No, you can’t. It’s $14.99 and in a few years you’re going to lose access to it. Fuck you. Give us money.
…fuck you.
I think we should be able to co-op a digital library… Say, the Internet archive seems to be just that!
Why is it under constant attack? Oh yeah, greed.
Why aren’t we able to digitally host a communal library where each owner can “buy in” access by contributing a library?
Like a digital replication of each piece of physical media owned by a person?
You mean as in everyone who owns a book could digitize it and contribute it to the library to be lent out one at a time?
Technically that’s possible, but the real argument being made by rightsholders (such as the publishers suing the Internet Archive) is that they don’t have the right to digitize it and lend it out, because that would be them replicating the work, and thus not just lending out the same copy, even if it’s identical in practice in terms of how many people can access it, and what its content is.
Under current copyright law, you’re going to be sued into oblivion if you try that.
Though to be fair, the main case being made in court that really holds water is that the Internet Archive lent out unlimited copies of digitized copyrighted works during the pandemic when many libraries where physically shut down and unable to offer books. Practically speaking, they did the morally correct thing by providing access to materials that would otherwise have been available, barring the extreme circumstances of the pandemic, but since the publishers thought they deserved to profit from that by selling every student who needed reading material in closed libraries a fresh copy of the book for $20, the Archive is now facing legal consequences, because that’s technically still illegal.
However, if you want a communal library, you kind of get that with things like Little Free Libraries, where you can contribute any book, and books regularly cycle through the neighborhood over time, groups like BuyNothing, where you can very easily have people request and hand off things they no longer want themselves, including books, and you can always technically just start a local group that gets books and lends them like a traditional library would, although some libraries just accept donations of your used books and can lend them out without any additional administrative effort or separate entity set up in your community. That depends on your local library though, if you have one at all.
Yo ho! Yo ho!
Yarrtt.
Everyone wants to run a subscription service, until they have everyone on a subscription. Then instead of celebrating that they won capitalism, they go and start with the exclusive extra addons and upgrades. Because unfortunately no company in the history of companies has ever said that’s it, we’re making enough money, let’s relax.
actually, plenty of companies say exactly that.
The thing is, they’re small privately owned companies. not giant corporations.
So definitely no streaming services then, those are all big corpos and they should burn.
The Last Of Us season 2 being on a different, new subscription service is very much the last straw.
I thought it was weird when I saw a Disney + billboard with The Last of Us. I just sail the high seas but I remember the HBO intro on that shows season 1. For people of pay for these services its really shitty to have a show they like jump to another provider.
Wait until you want to watch Pokemon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
That’s only if it’s an older movie. The latest Captain America is available to rent for $25, or to buy for $30.
Or you can do what I did, and sail the high seas for it.
Yeah, I kind of laughed at that. I wouldnt be surpised if even older movies cost a bit more now. But even renting a new movie is way too expensive now.
I use an Emby/Jellyfin stream. There’s nothing I don’t have.
You should start your own subscription service 😜
They are out there and of varying quality. If only db0 had a good place to source, but c/piracy is very anti paid piracy (oxymoron I know) but sometimes convenience is worth a few $$ for non 1337 haxx0rz in the real world
I pay for a seed box, basically just a middleman between torrents and myself, just so my ISP can back off
There was a time when almost everything was on Netflix. As a consumer, having all my content in one place for $10/mo is awesome, but according to capitalism, it is a problem that needed to be fixed.
The part that’s wildest to me is that nowadays with all the ways services are trying extract more value from their users (ads, increasing rates, reducing library size, restricting access to features, etc ) plus the DRM, the media consumption experience of just having the media files is so much better than the experience one can have through most of the streaming services or even DVDs with all of the unstoppable prerolls
Whether you rip your own DVDs (legally murky) or you’re just watching a bunch of public domain silent films, or pirating, it’s really hard to beat just having the .mkv and opening it in your player of choice.
About the only way to compete with that is one decent service with good quality, no ads, an extremely wide collection and minimally invasive DRM
Every time I head to the second-hand store I pick up a couple new CDs and DVDs. It’s great! I’m paying max $3.99 apiece and I’ll own them forever.
The crazy thing is loads of people stopped pirating and paid for a streaming service that was affordable, worked, met thier needs.
Now it’s all splintered with corporations wanting a piece of the pie.
It won’t stop until the system reaches its ultimate form and each movie has its own subscription service.
So, buying physical media again lol
except that you don’t have any sort of long terms rights to it and it costs more.
