And this is exactly what is pushing people back to piracy. It’s easier to get all your movies from the pirate bay than it is to find it legally and pay for it.
But seriously don’t use the pirate bay. There are way better public trackers out now.
Forgive my ignorance, but why is tpb not a good place to download from anymore?
Go on…
A docker container set with
Transmission + vpn
Radarr
sonarr
Lidarr
Prowlarr
Bazarr
Jellyfin
Easy to set up, you can choose from hundreds of trackers, it will auto search and download based off of your quality preferences (but you.can manually choose from a list of ONLY that movie, not general search results), transmission will only work through the VPN, everything is correctly named and indexed.
Then you can watch everything on your LAN through Jellyfin.
I know we’re anti-reddit here but last I checked r/piracy still had a kick-ass masterlist
Piracy community here on lemmy is run by previous r/Piracy head admin and has an even more kick-ass masterlist
Yuup, this is why i started pirating again, which i haven’t done in a long while.
Yup I have access to 3 streaming services. When we look for something it’s the same story fail on 1 fail on 2 fail on 3 find it in 5 mins via other means
Or if you want to stream it, you can check movie-web.app. It’s a great service.
Definitely saving that website. Was previously using lookmovies2.to, but that looks way better.
There’s also justwatch.com
When pirating becomes easier and more convenient than using the legit services, the industry is doing something very wrong…
What a duck, yohoho and a bottle of rum!
What really annoys me is paying for the biggest Netflix package to get 4K content, then you watch a somewhat recent (non-Netflix) movie like The Equalizer (2014) and it’s 1080p or less with a terrible bit rate.
That movie is available in 4K HDR. I know because I downloaded it to my Plex server and switched to watching that after 15 minutes of watching macroblocking and pixelation artefacts via the legal method.
Your next step is to stop paying for the shit version. Things only change when you hit their wallet
What annoys me ever more is that despite paying for the 4K tier of the streaming platform, and the ‘best tier’ on my Internet plan. If I were to watch a not insignificant amount of 4k movies - I would hit my ‘data cap’ and be unable to use the Internet at all for the rest of the month.
Shiver me timberrs
I went back to reading books. It’s nice.
I pirate it, simple
Just as annoying, only cheaper.
I type it in Radarr or Sonarr and let my -arr stack work its magic. Depending on how popular a show or movie is, I can watch it in a few minutes on my Kodi TV. Wouldn’t really call it annoying.
Check out overseerr. You can search for movies or tv shows from there and it will request to radarr and sonarr for you. But what’s nice is it shows you all the popular shows, gives your recommendations, you can search by streaming service if you want.
Overseerr has been a game changer for my Plex/jellyfin which I share with 10+ friends and family. They submit tons of requests and it all automatically shows up on my nas without me needing to be bothered. I used to only download what I wanted and only take special requests and only for movies or completed series because I didn’t want to be harassed every week for the latest episode. Now my recently aired row is a constant stream of new episodes aired that week and I get friends saying “oh I didn’t know you had series x, now I don’t need that streaming service” - it’s not obvious to them still that I can get almost anything if they reauest it and overseer makes it so frictionless.
If you find it annoying, you’re not doing if right
Just use stremio+torrentio+ a debrid service for easier + cheaper
I think God for all the illegal streaming sites out there. Because God knows that it’s not safe to torrent these days
Not safe? Setting up a VPN isn’t that hard.
It’s honestly a single click at this point with many of the GUI clients offered by VPN providers, and there’s so much competition out there that VPN service is one of the few things in the world actually getting cheaper.
Yes but the free ones throttle you
This is why you use Usenet.
Though some streaming sites are torrents in the background.
Because God knows that it’s not safe to torrent these days
It’s safer to use illegal streaming? What’s so unsafe about torrenting?
Uploading is infringement. Downloading is not. Streaming is downloading. Torrenting is both.
Uploading is infringement. Downloading is not.
Is this the law in the US? I’m not sure that’s how it is everywhere…
The way the law is written in the US - and in many other parts of the world - only the uploader has the capacity to infringe. Not everyone realizes it, and rightsholders say that downloaders are also culpable. But, the US law does not specifically declare receiving a copy to be an infringing act.
For a downloader to be infringing, they would have to be culpable for uploading as well as downloading. The downloader would have to conspire with the uploader to commit infringement. Rightsholders have tried to make this argument with public trackers, but they have never succeeded. As far as I know, this argument has never been tried with private trackers. The process and requirements of joining and participating in a private tracker may very well be enough to support a conspiracy charge.
Yarr!
Honestly I put up with doing that when the prices were better. After damn near 15 years I had to dust off the hat and sail the seas. It forced me to learn how to set up a home server which I’ve never even entertained the idea of until now.
It’s almost like they want us to pirate shit.
Just Watch is a great app for finding out where something is.
Yes. It is fucking ridiculous that we need an app to find this stuff, but at least there’s an app…
You can still buy DVDs can’t you? What I miss though is being able to rent movies at a place with a big assortment.
Do they still come with unskippable ads telling me to not download a car?
Don’t forget that when you search you also need to wade through AI-generated SEO trash that doesn’t actually tell you which service it’s on.
I’m so fucking done with the garbage AI articles that give nothing. Do nothing. Just waste time and space to try to eat up and revenue I don’t even give because I have ad blocker sup to wazoo. If I had any way to punish them for the damage it’s doing to the internet I would in a second.
