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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/shak_0508 on 2026-05-20 15:47:03+00:00.

I'll be real, while money used to be the biggest factor for me, now it's convenience.

As a kid I was obviously broke and torrented a lot. There was a period in between then and now where I stopped and was paying for a bunch of different streaming services.

I properly started torrenting again last year and the reason was because I got absolutely fucked off with shows constantly getting moved around streaming platforms and having to maintain all these different subscriptions.

Setup my first media server last summer and I'm never looking back. Having everything in one place is amazing. But realistically with the amount I've spent on drives, the server PC I bought, cloud backups etc, I ain't recouping my costs that would've gone into subscriptions for a while lol.