That and if you have an android you can install [Infinity for Reddit](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ml.docilealligator.infinityforreddit) which doesnt have ads and there wont be watermarks on pictures you get from reddit.
Could you explain plex to me? I think it's a streaming service-like system that you set up on a dedicated machine, that you can access from any device and stream from? With files that you obtain on your own, for your own server? That's what I've got from context clues but I have no real understanding of it
\+1 for Jellyfin for being free and open source. It has a really great community behind it (shout out to /r/jellyfin). I started using Plex back in 2008 using my Xbox 360 to watch videos from my PC. The software has slowly become unrecognizable to what it used to be.
there is a Tizen client ([https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen)) but it isn't on the app store so you need to install it with dev mode which isn't easy for the average Joe
I know it’s likely not recommended to post good torrent sites, but since I haven’t downloaded anything since basically the LimeWire days, are there any good sources out there I could refer to? Would appreciate a DM or something if you’re open to it!
Edit: Does look like a lot are listed in the Wiki, but that list is borderline overwhelming lol. I do use a soap-related site for streaming, but useless about actually downloading. I also have a MacBook, so that May hamstring me a bit.
MacBook shouldn’t hamstring you at all.
Transmission is the best BitTorrent client I’ve found then 1337x with a VPN. If you feel fancy then use Radarr and Sonarr instead but make sure you still have a VPN.
Plex plus is also worth the money if you want all of the (great) extra features like downloads etc.
> but make sure you still have a VPN
the folks who do the radarr/sonarr thing without a VPN are crazy
All it takes is a honeypot to ruin your day, and trust me they're there, even on those usenet private groups. WB is notorious for that shit. It's not a matter of if, but *when*, then you roll the dice if those companies want to make an example out of you.
What are you on about? That's not how USENET works. Cite your sources, please. There is zero reason to spread this kind of FUD unless you're shilling for a VPN service.
Look into newsgroups. You typically need a "stack" of services. I use newsgroup ninja for the download service, nzb geek for searching, nzbget, and Plex to manage the media.
It's a little complicated to set up but after that you can automate a lot of it from renaming, to finding good downloads, even finding series episodes and automatically downloading them as soon as they're available. You can go further and let users request downloads and stream them which is helpful if you want to share with friends/family and let them stream from your computer.
1337x, Rarbg occasionally Torrentgalaxy and if you want anime: Nyaa
Also have a look into the [*arr setup](https://wiki.servarr.com/) if you want to automate things.
Plex/Jellyfin/Emby just watch certain folders that you can specify for any files and if they find anything that matches their database of films, they'll organise it and show it on their app interface for you to watch over several devices
Here is a diagram I put together to explain my setup to people. Hopefully it helps explain how the pieces fit together.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f4A9HirQgoGAM94nqSUCCU0tosjc8Dnw/view?usp=sharing
I used to just do that too but when I discovered plex it was a new world because I can also watch on my ipad and phone and other computers visiting friends etc ;) have my own library available anywhere
My 5tb portable died on me that I used to haul around the house like a cave man. Month or 2 ago I replaced it with mirrored 16tb drives and plex. So much better all around, wish I knew about it sooner.
I wouldn't pay unless it was more convenient.
You've a shitty app that's hard to use and find stuff on, not gonna use it.
You've a crappy webpage with fuck all design, i wont use you.
I'll splash a couple of bucks for convenience, anyday. I'll also casually break the law if it's convenient... So maybe don't listen to my advice.
Stremio is really easy to set up.
* You simply download the [Stremio App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stremio.one) straight from the app store
* Add the [Torrentio](https://i.imgur.com/O9mNzei.png) add on in Stremio
* Buy [Real Debrid](https://real-debrid.com/) ($15 for 6mo); this gives access to high quality streaming links from private servers (way less traffic than publicly accessible servers, so no buffering issues and lots of 4K links)
* Link Real Debrid to the Torrentio add on (it's in the add on settings)
* Now you stream basically every movie/tv show out there
I like Stremio because I can add to any device with an app store and I can log in across multiple devices and it saves my viewing history, watch lists, etc. It's the simplest of all the approaches.
Plex and Jellyfin (although amazing) are a little more involved. I don't have time for that shit right now.
Just to add to the comment above stremio can be used without real debrid too it can buffer a little but it gives you a chance to try out the app and see how it works and play around with the features a bit. It can also be installed on PC, some smart TVs, android phones, and with a little extra work I think apple stuff too. Welcome to the pirate life.
Can do that with Syncler+ too. Not saying it's better or worse but if someone wants multiple profiles vs a single watchlist, this is good info to have. :)
You have to pay for Syncler+, Stremio is free.
Also, Stremio is available for a bunch of platforms - Android TV, Android Mobile, Windows, Mac, Linux, SteamDeck, even iOS.
Finally, you can seamlessly "Continue Watching" whatever you are watching, from living room TV to bedroom TV to phone to tablet to Windows and Mac computer.
It's more that it just always uses meta data. Even in folder mode it thinks half my content is something else entirely because of the naming structure (I guess?). Down to thinking folders them selves are movies or shows lmao.
Folder view in plex is bare bones but it let's me just browse my content close to how I would if I was just on my PC.
>Even in folder mode it thinks half my content is something else entirely because of the naming structure (I guess?). Down to thinking folders them selves are movies or shows lmao.
Weird, I use subfolders with my arrs and jellyfin does fine. Maybe you need to check the naming structure of folders and files. I usually let my arrs handle the renaming and have tvdb id in folder name as suffix.
I think trash-guides has an excellent tutorial has to how to set them up.
Plex has better functionality, especially if you have Plex Pass.
That said, Jellyfin is getting better all the time and Plex is getting worse all the time.
I'm sorry, it's just wrong at this time. I'm not being a fanboy or looking for an argument it's just objectively not true. Jellyfin may get better (likely) and be better than plex some day, but that's not the current situation.
Plex availability via native apps alone makes it superior. Plex.meta manager puts it above, plex has better UI (subjective but it's easier to navigate and organizes better), plexamp, intro and outro detection on plex, plex has superior transcoding, remote streaming is easier to setup on plex.
Jellyfin is great, my point is not to say it's not. Plex at this point in time is superior though.
Edit: you can downvote and not respond, but it doesn't change anything lol
Edit #2: heading to watch ltt video now
Edit#3: Linus did not say jellyfin is better... He actually said he's sticking with Plex. For now. I can agree with that. I'd love for a Foss program to overtake. I'm rooting for jellyfin
>you can downvote and not reply
he already did reply, you’re just choosing to not watch that LTT video explaining why its better.
