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For piracy I mostly go to those watch online sites with ad block and stuff turned on. I used to torrent but I don’t do that much anymore.
I torrent because I care about quality. I can usually find 4K torrents of stuff I like.
Where are you finding torrents? Been a long time. Is piratebay still a thing?
One thing that I will enjoy with the slow demise of streaming is that the current generation will git gud at IT again. It’s kinda shocking, as an older millenial/xennial, how bad some of the Gen Z’s I work with are with basic IT tasks whereas X’s and M’s are fine with it as we’ve had to deal with Napster and Limewire
Add to this, “this service will only stream in 480p on Linux”
Disney is the ugliest offender. They demand their movies in non-standard encryption/decryption scheme that a browser does not support. We paid users can’t even watch in 480p without a Windows/Mac OS client.
Enshitification is the word
Yo ho ho. If purchase is not ownership, then piracy is not theft.
Do what you want, cuz a pirate is free
You ARRRR a pirate!
Completely relatable. The prices keep going up with more and more restrictions while being enshittified with ads, tiered service, and paying twice to watch something - the streaming service fee and then a rental fee on top of that, for a movie that might be a decade or more old.
Arr…fuck that.
This is exactly why people fled cable. It was completely predictable the streaming services would enshittify just like cable.
remember when you got pay tv BECAUSE there were no ads? those were the days.
The root of a huge percentage of humanity problems can be described by 1 single word - greed.
The new one is: This streaming service is owned by one the most evil people on the planet, and it comes included with my phone plan, but I’m just going to pirate everything anyway, just because Fuck Them.
That is all of them though
Nah, the Ellisons are a special kind of Evil.
Tbh I thought you were referring to Amazon but yeah the Ellisons are cartoonishly evil.
Or
Here is everything the human race made so far. All the movies, music, books etc. Download whatever you want.
Yes, pirate is better
Yes, pirate is better
Went to visit the parents. Still got the official Pirate Bay sticker on my old bedroom door. Dat nostalgia.
“THE ONE PIECE… THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!”
Wife and I live in Germany, but still have some streaming services from our home country in Eastern Europe.
We started a Scream movie marathon on the weekend to catch up on the series, before we eatch the newest one in cinema.
We watched the first 2, and half of the 3rd on 28th February Saturday on one of the streaming platforms (SkyShowtime). The next morning (1st of March), the movies were not available anymore.
We finished 3 and watched 4 on Amazon Prime, but within that we had to start a separate subscription for horror movies.
5 was only available in German with no subtitles, so I had to search for another source. Ended up creating a Paramount+ account, downloaded the app, and watched the movie there.
Then back to Amazon Prime, where finished the 6th Scream movie, before heading to the local cinema.
This was the last straw, we decided to go back to sail the seas after a decade of streaming service subscription. Next weekend I will take some time to figure out the setup we need to make this happen safely, as a lot has changed since I left it behind.
Use Jellyfin. I have been running it since the middle of last year and it has been amazing and stable. Have fun.
If you want online streaming: fmhy
If you want torrenting, make sure to bind vpn to client
If you want media server, use jellyfin with arr stack
Happy sailing :)
I will take some rime
Hopefully without too many albatrosses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner
I think you meant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1P3HDSVogg
Yep. I pirated when I was young because doing things “proper” was more difficult. Then they started having reasonable fees for services that were easy to use without ads.
But now the prices are outrageous, the ads are back, and everything is so fragmented. Piracy is the better user experience again. I was about to set up a NAS and start sailing again, but now storage prices are jumping.
I may just start going outside.
What’s an “outside,” precious?
Yarrlist, cast from PC to tv is available. Or get a browser plugin and download it from the site if you don’t want to go full pirate.
" the game you purchased has been delisted " ’ yahrr mateys ’
The other solution I go for is library media, as well as finding competing streaming services like PBS’s. Just finished Fallout season one off a borrowed DVD.
My local library has 24/7 unattended access. I’ve gone and grabbed blurays in the middle of the night before.
Libraries are amazing.
In instances where there is no legal way to watch something piracy hurts nobody as the company would not have made money from me anyway. It doesn’t even hurt the artists, the refusal of the distributer to offer content worldwide is the real scandal that everyone in the creative industry should tackle.
“The content isn’t available in your region”
You have the content. I want to watch the content. But nooooo, I have to turn my VPN on and pretend I’m somewhere else, and you know I’m not really there because I can’t magically materialize half-way across the world in 1 minute.
So what’s the point? Just let me watch the damn content.I’m sure these region locks make a lot of sense for the suits when it comes to paying royalties and whatnot but as a consumer it’s infuriating. Archaic ass bullshit.
and you know I’m not really there because I can’t magically materialize half-way across the world in 1 minute.
Don’t give them ideas
Its tied to royalties, which you mentioned, which are usually tied to archaic trade deals. The landscape may change after WW3 is done.
Yeah, the landscape sure will change. Literally.
You’re optimistic
“The content isn’t available in your region”
“Please insert your testicles into the crushing receptacle and pay 14.99”
