(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
Psst, hey. https://fmhy.pages.dev/ Stop giving money to these assholes.
Obligatory https://rentry.co/megathread
Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, “do it if you want, but don’t act like you’re justified or ethical”.
Now I’m convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.
I also don’t consider it a change in my own values. It’s a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.
Absolutely agree. When I got out of college, I was like “I have some money finally, I’ll support the shows and movies I want to watch by actually buying them online outright and streaming everything else legally!”
And then several of the things I “bought” got removed from my library several years later.
Then instead of 2 or 3 streaming platforms, there were suddenly 6.
Then every streaming service kept shuffling around my favorite shows.
And suddenly, the experience of paying for the content I wanted to watch became way too cumbersome.
Buy a nas, start storing your own media. All subscription services will remove content, raise prices and introduce more ads. Its not a question of if but when.
Also, you are like a child sucking the capitalism tit when you use these services. Take your pride back.
Change to Linux when you are in the spirit. Grow up and join the adults.
How do you even “rip” media from streaming services? Like how to bypass the drm thing and convert the data to a file?
Most people dont do that themselves. They just download. Some people, specially in Russia, just stream movies from sites that exist. I dont do that but its popular.
You let somebody else do it.
They’re are ways that involve extracting keys from vulnerable devices if I understand correctly, but if they become well known then they get blocked.
Sometimes, you find things so niche, you can’t find a torrent for it even after looking through torrent aggregators.
you can’t find a torrent for it
If you are talking about books, then annas-archive should suffice. If other media, then private trackers is your only hope. The good ones usually have… pretty much everything
Wait, you pay for Amazon prime and you have to pay for the show?? Why on earth…
Yeah, there’s stuff under the subscription and stuff you pay for (although you can pay for anything if you’re not a subscriber iirc)
It gives them a perverse incentive to remove shows from the subscription tier if lots of people are watching it. You also get shows where the first few seasons are in the sub, and then suddenly switches to pay for.
They’re an easy cancel.
They also show ads unless you pay more than the prime membership.
I haven’t opened prime since that day.
I cancelled it the day they announced that
Man, that’s not ok
The wind is calling you out to sea, matey.
Why were you watching it? It’s a shit… show!
No but seriously… sail, people!
flix-cli is more convenient than if you owned netflix
Cancel all subscriptions which are just “We own the copyright to music, tv, movies etc” and find your digital art through simple file sharing networks on the internet. FOR EXAMPLE:
Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid (If you don’t want to pay for real debrid it still works just can be a bit slower) A torrent streaming solution for most/all tv shows and movies. Soulseek, a file sharing platform mostly for music. I have yet to find a decent lossless streaming solution.
If you want games, Ebooks, or other kinds of media, type fmhy.net into your browser and they have a tonne of different media types and links for you to choose from. If your just starting check out there “adblocking and blocking trackers” section its a decent start for making sure you don’t get caught or anything.
Much like I paid for a year subscription, then they decided I had to watch ads on that plan unless I upgraded to the new plan.
I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.
Canceled Prime earlier this year. Haven’t missed it, can certainly do without ut.
Did you say “I would have waited an eternity for this” when you cancelled?
I had a popup for ad free Amazon, a few dollars a month, so that was relevant to my interests and I signed up, then watched a movie.
There was another popup “ad-free experience is not available for this program”
I immediately cancelled, the popup should say “here’s an ad, fuck you”
Yup. It’s all shitty these days. Just ☠️🏴☠️
After HBO was taken over by David “Piece of Shit” Zaslav multiple shows and movies disappeared while I was in the middle of watching them. I haven’t resubscribed since
Your suffering is not a KPI so it doesn’t matter.
Your suffering is not a KPI
Some days I doubt that.
we were in the middle of one of our favorite scifis when that happened. now we own the box set. then we realized it was the only reason we had that subscription. oops to them i guess.
Now is a great time to look into VPNs, 1337x, and qBittorrent. And of course Jellyfin.
or just get a decent adblocker and stream it.
Been having luck with ext.to as well
I just found something that wasn’t on 1337x, so thank you. :)
or stremio + Torrentio + Real debrid, this is an easier method for those used to streaming without space on their pc
I prefer torrentleech and milkie. Both are regularly open for new registrations.
Nah fuck all that. Just get Stremio + Torrentio and pair it with Real-Debrid. No fucking around with downloading torrents and building a library. Just pick what you want to watch, and watch it. Works like any other streaming platform, except everything’s in one place.
The problem with Stremio is that it relies on torrents, but only caches the content you’re watching. Essentially, it puts you into a permanent leecher mode, and rarely contributes any meaningful seeding because the content is deleted shortly after you’re done watching it.
Stremio users are the libertarians of the piracy world. They’re staunchly independent, but also completely reliant on the infrastructure that seeders have set up and maintain. They want all of their content available conveniently, without actually putting in any of the “pay it forward” work that piracy relies on to stay healthy.
Essentially, if everyone used Stremio, nobody would be able to use Stremio. Stremio is only possible because of the people who actually seed.
Hear, hear. If you leech without seeding you are essentially killing the torrent.
Problem with that is, what happens when Stremio gets shut down like every other illegal streaming platform to date? What happens when they no longer want to host the stuff I like?
I like having the files locally, so that when streaming platforms die, og just decide not to waste server space on the stuff I like, I can still watch the shows and movies that are no longer avaliable anywhere.
I won’t really fight anyone suggesting “Yarr-harr” approaches, but if you’re just looking for something to watch and legality becomes a hurdle as you describe: Libraries offer a huge backlog of stuff (watched some old Disney stuff I’d targeted, without sending the mouse money) as well as some digital services. It should be pretty easy to rip the DVDs they have on offer too.
Stremio has nothing to do with it, it’s just the frontend.
but you’d be right to make the same comment about real-debrid so ultimately your point is a good one
That’s true, this one updates regularly if one streaming site goes down:
You can also download them and keep them if you prefer, just keep a VPN going
This doesn’t last though
Sure, nothing lasts forever, but Real Debrid has been around for about 15 years at this point.
I just got into Kodi/umbrella/deribit
Stremio+Alldebrid
Ruski streaming site + adblocker works well for me lately
1337x is run by nazis.
Source?
Also (and this is a genuine question): Why would I care? They don’t earn anything from me. Does their political affiliation matter when it comes to sourcing copyrighted material?
Some folks don’t wanna experience hate speech in comments and usernames and shit just to get at torrents.
Hm ok. I never look at comments or usernames.
I like to check comments in case a comment warns me of a bad quality rip or something
