Every movie, TV programme or anything else that I watch is from file sharing. Because if I buy media I expect media and not bundled viruses, digital restrictions management or corporate surveillance.
This right here is the reason why piracy is as big and healthy as ever.
It's not about the money. Hell, we're spending thousands now whereas before it was at most a few hundreds per year. But now we can watch whatever we want without bullshit, without advertising
It's not about the ease of use. We now spent countless hours on building a libraries with everything we'd like to watch which I know will always be there
It's not about wanting to be "a criminal" or not caring about artists. Most artists get shit from Spotify, for example. We'd rather pay a few hundred per year to some foundation that will pay artists a fair share
It's about not wanting to deal with these huge anti social power monger companies and their shitty policies anymore.
You can't watch this, we won't allow it.
You can't watch that, you live in a country where it's bad for our profits if we allow you to watch that.
You can't watch this one because it's better for our profits that we dropped this so you now need to pay double for some other provider because we decided so.
We need to monitor your every move and excuuuusee me siiiirrr, i need to inspect ya aaasshole now... Please also give me all your personal information, minus the "please" because we'll just take it
You know, we're so big now, and you have so little options, we'll make you eat h add anyway even though you pay us
Fuuuuuuckkkk all of that.
Add on all the bullshit they hide in their contracts to cover liability. Fuck Disney saying that their customers can't sue them because they paid for a Disney Plus account. Should be legal but apparently it is.
My favorite part about all this DRM-lockdown that the movie industry loves so much is that gog.com makes tons of money and is successful with zero DRM. People buy games when it's convenient, they don't in general share them with 10 friends. Some people pirate, but if I don't have to deal with DRM from a first-party store, I'm not going to bother with piracy. Meanwhile, the movie industry spends millions on innovative new DRMs that make things worse. I have tried to keep up with 4K Blue Rays, but it's exhausting. Every 4k player sucks, freezes mid-movie, or refuses to play movies I paid full price for. DRM totally kills my incentive to pay studios for products.
that's why i have youtube premium. there are no ads so corporate bastards can't sway me with their propaganda
Or just ... use uBlockOrigin
I have ublock origin, firefox, and youtube premium
Sounds like you've already been swayed if you're just handing Google money
"Sounds like you're already fallen into their trap because you're willingly paying money for a service provided by a large company"
I'm not paying google anything. I use DuckDuckGo
to get youtube premium, you have to pay for a subscription, google owns youtube. therefore, you are paying google.
well that's one way of looking at it, i guess
I'm wondering how you're paying Google for a thing but also apparently not actually paying them for the thing... Is YouTube premium piracy a thing or something?
am i taking crazy pills? There's literally no other way to look at it. It's a tautology, if you are paying google for youtube premium, then you're paying google.
Eh, we still get the sponsor ads in the videos. They're skippable but still tick me off for something I pay for to still hit me up every video.
sponsorblock solves that problem as well ;)
I Chromecast most of my YouTube and I've never gotten it to work once it's cast, but SponsorBlock is an amazing thing when I've played with it in apps.
It's been a long time since I sailed the seas. I don't even know how the kids do it anymore.
Jellyfin. Radarr. Sonarr. Big HDD.
It's like Kaleidescape but for poor people.
I’m still using:
A btguard VPN.
Transmission for the torrent client.
1337x.to to search.
I’m sure that’s not the latest, hippest setup, but it works for me.
Is that still an ok flow? Should I change anything? I’m old and set in my ways.
Transmission kinda meh, in my testing. I would suggest using qbittorent, unless you hate Qt.
Does qbittoreent have a docker container/webui like transmission does?
it certainly has evolved,
i used to think i enjoyed surfing sites for the best files but it really is nicer letting the Arrs do it for you
Pretty easy to setup quality filters as long as the sites you're downloading from have releases with proper filenames to identify exactly what codec/audio/etc the release is.
Browse to discover, arr's for the actual lift.
If you plan on building a proper pirate ship, a good place to start is https://trash-guides.info/.
Although I would highly recommend automating it with https://github.com/raydak-labs/configarr
Stremio with torrentio and realdebrid and you get 4k streaming from all torrent sites regardless of seeders
What if I want to watch live sports
Problems I will never have.
I started with things like Audiogalaxy, then moved on to kazaa. Oh man, then DC++ in college. Those were the days.
If you miss DC++, nicotine (part of Soulseek network) is still great, it's got some quirky and weird users you can avoid pretty easily but the files are good
It's kinda ironic that a streaming service that used piracy sites to bid on movies to add to their library is now becoming the monopoly that will push people back to piracy.
Fewer or lower quality productions also affect those of us who download the content.
If that happens: Don't watch shit and certainly don't pay for shit.
Even if nothing good is made for years, I guarantee there are millions of hours of undiscovered movie and series content for you to find in older releases. These companies are going to consolidate more and more, and will churn out sequels, spin offs, low effort movies, AI trash and easy cash-grabs. We need to not watch that shit and let these companies die. Pick the indie movies. Pick better quality older stuff. Wait for however long it takes for the industry to get over its unacceptable enshitification.
Games have the same problem. It is your responsibility to not pay for this micro transaction hell.
Too soon. Ellison’s Paramount is mounting a hostile takeover of Warner Brothers that may supersede this.
Is it weird that both options are horrific and dystopian?
You all act like water brothers were any better at the streaming game. Hell a couple years ago they took all their content off Netflix in order to launch their own streaming service to charge more
I don't care for streaming that much anymore, especially for movies. I rarely watch movies at home, and when I do it's my favourites on 4k bluray with Dolby atmos. Every other time it's going to the cinema usually once a week if I can. Netflix have always been shit when it comes to the cinema.
All streaming is bad. Any blip in connection drops it below 720p. Between that and data usage and data collection, why not pirate? That's even before mentioning giving money to mega-cops.
Shorter theatrical release times mean I can see more back catalogue in the theatres, right?
Right?
To be honest: I'm glad Netflix got WB and Discovery is now a "free" compamy. The other option was was WB & Discovery going to Paramount... What would be bad about WB & Discovery going to Paramaount you ask? Paramount is in the hands of David Ellison, son of Berry Ellison who is a suporter of Donald Trump & his faschist ideals. Why would this be bad? Because quite a lot of important outlets such as CNN belong to Discovery. This would just give Trump & his fascho-friends more power to influence media.
Netflix can take their paid, ad-riddled service and piss right off with it.
"We're upping our subscription price because of the added value provided by or VB catalog"
So, are they not going to do DVD and Blu-Ray releases for warner films? Because Netflix crap never comes to DVD.
Netflix crap never comes to DVD.
I dunno if it's a thing exclusive to libraries or not, but at my public library I've seen some Netflix movies, and things like Stranger Things and Castlevania come through.
Not sure if those discs hit traditional media shelves or not.
Awww shit, I forgot about Stranger Things. I think that's the exception rather than the rule however. I could be full of shit though. I was too lazy to research. I remember The Ritual only got a DVD release in the UK (which I bought) and a Blu-ray in Brazil which I can't find a copy listed anywhere. It doesn't seem a priority for Netflix at least.
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