Justin Jacobs

Ever get frustrated when the one movie everyone is talking about just came out on a streaming service that you don’t have even though you are currently subbed to 20 different streaming apps? Youtuber Dunkey has a new video that is the ultimate representation of that frustration. It’s a video that made me laugh and also kind of triggered some kind of Manchurian Candidate response in me that has me googling if UTorrent is still a thing.

During our holiday travel my wife and I were talking about how bloated our streaming budget had become. How were we still subscribed to Paramount Plus? We don’t even watch Yellowstone. I can’t even recall how many conversations I’ve had with people about how cutting the cord is no longer cheaper than it was just a few years ago. The rush of every major rights holder in Hollywood to get their IP on some kind of service so they could milk another $10.99 a month our of the general public has made even the luddites among us at least a little curious about piracy.

Dunkey isn’t offering any solutions here, just pointing our how ridiculous it is trying to watch content in the year of our lord 2024. Finding Die Hard on streaming last Christmas was basically impossible without a VPN in the States. After doing multiple Google searches my best guess was that it was streaming on STARZ at some point in December, but not all of December. I ended up watching the movie on a grey market streaming service that my 60 year old father uses because of how often he can’t find stuff on any of the 20 services he shares with the family. If the streaming complex has driven a man who still watches episodes of Deadliest Catch as they air on cable to piracy, what chance do they think they have in keeping the rest of us on the hook?