Im old, I recall when cable TV was new. Home Box Office, movies playing, no ads. More channels arrived, pay a small fee, no ads. Nickelodeon was one of my favorites. The whole point of paying was NO ADS!
@jong.7944 That’s still a foolish argument to try and justify theft. Since when are you being forced to pay for entertainment? You aren’t being forced and instead are choosing to spend your money on whatever entertainment service. You don’t NEED those in your life but you WANT them. Needs vs wants are huge differences.
Nah, ads have been on physical media forever. Put in an old VHS or DVD and you’ll get ads before the movie plays/start menu shows up. Also, have you ever been to a theatre without ads before the movie started? Nope. When something is region-blocked, that’s when I pirate with no qualms.
@HelloTygr I do have a huge physical media collection - the studio logo and the FBI warning tend to be unskippable, not the ads. And not all studios put ads before the menu either. That's still a scummy business practice but physical media or even old broadcasts can't hijack your equipment for ads quite like streaming does.
Indeed. And this is why people are buying physical media again and creating their own streaming platforms through platforms like Jellyfin, Emby, and others.
If it makes people relieved I delete every movie and tv show I got from torrent after watching it. I don't "own" them. I will always use piracy content.
@SauravKumar-pe8pr because it reflects the stupidity of the situation, otherwise keep subscribing to your compromised economic choices stay out from shoving people online because they don't fit your opinion
Yeah, they knew what they were doing. Back then the viewership numbers were more important so they were willing to lose money on subscriptions for growth. Now they are ready to cash in and they have hooked people into watching Netflix so they can convert a large portion of people into paying customers.
@kidShibuya Certain programs are great. But 99% is trash. The problem is, we can't pay for what we want. We have to get the whole thing. On top of that, the companies can take away these series anytime they want. And then they decide to start taking away physical media, so you can't even own the shows you want in the first place. So yeah, they deserve piracy.....
I'm old enough to remember when cable was first being proposed. They promised NO ADS because you were paying for a subscription. Well, THAT Lie didn't last long...
@joshuaragon6676 yeah, great you get to watch shows at the cost of your information being stolen. Smooth brain normies saving a buck. I'll just stick to watching youtube videos.
It's not even sharing your information that is the scary part of this, its that this box is able to sell your internet connection to any bad actor who wants to take control of their box for their own malicious use and further research into this box has revealed it does just that and is part of huge botnets
@AntsyBoi Not if you connect to the net via an ethernet cable they can't. When you're not using it simply disconnect the internet. Unlike WiFi which is "always on." But another better suggestion. Simply leave the USA (and the UK and Australia too). Once abroad, pirating is not illegal. I live in a "developing" country and pirate up to 1TB worth of movies and TV shows every month without any repercussions. It's great! (But I'm not an American either.)
I’d feel bad if not the fact that they are continuously making their apps shittier with each update which soon follows with an email about how they’re increasing pricing.
100% agree, Netflix put the search button at the top of the screen so when you scroll down looking for something you have to scroll all the way up again to get to the search button...what a joke
honestly with how many free movies & shows are on here, it's absolutely a viable option. (in addition to just watching any other sort of content on here)
WRONG lol. 😂. I know so many people now that are watching RUclips as there main TV entertainment. Not RUclips TV just regular RUclips. I worked with a guy who was 62 years old about 2 years ago. 2 years ago he barely watched RUclips. Now he mostly just watches RUclips. On lunch at work I was watching somebody renovate on RUclips a house and he wanted to know what channel that was on HGTV etc etc. I told him just basic youtube. I said it's just some guy with a tripod and probably filming on his iPhone. Lol this gentleman I worked with was impressed and he thought it was literally a TV show on one of those home renovation networks.
I had DirecTV so long, it was packaged with USSB when I first got it. As a Charter member, I had every channel for 2-3 years for one low price. I even bought my own equipment and installed it myself. Did that twice. Over the years, it crept up in price but was still much cheaper than cable. But with HD, things got complicated. When I moved into my new home in 2010, you couldn't buy your own equipment anymore. I had to lease. And for only 2 TVs with HD and DVR, I was paying well over $100 and that was with minimal extra services. Sports only. No movie channels. Only 2 or 3 years later, I cut the cord. I live in a city with no TV stations, but about 40-50 miles from 3 other markets that do. But I couldn't get over the air. I did get a great deal on wifi, so I went all in on streaming. But after a couple years, my wifi costs ballooned and streaming started to get messy and more expensive. I will likely always have Prime as I use it enough for the free shipping alone. And I watched so much YT, I started paying for their Premium to get rid of ads during the pandemic. But I've whittled down my streaming to those and Peacock. And after this video, Peacock is going away. My friends and I used to pirate things you couldn't get here. Or had to wait a long time to get. Like Top Gear. I found bit torrent to be fast and easy and fairly safe. If you knew how to do it. I probably won't. Why? Because I, too, just watch YT almost exclusively. I choose what I want to watch and follow along on certain suggestions. I don't really watch shows or movies at all anymore...
You hit the nail on the head. Netflix was supposed to take over for blockbuster, right? But then nobody wants to license to them anymore so instead of going to one store, I've got to go to 10 just to find the movie I wanted to watch. Blockbuster always had everything.
When I went to Blockbuster renting a movie cost between $1-3. Older low-demand movies could be bundled for like $0.50 each. Netflix costs what? $27.99 a month now?
@foxhound6364 2-day rentals for new releases were $5. Old movies were 5-day and varied around $3. Netflix is $18 without ads or $25 if you want 4k. If blockbust still existed, their prices would have continued to go up. Streaming is the better value.
Get real with that poor logic excuse to pirate. Youre LICENSING the content under their terms for the period you pay. When you rent a hotel room you dont own it. When you lease a car you dont own it. When you hire someone to mow your grass you dont own them or their equipment. You act like the situation is black and white, where paying for something exclusively means it should belong to you.
Let’s all say it together, “piracy is stealing, and no one is forcing you to spend money on entertainment services, and that they are a want and not a need.”
@st.michaelthearchangel7774 👆👆 Noone cares. We're tired of being screwed over. Yes, you don't need entertainment to live but you do need it to prevent going insane. The enshitfication of everything, makes the high seas a necessity.
