And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg....
(And that "watch similar movies" thing can go to hell too)
ETA:
Jellyfin is great, yes.
My wife and I moved into our first house together on Halloween, 1995, so that night we drank a bottle of champagne, watched Young Frankenstein, and handed out candy. Every year since then we've done the same thing to celebrate our anniversary of living together, though sometime a different movie. This year, we couldn't find our DVD, so decided to stream it and found what you did. Apparently Disney bought it and for some reason decided not to make it available. Very frustrating.
wife
1995
posting here
big sysad vibes
Heh, understandable. I'm one of the older Lemmy folks, I'd guess. I'm a software engineering manager for an aerospace company.
works for me
Don your pirate hat and sail the high seas, matey. Arrr.
The solution is there... but it will take time for normie core to require this vital skill that was lost due to netflix.
Remember folks, media is 100% discretionary spend, if corpo does not give you the service you need, it is well within your ability to punish the parasite's profit ;)
A friend showed me their workflow for piracy and it's really incredible just how easy it all is. Literally just download an OVPN config from whatever VPN provider you subscribe to, connect to the VPN and search in qbittorrent (and use the link in qbittorrent to download the necessary search plugins)
Like obviously this is a few decades of software refinement, legal battles plus a fair amount of large companies turning a blind eye to the obvious. So it's shoulders of giants and all but it's still kinda jarring
If you think qbittorrent is impressive you should see someone streaming from Kodi or Stremio +Real-Debrid or some other debrid service. Its how streaming TV and movies should be.
key here is the decentralized model. if you note how they are always going after other corpos or institutions to enforce their "property" rights. there is no effective way to go after global population on individual basis. they tried suing people in the US but that backfired as public opinion sided with grandmas lol
fedi is already using this approach. that's the only effective way for plebs to send a message.. vote with your feet, find services that respect you. anything less than that is an extraction/exploitation racket. most key industries work like that and there is no recourse for things like housing, education, and healthcare.
Just as an fyi - people are still getting successfully sued on US soil when trackable (someone didn't use VPN)
OVPN config
You lost me on the 2nd sentence.
Open VPN config file. Basically its a text file with all of the information your client will need to know how to connect to the VPN server
And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…
Because they took an arm and a leg and didn't leave us with enough to get high quality prosthetics.
Everything is available for streaming when you have Stremio.
That's simply unacceptable. I have a copy, but that's still unacceptable that you can't stream a film that amazing anywhere legally.
My point yes, thanks. Now how is the young generation going to learn how to pronounce Igor?
My kids will probably never buy a dvd player but you can bet I'm showing them how to find things like this regardless.
It's pronounced Igor.
I read it was pronounced Igor.
Nonsense.
I suppose they also say “Froderick”
Lol I know you meant that as Igor, but I totally ready that as Igor at first
Sorry, I have terrible penmanship.
That's actually not right... it's Igor, with an r.
Oops, you're right. My apologies to his family.
Try living in a small country, there's tons of stuff like that.
Hopefully you ain't land locked, matey
Find a spare/cheap computer. Install home assistant/unraid/TrueNAS (bunch of platforms that run docker and have app installers but any of those three are pretty easy to get running). Pay for access to a Usenet backbone provider and one or two Usenet search providers. Black Friday will have some sales on yearly subscriptions. Install Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyseer, and Bazaar (if you're huge into subtitles like me). Alternatively, also install and setup Prowlarr. Get your Usenet stuff working in Prowlarr. Point Radarr and Sonarr at Prowlarr. Point Jellyseer at Sonarr and Radarr. Share with friends. I will personally handhold anyone who wants to do this for themselves.
Please teach me
I've been spreading the piracy gospel every chance I get. This is how I'd explain to a layman how to set up a rig similar to mine.
1). First and foremost, you need to do this shit behind a VPN. You're specifically looking for a VPN with port forwarding so you'll get better download speeds on your torrents. I'm using ProtonVPN because when I was setting my rig up for the first time about a year ago, that was the top recommendation. Just do a little research and type in "best VPN for torrenting" into your favorite search engine. Set up your VPN as instructed. You'll want to make special note of the "openvpn" username/password. You'll need it later.
2). Next, you'll need hardware. While any old laptop that's been sitting around collecting dust is probably fine, you'll run out of storage on it pretty fast if you want anything more than a few shows and movies. If you're running out of storage space, I would recommend a Network Attached Storage device (NAS). There's lots of brands to choose from, but I'm partial to Synology.
