I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.

  • BoofStroke
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    1112 years ago

    Other than the recent nonsense, this is why I cancelled Netflix and went back to pirating. Content leaves unexpectedly? Not on my Nas.

    • @[email protected]
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      382 years ago

      I’ve taken to de-DRMing any e-books I bought from Amazon for that reason.

      Also, the “You can only view this book on 3 devices” – yeah … fuck off.

      Calibre + DeDRM plugin + KFX plugin. Perfectly legal too, as long as you aren’t distributing them.

    • ghostermonster
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      172 years ago

      Why I went to DVDs. There is libre software to rip them and depending on country it’s legal, so basically you get a DRM-free legal copy with ability to archive or lend to a friend.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 years ago

          I’ve been buying preowned DVDs off ebay every few weeks or so for the last year. I don’t even bother looking to see if they are available to stream anymore.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          This. My only media expense monthly is my VPN at $10. Everything is pirated.

          Even that though - I just download only my favorites for the collection. Everything else is available on stand alone websites these days (multiple) so if you’re paying for a streaming service or really even using bittorrent then you’re living in the past as far as movies go.

        • ghostermonster
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          -12 years ago

          It’s really good quality. In my opinion low resolution only matters in static images or when video is paused, I’ll take high bitrate and superior sound every day instead of today’s streaming.

          Sure you can just download, super convinient and gives best results. But sometimes it’s good to do things the way that can scale in society or just actually own something you like :).

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            DVD isn’t very good quality. I don’t really care and I have a tiny TV, and DVDs still don’t look very good on it.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            The video quality is shit and it’s extremely obvious in my opinion. Even the sound is inferior to a good torrent with Dolby TrueHD/DTS HD sound.

        • ghostermonster
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          02 years ago

          Plain VLC can do it. You may need to at least install libdvdcss and libdvdread packages, they are 100% open source and easy to obtain, but you need to read the guide for specific OS because some system distribution repositories does not ship them by default for legal reasons in a few countries.

    • LiveLM
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      2 years ago

      Content leaves unexpectedly? Not on my Nas.

      Except when I accidentally rm -rf the media folder but shhhhhhhh

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      Old school pirating or new school? Last time I remember pirates was like… Napster, Limewire, Kazaa… Then went to TPB before it got raided like 8 times… What’s the current? Is it still torrenting with proxies?

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        I just got my automated pirating machine set up!

        Here’s the wiki for the *arr apps!

        • Radarr for movies
        • Sonarr for TV shows
        • Prowlarr for index management
        • Optional Doplarr Discord Bot for requests

        Set up your profiles for Radarr/Sonarr to pick the quality of release you want (1080p, min/max file size, etc)

        Feed Radarr/Sonarr your qbittorrent info, nzbget & Usenet info

        They will automatically search the indexes (I use 1337x for torrents & nzbgeek for Usenet) for the files that fit your parameters, download it, and organize it.

        All you have to do is point Plex at the output folders and BAM, automated pirating.

        I even took it a step further and set up Doplarr - a Discord bot that handles requests. Now friends/family can ping the bot with their movie/show requests and it’ll sync up to Radarr/Sonarr and add their requests!

      • Overzeetop
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        42 years ago

        Oh, the high seas are very, very busy these days. Still a bit difficult for the non technical user, but there is buried treasure out there.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Word on the street is that reddit’s arr slash piracy has a pretty good guide to it in their wiki, including lists of generally trustworthy torrent sources. I of course don’t torrent, because I’m terrified of legal consequences–I just browse shady but technically legal websites to stream my anime

    • @[email protected]
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      02 years ago

      Content leaving isn’t a problem. If they give up some things they have more money to get the rights to other content, and usually by the time it leaves I’ve either watched it or don’t want to. If it’s one of the rare things I want to watch several times, I can just buy it. But cracking down on password sharing is ridiculous. They’ve been functioning fine with people sharing passwords. I bet the current pricing accounts for password sharing. But now people in college can’t be on the family netflix? Pure greed.

      • Baŝto
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        21 year ago

        This is incredibly annoying for series. Crunchyroll dropped Bleach, a series with over 350 episodes, when I was at episode ~100. A few years ago I started to manually keep track of the episodes I watched, since you lose your progress when they drop it (true for crunchyroll, prime and netflix)

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Content leaving is totally a problem. I’ve lost track of the number of times my spouse and I say, “Oh hey, what about we finally watch xyz that’s been in our queue for ages? Yeah that seems like a good one for Friday pizza night! …oh, it’s vanished from our queue, hooray.”

        It’s not my full time job to keep tabs on what’s coming and going from the damn entertainment service that I hope to use in my ever dwindling reserves of free time. Especially when there’s alternative means available that are not too difficult to use.