The original post: /r/piracy by /u/gemboundprism on 2024-12-30 23:50:17.

I’ve used free streaming websites for a very very long time, but I’ve never really understood how they worked… so this is probably the best place to ask…

  1. Don’t they need to make money somehow? The fact that it’s free kind of worries me :[
  2. How do they… work? Different ones seem to generally have the same stuff, I know it’s something to do with providers of the content, but that’s all I know.
  3. What are the different servers offered supposed to be?

Bonus question 4… is there any tool I can use to download videos off these websites? I’ve been meaning to download my favourite film for a while, but the pretty free and obvious DDL button on these websites intimidates me into not using it…