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“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”
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.
“This show is not available in your country” is the one that pisses me off the most. The Internet connects the entire world and then we have unnecessary artificial barriers like georestriction for no reason. There’s foreign shows I’ve been wanting to watch but they’re not available on torrents and only on these georestricted platforms so I can’t even watch it even if I’m willing to pay (which I am for few films).
its annoying but a carry over from film distribution rights that are negotiated. I agree these should have been updated by now , and region locks make no sense, unless a government is trying to control its people’s media.
What about using a VPN?
Idk if sites have ways to block that now
Even VPN isn’t enough. Ex. One time I wanted to watch a show that’s only available on Amazon Prime India according to justwatch. VPN isn’t enough because I’m using US-based Amazon account and I have to create an Amazon IN account per Amazon’s policies. And for that I need an India phone number for verification. So of course I don’t want to spend money on account setup especially since I don’t know if it’ll work. So I setup Azure VM based in India (in case they use location) but it still got stuck on the phone verification or puzzle loop so there’s nothing I can do unless I find a friend in India and use their account :(
And it wasn’t available on any piracy sites I’m guessing? Yeah that is rough. I know it took me quite some time to track down a copy of the movie Blueberry for similar reasons. (Weird French acid western)
yeah not available on any torrent sites. I checked all of the major ones through Jackett and it returned no results. If you’re curious, the name of the movie is “Kulkarni Chaukatla Deshpande”. There’s a couple movies like that that are available on Amazon Prime India but not on torrent trackers.
Damn I tried looking and for a second I thought I found a free online version for you, but it was actually just “Mrs. Deshpande”
@7101334 @coolfission they do but they get circumvented fast.
The real way the gov/big tech (they are one and the same) will shut this down is by making vpns illegal, and making your ISP beholden to this law, and the next step is to make your OS verify who you are with Id or biometric. This means anyone using Linux or graphene os etc will be marked a criminal. All part of their plan.
Don’t torrent. You put yourself in danger. Get a good Usenet binary subscription.
Torrented two videos yesterday.
Computer hasn’t caught fire yet.
Huh. Says I haven’t downloaded anything. My VPN must be working.
Now you need to check if you put in your real IP or the VPN IP in the website.
i2p facilitates anonymous torrenting over a darknet
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.
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.
Use Jellyfin. I have been running it since the middle of last year and it has been amazing and stable. Have fun.
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
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 :)
What vpns allow peer to peer? I heard there was a push to prohibit that in many vpns
Arrrrr, shipmate! Welcome back to the cove!
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?
I think that’s where what they call “grass” is.
What’s a good source for a noob to learn how to pirate?
The following advice does not apply to piracy, it’s just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available content.
- Install qbittorrent.
- Use a VPN (windscribe has a free tier) whenever qbittorrent is running, even in the background, even when you aren’t downloading. Make sure qbittorrent doesn’t run on startup, it’s in settings. This makes sure nobody can see that your IP is torrenting perfectly legal content, for privacy.
- Find a torrent. If you go to the pirate bay (top result on duckduckgo), be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.
- Search for your legally torrentable movie/show and press the magnet (or copy the magnet link) next to the torrent with the most seeders (SE)
- paste the link into qbittorrent, optionally select “download first and last pieces first” and “download sequentially”, if you want to watch while downloading.
- Always check the file extension of any files before opening - mp4 etc is safe, don’t run any .exe files. There is malware out there, especially in torrented games.
- Be nice and keep seeding torrents after downloading
- Enjoy your legally acquired content!
There’s a piracy comm on lemmy at lemmy.dbzer0.com.
(If any mods don’t want advice for legal torrenting here, apologies and feel free to delete my comment)
I don’t torrent, it’s just not as nice as a streaming site like the frontend of solarmovies etc… (I like fmovies and s.to) Also at least in Germany uploading (aka seeding) is punished way more and opens you up to being discovered, where as only streaming, finding you is harder (they need access to the streaming site servers) plus its not punished as hard (and I think in practice not investigated)
Up to you but how is it not as nice though? It’s usually faster so you don’t have to deal with buffering, plus you can keep the content forever and watch it without internet access and after the site gets taken down.
Tbh I haven tried in like 5 years, but I think not much has changed. I don’t need to rewatch a series again. And the websites I use are just like conventional streaming services, remembering were you left of, what you already watched, what’s the next episode, Infos on the content I watch. It’s just a nice user experience all within my browser. (Also I don’t want to torrent without seeding ^^)
be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.
🤣🤣🤣
So is false advertising and fraud but the major streaming services don’t seem to care.
Windscribe doesn’t work with p2p in their free tier anymore: https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/does-windscribe-allow-peer-to-peer-p2p-traffic/
I used to use Windscribe free tier before I paid to get proper unlimited VPN (Proton VPN).
Now for similar free VPN for torrent, I recommend PrivadoVPN. That still worked for me when I tried 3 months ago.
Make sure qbittorrent doesn’t run on startup, it’s in settings
In Advanced settings there’s the ability to bind to a network. Bind to the vpn and qbittorrent won’t work at all without the VPN engaged.
True, though I’ve found this to frequently break after reboot
I’ve never had an issue with it. I don’t use qbit’s “restart on boot” setting, but rather use my OS’ ‘start apps on reboot’ feature with a minute delay that ensures the network is connected, with VPN on, and stabilized. /shrug
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.
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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.
Can’t escape this comic.
Do you not like it?
Regardless of anyone’s opinion of the content of the strips, the author is synonymous with reddit drama.
Keep that reddit drama on reddit, just enjoy the conics
Stay away from Reddit, problem solved. That’s gonna be my take. 😅
She’s from my province. People like you are the problem, not her. People started to openly harass her and attempt to doxx her and she got defencive about it.
