Your favorite torrent provider has all the seasons of the show and even the special one that only aired in Japan!
Even that lost Christmas special the network wants to pretend doesn't exist, but we know better.
TBF you can find that in YouTube in 17 separate pieces these days
Well youtube also has the version of an episode that was recorded on a handycam pointed at a tv... and the guy is talking to the tv.
It's really not worth watching unless their dog is barking every 45 seconds and their wife comes in every half hour or so to drunkenly berate them for something inconsequential.
There's an exhibitor at my state fair who specializes in hard to find movies/episodes. He's got a DVD of it than I'm sure is on the level.
Your favorite torrent site might even have the exclusive remastered version that was only released dubbed in another language remuxed and retimed with the original audio!
Well... Sometimes.
my jellyfin server has all of the seasons, including spin-off movies and bonus episodes.
Why go with a server instead of streaming, these days? I'm genuinely curious.
Edit: guys, I'm asking a question. Why the downvotes? Also, I'm not talking about PAID streaming.
Because what I want to watch is spread across 17 different streaming services. Of course you can buy digitally... But then there's no guarantee they won't take that back out of your account. Or edit it later on when they decide something is offensive like happened when I bought the office on Vudu.
To be clear, I think they were asking about streaming torrents. Stremio with torrentio addon, for example.
Ooooh. Eh. Never know when the nice quality one might go poof.
RIP rarbg
Edit: guys, I'm asking a question. Why the downvotes? Also, I'm not talking about PAID streaming.
How you dare to go against Jellyfin in Lemmy, not even Plex stands a chance /s
To answer your question, you actually can use both, as I do.
Plex for more "obscure" content and to enrich my own TV m3u playlist with DizqueTV and Stremio and Kodi with Real Debrid for everything else, if I have a legal streaming service is because it is being borrowed to me lol, I'm more than served with my means.
Because you can control exactly what is on your server. I do the same thing via Plex. I want to watch a movie and it got pulled from the half dozen streaming services I have access to? Fuck it, just download it and add it to my own personal server. Now I have it forever and ever until I decide I’m done watching it.
my jellyfin server has all of the seasons
Jesus, all the seasons? You must data hoard hard.
Some of us prefer the term data whore.
A streaming service creates a new show
Creates a second season
Ditches the show after getting everyone hooked
Recently been trying to introduce my partner to Doctor Who while he's staying in Australia. All the episodes used to be up on BritBox because it's a British show, but they dropped it earlier this year. Now the options are:
Binge (season 4+)
Amazon Prime (season 5+)
Stan (all new seasons, but also the only streaming service I don't have access to)
Disney+ (only 3 movie-length specials)
Yarrr
Bonus points: The service has the entire run of a show, but then they remove the whole series when you're only 3 episodes away from the end.
Can't remove them if they're on your own drive 🏴☠️.
We had that happen to us the other day, it was announced a series was available dates X to Y so we figure "Ok, it's the last day, they'll pull it at midnight, we'll just binge it"...
10pm, last episode, can't load 😐
Of course theyll pull the first season, how else would the network drive people to go sign up for their separate shitty streaming site that barely works for an additional $9/mo?
Meanwhile your friendly neighborhood pirate has the first, second, third AND fourth seasons, as well as all the extras and the Christmas special, always available all the time...
"A streaming service only has the second season of a show"
The "rival" streaming service that has the first season of the show is owned by the same corporation so it can double-dip viewers on subscription fees.
If I can't see the whole show, I pirate it.
If I can't download the show and host it on my jellyfin server, I pirate it.
If I can get the whole show for a reasonable price and download it in 1080p, I buy it.
streaming service has a random selection of episodes from a show
Way back when Mythbusters was on Netflix, they'd have just a random smattering of episodes and not the complete series. Suxx0red.
🏴☠️
Amazon Prime is the worst offender.
reminds me of hulu in the early days. What's the point, why would I ever trust your service if you're just going to haphazardly throw episodes up there?
I remember when Hulu first came out and everyone kept telling me it was free. Then I'd try to watch something on it and it was only 15-30 second clips. Then I found out my friends were just stupid and didn't realize they're parents were paying for it
There was definitely a lot of free, full feature content on Hulu at the beginning though. I'm pretty sure it's the only reason anyone ever signed up. Streaming ads during the Netflix golden era was an unfathomable regression back to cable, but we accepted it at that price.
This was the case when I checked out crunchyroll years ago, there were so many shows that didn't have season 1 in my country and well the selection was abysmal to begin with.
I love how everyone here are just saying to pirate. I wonder if someone made one streaming platform to rule them all. I'm talking no ads, no missing parts, no extra fees, no shitty quality streams. Would people still pirate, as they just bearly reached what piracy offers, or would ppl just be happy that they can pay and then actually watch shows?
Steam made buying games and making them run on Linux so easy I no longer pirate games. So yes I probably would
yeap steam is the best example of a service i'd very happily pay - I've paid LOTS to them and just last month, I downloaded "have a nice death" for yuzu, played 30", loved it and insta bought it on steam. It was 25 euros but having my saves forever and being able to single click install & play is something that I value more.
you don't get to get my money AND fuck me, pick one (netflix, youtube, etc.)
Netflix used to be that and everyone bought the hell out of it. Then it enshittened and all the shows moved to proprietary platforms and now you need 19 subscriptions to get a selection of shows you care about. No thanks.
There are powerful lessons to be learned from the successes of Steam and Spotify if only the relevant people look and listen.
tbf, they’d prefer to be that as you described. What happened was many publishers decided they’d make their own deal, and pulled their contracts. Still the same disappointing situation thanks to greed, but it wasn’t really Netflix’s fault.
There will always be pirates, for some the act itself is a kind of hobby and part of their identity, but I think we can see in the reaction to some current and past, pre-inshitification, services thatt here is a legitimate point where many, if not a majority, would be happy to pay for a worthy service to support the media they enjoy and avoid some of the acquisition and self hosting hassle of pirating.
What about a streaming service that has only season 3 and season 5 for a 6 season show??? 😎
So you're the guy who only wants two seasons. I'll let Netflix know.
Or Netflix: we have repackaged 2 seasons as one with half of season 2 jammed in there to make it feel like it died unfinished.
I'll allow it as long as it's season 2 of Firefly
Netflix when they didnt have golden wind(season 4 of jojo) for years. You could watch all of them except the fourth season...
My streaming-service readies every movie or episode from everything i love, the moment it airs. And gives me a notification that it did. And then i can watch it wherever i want.
Oh wait, i don't use streaming but sonarr/radarr/prowlarr 😁
