Yuup, this is why i started pirating again, which i haven't done in a long while.
cows_are_underrated 27 points 3 years ago
Or if you want to stream it, you can check movie-web.app. It's a great service.
JackGreenEarth 7 points 3 years ago
Definitely saving that website. Was previously using lookmovies2.to, but that looks way better.
bobs_monkey 11 points 3 years ago
There's also justwatch.com
abbotsbury 6 points 3 years ago
Don't forget fmoviesz.to/
surewhynotlem 19 points 3 years ago
Go on...
meowMix2525 12 points 3 years ago
I know we're anti-reddit here but last I checked r/piracy still had a kick-ass masterlist
aBundleOfFerrets 8 points 3 years ago
Piracy community here on lemmy is run by previous r/Piracy head admin and has an even more kick-ass masterlist
PlasmaDistortion 9 points 3 years ago
1337x.to
CileTheSane 12 points 3 years ago
1337x has some weird gaps. For example I wasn't able to find any episodes of Loki Season 2 on there and could find them on Pirate Bay with no problems.
JustEnoughDucks 5 points 3 years ago
A docker container set with
Transmission + vpn
Radarr
sonarr
Lidarr
Prowlarr
Bazarr
Jellyfin
Easy to set up, you can choose from hundreds of trackers, it will auto search and download based off of your quality preferences (but you.can manually choose from a list of ONLY that movie, not general search results), transmission will only work through the VPN, everything is correctly named and indexed.
Then you can watch everything on your LAN through Jellyfin.
PlasmaDistortion 3 points 3 years ago
1337x.to
LifeOfChance 108 points 3 years ago
Honestly I put up with doing that when the prices were better. After damn near 15 years I had to dust off the hat and sail the seas. It forced me to learn how to set up a home server which I've never even entertained the idea of until now.
The_Picard_Maneuver 28 points 3 years ago
I'm about to be in the same boat (pun intended). I think I'm going to learn to use Linux and set up a home media server at the same time.
The_Picard_Maneuver 16 points 3 years ago
I fully expect to post my noob questions about Linux here on lemmy. Seems like the perfect place for it.
thisNotMyName 7 points 3 years ago
Kind of a cool hobby, you will have your problems in the begging but as soon as everything is set up stable, it is quite convenient. I personally use openmediavault (Debian based) as my host OS and Docker containers for all services I host. I can highly recommend Jellyfin for your own media streaming service
TangledHyphae 1 point 3 years ago
I only still use it because it's a pre-existing setup and flow. I would prefer to run pure FOSS where possible but are there any good reasons to do the lifting to change over otherwise?
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sleepdrifter 6 points 3 years ago
I used the guide from this guy when I built mine and it was immensely helpful in getting the storage system up and running. That docker-config file shared in another comment is also pretty handy.
EdibleFriend 5 points 3 years ago
I have a fledgling Plex server, on windows not Linux, and it has been shockingly easy so far. I would say I'm better than the average person at tech stuff but I'm far from some uber nerd who knows the ins and outs of everything computer related and I'm doing just fine so far
Semi-Hemi-Demigod 4 points 3 years ago
I've got a docker-compose file that will spin up a full Usenet stack plus Transmission on a VPN and Plex if you want it. Way easier to implement than installing them all as services on Linux.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod 5 points 3 years ago
Whatever you do, do not use this to steal anything. You have one week.
ZagamTheVile 6 points 3 years ago
Yrah, I went land lubber for a few years there too. Now I'm back flying the black flag and teaching friends. I'm starting to learn about plex too.
LifeOfChance 4 points 3 years ago
I just made a jellyfin server myself but have a ton to learn about it.
IndefiniteBen 82 points 3 years ago
What really annoys me is paying for the biggest Netflix package to get 4K content, then you watch a somewhat recent (non-Netflix) movie like The Equalizer (2014) and it's 1080p or less with a terrible bit rate.
That movie is available in 4K HDR. I know because I downloaded it to my Plex server and switched to watching that after 15 minutes of watching macroblocking and pixelation artefacts via the legal method.
