Or pirate for 0€.
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I do love piracy and I do do it sometimes. But sometimes I don't want to spend 20 minutes finding a torrent and then another 30 minutes to an hour waiting for it to download.
My main issue with it is that I have to pre-plan if I want to watch anything through that method.
That's what automation is for.
Whenever I come across an interesting movie/show; I open a webpage that I host, search for a title (results from imdb) and click 'add+search'.
~15min later, it's available for me, my friends, and my family to watch on my own private streaming service. (for such reliably quick downloads, I recommend usenet over torrents)
Other users besides me can even request content via Ombi.
that's sounds so complicated, just downloading it myself is easier
if someone made one application to install and set it up automatically id probably try it though
My setup is a conglomeration of a quite a few different pieces; but they are not all required. I'd encourage you to explore, start small and expand into new pieces/areas when you feel comfortable. I started this ~8 years ago with basically 0 knowledge of hosting web services; and just built up the knowledge through exploration over time.
If all you're looking to do is watch movies, and you're happy to play the downloaded media directly on your pc (or move the files around manually, just like manual torrenting); the only piece you need is Radarr.
Once setup; You tell it what movies you want to watch, it searches for those using the indexers you've given it (YourBittorrent, TPB, and BadassTorrents for example), choses the best results out of them all based on things like upload date, seeds, quality descriptors in the title, etc. Then passes that to your torrent/usenet client. Finally it will rename and sort the files into nicely organized media folders for you, once the download client has marked it as complete.
When it renamed them... Do you continue to seed (in the case of torrents)?
Torrents have two options:
Ideally you use Hardlinking - This creates a 'copy' of the file that's just a link to the original data, instead of actually duplicating it. This only works when both 'copies' are kept on the same drive/filesystem; but gives you two versions so you can leave one available to seed and have one renamed and sorted away.
Failing that, it can fallback to plain duplicating the files. One copy kept to seed, and one copy sorted away.
Personally, I've switched to usenet for 99% of downloads, so seeding isn't really a thing. It's there as a fallback though.
Thanks! This is useful.
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You don't have to download anything, there are amazing streaming sites: https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide
If everyone did that, then they might start cracking down.
At the very least, though, this person should be service hopping instead of paying for 13.
No, the last time everyone did that Netflix was created, which has nearly killed the piracy for most people.
We're just going back to the basics.
arrr!
How much is that in usd
yar har har, bottle of rum for me thx
There was a time when almost everything was on Netflix. As a consumer, having all my content in one place for $10/mo is awesome, but according to capitalism, it is a problem that needed to be fixed.
The crazy thing is loads of people stopped pirating and paid for a streaming service that was affordable, worked, met thier needs.
Now it's all splintered with corporations wanting a piece of the pie.
I’m about to cancel everything and buy a good vpn service.
And a good NAS. It’s worth every penny.
Isn't Synology having issues because they expect you to use specifically their drives?
Care to fill me in on what that’s about?
I could Google it, and I’ll do that if you tell me I’m a moron and that’s what I should do. I don’t want to be an imposition, I’d just rather hear from someone who know what they’re doing firsthand.
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It really did hurt my ressources for pirating though. After not downloading anything for years, finding the right sites and proxies again was hard.
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Movies were on Netflix, TV shows were on Hulu. It was great.
Once Netflix started on their whole “half of all our offerings are going to be original content” is when it began to go downhill. Literally no one (aside from executives) was sitting around going “man, I can’t wait until Netflix starts making shows and movies!” They were a service. That’s all they ever needed to be.
I think they were forced into it when the other companies decided they could make some of that sweet netflix money, so they stopped licensing to netflix and built their own services. Netflix had no choice but to build their own content.
Reminder that your local library likely has many great DVDs. Not just the classics either. I was surprised to see my library had Dune part 1&2 and many others.
No, you can't. It's $14.99 and in a few years you're going to lose access to it. Fuck you. Give us money.
...fuck you.
Or the youtube route. You van buy the movie in sd or hd, but also, if you don't watch it on our cancer app on your phone, it's like 480p, sorry not sorry
Arr matey. Easier now than ever.
You can get it for free in your local public library.
If you have a DVD/BlueRay player that is
I mean that's not a high bar too entry. I can find them for like $10 at tag sales, craigslut, etc.
One for Linux and LibreDrive gets quickly $70 to 80 tho.
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On your 13 PAID streaming services.
Nah you shouldn't pay for 13 at once.
If its not on Roku, Pluto, Tubi, YouTube, then I'll probably find something else interesting enough to watch.
I go to theaters sometimes, funny enough.
Premiumize, Torrentio, Stremio.
The Holy Trinity.
Pretty much every film with the smallest amount of popularity can be easily, freely torrented in high definition. Netflix has good OG anime, not worth the price of subscription but still, whilst other platforms don't even offer that. Why give them money? Learn to use the interwebs!
The one live action that is amazing is telling us all that it's good to be a pirate.
Therein lies the issue I have with modern streaming. When Netflix was the only game in town, things were mostly fine. Then I saw content I was actively watching disappear from the service, and research showed that this was due to licensing issues.
I saw the writing on the wall. Copyright holders were gearing up to make their own Netflix competitor streaming service. Which is exactly what they did.
When it all started, I dusted off my tri-point hat and got to work building "my own Netflix" and honestly, it's been amazing. A royal pain in my arse sometimes, but mostly amazing.
I have had the (dis)pleasure of dealing with some of the more recent streaming services, shortly before everyone started cracking down on "asking sharing" bullshit. I live in the same house as one subscriber, but I run my own network, and have my own Internet IP address, so I'm not in their "home" and can no longer use the service because of account sharing restrictions and related bullshit. Anyways.....
One thing that always grabbed me is that my own service puts all my recently watched shows that have new episodes front and center as soon as I open it up.... New streaming services either have that info halfway down the page, with the top of the page dominated by ads for new shows to watch, or whatever popular.... Meanwhile, I mainly just care about the show I've been watching and I want to watch what's new.... What a pain in the ass.
On top of that, I would have to memorize what service has what shows/movies, and if it's anything pre-streaming that's not part of a large franchise, like Star wars or Star Trek, or whatever, I usually have to look it up, or bounce between different services frantically searching for what I want.
No thanks.
The MPAA needs to take notes from the RIAA.... I subscribe to one music service and I never have any trouble finding what I want to listen to. ... Key takeaway: I subscribe to a music service.
I do not subscribe to any video streaming services.
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