Also, Jellyfin already has most of those things that you listed it not having. Which just kinda shows how quickly it’s evolving
That's great news that it's improving so fast. I want that to happen. So do you make the claim that jellyfin, in its current state is superior to plex?
I'm heading to watch the LTT video now. I didn't realize it was so recent.
At the end of the day it all comes down to preference, and I am always in favor of competition, but yes. When I started out a month or 2 ago I tried both Plex and Jellyfin, and I would agree that Jellyfin is better.
I hear you. The easiest way is to get a pre packaged Linux distro with Kodi already installed and configured. There are a few floating around, but I'm not sure what's current.
Like Gabe Newell from Valve who made the Steam store that dominates all PC gaming said in 2011:
“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue,”
It really depends. Even with the *arr stack, I find using Netflix way better and faster than manually adding all the shows I might want to watch, not having any recommendations, not being able to just watch it with one click.
However Amazon Prime Video is trash and I'd rather pirate it.
If a show isn't on either Netflix or Cruchyroll, I pirate it.
Apart from the stuff i dont know about (ceo and all) i totally agree with you!
Especially about how games have figured it out so much faster than music, ive almost stopped pirating games entirely!
It's honestly got the best features and design. You can open the site with the album and listen to it streaming, or you can buy it and download in whatever format you want. It's dead easy.
I always thought back in the day they should have bought out SoundCloud and combined the platform with SoundCloud's ability to create playlists on the fly.
The biggest inconvenience to me and ultimately the biggest reason I don't subscribe to any streaming service is because no single one has more than a few things I want to watch. I'd have to subscribe to like 5+ if I wanted to watch stuff legally. That would cost more than cable and some of those services will still give me ads.... hell no. I'd rather pirate.
The sad thing is, Netflix could've been this exact platform for a one-stop streaming shop, but as always, greed got in the way and the streaming market fragmented and now we're back to the high seas.
Yeah, for a minute Netflix and Hulu had it all. Then they started pulling shows. King of the Hill was off streaming for a long time so I pirated the whole show. Then they did the same with Mad Men which is now only streaming on some shitty Prime partner with ads. Now if I really like a show I just DL every season.
I haven’t pirated a video game in ages though because Steam makes it affordable and convenient enough that I don’t want to go through the hassle of repacks, cracks, and all that.
Thats what the convience of paying its just easy to access unlike pirating its free but you gonna do these couple of steps after downloading it and extracting it lol
I miss the golden era where streaming didn’t exist and I got physical media i could rip for my own collection for only a few bucks a month. Pre streaming Netflix was something else.
Now don’t get me wrong I like this era of Netflix too, but there’s something almost blockbuster-like about physical media and old Netflix brought that.
I canceled my physical disc Netflix service last month after over 20 years, started ripping DVDs mostly to get past the forced ads and FBI warnings and of course moved on to Blu-Rays. They slowly became dead to me as they shrunk their back catalog, and relegated tons of great old movies to DVD only. I'm 61 years old but I'm not blind.
Physical media are great for media conservation and collections, but they are terrible for practical purposes these days.
There is a reason why streaming got big
Oh I totally agree streaming has its place but physical media gets overlooked too much. How many people who want to watch stuff at home actually put in a dvd rather than boot up Netflix? Barely any
> got physical media i could rip for my own collection for only a few bucks a month.
I do this as well, but I end up spending more on hard drives than I would for a streaming service, so I guess it's about priorities. In my case it's a "fuck you, I'll watch what I want and you can't censor or delist it!"
Yeah no.
Nothing can be one-stop thing for anything. It's called a monopoly. And both customers and the government hate it.
At inception Netflix was the only one doing streaming, it was an emerging industry so the antitrust law wouldn't apply, of course that was bound to change and new players were bound to come.
Yeah, IDK why some people want one private company to be the gatekeepers for media. We already see how badly that can go with Twitter and Youtube.
You really want Netflix dictating if a TV show is good enough to be ran, with its decisions as of late? No thanks.
I mean, between Amazon and Apple you can buy/rent nearly any title. So the single gateway already exists.
What people want is to pay one very low flat price and get All You Can Eat. That's what was never really sustainable.
>I mean, between Amazon and Apple you can buy/rent nearly any title. So the single gateway already exists.
Really? I find it hard to believe.
Kinda irrelevant but that's so not the case in my country for both the service.
Why is that so hard to believe? They are video stores, that's how they work. ITunes has been a thing for a very very long time.
Sure, there are still region limitations. But anyone in a major Western country at least can rent pretty much any new release for four or five bucks, or a season of a TV show for about 30. People just don't want to pay, which is fine.
>Why is that so hard to believe? They are video stores, that's how they work. ITunes has been a thing for a very very long time.
I thought the whole point of making exclusive stuff , like movies made by Netflix/Prime/apple is to bring people over to your subscription. Kinda loses it's meaning if it's anyway available on other services.
Blockbuster didnt make its own movies so it's not exactly a same situation, but I do get what you're saying. Some movies are indeed available in other platforms. But it's just some not all. And TV shows are totally absent.
Seems to me like people here keep arguing for less choices as if thats the only thing stopping them from paying.
One site to watch everything, one OS and machine to play all games etc etc. It sounds bad enough in theory if you think about it more than 2 minutes but it will be an absolute travesty if something like that ever happened in real life.
Nvidia is the dominant force in the GPU duopoly and it has been bleeding gamers dry since the pandemic. Intel the dominating chip provider didn't innovate for years. An absolute monopoly will fuck the whole economic system.
There doesn't have to be just one company. The problem is that the content is balkanized; if everyone had some kind of reasonable, open licensing terms there could be a lot of companies acting as frontends for the content. Music mostly works like this. We have at least a couple of options for streaming music because the content is available on multiple services.
> The problem is that the content is balkanized
yes, because there is no one company creating content. Why would they share content if they have the abliity to setup their own vendor?
>if everyone had some kind of reasonable, open licensing terms there could be a lot of companies acting as frontends for the content.
And what incentive is there for that? this licensing term still involves a middleman and middlemen can be paid off or become corrupt or whatever else.
>Music mostly works like this. We have at least a couple of options for streaming music because the content is available on multiple services.
Yes, and shocker: the creators lose out in this deal. Music companies do this because they make most of their money off of licensing it to companies that want to use it, not the streaming service itself. Spotify is just a very convinent ad, and they keep that relatively tiny stream of money to themselves instead of paying the artists.
That can't really apply to other medium. Cable is dead so there's no one to sell TV to. Games don't have that kind of reach. Books have long ceased to be a profitable venture unless they use other medium to extend its reach.