LordKitsuna 41 points 3 years ago
Your next step is to stop paying for the shit version. Things only change when you hit their wallet
Patches 18 points 3 years ago
What annoys me ever more is that despite paying for the 4K tier of the streaming platform, and the 'best tier' on my Internet plan. If I were to watch a not insignificant amount of 4k movies - I would hit my 'data cap' and be unable to use the Internet at all for the rest of the month.
areyouevenreal 3 points 3 years ago
What are you referring to here?
noobnarski 10 points 3 years ago
WTF, Internet providers once tried to impose data caps on home internet here in Germany, but they dropped that real fast.
And 100GB isnt even a lot of data, its more like a top tier phone plan, not even close to enough for a home.
I will soon get gigabit fiber for 40€ per month, so yeah.
pandacoder 71 points 3 years ago
Don't forget that when you search you also need to wade through AI-generated SEO trash that doesn't actually tell you which service it's on.
Krauerking 37 points 3 years ago
I'm so fucking done with the garbage AI articles that give nothing. Do nothing. Just waste time and space to try to eat up and revenue I don't even give because I have ad blocker sup to wazoo. If I had any way to punish them for the damage it's doing to the internet I would in a second.
adevcorn 12 points 3 years ago
I feel exactly the same way. I was searching on google for niche item x to buy. First couple of results were paid ads, then came 10+ dropshipping sites I've never heard of before. I miss the old internet
happyhippo 18 points 3 years ago
Section 1
What is streaming? To understand what streaming is, first we have to explain how the Internet works.
The Internet...
The Universe...
Goddamn it just gimme the fucking information already!
EatYouWell 47 points 3 years ago
It's a consequence of only thinking one quarter at a time.
If all the content creators pooled their content into one platform and split the profit based on viewership, they'd be making far more money on the deal. I'd gladly pay $50/month for access to everything in one place.
WillFord27 0 points 3 years ago
Isn't that just YouTube TV?
EatYouWell 12 points 3 years ago
No, YouTube TV is basically just cable TV over the internet.
nossaquesapao 61 points 3 years ago
When pirating becomes easier and more convenient than using the legit services, the industry is doing something very wrong...
s_i_m_s 19 points 3 years ago
Genuine games being sold with cracks to remove the DRM instead of recompiling it without the DRM because the DRM doesn't work on modern machines and they can't be arsed to recompile and actually fix anything so even they resort to piracy.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
HawlSera 10 points 3 years ago
Yeah I still haven't forgiven EA for making me waste 15 fucking dollars on a fucking sport demo disc that didn't fucking work on my computer, and I had to reinstall it uninstall it so many times that I used up all five of my installs, because apparently you don't get those back when you want install. Fuck you EA
skygirl 10 points 3 years ago
It's a bit of a rabbit hole, but Rockstar was caught recently selling a cracked version of their game on steam.
A lot of the time the person / group doing the cracking leave a digital signature. Here's a hacker news link to the original Twitter thread that caused a bit of fuss recently:
CurlyMoustache 6 points 3 years ago
He's a Pirate theme starts
Rubennaatje 3 points 3 years ago
Just as annoying, only cheaper.
gentooer 10 points 3 years ago
I type it in Radarr or Sonarr and let my -arr stack work its magic. Depending on how popular a show or movie is, I can watch it in a few minutes on my Kodi TV. Wouldn't really call it annoying.
Limit 7 points 3 years ago
Check out overseerr. You can search for movies or tv shows from there and it will request to radarr and sonarr for you. But what's nice is it shows you all the popular shows, gives your recommendations, you can search by streaming service if you want.
Stephen304 3 points 3 years ago
Overseerr has been a game changer for my Plex/jellyfin which I share with 10+ friends and family. They submit tons of requests and it all automatically shows up on my nas without me needing to be bothered. I used to only download what I wanted and only take special requests and only for movies or completed series because I didn't want to be harassed every week for the latest episode. Now my recently aired row is a constant stream of new episodes aired that week and I get friends saying "oh I didn't know you had series x, now I don't need that streaming service" - it's not obvious to them still that I can get almost anything if they reauest it and overseer makes it so frictionless.
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Whattrees 1 point 3 years ago
I know this is a bit late for a reply, but sonarr and radarr allow you to set specific requirements it must meet as well as things you'd like it to have. In my case, I've told not to get anything 4k or above (no 4k displays so why bother) or less than 720p and to prefer h265 since they are always a lot smaller files. It will even replace h264 copies if a new h265 comes out. It does great at finding nice looking copies in a small file.
gentooer 1 point 3 years ago
Understandable. I haven't had any of those problems, even though I only use some free torrent trackers. Unpopular stuff (local shows that aren't in English for example) can sometimes take a while, so I'm thinking of subscribing to some paid usenet indexer.
cheese_greater 2 points 3 years ago
When you say uploaded, do you always "need" to download it or can you simply stream?