Get real with that poor logic excuse to pirate. Youre LICENSING the content under their terms for the period you pay. When you rent a hotel room you dont own it. When you lease a car you dont own it. When you hire someone to mow your grass you dont own them or their equipment. You act like the situation is black and white, where paying for something exclusively means it should belong to you.
@_aceofspades_ why are you bending over backwards for the bad practices of these corporations? How is it that when you purchase physical media you can pop that disc in and play it at any time, but when you purchase that same media digitally it can be revoked at the discretion of the service provider. All the examples you listed are paying for limited access to some product. You can rent a movie but you can also buy that movie yet the "bought" version can also disappear from your library. If I buy something that copy belongs to me, I can do whatever I want with it short of making copies to sell for my own gain.
@_aceofspades_ How about when you buy a car with the GPS already in it yet they charge you a monthly fee to use it? Its in the car, you paid for the equipment already. GPS is provided by the US government for FREE. There is zero maintenance or cost to the car manufacture for GPS. Please explain how this is not ripping you off.
I'm not a millennial but a Gen Z, and I know what you're saying those cards because my family used to have one of those boxes which I think it's authenticator card
Going back even further, I remember opening the cable junction box and removing all the filters on my line to unlock everything, that was when cable boxes were analog.
Even if it were $5/mo there would still be piracy, because people would complain that the quality isn't high enough, or they don't want to see ads and can't use an adblocker, or don't want to be tracked, or simply don't want to fork over even $5
@bubbledoubletroublepiracy nearly disappeared 10 years ago. Stuff was cheap enough to justify the prices then they started raising prices and piracy returned
@johnjones4376Rip your media using something like EAC for Windows or abcde for Linux. It will automatically tag the files for organization. Then, take those rips and host them using an app like Emby or Navidrome. You will get bit-perfect playback, external access, and never be stuck on a streaming platform.
@johnjones4376Depending on the software you have, there are ways to take snapshots of the data on the DVDs (blu-ray is harder). Some are easier, some are harder, make sure you have a lot of space (the harder thing is making an ISO copy of the disc, which is huge...)...make sure you have a personal cloud (basically a hard drive device that you can access remotely...many have multiple drives so you have backup options with hot swap or just more storage.... It's complicated ish, but if you dig around it's possible to learn
@sille80not build, but almost anything running android can be turned into a streaming device, you just need to download some apps. Even your smartphone can do it.
Guess he didn't feel like just segmenting a separate VLAN for this.. I'm surprised a techie doesn't already have a sectioned off network specifically for testing in the first place. Little does he know, if malware really wanted to infiltrate his network, it could absolutely do it right through that iPhone, albeit a little more difficult but
13:59 THIS IS WHY YOU ONLY USE AN EMAIL MADE JUST FOR THESE ANDROID STREAMING BOXES AND ONLY EVER FOR THEM NEVER EVER USE YOUR OWN DAILY EMAIL NO MATTER WHAT!
@extendedp1I think if you can get that far, it's within your best interest to just find an alternative to a very questionable streaming box. Heck there's some people down in the comments here with suggestions.
@extendedp1doesn't matter. These things are the worst they will break out of vlans destroy switches and make it onto your local network to start using your badwith on the largest botnet in the world along with sending any personal data it can get to their Chinese overlords. Don't buy these under any circumstances. Look up the arr stack if you want piracy.
IDK if the fire stick is viable anymore. That's probably why these products are arising. With Google wanting to block sideloading next year, I imagine more of these types of devices will become available since mainstream devices will be making it more difficult to do that.
I've had a Superbox since the pandemic started. Still works great. It has always worked. Everybody said, oh it will crap out in a year and take your money, but it works just as it always has. I don't have a lot of need for it any more but it's there.
My dad got a Superbox recently and it’s been the best investment ever. He mainly got it so he can watch whatever NFL game he wants but now he’s watching TV shows and movies without paying a dime 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 10/10!
@lg1228 He bought it off of as friend of his for $150. It's an older model. It's not 100% tho, like any streaming box it does have occasional buffering problems, and if you don't have good internet it might be rough to play movies and tv, but it works well for live TV stuff! Superbox has it's own website! I'd look there!
FYI just because you buy it from Walmart’s website doesn’t mean it’s sold and shipped BY Walmart. There’s plenty of third party sellers on the website.
You got ripped off. Get yourself an NVidia shield or old firetv stick and install the iptv app of your choice. You then wont have any malware pre-installed and pay much less. Good iptv providers are about £60 a year here in the UK. £80 gets you a firestick already set up and subscribed from a local miscreant but you run the risk of him getting raided and your details being exposed, although the police cant/wont do anything to the users as they have more pressing things to keep them occupied regardless of the endless scare articles in the press.
@meetoo594 If you install Chinese set tv box such as superbox, yes, sure you would be ripped off but some tv boxes do provide you ways to watch live tv from anywhere (Korea, China, Taiwan, North America, etc) for free. If you live with Asian parents, some of them have those set tv boxes that shows you content from China or Vietnam, etc. I am not sure if the app that are provided are p2p but I do know that they are connected with a bunch of servers that host content to their boxes You can get google tv, Apple TV, etc and install it that way but people who have those easily get access to content as it’s piracy Not saying that you should buy it but it’s just people’s preference from what region and how much they know about it Edit: I do remember one of the people in Hong Kong or something, they got caught pirating content on r spellings and got arrested. And dish network previously went to investigate and crack it down but many products still exist
Have had one for a year, no complaints about it at all. Does everything you need, haven’t had any issues that a quick sweep in the bottom menu doesn’t resolve. This thing is great and would recommend. Best part is it’s a 1 time cost!
15:17 this is the equivalent of the pirate box back in the day that allowed watch all satalite TV signals. It was worth it then this is likely worth it now.