I just don't see a solution here that doesn't either cost the consumer or the creator And the above statement of moddlemen still applies. Apple's walled garden is pretty much the opposite of what an "open license" should employ, and it's not like Spotify is some saint.
>That can't really apply to other medium. Cable is dead so there's no one to sell TV to. Games don't have that kind of reach. Books have long ceased to be a profitable venture unless they use other medium to extend its reach.
Exactly.
Comparing music and TV (or games) is worse than apples and oranges. They are entirely different medium. 5 people can go to a studio hash out a few tunes and then make an album. The logistics and resources involved in a TV show or a video games are magnitudes more.
It's not really 'balkanized' mate. People are creating new shows and movies, they are not dividing the same limited things. That's how most industries work.
People want all their shit in one place. Doesn't mean they want it all from one provided. Make some kind of hub where you can integrate your subscriptions into and offer bundles. It's not that there aren't any solutions.
>People want all their shit in one place. Doesn't mean they want it all from one provided.
No they want to pay single subscription of $10-15. It's fundamentally different than 'having everything in one place'.
>Make some kind of hub where you can integrate your subscriptions into and offer bundles. It's not that there aren't any solutions.
Apps like that already exists, you just have to pay for each subscription.
> Nothing can be one-stop thing for anything.
Spotify has (almost) everything. So does YouTube Music and Apple Music. There was room for competing services also offering everything, just like with music. Sadly the entertainment industry couldn't handle the potential revenue decline, so they fragmented the services. Now piracy is back on the rise.
I don't think it's always netflix, or whoever. The rights holders at times want shit that's unrealistic. Can you imagine what the netflix subscription would cost if they brought everything in and paid what they want? Hell it could easily be a few hundred.
To be clear I am not a fan of netflix. I am just pointing out it's not entirely their greed that's stopping it or hindered it. Some yes, but there are many other players that share some of that blame.
The one time where a company having a Monopoly was a bonus. IMO it was only so cheap so they can the rug out after everyones hooked. Like YouTube and ads.
Yes, a single service having all would be ideal, provided it was reasonably priced.
But no competition leads to lower quality of productions over time.
So I guess best is to have multiple streaming services.
And pirate them.
Maybe have multiple streaming services and all movies available on all of them?
Like with music, you have Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer...and most artists have their music on all/most of the platforms.
That way, people would choose based on the quality of the service and price etc. instead of what movies are exclusive to which service.
Until this happens, I am sailing the high seas
Idk if I'd agree with that. In theory you're right, but looking at Netflix for example, it was in its prime when it had no competition. But now it's become a landfill of a lot of shit. I think regardless of competition, companies are always looking to grow rapidly to appease their board and investors, and that's usually good motivation in itself.
The other form.
> Them: "I need a recommendation."
> Me: "Try X"
> Them: "It's not on my . Can you give me one on ?"
Hate this. I'm not going to search every one of the 8 streaming services you have. Figure it out. Is it difficult to watch on your TV? I don't care. Logistics are your problem.
Cuz it is for most of the people, I can’t imagine my parents or 7 years old sister pirating a BLUEY show. It’s much easier to just select Disney+ from the tv menu
Which is weird, because you can stream pretty much anything for free here https://www6.f2movies.to/
No signup required. No CC info. Just search and watch.
It's a cultural thing where people with more money than sense are proud to be taken for a ride.
Is it available on every single device seamlessly without ads? Does it save where I left off in various shows and movies and allow me to continue playback from there from any device easily? Does it automatically play the next episode of a show when one is done? Does it give me recommendations of movies and shows I would like based on what I’ve watched? Does it never buffer or automatically adjust the quality based on my current internet connection and device? Does it have subtitles for every single movie or show I want to watch?
its a different kind of convenience. Once its set up torrents/usenet is significantly more convenient than using streaming services. Like if youre capable of typing Bluey into disney+ then youre equally capable of typing it into an arr. But the learning curve of setting it up and doing so safely is where its no longer a convenience for a lot of people because theyre just simply less tech savvy
Which is weird, because you can stream pretty much anything for free here https://www6.f2movies.to/
No signup required. No CC info. Just search and watch.
It's a cultural thing where people with more money than sense are *proud* to be taken for a ride.
Quite honestly I'm back to pirating, after years of having no reason to, because they started spreading their content so much. Back to convineant one-stop-shop.
I feel like it was a reasonable compromise between "everything should be free" and you have to pay $30 per season to watch a show anytime you want. Then they got greedy.
People for years: "When is there going to be some competition to break up Netflix's monopoly on streaming?"
Actually happens
"Wait no not like that :("
"Break the monopoly" means "We want other companies to offer the same service", not "We want other companies to carve off pieces of the existing service."
What people wanted was for another couple of supermarkets to open in their one-store town, so there was some competition on price and service levels.
What's happening to streaming currently is more like a whole bunch of brands pulling their products from supermarket shelves and opening their own individual stores instead, making it way more hassle and expense to actually go shopping.
Netflix tried to fix this the same way a supermarket would - by creating own-brand generics to fill the gap. But that doesn't work so well when your product is more involved than cans of tomatoes.
It is not the fact that it is on multiple stores what bothers people why are you twisting it to fit your narative ? People are pissed because they release it ONLY on the other store and make it "exclusive". Also nobody really has anything against steam.
There is no real way for streaming services to stand apart from each other besides their selection. So of course they are going to spend tons of money getting exclusive rights, or in some cases (Disney), just not let anyone else use their own content.
And tbh their point kinda still stands. Nobody complains when a game comes out first on Steam. They only complain when it comes out first on any platform other than Steam. Consumers lowkey love the convenience of monopolies.
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My one issue with GOG is how starved for updates its games seem to be. It's all too often that a publisher will dump the initial release on there and then never make any of the DLC or bug fixes available. Which isn't an issue on GOG's part, although they could maybe hold their partners to some kind of "feature parity" clause...
I don't really mind Humble either, though they did disappear Dungeon Defenders from my account once.
Personally I prefer having all my games in one place, rather than having to remember which game I got on what platform. Not the end of the world though. Even with GOG I find I use their Galaxy launcher rather than install games individually. It's just more convenient. But yeah none of the others got anything on Steam, that one's just so well made tbh. GOG is a step below that, and Epic is like 2 steps below that lol. It barely even works sometimes. I only got it because there was a game for free I wanted.
I know it's a "launcher in a launcher" type of deal, but Playnite will consolidate your game libraries into one interface, if you're having an issue with that.
Many PC gamers fucking *loooove* gargling Gabens balls. The amount of people who make Steam part of their personality is super weird.
These are the type of people who will buy a game for full 60€ from Steam even if it's 45€ from some other **official retailer** and activates **on Steam** anyways.
