(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
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.
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Shame on you.
Insults aren’t very welcoming for new pirates.
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Telling someone that they are the problem is insulting, whether you like it or not.
I agree, continuing to feed the machine is not helping; but there are more constructive ways to express the same point. Help people learn and get comfortable with better solutions, don’t scold them for following what they’ve grown up to know as ‘right’. That’s not how you get people on your side.
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.
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.
Prime are bastards about this.
Your suffering is not a KPI so it doesn’t matter.
Your suffering is not a KPI
Some days I doubt that.
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”
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?
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
You want my shows? You can have them! I left everything together in one place. Now you just have to find it!
The annoying thing I’ve noticed is that they have been making the last season of shows cost money. I was like what just happened, I thought there was a whole nother episode
Yup. It’s all shitty these days. Just ☠️🏴☠️
While you where watching it as in between episodes or actually in the middle of an episode?
I paused a little before the end of S2E09, came back a few hours later to it, and all of S2 was not free anymore.
The open seas is calling you.
Sail with us on the great ship Stremio
Stremio kind of sucks. You’re leeching a torrent you’ll never seed.
I see where your coming from but not everyone has the space to seed a torrent. I think those that use stremio and understand torrenting will one day, if they have enough storage contribute to seeding. I’m running on 256gb here T-T
Then don’t use torrents. Leeching without seeding is literally how torrents die.
Caching a torrent isn’t leeching. Like the other person said, it actually helps because it prevents multiple people from doing a hit and run. The torrent only needs to get cached once, and then everyone can just directly download that file, bypassing the torrent entirely.
Caching a torrent requires downloading, no? What guarantee do you have that they’re seeding that leech?
There is no guarantee, because they’re not seeding. There’s one hit-and-run, then the torrent is cached on a server for anyone to directly download. Again, IMO one hit-and-run is still better than thousands.
not true, it does sort of the opposite:
debrid services cache torrents in order to provide them at high speed to clients (that’s why they aren’t free: they need data storage).
this is a good thing, because it means the swarm is only taxed once per file, instead of constantly by potentially hundreds of streamers.
from stremio’s FAQs:
How Debrid Services Work with Stremio
Stremio itself is a media center application that aggregates content from various sources through add-ons. Debrid services enhance this experience by:
- Converting limited or slow hosting links into high-speed premium links
- Providing access to higher quality sources that might otherwise be unavailable
- Bypassing throttling and download limitations imposed by file hosts
- Offering cached torrents for instant streaming without waiting for peers
So you’re telling me that they’re offering a paid service for free. That makes me trust and want to use it even less.
use or don’t; who cares?
just don’t spread lies…
Sheesh, this place is turning into reddit faster than I’d like. Relax dude.
Stremio is free, the service you need to cache the torrents (Real-Debrid) isn’t. It’s about $/€3 per month, which is still cheaper than a VPN (which you need for torrents but not for Stremio/Debrid).
Wait, so if I get this right, stremio has nothing to do with debrid on its own. So if you just use Stremio, as is, you are leeching a torrent you don’t seed?
Correct. Without a Debrid service, you stream the torrent directly from the tracker. It’s also slow AF for all but the most popular content so you really don’t want to go without.
(In my experience most torrents are already cached on Debrid, BTW, so there’s no hit and run since you’re just downloading the file directly from a server.)
Haha jellyfin go brrrrrrr
ARR YE MATEY! TAKE TO THE SEAS, YE LANDLUBBER, AND PAY FOR YOUTUBE PREMIUM! ARR! TIS A FINE SERVICE, AND TIS ONLY $15 A MONTH! ARR! A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR ME!
It’s like the grocery stores that have digital price tags on them that they can adjust at anytime. They totally going to do surge pricing and other bullshit. I complete expect oh you picked up that item? Purchase just gotta up as soon as it’s touched
Arrrrrr