Nahdahar 1 point 3 years ago
Download. I have fast internet so I don't really care about streaming + I like to archive rewatch worthy shows. An entire season of a show takes only a couple minutes, then it's accessible on my plex server.
HonkTonkWoman 49 points 3 years ago
Just Watch is a great app for finding out where something is.
Yes. It is fucking ridiculous that we need an app to find this stuff, but at least there’s an app…
bleistift2 11 points 3 years ago
:/ This doesn’t seem to take regional differences into account.
thisNotMyName 6 points 3 years ago
Guessing by your username, you could ve interested in www.werstreamt.es (the pun with the spanish TLD is kinda great, ngl)
bleistift2 2 points 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing that.
IndefiniteBen 2 points 3 years ago
I don't know about your region, but for the Netherlands at least there is a local site. The other reply said Spain, so https://www.justwatch.com/es ?
Accurate for NL at least.
11181514 5 points 3 years ago
I've been using it for many years and never once has it been wrong. Hell they even show you things added that day that are on your streaming services. Like down to individual episode releases.
RememberTheApollo_ 41 points 3 years ago
Kill the dvd and blu ray.
Because nobody wants that stuff. It’s old and uncool. Streaming is it.
Now we own nothing.
WaxedWookie 8 points 3 years ago
I own a self-managed server full of content - does that count?
Malfeasant 1 point 3 years ago
I have a 4k Blu-ray player because my wife felt the need to spend the money. I think we've used it twice in the 3 years we've owned it. But my desktop has both a Blu-ray and a DVD drive, they get enough use I've already had to replace the Blu-ray once, and the DVD is starting to get wonky.
Blackmist 1 point 3 years ago
Disc prices are stupid now as well. Streaming seemed to kill off the year old bargain bin discs, so instead of picking something up for £3 or £5, the 4K discs are all like £25 each. They can suck my balls if they think I'm paying that.
Bring back DVD prices, and I'd cheerfully own some 4K discs again.
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Blackmist 7 points 3 years ago
I've been on three, and Prime's decision to have ads on a paid for service has seen me cancel that.
Swapped it for a VPN and went on a smash and grab of all the stuff that hasn't been on streaming for the last few years, and frankly, the others are on borrowed time now as well. Mike Flanagan is almost single-handedly keeping my Netflix subscription alive.
chiliedogg 8 points 3 years ago
Freebee on Prime is the absolute worst. They don't even offer the OPTION to pay more to not have ads on Prime videos.
I'm already paying for Prime, so I fell 100% justified in pirating ANY content they throw ads onto.
Blackmist 1 point 3 years ago
Yeah, I watched a couple of things on it and the ad was like 30 second at the start only.
Then I watched more and it just started shoving them in wherever so I gave up on it. Fuck them.
cheese_greater 6 points 3 years ago
K thats not like a silver bullet, is it? I feel like thats sort of orthogonal even tho in letter you may be able to access all the shit. We need like a "Beeper" app for streaming services or something, I dunno
CalicoJack 4 points 3 years ago
The VPN is for a torrent client. No need to worry about streaming services when you're sailing the high seas instead.
cheese_greater 3 points 3 years ago
Which one's that and but can you literally stream without having to dwn to completion. I just wanna watch shit like a certain prime service but I hate having to readjust whatever to watch each subsequent episode/season. Just wanna netflix and chill dammit aha
TwanHE 2 points 3 years ago
Stremio is kinda beeper for streaming. In stock config you can search a show ir movie and itl show where it's available and has links to the right app if you have them installed.
Or you can install some plugins to sail the seas.
cheese_greater 2 points 3 years ago
As in plugins to automate the auto-play ;) if you catch my drift?
Karyoplasma 11 points 3 years ago
Might as well just pirate then because sharing passwords is not allowed either. It was deemed too consumer-friendly and thus abolished.
Churbleyimyam 23 points 3 years ago
Shiver me timberrs
_apokalipto_ 8 points 3 years ago
What do you mean? Arrr...
pete_the_cat 2 points 3 years ago
Ya salty dog!