It’s similar only in the sense it’s a black box and it lets you get paid content for free but that was so much cleaner, that box just unscrambled the signal, so you only had to know how to decrypt the signal and it would work, this is completely other services that are independent of your cable providers programming. On top of that, this box is a security nightmare, where the og black box only could ingest a signal and decode it, not actually talk to other devices on your network / the world. (Had one in the 90’s - now have a jailbroken firestick which does the same thing with diff apps)
Only if you're in the USA though. I prefer to just pirate what I want; then I have a copy indefinitely. Where I live, pirating is completely acceptable and not illegal. But I live in a "developing" nation, not a country in the West.
Using torrent sites without a VPN can get your internet shut off. Ive gotten multiple letters from multiple services till i got a VPN. That’s why some people are looking to shut down VPNs. They use the excuse that it’s terrorists and criminals using VPNs when it’s 99% nerds. This reminds me of an 80’s black box cable box
Only if you live in the Axis of Evil countries (USA, UK and Australia). In Canada, you can pirate movies without this letters coming to you. The maximum fine (set by a recent court decision) is C$100, but is most likely going to be around $5 instead for first timers. And, that fine has to be shared among ALL the production companies whose movies you have pirated. So if there are 100 companies and the fine is $5, each company gets a nickel. And a Canadian nickel at that! But I've moved from Canada and now live in a "developing" nation where pirating is NOT illegal. I've downloaded as much as 1TB worth of movies and TV shows in a single month with no VPN and with no problems. So the other alternative is just to move to another country and you won't need a VPN subscription either.
Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me, back in the early 2010s era I learned what torrent is from a friend, needless to say my movie folder grew quite steadily, the irony of pirating the pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is not lost on me 😂
Honestly the move would be to go to a Metro by T-Mobile or Total Wireless store, get their home Internet service to use just for this super box thing. Then set up a VPN on the device itself and you're pretty much set. I'm pretty sure there's other things you can do to protect yourself but this is just what comes to mind. If you're gonna do something wrong, do it right.
It's only illegal in the USA, UK and Australia. In Canada, pirating movies is completely legal. And, as a Canadian expat living in warmer climes in my own paradise (an unnamed "developing" country) it's also not illegal here. Any movie that is released in theatres you can buy in DVD format the next day on any street corner. And there's no ramifications for doing this. Equally, pirating movies and TV shows (even Netflix and Apple shows) is perfectly legal where I live. And I've downloaded as much as 1TB of media every month with no problems for the last 20 years. "If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing."
@realismatitsfinest1Bro I've lived in a place where it was so called legal. It's still not legal, they just don't want to bother prosecuting it because they've got bigger problems. It's also illegal in Canada, they just don't prosecute it since it's a minor crime.
@kodyblaze7507it was probably Linus Tech Tips. They did a video about Android tv boxes and a lot of the ones from china that seem sketchy have spyware type stuff in them. They suggested the walmart onn boxes in the video.
You need a streaming tv guide in 2026 to find your favorite media. You can find it passively at your local grocery store while waiting in line to pay for your groceries
It also doesnt help when these streaming companies cry poverty as they raise prices repeatedly. But then you have to watch them fight one another with billions and billions to buy up their competition (see Disney vs Comcast for Fox/Hulu, see Paramount vs Netflix for WB). Then who do you think is going to pay for those purchases as they look to recoup those billions as quickly as possible? They move the goal posts on prices, advertisements (Prime, im looking at you), adding/removing content, etc. Streaming was an alternative to cable, now its the same evil greed at our expense.
Years ago I had a streaming service almost exactly like this that offered almost the exact same thing, except it i included all European stations too for $60 a year. I heard about it through a friend and had the service for over 2 years, until one day I turned on my TV and was informed the service was "temporarily suspended". Turned out the service I was gleefully using was just a group of people with a massive service that was selling access and it had been raided by the UK version of the FCC and shut down with several people arrested for copyright infringement! A few days later I was notified the service was again up and running, yet it was only back a few days before it was again shut down. What I learned, eventually, was they were systematic arresting the proxy host each time they rebooted the servers until the finally discovered the servers location. The service has been down for many years now, unfortunately, because that service was, again, only $60 yearly but offered over 8000 (yes, I meant 8000) channels from the US, UK, Europe, PPV, and Premium movies (also a wide variety of adult entertainment I discovered to my chagrin)!
@Notta-q7y Downloading torrents with a VPN and setting up your own Jellyfin or Plex server (preferably jellyfin) allowing you to actually own the content and have it forever even if the Internet goes down, nobody can take it away from you either. Jellyfin has an app on nearly every streaming device, you can connect it to your server and it operates like any normal streaming service, and you can share your server with friends and family using something like tailscale.
I work for an ISP and I can't tell you how many customers complain about bad service when it's their damn superbox having horrible wireless capabilities.
I can tell you from experience. It's likely not even the "Wifi capabilities" of the superbox itself. The wifi card has actually been fairly decent in the models I tested. That being said, they definitely get hit from outside of your network just as the video says cause frequent high ping, frequent timeouts when running continueous pings. People using these are essentially ddos'ing themselves by having it on their network.
I may know someone that owns one and they love it. Allegedly, they seem to get all kinds of stations that they don’t have to have a subscription too. Damn you Austin for bringing this to the light
There's also a security researcher who took a look and reverse engineered it, that "app store" was flagged for malware!!!! So good thing you put it on a second network (video is here on youtube)
I’ve had one for a couple years now. It works, but it USES bandwidth. Like I can’t play PS5 online simultaneously. I set it up on a guest WiFi network separate from my main. It only knows that separate password. And I UNPLUG it when I’m not using it. Don’t fully trust these things with your passwords, and don’t leave them powered and running 24/7
Lol, I'll give you one guess as to why that could be.. Might not even be for a nefarious purpose. It might be running as a peersharing type network in order to make this work well. That was my first thought when I seen how slow it was downloading stuff. Sorta like torrenting. That or it runs through TOR or even both.
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As soon as ads came into paid streaming I abandoned any notion of piracy being wrong.
Im old, I recall when cable TV was new. Home Box Office, movies playing, no ads. More channels arrived, pay a small fee, no ads. Nickelodeon was one of my favorites. The whole point of paying was NO ADS!
They double and triple dipping. It just levels the playing field.
@jong.7944 That’s still a foolish argument to try and justify theft. Since when are you being forced to pay for entertainment? You aren’t being forced and instead are choosing to spend your money on whatever entertainment service. You don’t NEED those in your life but you WANT them. Needs vs wants are huge differences.
