Please don’t do this. Piracy and things like this are probably the reason why they started doing the week delay for new episodes, in an attempt to get more memberships.

I’m not a huge fan of the week long wait, but I have to respect their decision. As a creator, and one who has friends that create content, pirating and shit like this decreases the chance of seasons being renewed and creators being allowed to continue to make and share new content.

And before people start with the “well, Rooster Teeth makes lots of money,” they’re still a relatively small company. Every dollar counts. Every view on the RT website shows interest in the show and every view with a membership shows that people are willing to put money towards the creation of the show.

Doing shit like signing up for a membership and cancelling before a charge happens points out that people aren’t willing to put money into the show. Also pirating an episode that is still free to the public after a few days literally hurts their numbers. They rely on subscriptions, numbers of viewers, and ad revenue to justify which shows are kept on their schedule and which ones are dumped, so adblockers and view blockers hurt their numbers as well. Their data will show lower numbers of people who are willing to watch it even for free. Also bad numbers due to impatient people viewing somewhere that isn’t the RT site or their Youtube channel means they can’t hire as many people and they can’t justify keeping the show alive. Resources being taken away from a show leads to the show being cancelled.

Look, I understand people are upset about not being up to date and not wanting to get spoiled, but doing shit like this isn’t a good idea. They still put the content up a week later for free! Not many companies or studios do that.

Please support official releases. Please consider paying for a First membership if you love their content. Don’t do this nonsense. You’re hurting the industry, the show, and writers and artists like you.