Something_Complex 22 points 3 years ago
Just pirate lol
rsuri 21 points 3 years ago
This is by design. It's the intent of copyright law to make getting copyrighted content a miserable deal for the customer and a great deal for the copyright holder, because the thinking goes that this encourages content creation. No technology is gonna change that, only changing the law will.
wander1236 12 points 3 years ago
There are a lot of streaming-only movies and shows. I don't think Glass Onion has an official physical release, for instance.
Macropolis -12 points 3 years ago
Get a DVD burner
nixcamic 18 points 3 years ago
Try living outside the USA, lots of times stuff is just plain unavailable and if it is available the only way to know is just manually checking every service since googling just tells you where is streaming in the US.
Stremio has everything tho 😉
The_Picard_Maneuver 2 points 3 years ago
Is anyone aware of any lemmy communities for running a home media server?
thegreekgeek 4 points 3 years ago
There's three that I sub to: selfhosted, runityourself, and selfhosted. Not sure what's with with the latter two, I subbed to them both to be safe lol.
CommunityLinkFixer 7 points 3 years ago
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !selfhosted@lemmy.world, !selfhost@lemmy.ml, !selfhosted@lemmy.ml
Stephen304 2 points 3 years ago
Just upgraded my nas from 23 to 48tb 😎 so much space for 5.1 audio and 4K 10bit HDR
Stephen304 0 points 3 years ago
I actually run Plex/jellyfin on a separate nuc since I don't think my synology CPU could transcode very much. The benefit is that I got a nuc with quicksync that can handle probably ~8 4K transcodes without causing any CPU load or any noticeable power usage, I haven't tested how many simultaneous it can do but the goal was just to be more power efficient than CPU transcoding on my old rack server.
thorbot 0 points 3 years ago
I don’t have the upload speed to stream 4k anyway so I play it on a local PC to my home theater system. It pushes atmos to my Sonos system and 4k hdr to the tv so I’m a happy camper
Ronnie 2 points 3 years ago
Yeah this meme (and most the folks in this thread) acting like you can't just buy the disc still.
(Obviously there is some digital only stuff so I get pirating that but I see tons of obscure stuff coming to disc still)
amstafff 16 points 3 years ago
I just stopped watching movies. I refuse to pay for 7 different streaming services. I refuse to watch 720p content with terrible bitrate on my Linux system. It helps that most movies and series that came out in the last 15 years are straight up garbage. If I really like and want to watch something I get the bluray, so I can re-watch it in the future.
KoalaUnknown 15 points 3 years ago
This is why I pirate anime and then buy manga to support the authors. I’m not gonna give streaming services a dime when piracy site I use has better features and services.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts 2 points 3 years ago
1 buy DVD
2 rip ad free content to home media server
3 (no) profit?
CileTheSane 6 points 3 years ago
I will pirate movies I already own the physical disks for. It's quicker and easier than finding the disk (and likely having to sit through the ads that are on it).
blind3rdeye 4 points 3 years ago
That depends on local laws. Downloading a copy of something you already own is legit in some countries, but in others it still counts as piracy.
jodanlime 5 points 3 years ago
I started buying blu rays for the movies I really care to watch more than once. I can rip it to my Plex server and if I decide I don't want it I can go back to the local used movie shop and trade it in for some new discs.
Patches 2 points 3 years ago
That's the neat part. As they're a physical object.... They don't 'go away', their license doesn't expire.
You can just borrow them down at the library and rip them yourself, or buy them at a local discount store.
spencer 13 points 3 years ago
Yeah honestly I'd rather some VPN provider get my $15 so I can torrent in peace rather than giving it to one of ten different streaming providers so they can pay some executive to dream up new ways to extract value from me for sitcoms from the 90s.
JackGreenEarth 1 point 3 years ago
I just torrent or stream without a VPN. Is that unsafe?
spencer 3 points 3 years ago
I am not a lawyer, add salt as necessary.
There are a few instances of people getting sued, but usually your ISP will get a DMCA notice and send it to you and so long as you remove the content they've DMCA'd you're usually fine. I also believe that in Canada there's a $5000 limit to the damages they can recover so it's usually not worth it for them to hire a lawyer, which again, I am not.
TangledHyphae 1 point 3 years ago
I accidentally forgot to keep VPN on a killswitch and a torrent was still seeding, and comcast gave me a "first strike" warning that said too many and they will ban me from internet service. Which seems kinda overkill.