Nah, ads have been on physical media forever. Put in an old VHS or DVD and you’ll get ads before the movie plays/start menu shows up. Also, have you ever been to a theatre without ads before the movie started? Nope.
When something is region-blocked, that’s when I pirate with no qualms.
@HelloTygr I do have a huge physical media collection - the studio logo and the FBI warning tend to be unskippable, not the ads. And not all studios put ads before the menu either. That's still a scummy business practice but physical media or even old broadcasts can't hijack your equipment for ads quite like streaming does.
if buying is not owning piracy isnt stealing
Indeed. And this is why people are buying physical media again and creating their own streaming platforms through platforms like Jellyfin, Emby, and others.
That's the most stupid thing I read today 😂
@SauravKumar-pe8pr no it isnt. its true.if i dont own the thing i pay for, pirating it isnt stealing
If it makes people relieved I delete every movie and tv show I got from torrent after watching it. I don't "own" them. I will always use piracy content.
@SauravKumar-pe8pr because it reflects the stupidity of the situation, otherwise keep subscribing to your compromised economic choices stay out from shoving people online because they don't fit your opinion
Company's are so out of control that BMW is selling subscriptions to access your own heated seats
this didnt work but the fact they tried was insane to begin with
Ford does it with navigation and Bluecruise Control. I use CarPlay instead for navigation and don’t have bluecruise.
@jasonweinberg932I just wouldn’t ever buy a recall ridden ford to begin with
Gross
They retracted that decision after the backlash but yeah...
Remember when Netflix ads said sharing passwords was love?
Lol STB player here 😂
It's shown in this video.
Pepperidge farm remembers 😢
Yeah, they knew what they were doing. Back then the viewership numbers were more important so they were willing to lose money on subscriptions for growth. Now they are ready to cash in and they have hooked people into watching Netflix so they can convert a large portion of people into paying customers.
That was the before for
They deserve piracy, its over priced crap that still has commercials
use to pay 50$ hulu live now it 99$ f em
Yeah its crap... But you want it so bad you steal it. But its crap right?
@kidShibuya because we want the movies/series, and we were happy with the services, now the content is still there but the services became trash.
If buying isn't Owning Then...
@kidShibuya Certain programs are great. But 99% is trash. The problem is, we can't pay for what we want. We have to get the whole thing. On top of that, the companies can take away these series anytime they want. And then they decide to start taking away physical media, so you can't even own the shows you want in the first place. So yeah, they deserve piracy.....
I'm old enough to remember when cable was first being proposed.
They promised NO ADS because you were paying for a subscription.
Well, THAT Lie didn't last long...
Unless you pay extra for premium movie channels like HBO
I remember hacked cable boxes, so everything really does come back full circle.
Yeah and cable today full all the channels is about ,150 a month
Walmart online has been super shady ever since they started having third party sellers
I feel like half of that online store is straight out of AliExpress lmao
The same boxes are also sold on ebay and Amazon.
@kcrangaliexpress is better imho. I at least get what I order off aliexpress and it’s good stuff if you know what to look for.
Yeah they are just copying Amazon .
Very true. Watch out when buying cheap USB sticks. It can steal all your PC information simply by sticking it in your PC
I fully condone Piracy. Keep it up boys!
will do 🫡
I also condone Piracy, even turning my RPI into a local "legal" streaming server of movies.
This is literally a backdoor into your network for the Chinese lmfao, js like every other preloaded tv box. Your better off diy ✌️✌️😂
@tubelesstrippinExactly. People aren’t very smart. Just goes to show most people have very very little knowledge of computers or how tech works.
@joshuaragon6676 yeah, great you get to watch shows at the cost of your information being stolen. Smooth brain normies saving a buck. I'll just stick to watching youtube videos.
14:30 oh no! A random company is sharing my information!? I better pay more money so a “reputable” company can sell my information instead!
😂 nicely said
There are levels to this
Evil comes in chilli heat ratings too
It's not even sharing your information that is the scary part of this, its that this box is able to sell your internet connection to any bad actor who wants to take control of their box for their own malicious use and further research into this box has revealed it does just that and is part of huge botnets
@AntsyBoi ope. Looks like i’m part of a botnet lol
@AntsyBoi Not if you connect to the net via an ethernet cable they can't. When you're not using it simply disconnect the internet. Unlike WiFi which is "always on." But another better suggestion. Simply leave the USA (and the UK and Australia too). Once abroad, pirating is not illegal. I live in a "developing" country and pirate up to 1TB worth of movies and TV shows every month without any repercussions. It's great! (But I'm not an American either.)
When I realized that I dont own movies I purchased digitally on Amazon, I raged and support this
Physical media is the way
@soop3r872 You're going to tomorrow. (donation again)
That's how it is for all digital media.
StreamFab. Everyone sleeps on this
If i was to buy a movie digitally i would only buy it if i could actually get the file of the movie to make back ups
"Don't make it hard for people to give you money!"
It's amazing how few companies follow this philosophy
Example of doing it right: Valve.
They now follow the philosophy of: Make it hard for them to stop giving you money (aka Cancel).
I’d feel bad if not the fact that they are continuously making their apps shittier with each update which soon follows with an email about how they’re increasing pricing.
100% agree, Netflix put the search button at the top of the screen so when you scroll down looking for something you have to scroll all the way up again to get to the search button...what a joke
im probably the 1% that watches youtube like tv rather than subscribing to services
You and my mom lol
honestly with how many free movies & shows are on here, it's absolutely a viable option. (in addition to just watching any other sort of content on here)
WRONG lol. 😂. I know so many people now that are watching RUclips as there main TV entertainment. Not RUclips TV just regular RUclips. I worked with a guy who was 62 years old about 2 years ago. 2 years ago he barely watched RUclips. Now he mostly just watches RUclips. On lunch at work I was watching somebody renovate on RUclips a house and he wanted to know what channel that was on HGTV etc etc. I told him just basic youtube. I said it's just some guy with a tripod and probably filming on his iPhone. Lol this gentleman I worked with was impressed and he thought it was literally a TV show on one of those home renovation networks.
