've been told
There are none if you use Kodi with the video add ons....so I've been told.
Used a lot abroad where things are either too expensive or inaccessible.
I heard that put locker is choc full of ads and they block you using a blocker. Where might I stumble across idle chit-chat about Kodi?
Where might I stumble across idle chit-chat about Kodi?
No idea, but I'd be inclined to stay away from any sites that come up in a google search for "chrisb the beast wizard".
There are none if you use Kodi with the video add ons....so I've been told.
I imagine the majority of users accessing putlocker, etc. aren't using kodi which means there is still ad revenue from popups.....so I've been told
At one level, I'd say it's an extension, rightly or wrongly, of the type of philosophy behind the open source movement. At the other end as people have mentioned, it's about cash and that ranges on a scale of purely fancial to a bit more sinister, with viruses and the like.
Basically there's and an entire range of reasons and it'd be impossible to pin it down.
I know of one guy (and it's entirely possible others here do to) who was posting an absolutely prolific amount on a fairly decent site, which I won't mention, but just think Youtube. Although it wasn't youtube.
When I say prolific, I mean he was basically posting up HD versions of a nights tv every day. He's english, so it was uk broadcast stuff. He also posts up versions of recently released movies which he seemed to get from various sources. He takes enormous pride in being the first person on that site to post film x or programme y.
He has a pretty big following who shower him with praise every time he uploads something and he would lash out at anyone who would request something he'd already uploaded or who criticised the quality of his upload for example, and of course his followers would lambast this person too. He'd block anyone who displeased him. After some digging I found out he was disabled, seemingly housebound and quite depressive.
Then he changed his status effectively making his videos private, available to people who he chose, and of course that came at a price. His suggested donation was a minimum of $10 per month via paypal.
I'd say it's a very profitable enterprise for him now.
Why stream when you can download for free. I used to be a uploader till the sites when 'click-bait' happy. They had good forums and a neat crowd until the people that had a god complex moved in. Now i just download US tv shows or a movie.
Ads (click-generated revenue) and malware usually.
"if you can't tell how a website is being funded, you're the product"
same as on here really, this 'free' website is funded through the ads, which is why its one of very few sites that i have adblocker turned off for.
however, in the world of illegal streaming sites, the ads are a potentially little more vicious
I'd say, as someone who used to upload quite a bit* (when my company's IT guy was onside), a lot of it is ego in a 'look at what I can do'. Another aspect is the community. It was a UK TV torrent site and when it closed I did miss the site. I missed the thanks which let you know that you were making someone's life just 1% better.... when you live 6,000 miles from home, watching TV from your own country can make a big difference when you're feeling homesick.
I never made a penny and it only cost me a few pounds on hard drives. Okay, a NAS box with 10Tb in RAID0. It didn't take much time as it was pretty much automated and it was a good learning experience.
*UK TV. Again, got it onto the site first and would seed several terabytes a day.