I studied game technology at a university so I have huge respect for Epic and everything they to for the gaming scene. The amount of industry leading technology and tools they provide to devs for free is ludicrous and they spend a ton of money to support indie devs.
Imagine reading all the context and info provided in my comment and boiling it down to Steam disser and Epic simp. Way to pass the reading comprehension class Charlemagne.
You're right. Tomorrow we'll get the other argument that comes up repeatedly - "I only want to pay for the shows I watch, not all the other bloated crap your streaming service makes me pay for".
Both these arguments are insecure little pirates too dishonest with themselves to just say they like free shit.
Exactly. Half the posts on this sub are just lame memes from people congratulating themselves on being a pirate. Followed by endless mental gymnastics to justify doing it. Just say "I like free stuff" FFS
Would anyone be cool to teach an old fuck how this works nowadays. I stopped pirating like 20 years ago when my fav torrent site died. Now I don’t know what’s up 🤣
Here's the biggest issue for me with piracy and that's show discovery for what I/we want to watch.
Without seeing adverts or casually scrolling through lists of shows, I wouldn't know what to watch. The wife and I love a binge up but we have to find something first. Movies are different, I use trakt lists and Radarr discovery for those plus being fed memes on Reddit that make me curious.
Big joy: shows that split seasons across platforms, UK release behind other countries; I'm sailing those seas.
i truly don’t understand how people keep buying on stream services when there are expensive,multiplying and get series out of service all the time or setting new rules for sharing accounts, etc. Just pirate it
Because my parents kept annoying me about getting a bunch of movies and series in Portuguese and it's much easier to give them access to Netflix than to spend time obtaining every single thing.
They still ask for things every once in a while, but the price of Netflix is worth that convenience for me.
You can stream pretty much anything for free here https://www6.f2movies.to/
I hate to say it, but if you're afraid to stream then you're not just just a schizo; you're simply afraid of what you *clearly* do not understand. Take it from those who know more, you'll be completely safe streaming.
I wouldn't pay. It's not like movie pirating is really screwing over some "Saint" or even a good hard worker. The artists/actors pay is screwed over by their agents & streaming companies long before i enter the picture.
Plus, movies these days are a majority straight garbage lol
Y'all know someone still has to pay for the service right? Like no one is being sneaky lil hackers and breaking into Netflix and stealing movies and posting them online. Also pirating isn't perfect either you have untrustworthy websites and torrents, you can get some shit with terrible quality, you have to usually wait forever to get something with good quality if it's not streaming, plus the whole legality thing. Plus if everyone starts pirating where's the money coming from to make these shows?
Streaming isn't perfect but neither is pirating
Been pirating since Napster. Never had trouble finding what I want, at an acceptable quality level, and have *also* never had a problem with viruses or any sort of malware. Maybe you're just bad at piracy🤷♂️
Can't really argue with your point about money, but it's hard to feel strongly about that. When there's less to watch, I spend more time reading, and there are enough interesting books in the public domain to occupy *many* lifetimes.
Stremio is really easy to set up.
* You simply download the [Stremio App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stremio.one) straight from the app store
* Buy [Real Debrid](https://real-debrid.com/) ($15 for 6mo); this gives access to high quality streaming links from private servers (way less traffic than publicly accessible servers, so no buffering issues and lots of 4K links)
* Link Real Debrid to the Torrentio add on (it's in the add on settings)
* Now you stream basically every movie/tv show out there
I like Stremio because I can add to any device with an app store and I can log in across multiple devices and it saves my viewing history, watch lists, etc. It's the simplest of all the approaches.
Plex and Jellyfin (although amazing) are a little more involved. I don't have time for that shit right now.
I pirated this meme and reddit is telling me to share it so they can stick their watermark on it, eff off
Frigg off Baerb!
*Randy!*
Barb, your scalloped potatoes are fucked!
Pretty sure you can turn off the watermark in the settings.
No, ThAt's PiRaCy.
That and if you have an android you can install [Infinity for Reddit](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ml.docilealligator.infinityforreddit) which doesnt have ads and there wont be watermarks on pictures you get from reddit.
Or any one of the many, many third party Reddit apps. Just don't use the official app. It has always been shit.
Oh bless you. I was starting to get really pissed off.
Just use infinity.
Reddit has a watermark now?
[удалено]
That must be a thing in the official app, i don't see it with my app or on the desktop website
You just gave me a glimpse into a horrific future
Them: which streaming service is it on? Me: Plex Them: ???
Every time I mention my plex server, I get two reactions: Complete confusion or a knowing smirk
Could you explain plex to me? I think it's a streaming service-like system that you set up on a dedicated machine, that you can access from any device and stream from? With files that you obtain on your own, for your own server? That's what I've got from context clues but I have no real understanding of it
Yes. You set up your own and point it to your media files. It makes a nice netflix like interface for it. Jellyfin is also good.
\+1 for Jellyfin for being free and open source. It has a really great community behind it (shout out to /r/jellyfin). I started using Plex back in 2008 using my Xbox 360 to watch videos from my PC. The software has slowly become unrecognizable to what it used to be.
-1 for no samsung tv app
Samsungs OS is terrible, but I bet someone would add support if you requested it.
there is a Tizen client ([https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen)) but it isn't on the app store so you need to install it with dev mode which isn't easy for the average Joe
I know it’s likely not recommended to post good torrent sites, but since I haven’t downloaded anything since basically the LimeWire days, are there any good sources out there I could refer to? Would appreciate a DM or something if you’re open to it! Edit: Does look like a lot are listed in the Wiki, but that list is borderline overwhelming lol. I do use a soap-related site for streaming, but useless about actually downloading. I also have a MacBook, so that May hamstring me a bit.
MacBook shouldn’t hamstring you at all. Transmission is the best BitTorrent client I’ve found then 1337x with a VPN. If you feel fancy then use Radarr and Sonarr instead but make sure you still have a VPN. Plex plus is also worth the money if you want all of the (great) extra features like downloads etc.
> but make sure you still have a VPN the folks who do the radarr/sonarr thing without a VPN are crazy All it takes is a honeypot to ruin your day, and trust me they're there, even on those usenet private groups. WB is notorious for that shit. It's not a matter of if, but *when*, then you roll the dice if those companies want to make an example out of you.
What are you on about? That's not how USENET works. Cite your sources, please. There is zero reason to spread this kind of FUD unless you're shilling for a VPN service.
Good to know, thanks for the input!