I had DirecTV so long, it was packaged with USSB when I first got it. As a Charter member, I had every channel for 2-3 years for one low price. I even bought my own equipment and installed it myself. Did that twice. Over the years, it crept up in price but was still much cheaper than cable. But with HD, things got complicated. When I moved into my new home in 2010, you couldn't buy your own equipment anymore. I had to lease. And for only 2 TVs with HD and DVR, I was paying well over $100 and that was with minimal extra services. Sports only. No movie channels. Only 2 or 3 years later, I cut the cord. I live in a city with no TV stations, but about 40-50 miles from 3 other markets that do. But I couldn't get over the air. I did get a great deal on wifi, so I went all in on streaming. But after a couple years, my wifi costs ballooned and streaming started to get messy and more expensive. I will likely always have Prime as I use it enough for the free shipping alone. And I watched so much YT, I started paying for their Premium to get rid of ads during the pandemic. But I've whittled down my streaming to those and Peacock. And after this video, Peacock is going away. My friends and I used to pirate things you couldn't get here. Or had to wait a long time to get. Like Top Gear. I found bit torrent to be fast and easy and fairly safe. If you knew how to do it. I probably won't. Why? Because I, too, just watch YT almost exclusively. I choose what I want to watch and follow along on certain suggestions. I don't really watch shows or movies at all anymore...
Me too.
Imagine watching three fourths of this video and deciding you don’t need to hear more because you are already sold on it.
I already have one. Had it since last year
@ceddid86 AND? is it worth it I mean ?
pls don’t. it have malware. pirate like a normal person
@nothingtoseeherelolkek ofc it has malware, but not harmful malware
@Randoir11there’s another brand that does the same thing and yes.
Dvds and blu rays will make a comeback soon with price increases causing another retro throwback
You hit the nail on the head. Netflix was supposed to take over for blockbuster, right? But then nobody wants to license to them anymore so instead of going to one store, I've got to go to 10 just to find the movie I wanted to watch. Blockbuster always had everything.
Renting one movie from blockbuster cost half as much of a month of a streaming service.
@Jumbleman5if you have a group of friends, you can easily bring tbe cost down.
When I went to Blockbuster renting a movie cost between $1-3. Older low-demand movies could be bundled for like $0.50 each. Netflix costs what? $27.99 a month now?
@foxhound6364 2-day rentals for new releases were $5. Old movies were 5-day and varied around $3. Netflix is $18 without ads or $25 if you want 4k. If blockbust still existed, their prices would have continued to go up. Streaming is the better value.
@Jumbleman5 Most of the time services like Netflix or Hulu do not even have the movie(s) I am searching for...
If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.
If paying piracy taxes on blank media then piracy isn't stealing.
@LoveElectricStuff That how it works in Swedistan, we pay piracy (copy) tax for media without anything on it :D
Get real with that poor logic excuse to pirate. Youre LICENSING the content under their terms for the period you pay.
When you rent a hotel room you dont own it.
When you lease a car you dont own it.
When you hire someone to mow your grass you dont own them or their equipment.
You act like the situation is black and white, where paying for something exclusively means it should belong to you.
streaming is the new cable. We are right back where we were.
Lets all say it together, "If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing"
Let’s all say it together, “piracy is stealing, and no one is forcing you to spend money on entertainment services, and that they are a want and not a need.”
@st.michaelthearchangel7774
👆👆 Noone cares. We're tired of being screwed over. Yes, you don't need entertainment to live but you do need it to prevent going insane. The enshitfication of everything, makes the high seas a necessity.
Get real with that poor logic excuse to pirate. Youre LICENSING the content under their terms for the period you pay.
When you rent a hotel room you dont own it.
When you lease a car you dont own it.
When you hire someone to mow your grass you dont own them or their equipment.
You act like the situation is black and white, where paying for something exclusively means it should belong to you.
@_aceofspades_ why are you bending over backwards for the bad practices of these corporations? How is it that when you purchase physical media you can pop that disc in and play it at any time, but when you purchase that same media digitally it can be revoked at the discretion of the service provider.
All the examples you listed are paying for limited access to some product. You can rent a movie but you can also buy that movie yet the "bought" version can also disappear from your library. If I buy something that copy belongs to me, I can do whatever I want with it short of making copies to sell for my own gain.
@_aceofspades_ How about when you buy a car with the GPS already in it yet they charge you a monthly fee to use it? Its in the car, you paid for the equipment already. GPS is provided by the US government for FREE. There is zero maintenance or cost to the car manufacture for GPS. Please explain how this is not ripping you off.
10:59 millennials remember the bootleg dish cards
I'm not a millennial but a Gen Z, and I know what you're saying those cards because my family used to have one of those boxes which I think it's authenticator card
Oh yes, all the dirty pay per view channels for free! ALL OF THEM!
Going back even further, I remember opening the cable junction box and removing all the filters on my line to unlock everything, that was when cable boxes were analog.
I had a black box that hooked up to the og cable boxes
Yep i had two of them downstairs and upstairs 😊 i miss them day's 😢
Streaming service is like a bad marriage, at the beginning everything was sweat and awesome and it turn in an abusive hell
I can do the same exact thing on googles own device nothing is going to stop piracy unless they lower their prices
One can do amazing things on a chromebook.
Or firestick
@gtgolmask youtube
Even if it were $5/mo there would still be piracy, because people would complain that the quality isn't high enough, or they don't want to see ads and can't use an adblocker, or don't want to be tracked, or simply don't want to fork over even $5
@bubbledoubletroublepiracy nearly disappeared 10 years ago. Stuff was cheap enough to justify the prices then they started raising prices and piracy returned
Who remembers the kodi?
Ran kodi on a fire stick for 2-3 yrs lol 😂
its still alive and well. i was just going to comment " a fire stick and 10 minutes will save you 200 dollars"
It's still included with Batocera Linux.
still use it to this day on my xbox to stream content through torbox! that being said stremio is muuuuuch better
Kodi is still alive and well.
Never thought I'd miss the days of renting DVDs. We watched a lot less content which is a good thing in itself but it also made it more special.
