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I started pirating movies again after a decade (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Digester@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was a happy Netflix user until 2018, before that I haven't really pirated any movies (with very rare exceptions) for almost a decade but I recently started again. I'm was doing my monthly budgeting and realized I was paying for too many subscription services. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Shudder, Disney+, Hulu and Crunchyroll. My family likes to watch different types of content that is distributed on many different platforms.

I was never subscribed to these many services until a couple years ago. I was thinking which service I should cancel when I realized I had the option to cancel all of them this entire time. I'm torrenting again and I started saving a considerate amount.

The only service I'm paying for is Spotify which I think it's fairly priced and offers all the music my family listens too (and it's convenient). All the competitors pretty much offer the same content and that's how streaming services should be.

I remember back in the day using eMule and BitChe (to look for torrents). Now I'm using Deluge as my torrent client and I I get my torrents from 1337x. What sites are you guys using?

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[-] darwinu@lemmy.fmhy.ml 31 points 2 years ago

I would suggest getting a seedbox and joining a private torrent site like torrentleech. That’s what I use and then upload to my NAS that runs Plex and can view from anywhere on any device.

[-] PaulDevonUK@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

How do you join a private site?

Aren't they all invite only?

[-] darwinu@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

You can visit this site and they show which private trackers have open signups. You can also buy an invite to certain private trackers. https://www.invitescene.com/forum/34-open-trackers/

[-] importedreality@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Some, like torrentleech, do open invites on a regular basis. But most do not and you'll need an invite to get in

[-] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

That is the definition of private tracker, yeah. Doesn't require much work to join some entry level ones though, and is worth it. Keen an eye out for open signups.

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I tried private trackers a while back (namely for music with what.cd) and it really wasn't worth it. the stuff they had on there was all just stuff you could find anywhere. and they're so tryhard about ratio that you really couldn't download anything. and any attempts to seed just resulted in larger/faster seedboxes doing the work most of the time.