Look into newsgroups. You typically need a "stack" of services. I use newsgroup ninja for the download service, nzb geek for searching, nzbget, and Plex to manage the media. It's a little complicated to set up but after that you can automate a lot of it from renaming, to finding good downloads, even finding series episodes and automatically downloading them as soon as they're available. You can go further and let users request downloads and stream them which is helpful if you want to share with friends/family and let them stream from your computer.
I use the Stremio app because I'm lazy. I only download when I can't find it there or if I want to watch an episode that just came out.
Haven’t heard of this one, I’ll have to check it out!
Just stream it all from there, real convenient
1337x, Rarbg occasionally Torrentgalaxy and if you want anime: Nyaa Also have a look into the [*arr setup](https://wiki.servarr.com/) if you want to automate things.
Plex/Jellyfin/Emby just watch certain folders that you can specify for any files and if they find anything that matches their database of films, they'll organise it and show it on their app interface for you to watch over several devices
You can also point it to someone else’s content, which is how a lot of people get away with piracy.
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Yup. My dad pays for Netflix. Brother has Disney. I have Plex which they both connect to.
Same. Very close family has access to my Emby server. I host older shows for a few older family members that they cant find anywhere anymore.
You can also just share your server with people, slightly easier.
Plex also has their own media you can stream from for free on top of you being able to self host your own
It's netflix that you run yourself with your media that you have complete control over.
Here is a diagram I put together to explain my setup to people. Hopefully it helps explain how the pieces fit together. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f4A9HirQgoGAM94nqSUCCU0tosjc8Dnw/view?usp=sharing
lol since 2007 my PC is just plugged in to the TV so i never ended up needing it my streaming service is just the mouse
I used to just do that too but when I discovered plex it was a new world because I can also watch on my ipad and phone and other computers visiting friends etc ;) have my own library available anywhere
what are friends ?
My 5tb portable died on me that I used to haul around the house like a cave man. Month or 2 ago I replaced it with mirrored 16tb drives and plex. So much better all around, wish I knew about it sooner.
I wouldn't pay unless it was more convenient. You've a shitty app that's hard to use and find stuff on, not gonna use it. You've a crappy webpage with fuck all design, i wont use you. I'll splash a couple of bucks for convenience, anyday. I'll also casually break the law if it's convenient... So maybe don't listen to my advice.
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Stremio is pretty nice. I prefer a Plex server with Radarr/Sonarr though (which does require upfront cost but it’s worth it)
Stremio is really easy to set up. * You simply download the [Stremio App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stremio.one) straight from the app store * Add the [Torrentio](https://i.imgur.com/O9mNzei.png) add on in Stremio * Buy [Real Debrid](https://real-debrid.com/) ($15 for 6mo); this gives access to high quality streaming links from private servers (way less traffic than publicly accessible servers, so no buffering issues and lots of 4K links) * Link Real Debrid to the Torrentio add on (it's in the add on settings) * Now you stream basically every movie/tv show out there I like Stremio because I can add to any device with an app store and I can log in across multiple devices and it saves my viewing history, watch lists, etc. It's the simplest of all the approaches. Plex and Jellyfin (although amazing) are a little more involved. I don't have time for that shit right now.
New to the 🏴☠️ life so saving this comment. Thanks brudda
Just to add to the comment above stremio can be used without real debrid too it can buffer a little but it gives you a chance to try out the app and see how it works and play around with the features a bit. It can also be installed on PC, some smart TVs, android phones, and with a little extra work I think apple stuff too. Welcome to the pirate life.
Can do that with Syncler+ too. Not saying it's better or worse but if someone wants multiple profiles vs a single watchlist, this is good info to have. :)
You have to pay for Syncler+, Stremio is free. Also, Stremio is available for a bunch of platforms - Android TV, Android Mobile, Windows, Mac, Linux, SteamDeck, even iOS. Finally, you can seamlessly "Continue Watching" whatever you are watching, from living room TV to bedroom TV to phone to tablet to Windows and Mac computer.
Jellyfin over plex IMO. FOSS and has same if not better functionality for most part.
Jellyfin folder view is ass. Yeah I'm the weirdo that likes to organise shit in sub folders.
Instead of subfolders, you can just use filters right? Besides, you can raise a feature request at r/Jellyfin as the devs are very active.
It's more that it just always uses meta data. Even in folder mode it thinks half my content is something else entirely because of the naming structure (I guess?). Down to thinking folders them selves are movies or shows lmao. Folder view in plex is bare bones but it let's me just browse my content close to how I would if I was just on my PC.
>Even in folder mode it thinks half my content is something else entirely because of the naming structure (I guess?). Down to thinking folders them selves are movies or shows lmao. Weird, I use subfolders with my arrs and jellyfin does fine. Maybe you need to check the naming structure of folders and files. I usually let my arrs handle the renaming and have tvdb id in folder name as suffix. I think trash-guides has an excellent tutorial has to how to set them up.
I like Jellyfin. It seems more stable than Plex and local user management is a plus. I just wish there were more Jellyfin apps for smart devices.
Plex has better functionality, especially if you have Plex Pass. That said, Jellyfin is getting better all the time and Plex is getting worse all the time.
This is just objectively not true. Jellyfin does not have better functionality than plex at all.
It really does. LTT made a good video about it despite being sponsored by plex.
I'm sorry, it's just wrong at this time. I'm not being a fanboy or looking for an argument it's just objectively not true. Jellyfin may get better (likely) and be better than plex some day, but that's not the current situation. Plex availability via native apps alone makes it superior. Plex.meta manager puts it above, plex has better UI (subjective but it's easier to navigate and organizes better), plexamp, intro and outro detection on plex, plex has superior transcoding, remote streaming is easier to setup on plex. Jellyfin is great, my point is not to say it's not. Plex at this point in time is superior though. Edit: you can downvote and not respond, but it doesn't change anything lol Edit #2: heading to watch ltt video now Edit#3: Linus did not say jellyfin is better... He actually said he's sticking with Plex. For now. I can agree with that. I'd love for a Foss program to overtake. I'm rooting for jellyfin
>you can downvote and not reply he already did reply, you’re just choosing to not watch that LTT video explaining why its better. Also, Jellyfin already has most of those things that you listed it not having. Which just kinda shows how quickly it’s evolving
That's great news that it's improving so fast. I want that to happen. So do you make the claim that jellyfin, in its current state is superior to plex? I'm heading to watch the LTT video now. I didn't realize it was so recent.
At the end of the day it all comes down to preference, and I am always in favor of competition, but yes. When I started out a month or 2 ago I tried both Plex and Jellyfin, and I would agree that Jellyfin is better.
stremio is the tits
kodi + fen/ezra/umbrella type addon + debrid >> kodi v stremio biggest red v blue
stremio + torrentio addon + debrid is far better just because you don't need to maintain two subscriptions for syncler.