Miss going and choosing or browsing the hifi stores for bargain dvd's to buy =)
Self-hosting solves literally everything. Get physical media while you still can.
Please elaborate. I have 4500 CDs and growing....
This is what I do, I have a huge room of movies
@johnjones4376Rip your media using something like EAC for Windows or abcde for Linux. It will automatically tag the files for organization. Then, take those rips and host them using an app like Emby or Navidrome. You will get bit-perfect playback, external access, and never be stuck on a streaming platform.
@johnjones4376Invest in a NAS, rip all your CDs onto it and hook it up to a server running Jellyfin
@johnjones4376Depending on the software you have, there are ways to take snapshots of the data on the DVDs (blu-ray is harder). Some are easier, some are harder, make sure you have a lot of space (the harder thing is making an ISO copy of the disc, which is huge...)...make sure you have a personal cloud (basically a hard drive device that you can access remotely...many have multiple drives so you have backup options with hot swap or just more storage....
It's complicated ish, but if you dig around it's possible to learn
0:12 is it legal? Somewhere yeah
Probably in the Caribbean 😂
I have to tell customers I install Internet for that they can’t use it bc our modems kick them offline lol
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.
2:15 The Joker bus scene laugh 😂😂
i’m all in on piracy, but do it yourself, this box is reviewed by security experts and theres a lot of malware
DIY? Is there RUclips tutorials on how to build one?
@sille80not build, but almost anything running android can be turned into a streaming device, you just need to download some apps. Even your smartphone can do it.
@manueldiaz7611thanks for the info
@sille80look up arr apps like sonarr, radar, etc
True
Austin simping for the moral high ground is hilarious
it's basically a IPTV video could have ended right there 😂
All I know is you definitely just gave the super box a new customer
Vseebox better btw
@lov2cyanaked100%
@lov2cyanakedyes
@lov2cyanakedabout to get the elite ultra soon already have 3 different superboxs
i love mine
Austin: I’m gonna use a separate network completely unrelated for many reasons
7:20 Austin’s iPhone 😂😂😂😂
Guess he didn't feel like just segmenting a separate VLAN for this..
I'm surprised a techie doesn't already have a sectioned off network specifically for testing in the first place.
Little does he know, if malware really wanted to infiltrate his network, it could absolutely do it right through that iPhone, albeit a little more difficult but
My family has been using one for years so they can watch local TV from their home country
13:59 THIS IS WHY YOU ONLY USE AN EMAIL MADE JUST FOR THESE ANDROID STREAMING BOXES AND ONLY EVER FOR THEM NEVER EVER USE YOUR OWN DAILY EMAIL NO MATTER WHAT!
Yes, cause a device on your home network cares about your email, not all other devices on your network 😂
Email is not enough, if it connects to your home internet it can do whatever it wants over your home internet.
Get a router that can run a VPN, and create a guest network with the VPN running, put the box on the guest network, all by itself.
@extendedp1I think if you can get that far, it's within your best interest to just find an alternative to a very questionable streaming box. Heck there's some people down in the comments here with suggestions.
@extendedp1doesn't matter. These things are the worst they will break out of vlans destroy switches and make it onto your local network to start using your badwith on the largest botnet in the world along with sending any personal data it can get to their Chinese overlords. Don't buy these under any circumstances. Look up the arr stack if you want piracy.
I have a piracy box too! It's on a Fire Stick!
My friend had one but got in trouble. He still can’t believe they enforce laws on piracy
Amazon has been locking it down
IDK if the fire stick is viable anymore. That's probably why these products are arising. With Google wanting to block sideloading next year, I imagine more of these types of devices will become available since mainstream devices will be making it more difficult to do that.
@joemann8215man I hope google doesn't do dat. If that happens I am blocking internet on all my android devices
@ryanb8736what happened
Piracy has never been wrong. I'll never stop downloading my digital media or streaming it for free.
Superbox has been around for almost a decade and Austin just found out about it lol
He got big enough to be able to make a video about it
I've had a Superbox since the pandemic started. Still works great. It has always worked. Everybody said, oh it will crap out in a year and take your money, but it works just as it always has. I don't have a lot of need for it any more but it's there.
@LatitudeSkyEven if it did crap out after a year its still worth it.
Yeah and revealed it to over 5m of his subs...Say goodbye to SuperBox and all that follow in the AndroidTV VOD streaming services...
@LatitudeSky its going to happen one day
My dad got a Superbox recently and it’s been the best investment ever. He mainly got it so he can watch whatever NFL game he wants but now he’s watching TV shows and movies without paying a dime 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 10/10!
Power to the people, damn right 💪🏻🙌🏻
No issues at all? Where did he get it? Asking for a friend
@lg1228 walmart
@rexincognito6090 Absolutely. The streaming industry has become way too predatory.
@lg1228 He bought it off of as friend of his for $150. It's an older model. It's not 100% tho, like any streaming box it does have occasional buffering problems, and if you don't have good internet it might be rough to play movies and tv, but it works well for live TV stuff! Superbox has it's own website! I'd look there!
FYI just because you buy it from Walmart’s website doesn’t mean it’s sold and shipped BY Walmart. There’s plenty of third party sellers on the website.
Nice! Thanks just purchased one!
😂
your paying for piracy when piracy is supposed to be free. products like this are scummy imo
You got ripped off. Get yourself an NVidia shield or old firetv stick and install the iptv app of your choice. You then wont have any malware pre-installed and pay much less. Good iptv providers are about £60 a year here in the UK. £80 gets you a firestick already set up and subscribed from a local miscreant but you run the risk of him getting raided and your details being exposed, although the police cant/wont do anything to the users as they have more pressing things to keep them occupied regardless of the endless scare articles in the press.
@meetoo594 If you install Chinese set tv box such as superbox, yes, sure you would be ripped off but some tv boxes do provide you ways to watch live tv from anywhere (Korea, China, Taiwan, North America, etc) for free. If you live with Asian parents, some of them have those set tv boxes that shows you content from China or Vietnam, etc. I am not sure if the app that are provided are p2p but I do know that they are connected with a bunch of servers that host content to their boxes
You can get google tv, Apple TV, etc and install it that way but people who have those easily get access to content as it’s piracy
Not saying that you should buy it but it’s just people’s preference from what region and how much they know about it
Edit: I do remember one of the people in Hong Kong or something, they got caught pirating content on r spellings and got arrested. And dish network previously went to investigate and crack it down but many products still exist
He said not to, you can do all this with your phone and connect to your tv
fuck that. long live piracy
Thanks for the great review! Just bought 5!
i love piracy
Don't forget your local library
The place where the homeless sleep and pee on?