Now also show ads when you pause!
And they know when we watch, pause, fast forward…
…and all your IDSo, renting physical media again.
That last remaining blockbuster is playing the long game.
Back to piracy, it is, then. Yarrr! ☠️
I’m about to cancel everything and buy a good vpn service.
And a good NAS. It’s worth every penny.
Care to fill me in on what that’s about?
I could Google it, and I’ll do that if you tell me I’m a moron and that’s what I should do. I don’t want to be an imposition, I’d just rather hear from someone who know what they’re doing firsthand.
Movies were on Netflix, TV shows were on Hulu. It was great.
Once Netflix started on their whole “half of all our offerings are going to be original content” is when it began to go downhill. Literally no one (aside from executives) was sitting around going “man, I can’t wait until Netflix starts making shows and movies!” They were a service. That’s all they ever needed to be.
I think they were forced into it when the other companies decided they could make some of that sweet netflix money, so they stopped licensing to netflix and built their own services. Netflix had no choice but to build their own content.
Idk I know I was pretty excited for Netflix’s early original content because the proposition was like “HBO, but on the internet and you can watch it any time” and they were doing big budget stuff. Things only went south when they didn’t keep up the HBO level quality and ruined their reputation to the point where I see “Netflix original” and immediately think “garbage TV”
It really did hurt my ressources for pirating though. After not downloading anything for years, finding the right sites and proxies again was hard.
Except that the technology has improved and now Sonarr and radarr take all effort out of the equation.
Or I can keep it for 0.
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Avast, me hearties!
I pay for a VPN once a year and then everything is free. Ahoy mateys!
Or even better, “even though you pay for the ad free subscription, this video is only available with ads”.
Or pirate for 0€.
How much is that in usd
$32
Is that Fahrenheit joke? Nice.
These new tariffs are a bitch
Damn metric system.
… and the tanking exchange rate.
arrr!
I do love piracy and I do do it sometimes. But sometimes I don’t want to spend 20 minutes finding a torrent and then another 30 minutes to an hour waiting for it to download.
My main issue with it is that I have to pre-plan if I want to watch anything through that method.
That’s what automation is for.
Whenever I come across an interesting movie/show; I open a webpage that I host, search for a title (results from imdb) and click ‘add+search’.
~15min later, it’s available for me, my friends, and my family to watch on my own private streaming service. (for such reliably quick downloads, I recommend usenet over torrents)
Other users besides me can even request content via Ombi.
that’s sounds so complicated, just downloading it myself is easier
if someone made one application to install and set it up automatically id probably try it thoughooo that looks interesting. I will look into it more when I get home. Thanks for sharing
My setup is a conglomeration of a quite a few different pieces; but they are not all required. I’d encourage you to explore, start small and expand into new pieces/areas when you feel comfortable. I started this ~8 years ago with basically 0 knowledge of hosting web services; and just built up the knowledge through exploration over time.
If all you’re looking to do is watch movies, and you’re happy to play the downloaded media directly on your pc (or move the files around manually, just like manual torrenting); the only piece you need is Radarr.
Once setup; You tell it what movies you want to watch, it searches for those using the indexers you’ve given it (YourBittorrent, TPB, and BadassTorrents for example), choses the best results out of them all based on things like upload date, seeds, quality descriptors in the title, etc. Then passes that to your torrent/usenet client. Finally it will rename and sort the files into nicely organized media folders for you, once the download client has marked it as complete.
When it renamed them… Do you continue to seed (in the case of torrents)?
Torrents have two options:
Ideally you use Hardlinking - This creates a ‘copy’ of the file that’s just a link to the original data, instead of actually duplicating it. This only works when both ‘copies’ are kept on the same drive/filesystem; but gives you two versions so you can leave one available to seed and have one renamed and sorted away.
Failing that, it can fallback to plain duplicating the files. One copy kept to seed, and one copy sorted away.
Personally, I’ve switched to usenet for 99% of downloads, so seeding isn’t really a thing. It’s there as a fallback though.
This is slowly what I’m working on
There’s a ton of people happy to help on [email protected] if you run into troubles :)
It’s complicated to get set up. Once done, it makes everything very simple.
When I wanna watch a movie, I have it in less than two minutes. But I’m blessed with gigabit, and I’m on some private trackers.
You don’t have to download anything, there are amazing streaming sites: https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide
There’s also rentry.co/megathread
Use Usenet instead, way faster downloads. Also lots of clients can stream torrents, so as long the torrent its being seeded well enough you can watch right away.