That’s not cool to dox her. But sorry, when you say “people like you”, what do you mean? What did u/null say or do?
Spreading the misogynistic lie that she’s the cause of all the drama, when it all started because men were upset at a popular female artist making popular comics on reddit that they personally didn’t like and tried to ruin her life.
Yeah, if I’m a major contributor to a suubreddit about making comics, and I have users actively harassing me, attempting to doxx me, and threatening me, I’d be trying to get them banned too.
I agree.
I just don’t see where null is saying she is the cause of the drama.
the author is synonymous with reddit drama
It might be half insinuated if one reads into it but it’s at least not literally what they said.
But in your defense, they could have been more clear about what happened to avoid confusion!
Saying someone is synonymous with drama is a direct implication that person is the cause of the drama, otherwise why would they be synonymous with something that other people do to them?
There’s a (mildly biased) rundown on kiwifarms in the lolcows section. You can skim the first post to get a decent idea without getting bogged down in all the muck.
It’s undeniable that the author gets regular old misogynistic hate, but they’ve also been caught diving into the comments on an alt, stirring the pot.
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Okay I gotta disagree partially on the third panel. I’d much rather have the option of purchasing individual movies or shows than having a subscription. Like, imagine we had Steam but instead of games, it was shows and movies? That’d be great. Imagine the sales! PatientWatchers amirite?
Unfortunately it’s rarely possible to actually purchase, and definitely not without any DRM. So the third panel should really say “This show is not available for purchase” or only mention renting or specify that it’s with loads of DRM or whatever.
“purchasing” media you mean.
Unless they let you download the file without DRM, you’re just renting the video with extra steps. We have seen many times that “purchased” videos from digital vendors gets revoked and the “purchase” is gone.
Agreed, isn’t that what I just said? 😅
Yeah, I didn’t get to that point in your comment before I replied…
Except after you rent/buy the video, you can only watch it as long as you pay for the subscription service you bought it from.
If it is anything like Steam, then you keep this media available to redownload as long as you wan. Same as Steam games that got delisted are still downloadable and playable.
Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. “Your” stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it “downloaded” due to layers of DRM.
That’s not what buying means or at least not the “buying” I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.
Steam provides licenses, you don’t own the software. If your account is banned, you lose it all. Death? You guessed it, lost access (officially).
Music went through this many years ago.
iTunes would have drm’d music files. Amazon too, I think.
Then at some point it all became sane and I could buy an MP3 and download it.
I too, want to own my digital stuff. My physical shelves can be better used as soda racks and storing food.
Thank god we have Pizzacake to state the blindingly obvious.
Seriously though, every comic I see from her is just the most middle of the road position imaginable.
I cant find it within myself to hate the safe paycheck artists of the world. Particularly her, considering she briefly transitioned to porn.
Fair enough, but why people keep posting her content is beyond me.
Be the change you want to see in the world and go post some better content, then.
What till you realize the sub-par comics that she buys upvotes for are actually just to promote her R34 content.
Pirating media is the middle of the road position…?
Sometimes the obvious needs to be stated, because too often people are just that fucking oblivious.
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist. Yeah, some of her comics can be cringe or a little too on the nose, but like… there’s so many other things to be angry about in the world.
And yes I’m aware of her threatening to sue a subreddit, but IMHO that was a very “Oh no… anyways” type of situation.
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist.
Jealousy. They think it’s ridiculous that a woman should experience such success for something so ordinary.
That’s a male’s privilege.
I’ve never understood the blind rage you and others have for this artist.
Eh, OP’s post seems more ‘mild annoyance’ than ‘blind rage’, but okay.
Every comic I see from her is either “men bad”, or a joke that’s been made before by other comics.
She’s just not funny. And me saying that seems to make people very angry.
If you think her comics are “men bad” then you’re the kind of bad man she’s making comics about.
My masculinity, on the other hand, isn’t challenged in the slightest.
she made the same mistake as amy schumer:
she’s a woman who makes jokes these men don’t find funny. and because of this she must be a horrible person
any other justification for their hatred (like the legal threat) is just noise, imo. they hated her before she did this.
Let’s not conflate with Amy Schumer, she was proven to steal at least as many jokes as Carlos Mencia lol
Piracy is not a “middle of the road” position. In our niche of the web, here, in the haven of the nerds reddit wasn’t nerdy enough for, piracy is a non-issue.
For a large amount of the population, it is still a criminal offense and in their minds treated as stealing (in parts ofc thanks to corporate propaganda), not as a logical answer to a consumer(and small creator)-hostile Intellectual Property Rights legal system.
For her audience, which is mostly Redditors, it’s a middle of the road position.
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Still funny. I don’t really get all the hate for her.
Mysogyn is the driving force of some human beings.
This artist’s “subreddit drama” was all about vote manipulation, playing victim, and having people banned for criticizing her low effort crap. She clumsily spun it a bit into mysogyny.
Taste is subjective. It’s not hate.
The artist’s subreddit drama that’s of absolutely zero importance here didn’t come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you’re completely ignorant of that, of course you “don’t get it”.
Taste is subjective. It’s not hate.
The artist’s subreddit drama that’s of absolutely zero importance here didn’t come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you’re completely ignorant of that, of course you “don’t get it”.
It’s a joke that’s been done before, and better, by other artists.
no u
Everything’s been done before.
I turn full pirate at the first stage already. I despise ads so much.
Me too. Ads are like homeless man crotch in my face.
I either pay a service for not having ads or I do not pay it and watch them for free on other platforms in exchange for the content.
Do what you want, cuz a pirate is free
You ARRRR a pirate!