My internet connection already bypasses all streaming services. Nobody needs an extra box.
Call me Jack Sparrow because I'll be sailing to seven seas if streaming services keep getting worse
I will sail the high seas until the day I die.
Aaaarrrrrrrr!
They've made me give no fucks about legality since they've removed the possibility of ownership with streaming.
ALWAYS Pirate anytime you can
Immediately goes and buys a box
You essentially gave the same warning as the streaming box. "Whatever happens might be illegal, but if you do it, it's on you."
I bought 5 subscriptions for a total of CAD 300 a year for thousands of channels. And we still only watch the same channels as we did on basic cable.
Why are you paying $300 a year? You can easily find iptv subs with live tv and movies/shows for less than $50
@10:27 Are you going to tell that to big tech since they 'pirate' ALL the content for their AI infrastructure???
Yeah! Good point.
Have had one for a year, no complaints about it at all.
Does everything you need, haven’t had any issues that a quick sweep in the bottom menu doesn’t resolve.
This thing is great and would recommend. Best part is it’s a 1 time cost!
Austin acts like he hasn’t ever seen IPtv
Has to act that way
As someone from Idaho Falls, I did not know there was an NBC Idaho Falls
Every place in America has local channels. Whatever larger city is nearby you has an NBC, FOX, or ABC affiliate
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.
15:17 this is the equivalent of the pirate box back in the day that allowed watch all satalite TV signals. It was worth it then this is likely worth it now.
It’s similar only in the sense it’s a black box and it lets you get paid content for free but that was so much cleaner, that box just unscrambled the signal, so you only had to know how to decrypt the signal and it would work, this is completely other services that are independent of your cable providers programming. On top of that, this box is a security nightmare, where the og black box only could ingest a signal and decode it, not actually talk to other devices on your network / the world.
(Had one in the 90’s - now have a jailbroken firestick which does the same thing with diff apps)
the satellite reception on those wer ROUGH
Yes, the dreambox
I bought the original Super Box almost 10 years ago and it still works. I almost never use it but it is there when I need it.
Prove it
@jenniferlove7519They showed it to me so I can verify! The receipt was barely readable but it was real!
@jenniferlove7519 how
it’s just a prepackaged iptv provider and probably a wrapper around any of the thousand of apps providing free tv shows and movies lol
Literally it’s just expensive IPTV hardware
ah Austin did his PSA vid
Piracy is not illegal.
You should ask why purchasing is not owning!
I love paying $3.99 for movies from the 1980’s that used to be on the “two for .99” shelf at the video store.
Ya know what? I bet it falls under the 'It's not illegal to sell or buy it.. it's just illegal to USE it' code.
"Become a seller!". AKA, "become someone the US Federal government can prosecute!"
Literally took down the FTA scene and soon the iptv scene.
Only if you're in the USA though. I prefer to just pirate what I want; then I have a copy indefinitely. Where I live, pirating is completely acceptable and not illegal. But I live in a "developing" nation, not a country in the West.
uhhh... NAS + Jellyfin is my go to now
Right but Jellyfin or plex or whatever doesn’t have the content on it. Part of the price is ease of access
@minimarttttt just rent blurays and rip them, it won't damage the disk so you can return them.
Real debrid + mounting the webdav folder in jellyfin ;)
Shoutout to never paying for any of these streaming services and watching all the content for free online
Same well I down cycled my last pc hardware into a plex server when I upgraded my gaming pc.
$360 but if it works for at least 3/4 months you saved money
Gabe Newell of Valve says "One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue.”
That being people are entitled.
Using torrent sites without a VPN can get your internet shut off. Ive gotten multiple letters from multiple services till i got a VPN. That’s why some people are looking to shut down VPNs. They use the excuse that it’s terrorists and criminals using VPNs when it’s 99% nerds.
This reminds me of an 80’s black box cable box
Only if you live in the Axis of Evil countries (USA, UK and Australia). In Canada, you can pirate movies without this letters coming to you. The maximum fine (set by a recent court decision) is C$100, but is most likely going to be around $5 instead for first timers. And, that fine has to be shared among ALL the production companies whose movies you have pirated. So if there are 100 companies and the fine is $5, each company gets a nickel. And a Canadian nickel at that! But I've moved from Canada and now live in a "developing" nation where pirating is NOT illegal. I've downloaded as much as 1TB worth of movies and TV shows in a single month with no VPN and with no problems. So the other alternative is just to move to another country and you won't need a VPN subscription either.
When buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.
"If Buying Isn't Owning, Piracy Isn't Stealing." Corporations Did This Themselves With Their Greed.
Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me, back in the early 2010s era I learned what torrent is from a friend, needless to say my movie folder grew quite steadily, the irony of pirating the pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is not lost on me 😂
You aren’t pirating, you are training an AI
Honestly the move would be to go to a Metro by T-Mobile or Total Wireless store, get their home Internet service to use just for this super box thing. Then set up a VPN on the device itself and you're pretty much set. I'm pretty sure there's other things you can do to protect yourself but this is just what comes to mind. If you're gonna do something wrong, do it right.
Can I just create a separate wifi network for just this then VPN it so it's "double secure"?
Austin, it's not a pyramid scheme, it's being a reseller. That's literally how commerce works. Illegal commerce yeah, but still commerce.
It's only illegal in the USA, UK and Australia. In Canada, pirating movies is completely legal. And, as a Canadian expat living in warmer climes in my own paradise (an unnamed "developing" country) it's also not illegal here. Any movie that is released in theatres you can buy in DVD format the next day on any street corner. And there's no ramifications for doing this. Equally, pirating movies and TV shows (even Netflix and Apple shows) is perfectly legal where I live. And I've downloaded as much as 1TB of media every month with no problems for the last 20 years. "If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing."