Worst case just go to one of the 100s of sites with free streams of basically every popular show and movie.
Any kickstart guide for a total noob?
This guide is pretty good, but I’ll also explains the basics here.
You pay a provider for access to Usenet files, which you locate through an indexer, and download through a client such as nzbget.
Picking a provider is the most complicated part. The guide explains how to choose one and r/Usenet has a page in their wiki for good provider deals. I use NewsDemon and they’ve been fine.
Indexers are pretty much the same as torrent indexers, they can be free or paid, public or private. NZBGeek has been great for me, and AnimeTosho is nice if you want to download anime.
The download clients work similarly to torrent clients with the addition of configuring the connection to your provider. Whichever provider you choose will have instructions for connecting to it.
Downloads aren’t peer-to-peer like torrents, so a VPN isnt as necessary, just make sure you pick a provider that doesnt keep logs. It also doesnt hurt to use one if you already pay for one and its not too slow.
One you’ve picked your provider and indexer, setting everything up is super easy.
Where are you looking for torrents, and how bad is your internet? It usually takes me about a minute to find a torrent, and downloads are rarely longer than 15
I have my number of different sites, without torrents, that are overall faster to use, with uBlock. No login, no bullshit design, no pop ups advertising new “features”.
And torrents don’t need to be predownloaded, you can stream them.
Kodi and realdebrid solves that problem for me.
Psssst use nzb
iflix, fmovies, sudo flix are all streaming alternatives. Free. No signups required.
With sonarr radarr and trakt you just find a list someone makes of upcoming movies and shows and then maintainarr to auto delete stuff after a certain period. No more pre-planning or searching it’s always just automated new content ready to go when you turn on your tv
and then maintainarr to auto delete stuff after a certain period
Lol, storage is cheap, archive that shit forever
Lol I’m trying to keep it under 90tb but I do have a few replacement drives in my cart in case the temptation kicks in
Often has cam videos too, which are recorded from theaters before being released outside. The quality is not necessarily as bad as it sounds.
For the case of better quality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesync
While the other end of the spectrum may be a shaky smartphone footage.
If everyone did that, then they might start cracking down.
At the very least, though, this person should be service hopping instead of paying for 13.
No, the last time everyone did that Netflix was created, which has nearly killed the piracy for most people.
We’re just going back to the basics.
But then, there was a second, then a third, a fourth… And they all have different catalogues.
Umm…actually. (<–joking)
Netflix was one of the biggest reasons movie studios were freaking out about piracy. Back then people would use Netflix, a DVD rental by mail service, to rip or copy movies in bulk. Even my father (I’m 52) had a machine dedicated to copying Netflix DVDs. So it is very ironic that Netflix streaming ended up being the “solution” to a problem they had exacerbated.
The problem they have now is that it is very easy and cheap to rip streams, and bandwidth is fast and plentiful (vs early 2Ks). People rent a movie off of Prime, rip the stream, and upload it to Mega out of spite.
Piracy is a result of a service problem. I would gladly pay a reasonable fee monthly for access to any and every show I want to watch. I’m for sure am not going to pay for 12 different streaming services so I can watch severance on one, the office on another, the wire on a third when I can just download it for free.
Hell I would pay a pirate a monthly amount just to have seamless turnkey access. But the level of effort is so low these days that honestly there’s no reason to pay for streaming.
I always forget they ever made DVDs, I don’t think they ever did that outside of USA.
Under other US administrations, I’d picture a new model or iteration. Right now? Paramilitary busting down doors and more states banning porn for some reason
Thankfully though, the US != the entire world
Unfortunately, though, they are mostly based out of the US, which means instead of innovating (which is what I think he was implying) they will just make shit more miserable for everyone, but mostly for those in the US. Until US people learn to stop spending money on companies doing harm, we’re fucked. Examples are drastic price increases, cracking down on password sharing, and shelving “costly” media instead of trying to improve service.
Just a side note, I haven’t personally paid for these services for a long time
mmm cracking how? turning off the internet?
I’m airways afraid of VPN bans
I see. I can use torrent without VPN in my location but I get it.
Blocking VPNs is a nightmare for governments. Some companies rely on them for normal operation. I doubt western countries will take such path due to the economic impact of it. You got also ways to bypass blocks, new obfs protocols popping up everyday, residential proxies, tor, i2p,… So yeah, you need a full time large team working to keep up with some of that for a full implementation. How China didnt give up on that yet is beyond me TBH.
IMO, it s not something we should worry about it now.