3). Next (regardless of hardware) you'll want to be familiar with Docker and the container model. Essentially, containers allow you to run a little piece of software in a self contained virtual environment. All you have to do is tell docker the containers' dependencies and configuration and it'll spin up the container you ask for it.
4). Next you'll want to get smart on the arr stack. This is a set of services that run in docker containers that can completely automate your piracy activities. At a high level, you specify the TV shows and movies you're interested in, then the arr stack will search for the torrent, download it, and move it to where your content distribution service is scanning for new media.
5). Not sure where else to put this, but I'd recommend gluetun for the VPN client (this is where you'll need your openvpn credentials), qBittorent for your torrent client and Jellyfin for your media distribution. These are all services that can run in Docker containers. I'd recommend using the docker containers from https://fleet.linuxserver.io/ since they tend to standardize the configuration of their docker containers.
Resources:
https://old.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/rikthc/list_of_recommended_vpns_2022/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathreadhttps://wiki.servarr.com/
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki
It's a lot to distill from into a single Lemmy comment, but hopefully this sets you on the right path!
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why usenet over torrents?
Usenet pros:
Usenet cons:
Quality and ease. Torrents don't always have enough seeders or they disconnect. You can get by on them, but it's a case of getting what you pay for. I go through a lot of media as do my friends using my server. The cost is negligible and basically means I have no headaches.
And once again we see the advantage of owning vs renting.
You probably can get the bluray from one of those bulk sellers. Pick up a bunch of movies and get combined shipping
What bulk sellers of bluray? Is that a thing?
Yes
Check ebay
Also why I invested in the hardware and software for Blu-ray ripping. I now have a Pioneer drive in a USB enclosure, and can now rip even 4K Blu-rays from any region. So many special features I was missing out on, though a lot of disc releases are cheaping out on them these days.
Only annoying part about ripping is the freaking maze of playlists on many Blu-rays, especially for Special Features, and none of the player software I've tried yet has a feature to tell you what playlist and video file you're currently watching. So you basically have to rip everything and then check each video file afterwards.
I figure not fixing that is 10% not knowing they could, 20% doing so would make it easier to rip stuff, 70% doing nothing costs them nothing since you're supposed to be using the Blu-ray interface anyway.
Consolation prize: the Gene Wilder documentary on Netflix is pretty good if you haven't already seen it
I was not aware of that but will track it down.
RIP to the whole cast of this film.
If you have your own domain name+control over the DNS entries, a cute trick you can use for Jellyfin is to set up a fully qualified DNS entry to point to your local (private) IP address.
So, you can have jellyfin.example.com point to 192.168.0.100 or similar. Inaccessible to the outside world (assuming you have your servers set up securely, no port forwarding), but local devices can access.
This is useful if you want to play on e.g. Chromecast/Google TV dongle but don't want your traffic going over the Internet.
It's a silly trick to work around the fact that these devices don't always query the local DNS server (e.g., your router), so you need something fully qualified
but a private IP on a public DNS record works just fine!
I don't think fully qualified means what you think it means...
Hmm, my understanding was that FQDN means that anyone will resolve the domain to e.g. the same IP address? Which is the case here (unless DNS rebinding mitigations or similar are employed)
but it doesn't resolve to the same physical host in this case since it's a private IP. Wikipedia:
A fully qualified domain name is distinguished by its lack of ambiguity in terms of DNS zone location in the hierarchy of DNS labels: it can be interpreted only in one way.
In my example, I can run nslookup jellyfin.myexample.com 8.8.8.8 and it resolves to what I expect (a local IP address).
But IANA network professional by any means, so maybe I'm misusing the term?
Hmm, my understanding was that FQDN means that anyone will resolve the domain to e.g. the same IP address?
It just means it's the full format, similar to absolute vs relative paths on a filesystem. jellyfin.myexample.com is fully qualified (technically there should be a trailing dot but that's rarely enforced these days) - doesn't matter what it resolves to. jellyfin is not fully qualified - nor is jellyfin.myexample. This matters when you start talking about records in different zones - for example you could have an A record for jellyfin in mydomain.com.
Ok so it is fully qualified then? I'm just confused because it sounded like you were saying I wasn't using the term correctly in your other comment.
I feel the need to point out that some dns servers block this. In piHole for example, you need to allow this. Some Routers do it too.
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