Karyoplasma 5 points 3 years ago
Never understood that. First off, I would download a car and secondly the only people that see that ad are the ones who did not pirate the movie/show, so wrong audience.
Macros 1 point 3 years ago
Not if you rip them or put them into a software player. You can automate the ripping easily today and you are on the fine side morally speaking and get extras and deleted scenes if you want them.
SgtAStrawberry 4 points 3 years ago
Yes, you can even get them and blue rays for quite cheap too.
Malfeasant 2 points 3 years ago
Check out your local library. Mine has a decent size collection. Not necessarily the latest stuff, but it's nice to browse. And of course it's free.
evranch 4 points 3 years ago
It's honestly a single click at this point with many of the GUI clients offered by VPN providers, and there's so much competition out there that VPN service is one of the few things in the world actually getting cheaper.
Rivalarrival 5 points 3 years ago
Uploading is infringement. Downloading is not. Streaming is downloading. Torrenting is both.
Rivalarrival 2 points 3 years ago
The way the law is written in the US - and in many other parts of the world - only the uploader has the capacity to infringe. Not everyone realizes it, and rightsholders say that downloaders are also culpable. But, the US law does not specifically declare receiving a copy to be an infringing act.
For a downloader to be infringing, they would have to be culpable for uploading as well as downloading. The downloader would have to conspire with the uploader to commit infringement. Rightsholders have tried to make this argument with public trackers, but they have never succeeded. As far as I know, this argument has never been tried with private trackers. The process and requirements of joining and participating in a private tracker may very well be enough to support a conspiracy charge.
francorbacho -3 points 3 years ago
Direct streaming/downloading doesn't give your IP away (just to the server), torrenting does.
pete_the_cat 3 points 3 years ago
This is why you use Usenet.
snekerpimp 7 points 3 years ago
Blu-rays and dvds are so cheep on eBay. It sucks the studios are stopping physical copies to try and curb piracy.
Emerald 7 points 3 years ago
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Chase Mitchell @ChaseMit
Definitely the future of television I had in mind was me having to google every movie I want to watch to see if it's currently in one of it's one-month windows on any of the seven streaming services I pay for. This is way easier than buying a DVD. I love it.
boatsnhos931 6 points 3 years ago
What a duck, yohoho and a bottle of rum!
daltotron 3 points 3 years ago
I mean I usually just google it, or, most smart TVs now have this built in feature where you can just search it and it appears on whatever relevant service usually. The problem arises when it becomes region locked, or when you can't afford seven services which are now costing like 15 bucks a month for no ads, or how every service uses a different frontend for their video pipeline and they all work like trash and are laggy garbage. It's still way better than normal TV or buying DVDs, though, the only upside to DVDs was bonus features, otherwise they just take up a bunch of space and it costs like 40 or 50 bucks for a new movie.
BonesOfTheMoon 3 points 3 years ago
I went back to reading books. It's nice.
kttnpunk 2 points 3 years ago
Just taking a moment to say there are dozens of places out there hosting these current shows and movies and not giving a single wide about copyright. Piracy isn't even necessary anymore, just dig through some sketchy websites some of them even upload before the torrents come up
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds 1 point 3 months ago
i have s pirating app. it's way easier to use than any streaming app. and has better functionality.
i can watch it in any language available, same with subtitles, keeps track of my shows better, no ads, no tracking, faster, no 'you need to log in from your house to verify', all the movies and tv shows, it even tells me which paid subscription service it is available in do even if I don't use it for piracy it's useful.
anakin78z -4 points 3 years ago
Oh yes, it was so much easier to get in a car, drive to the store, check if they have it in stock, deal with the checkout person, drive back home, deal with that annoying wrapper, pop the disk in the drive, watch the 5 different ads at the beginning of the DVD, to then finally watch the movie. Way easier than a Google search. This generation has it so hard.
PowerGloveSoBad 6 points 3 years ago
I don't follow your logic. You were describing the perfect 80s date night (well, the parts excluding coke and depeche mode), but phrased it like it was a bad thing. I would go broke if a blockbuster or family video opened in my area, and I aleady have every movie I could ever need on my NAS.
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And this is exactly what is pushing people back to piracy. It's easier to get all your movies from the pirate bay than it is to find it legally and pay for it.
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