<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kjkjadksj</author><text>In this case the drawback is the off chance you get a strongly worded letter from your isp you can throw away</text><parent_chain><item><author>guenthert</author><text>Well, there are plenty of benefits for all kinds of criminal activity, they just share one common drawback.</text></item><item><author>grishka</author><text>Best thing about piracy is that not only is there no ads, it&amp;#x27;s that you don&amp;#x27;t have to even think which streaming service has the particular show&amp;#x2F;movie you want. You also get to watch it on any device of your choice, in any player of your choice, completely offline. And you get to take screenshots. And it&amp;#x27;s free. I simply see no reason to ever pay for movies and tv shows — you pay money AND get a worse experience.</text></item><item><author>scrivna</author><text>Best thing about streaming subscriptions vs cable IMHO is NO ADS - I find it baffling people spend a hundred bucks a month on cable and still accept like 30% of the airtime is ads…. just no</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are we going back to the cable days?</title><url>https://thehustle.co/08222022-streaming-vs-cable/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Teever</author><text>Pirating is not a criminal activity in my country.&lt;p&gt;It likely isn&amp;#x27;t a criminal activity in your country either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guenthert</author><text>Well, there are plenty of benefits for all kinds of criminal activity, they just share one common drawback.</text></item><item><author>grishka</author><text>Best thing about piracy is that not only is there no ads, it&amp;#x27;s that you don&amp;#x27;t have to even think which streaming service has the particular show&amp;#x2F;movie you want. You also get to watch it on any device of your choice, in any player of your choice, completely offline. And you get to take screenshots. And it&amp;#x27;s free. I simply see no reason to ever pay for movies and tv shows — you pay money AND get a worse experience.</text></item><item><author>scrivna</author><text>Best thing about streaming subscriptions vs cable IMHO is NO ADS - I find it baffling people spend a hundred bucks a month on cable and still accept like 30% of the airtime is ads…. just no</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are we going back to the cable days?</title><url>https://thehustle.co/08222022-streaming-vs-cable/</url></story>