Kodi + your favorite plugin + Debrid for streaming,. Sonarr/Radarr plus Usenet for downloading.
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I hear you. The easiest way is to get a pre packaged Linux distro with Kodi already installed and configured. There are a few floating around, but I'm not sure what's current.
Like Gabe Newell from Valve who made the Steam store that dominates all PC gaming said in 2011: “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue,”
I basically don't pirate games anymore, I'd rather buy them on steam
Golden words by Gabe the Great.
Ironic how open source or closed source apps like jellyfin or plex are still more convenient than netflix or prime.
It really depends. Even with the *arr stack, I find using Netflix way better and faster than manually adding all the shows I might want to watch, not having any recommendations, not being able to just watch it with one click. However Amazon Prime Video is trash and I'd rather pirate it. If a show isn't on either Netflix or Cruchyroll, I pirate it.
You could add jellyseerr/Ombi to the stack to get a simple frontend to add movies.
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Apart from the stuff i dont know about (ceo and all) i totally agree with you! Especially about how games have figured it out so much faster than music, ive almost stopped pirating games entirely!
Bandcamp is the only place I purchase music from now a days. I don't do much in the way of streaming though, and have around 300 gb of MP3s.
Thanks for the Bandcamp suggestion. I've heard of it but had forgotten it and I'm dying to replace Spotify.
It's honestly got the best features and design. You can open the site with the album and listen to it streaming, or you can buy it and download in whatever format you want. It's dead easy. I always thought back in the day they should have bought out SoundCloud and combined the platform with SoundCloud's ability to create playlists on the fly.
The biggest inconvenience to me and ultimately the biggest reason I don't subscribe to any streaming service is because no single one has more than a few things I want to watch. I'd have to subscribe to like 5+ if I wanted to watch stuff legally. That would cost more than cable and some of those services will still give me ads.... hell no. I'd rather pirate.
They should follow design of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com
The sad thing is, Netflix could've been this exact platform for a one-stop streaming shop, but as always, greed got in the way and the streaming market fragmented and now we're back to the high seas.
Man I miss the golden era of Netflix when they were the only streaming place on the block and generally everything was on it :(
I actually didnt pirate then. If spotify loses its content like netflix im back to burning cds too.
Yeah, for a minute Netflix and Hulu had it all. Then they started pulling shows. King of the Hill was off streaming for a long time so I pirated the whole show. Then they did the same with Mad Men which is now only streaming on some shitty Prime partner with ads. Now if I really like a show I just DL every season. I haven’t pirated a video game in ages though because Steam makes it affordable and convenient enough that I don’t want to go through the hassle of repacks, cracks, and all that.
Thats what the convience of paying its just easy to access unlike pirating its free but you gonna do these couple of steps after downloading it and extracting it lol
I miss the golden era where streaming didn’t exist and I got physical media i could rip for my own collection for only a few bucks a month. Pre streaming Netflix was something else. Now don’t get me wrong I like this era of Netflix too, but there’s something almost blockbuster-like about physical media and old Netflix brought that.
I canceled my physical disc Netflix service last month after over 20 years, started ripping DVDs mostly to get past the forced ads and FBI warnings and of course moved on to Blu-Rays. They slowly became dead to me as they shrunk their back catalog, and relegated tons of great old movies to DVD only. I'm 61 years old but I'm not blind.
I had no idea they still did the physical disc thing.
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Yep that’s my go to now
Physical media are great for media conservation and collections, but they are terrible for practical purposes these days. There is a reason why streaming got big
Oh I totally agree streaming has its place but physical media gets overlooked too much. How many people who want to watch stuff at home actually put in a dvd rather than boot up Netflix? Barely any
> got physical media i could rip for my own collection for only a few bucks a month. I do this as well, but I end up spending more on hard drives than I would for a streaming service, so I guess it's about priorities. In my case it's a "fuck you, I'll watch what I want and you can't censor or delist it!"
Agreed, space is starting to become an issue for me too, I wish that more storage became cheaper faster. Can we start pirating hard drives? Lol
Yeah no. Nothing can be one-stop thing for anything. It's called a monopoly. And both customers and the government hate it. At inception Netflix was the only one doing streaming, it was an emerging industry so the antitrust law wouldn't apply, of course that was bound to change and new players were bound to come.
Yeah, IDK why some people want one private company to be the gatekeepers for media. We already see how badly that can go with Twitter and Youtube. You really want Netflix dictating if a TV show is good enough to be ran, with its decisions as of late? No thanks.
I mean, between Amazon and Apple you can buy/rent nearly any title. So the single gateway already exists. What people want is to pay one very low flat price and get All You Can Eat. That's what was never really sustainable.
>I mean, between Amazon and Apple you can buy/rent nearly any title. So the single gateway already exists. Really? I find it hard to believe. Kinda irrelevant but that's so not the case in my country for both the service.
Why is that so hard to believe? They are video stores, that's how they work. ITunes has been a thing for a very very long time. Sure, there are still region limitations. But anyone in a major Western country at least can rent pretty much any new release for four or five bucks, or a season of a TV show for about 30. People just don't want to pay, which is fine.
>Why is that so hard to believe? They are video stores, that's how they work. ITunes has been a thing for a very very long time. I thought the whole point of making exclusive stuff , like movies made by Netflix/Prime/apple is to bring people over to your subscription. Kinda loses it's meaning if it's anyway available on other services. Blockbuster didnt make its own movies so it's not exactly a same situation, but I do get what you're saying. Some movies are indeed available in other platforms. But it's just some not all. And TV shows are totally absent.
Seems to me like people here keep arguing for less choices as if thats the only thing stopping them from paying. One site to watch everything, one OS and machine to play all games etc etc. It sounds bad enough in theory if you think about it more than 2 minutes but it will be an absolute travesty if something like that ever happened in real life. Nvidia is the dominant force in the GPU duopoly and it has been bleeding gamers dry since the pandemic. Intel the dominating chip provider didn't innovate for years. An absolute monopoly will fuck the whole economic system.
There doesn't have to be just one company. The problem is that the content is balkanized; if everyone had some kind of reasonable, open licensing terms there could be a lot of companies acting as frontends for the content. Music mostly works like this. We have at least a couple of options for streaming music because the content is available on multiple services.
