How is the piracy experience on an iPad ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So I am planning on buying an ipad, never owned one before. I have always been an android guy and from what I have heard Ipad os or ios is pretty restrictive in nature so I was wondering how much does it hamper the piracy experience. For example on android I can torrent files of any nature or size without any restrictions and sideload the apk's of paid apps to enjoy them for free, can I still do all this on an ipad or should I just drop the idea and get an android tablet instead ?

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

It’s possible, just more annoying to pirate on iPad. I mainly use a vpn+ movie web with decent results, my main gripe is if I cast from my iPad to my tv movie web doesn’t bring the subtitles over, they keep playing on my iPad instead.

I’m not sure if Stremio+torrentio work. If you have the luxury of having access to a media server there’s some good options to access that content from iPads.

As for torrenting, currently there are no torrent apps allowed on the App Store. You can use a service like Seedr to download the torrent for you which you can then direct download. Again, possible, just more annoying than it should be for a personal computing device. I’m hopeful that this will change with Apple seemingly being forced to allow third party app stores. Time (and the EU) will tell

[-] LarrytheLobster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Stremio works over the web app. I use it, it works very nicely

[-] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Been meaning to set this up properly. Does the webapp use a native video player and is it any good? I know the original advice was to play in external

[-] LarrytheLobster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

No, you still need an external player. You can chose between VLC and Outplayer

It’s really easy to set up tho. You just open web,stremio,com and then add it to your homescreen. Then you just log in as usual and chose your external player in the settings. There is some kind of notification in the beginning which you can just click to never show again and ignore. That’s all