Hard to describe since it’s literally called livetv… It uses the saint martin top level domain… ymmv

Don’t download their player obviously

Transcoding kills audio but whatever :)

So 128kbps transcoded to 96kbps? Seems like quite a significant price to pay, but whatever you’re happy with works for you :)

And that’s fine, I’m just sad how that type of content has significantly marginalised original films and shows.

Or the 100th marvel movie and tv show or some member-berries star wars show.

It seems to be a special torrent client that work similar to tor (guessing with less hops though) and bounce encrypted traffic on special “i2p routers”. Not sure if they do the onion style encryption of thor.

No they’ve committed to keeping it. But they have an issue with port availability so they’ll probably need to move to a per server allocation eventually. Recently they reduced the allocation per user down to 5 from 20 though just to delay when they run out.

Doesn’t US unions have money set aside for strikes so that they can support their members if there is a strike?