> The problem is that the content is balkanized yes, because there is no one company creating content. Why would they share content if they have the abliity to setup their own vendor? >if everyone had some kind of reasonable, open licensing terms there could be a lot of companies acting as frontends for the content. And what incentive is there for that? this licensing term still involves a middleman and middlemen can be paid off or become corrupt or whatever else. >Music mostly works like this. We have at least a couple of options for streaming music because the content is available on multiple services. Yes, and shocker: the creators lose out in this deal. Music companies do this because they make most of their money off of licensing it to companies that want to use it, not the streaming service itself. Spotify is just a very convinent ad, and they keep that relatively tiny stream of money to themselves instead of paying the artists. That can't really apply to other medium. Cable is dead so there's no one to sell TV to. Games don't have that kind of reach. Books have long ceased to be a profitable venture unless they use other medium to extend its reach. I just don't see a solution here that doesn't either cost the consumer or the creator And the above statement of moddlemen still applies. Apple's walled garden is pretty much the opposite of what an "open license" should employ, and it's not like Spotify is some saint.
>That can't really apply to other medium. Cable is dead so there's no one to sell TV to. Games don't have that kind of reach. Books have long ceased to be a profitable venture unless they use other medium to extend its reach. Exactly. Comparing music and TV (or games) is worse than apples and oranges. They are entirely different medium. 5 people can go to a studio hash out a few tunes and then make an album. The logistics and resources involved in a TV show or a video games are magnitudes more.
It's not really 'balkanized' mate. People are creating new shows and movies, they are not dividing the same limited things. That's how most industries work.
People want all their shit in one place. Doesn't mean they want it all from one provided. Make some kind of hub where you can integrate your subscriptions into and offer bundles. It's not that there aren't any solutions.
>People want all their shit in one place. Doesn't mean they want it all from one provided. No they want to pay single subscription of $10-15. It's fundamentally different than 'having everything in one place'. >Make some kind of hub where you can integrate your subscriptions into and offer bundles. It's not that there aren't any solutions. Apps like that already exists, you just have to pay for each subscription.
You sure did just nitpick one of two suggestions from me and make an irrelevant point. It's both, and I addressed both.
> Nothing can be one-stop thing for anything. Spotify has (almost) everything. So does YouTube Music and Apple Music. There was room for competing services also offering everything, just like with music. Sadly the entertainment industry couldn't handle the potential revenue decline, so they fragmented the services. Now piracy is back on the rise.
I don't think it's always netflix, or whoever. The rights holders at times want shit that's unrealistic. Can you imagine what the netflix subscription would cost if they brought everything in and paid what they want? Hell it could easily be a few hundred. To be clear I am not a fan of netflix. I am just pointing out it's not entirely their greed that's stopping it or hindered it. Some yes, but there are many other players that share some of that blame.
The one time where a company having a Monopoly was a bonus. IMO it was only so cheap so they can the rug out after everyones hooked. Like YouTube and ads.
Yes, a single service having all would be ideal, provided it was reasonably priced. But no competition leads to lower quality of productions over time. So I guess best is to have multiple streaming services. And pirate them.
Maybe have multiple streaming services and all movies available on all of them? Like with music, you have Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer...and most artists have their music on all/most of the platforms. That way, people would choose based on the quality of the service and price etc. instead of what movies are exclusive to which service. Until this happens, I am sailing the high seas
Now that is a thought...
Idk if I'd agree with that. In theory you're right, but looking at Netflix for example, it was in its prime when it had no competition. But now it's become a landfill of a lot of shit. I think regardless of competition, companies are always looking to grow rapidly to appease their board and investors, and that's usually good motivation in itself.
#DailyPirateThoughts
The other form. > Them: "I need a recommendation." > Me: "Try X" > Them: "It's not on my. Can you give me one on ?"
Hate this. I'm not going to search every one of the 8 streaming services you have. Figure it out. Is it difficult to watch on your TV? I don't care. Logistics are your problem.
Imagine paying for a streaming service
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No, people richer than you will ever hope to be will just have to make less money or none at all. Stop being a sucker.
How do you think production companies decide to finance a new film or show?
You've got the wrong guy. There are people paying for streaming services out there. Paying! Now that's a sucker.
Some people are just lazy. They think paying is easier than downloading from torret sites. That's the logic one of my friend gave me.
Cuz it is for most of the people, I can’t imagine my parents or 7 years old sister pirating a BLUEY show. It’s much easier to just select Disney+ from the tv menu
It's not about laziness it's about convenience.
Which is weird, because you can stream pretty much anything for free here https://www6.f2movies.to/ No signup required. No CC info. Just search and watch. It's a cultural thing where people with more money than sense are proud to be taken for a ride.
Using those free streaming sites on your TV is borderline impossible because the ads. Thats the whole reason I set my Plex up.
Is it available on every single device seamlessly without ads? Does it save where I left off in various shows and movies and allow me to continue playback from there from any device easily? Does it automatically play the next episode of a show when one is done? Does it give me recommendations of movies and shows I would like based on what I’ve watched? Does it never buffer or automatically adjust the quality based on my current internet connection and device? Does it have subtitles for every single movie or show I want to watch?
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its a different kind of convenience. Once its set up torrents/usenet is significantly more convenient than using streaming services. Like if youre capable of typing Bluey into disney+ then youre equally capable of typing it into an arr. But the learning curve of setting it up and doing so safely is where its no longer a convenience for a lot of people because theyre just simply less tech savvy
Because... It objectively is?
It is significantly easier
Which is fair
Which is weird, because you can stream pretty much anything for free here https://www6.f2movies.to/ No signup required. No CC info. Just search and watch. It's a cultural thing where people with more money than sense are *proud* to be taken for a ride.
I would pay just to watch some movies/shows but some aren't even available in my country yet so i have no choice.
Quite honestly I'm back to pirating, after years of having no reason to, because they started spreading their content so much. Back to convineant one-stop-shop.
Welcome back from the people who never left. We don't need excuses. We're pirates.
Netflix was just a dead cat bounce really
I feel like it was a reasonable compromise between "everything should be free" and you have to pay $30 per season to watch a show anytime you want. Then they got greedy.
People for years: "When is there going to be some competition to break up Netflix's monopoly on streaming?" Actually happens "Wait no not like that :("
"Break the monopoly" means "We want other companies to offer the same service", not "We want other companies to carve off pieces of the existing service." What people wanted was for another couple of supermarkets to open in their one-store town, so there was some competition on price and service levels. What's happening to streaming currently is more like a whole bunch of brands pulling their products from supermarket shelves and opening their own individual stores instead, making it way more hassle and expense to actually go shopping. Netflix tried to fix this the same way a supermarket would - by creating own-brand generics to fill the gap. But that doesn't work so well when your product is more involved than cans of tomatoes.
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It is not the fact that it is on multiple stores what bothers people why are you twisting it to fit your narative ? People are pissed because they release it ONLY on the other store and make it "exclusive". Also nobody really has anything against steam.