@realismatitsfinest1Bro I've lived in a place where it was so called legal. It's still not legal, they just don't want to bother prosecuting it because they've got bigger problems. It's also illegal in Canada, they just don't prosecute it since it's a minor crime.
@realismatitsfinest1 its legal in the us tho
I cant imagine being this afraid of being pirating media.
Don’t out us. Been running a super box for years. It’s the best for live sports
free media hack yeah google it
I remember seeing a video where someone looked into the code and it had malware in it
what video was that?
@kodyblaze7507 if you search the product on RUclips there are some people in the piracy community that have talked about it
@kodyblaze7507it was probably Linus Tech Tips. They did a video about Android tv boxes and a lot of the ones from china that seem sketchy have spyware type stuff in them. They suggested the walmart onn boxes in the video.
That is what a VPN is for.
@harrkevif there is malware a VPN will do nothing to stop it.
You need a streaming tv guide in 2026 to find your favorite media. You can find it passively at your local grocery store while waiting in line to pay for your groceries
I have 3 Superboxes, all boxes work
The $50 Onn 4K Pro has better specs and a better remote in my opinion.
Even the standard $20 Onn 4K box is better.
0:48 feels like the car dealer pitching they’re “#1 IN HYGIENE!”
It also doesnt help when these streaming companies cry poverty as they raise prices repeatedly. But then you have to watch them fight one another with billions and billions to buy up their competition (see Disney vs Comcast for Fox/Hulu, see Paramount vs Netflix for WB). Then who do you think is going to pay for those purchases as they look to recoup those billions as quickly as possible? They move the goal posts on prices, advertisements (Prime, im looking at you), adding/removing content, etc. Streaming was an alternative to cable, now its the same evil greed at our expense.
I'd hope they'd give you a cat 8 cable if you spending that type of money
Even though most Cat 8 cables are a scam lol
Video just reminded me I need to set an appointment with my dental hygienist for a real-debridement.
Years ago I had a streaming service almost exactly like this that offered almost the exact same thing, except it i included all European stations too for $60 a year. I heard about it through a friend and had the service for over 2 years, until one day I turned on my TV and was informed the service was "temporarily suspended". Turned out the service I was gleefully using was just a group of people with a massive service that was selling access and it had been raided by the UK version of the FCC and shut down with several people arrested for copyright infringement! A few days later I was notified the service was again up and running, yet it was only back a few days before it was again shut down. What I learned, eventually, was they were systematic arresting the proxy host each time they rebooted the servers until the finally discovered the servers location. The service has been down for many years now, unfortunately, because that service was, again, only $60 yearly but offered over 8000 (yes, I meant 8000) channels from the US, UK, Europe, PPV, and Premium movies (also a wide variety of adult entertainment I discovered to my chagrin)!
my grandfather is doing this from our nearby convenience store lol. all the channels he would ever want and its been working since at least 2017.
Bruh now the superbox is going down after this video I had it for 4 years now… thanks to this guy it’s all over
There are better options anyway
Which are?????
@Notta-q7y Downloading torrents with a VPN and setting up your own Jellyfin or Plex server (preferably jellyfin) allowing you to actually own the content and have it forever even if the Internet goes down, nobody can take it away from you either.
Jellyfin has an app on nearly every streaming device, you can connect it to your server and it operates like any normal streaming service, and you can share your server with friends and family using something like tailscale.
@Notta-q7y Nvidia Shield Pro is a better box for cheaper. There are free apps to get shows and movies.
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You hate piracy until your phone only unlocks if you pay a weekly subscription cause that's the future
And yet almost never anyone has heard of this until Austin promoted piracy now :D
I’ve seen them for a year now but checking around they been longer than 5years
@Army_Of_JuanI don't normally look for piracy items.
People have heard of these and been using them for YEARS.
@RealJoeyImagenot true at all. Even their own website calls you a liar.
@Spankmepinkcongrats on being a good citizen. Piracy has been around longer than you have been alive
I work for an ISP and I can't tell you how many customers complain about bad service when it's their damn superbox having horrible wireless capabilities.
I can tell you from experience. It's likely not even the "Wifi capabilities" of the superbox itself. The wifi card has actually been fairly decent in the models I tested. That being said, they definitely get hit from outside of your network just as the video says cause frequent high ping, frequent timeouts when running continueous pings. People using these are essentially ddos'ing themselves by having it on their network.
@curtisharrison2452 sounds about right. Not exactly something I would want on my network
@curtisharrison2452so would having a dedicated hardwired router help with this issue ?
This dude will report himself for accidentally jwalking 😂😂
I may know someone that owns one and they love it. Allegedly, they seem to get all kinds of stations that they don’t have to have a subscription too. Damn you Austin for bringing this to the light
This has been a thing for years. It's nothing new. Alot of people are too afraid to ty anything like this to begin with so they never do any research
There's also a security researcher who took a look and reverse engineered it, that "app store" was flagged for malware!!!! So good thing you put it on a second network (video is here on youtube)
If buying is not owning,therefore piracy is not stealing
reminds me of IPTV
it is iptv, looks like those blue apps had the url and are verifying the mac of the box and logging in
Thats exactly what it is
Bro should have gotten it in the TikTok Shop for a third of the price.
No one should buy anything from TikTok Shop. Ever.
The TikTok shop has the older version
If it’s Chinese in 2 years you’re gonna be stuck with a $360 bricked/streaming box you can’t update anymore
Didn't watch the whole video OMW to Wal-Mart to get a superbox.
I’ve had one for a couple years now. It works, but it USES bandwidth. Like I can’t play PS5 online simultaneously. I set it up on a guest WiFi network separate from my main. It only knows that separate password. And I UNPLUG it when I’m not using it. Don’t fully trust these things with your passwords, and don’t leave them powered and running 24/7
Lol, I'll give you one guess as to why that could be.. Might not even be for a nefarious purpose.
It might be running as a peersharing type network in order to make this work well. That was my first thought when I seen how slow it was downloading stuff. Sorta like torrenting.
That or it runs through TOR or even both.
i connect mine to my phone and have no issue with 5mbps max tethering