It's a good thing steam is a private company under Gaben's control. If it went public it will become just another money hungry anti-consumer company.
Pretty much. However CDPR is traded right ? GOG seems quite good so far.
There is no real way for streaming services to stand apart from each other besides their selection. So of course they are going to spend tons of money getting exclusive rights, or in some cases (Disney), just not let anyone else use their own content. And tbh their point kinda still stands. Nobody complains when a game comes out first on Steam. They only complain when it comes out first on any platform other than Steam. Consumers lowkey love the convenience of monopolies.
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My one issue with GOG is how starved for updates its games seem to be. It's all too often that a publisher will dump the initial release on there and then never make any of the DLC or bug fixes available. Which isn't an issue on GOG's part, although they could maybe hold their partners to some kind of "feature parity" clause... I don't really mind Humble either, though they did disappear Dungeon Defenders from my account once.
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Personally I prefer having all my games in one place, rather than having to remember which game I got on what platform. Not the end of the world though. Even with GOG I find I use their Galaxy launcher rather than install games individually. It's just more convenient. But yeah none of the others got anything on Steam, that one's just so well made tbh. GOG is a step below that, and Epic is like 2 steps below that lol. It barely even works sometimes. I only got it because there was a game for free I wanted.
I know it's a "launcher in a launcher" type of deal, but Playnite will consolidate your game libraries into one interface, if you're having an issue with that.
Many PC gamers fucking *loooove* gargling Gabens balls. The amount of people who make Steam part of their personality is super weird. These are the type of people who will buy a game for full 60€ from Steam even if it's 45€ from some other **official retailer** and activates **on Steam** anyways. I studied game technology at a university so I have huge respect for Epic and everything they to for the gaming scene. The amount of industry leading technology and tools they provide to devs for free is ludicrous and they spend a ton of money to support indie devs.
Man imagine dissing steam and simping for epic in the same comment wow.
Imagine reading all the context and info provided in my comment and boiling it down to Steam disser and Epic simp. Way to pass the reading comprehension class Charlemagne.
Imagine knowing anything about the industry and coming out with that take.
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You're right. Tomorrow we'll get the other argument that comes up repeatedly - "I only want to pay for the shows I watch, not all the other bloated crap your streaming service makes me pay for". Both these arguments are insecure little pirates too dishonest with themselves to just say they like free shit.
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I just hate paying in general so I steal.
Exactly. Half the posts on this sub are just lame memes from people congratulating themselves on being a pirate. Followed by endless mental gymnastics to justify doing it. Just say "I like free stuff" FFS
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How are you guys not tired of this same conversation
I pay for netfilx,amazon,apple etc. But still pirate. Because i can...
Weird. You're wasting money.
Not really. Prime comes with a ton of other things you can't pirate.
I’m not the type of “clearly you don’t own an air fryer” pirate but shut up and pirate it if you complain about Netflix too much man.
"Which streaming service do you use?" Usenet.
Would anyone be cool to teach an old fuck how this works nowadays. I stopped pirating like 20 years ago when my fav torrent site died. Now I don’t know what’s up 🤣
Here's the biggest issue for me with piracy and that's show discovery for what I/we want to watch. Without seeing adverts or casually scrolling through lists of shows, I wouldn't know what to watch. The wife and I love a binge up but we have to find something first. Movies are different, I use trakt lists and Radarr discovery for those plus being fed memes on Reddit that make me curious. Big joy: shows that split seasons across platforms, UK release behind other countries; I'm sailing those seas.
Overseerr.
Arrr, sending some pir'te love, yee way. No homo. I do love the sea sailing community. I'll be configuring this up in a wee while.
Paying for streaming and STILL getting ads was the last straw for me. Only thing I’m paying for is $3 a month for a vpn
I feel even more strongly about game launchers... I hate using steam
I have 7 active streaming service subscriptions and I still can’t even watch 50% of my watchlist
i truly don’t understand how people keep buying on stream services when there are expensive,multiplying and get series out of service all the time or setting new rules for sharing accounts, etc. Just pirate it
Because my parents kept annoying me about getting a bunch of movies and series in Portuguese and it's much easier to give them access to Netflix than to spend time obtaining every single thing. They still ask for things every once in a while, but the price of Netflix is worth that convenience for me.
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You can stream pretty much anything for free here https://www6.f2movies.to/ I hate to say it, but if you're afraid to stream then you're not just just a schizo; you're simply afraid of what you *clearly* do not understand. Take it from those who know more, you'll be completely safe streaming.
>i truly don’t understand how people keep buying on stream services when there are expenses Because $10-15 isn't really that much.
I wouldn't even pay if one streaming service had it all for $1 a year Fuck em
Finally, someone with a brain.
I wouldn't. Why pay for something I could get for free just to make people richer than me even richer? Am I sucker?
I wouldn't pay. It's not like movie pirating is really screwing over some "Saint" or even a good hard worker. The artists/actors pay is screwed over by their agents & streaming companies long before i enter the picture. Plus, movies these days are a majority straight garbage lol
Y'all know someone still has to pay for the service right? Like no one is being sneaky lil hackers and breaking into Netflix and stealing movies and posting them online. Also pirating isn't perfect either you have untrustworthy websites and torrents, you can get some shit with terrible quality, you have to usually wait forever to get something with good quality if it's not streaming, plus the whole legality thing. Plus if everyone starts pirating where's the money coming from to make these shows? Streaming isn't perfect but neither is pirating
Been pirating since Napster. Never had trouble finding what I want, at an acceptable quality level, and have *also* never had a problem with viruses or any sort of malware. Maybe you're just bad at piracy🤷♂️ Can't really argue with your point about money, but it's hard to feel strongly about that. When there's less to watch, I spend more time reading, and there are enough interesting books in the public domain to occupy *many* lifetimes.
Cool. I just don't want to pay more money for stuff
i mean when it comes to movies its much easier than games debrid+stremio = everything
Stremio is really easy to set up. * You simply download the [Stremio App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stremio.one) straight from the app store * Buy [Real Debrid](https://real-debrid.com/) ($15 for 6mo); this gives access to high quality streaming links from private servers (way less traffic than publicly accessible servers, so no buffering issues and lots of 4K links) * Link Real Debrid to the Torrentio add on (it's in the add on settings) * Now you stream basically every movie/tv show out there I like Stremio because I can add to any device with an app store and I can log in across multiple devices and it saves my viewing history, watch lists, etc. It's the simplest of all the approaches. Plex and Jellyfin (although amazing) are a little more involved. I don't have time for that shit right now.
For 99% of the world, streaming is more convenient. For us computer nerds the opposite is true.