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      That reminds me, I love the hannya/jolly roger fusion on Majima’s flag in the upcoming Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii! (Which I would not be pirating even if it weren’t Denuvo)

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      Sure, but let’s not pretend like it’s just a one click like streaming legally. My wife and kid would have zero clue how to go about it. But I agree, every time I wanna watch something in particular it’s never on any of the networks, or in one of the ones I don’t have.

      Also you can’t get everything through torrents, only popular stuff or current stuff, anything else you might be lucky to get one seeder or two

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        If you setup streamio it’s literally as easy as using Netflix. And it has everything, it’s extremely rare that i find anything that i can’t watch

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          Except it defaults to something like iMDB in how it lists series and shows and their reviews… And not a single way to watch them. You then have to do quite some digging to find the right addons, and not all links are equally valid…

          I understand they avoid liability this way but damn they make it difficult to actually watch something, and even if you manage to get it to listen to Torrrent trackers they don’t really seed back and that makes me feel like scum and that comes from someone who watches films for free.

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        Personally Ive got a pirate streaming service which has a mobile app and desktop website to stream anything from Netflix, apple, Disney, Hulu, prime, etc pretty much every service out there and new episodes pop up within a day. It’s no different than opening up the Netflix app. It’s pretty damn easy and convenient. Not perfect as sometimes it lags and you need to watch in lower quality but so much more convenient having everything in one spot than needing to search 5 different apps for something to watch.

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        My wife and kids have a clue - they just tell me to download it. The little ones will learn their piracy lessons on coffee shop wifi, not at our home.

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        If you are tech savy you can get almost whatever you want with a one click, just like legal streaming, and eve with more quality

        If you aren’t you can hook up a plex server from a friend or use things like magisTv or similar

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        My wife and kid love watching stuff on Plex. We might even watch some Dog Man tonight if we have time, then maybe I’ll get to continue The Expanse with my wife after the kid goes to bed.

        I set some stuff up automatically, but still do a bunch more manually because it’s easy enough. Once I’ve set it up, the user experience and the A/V quality are excellent.

        I’ve even started putting a bunch of FLAC albums into Plex to use it for my music streaming. We Get YouTube music for free but it can get obnoxious to actually use throughout the day.

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    Yes, remember it is totally immoral to pirate things from corporations who actively make everything worse for everyone.

    Here’s a guide to what sites you should avoid so you don’t accidentally get movies, shows, books, music, etc. without paying FMHY.net

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        I’m a bit old school with things like this.
        I’d much rather avoid downloading a 4k rip and watching it offline.
        But I’ll be sure to avoid these sites, too, if I’m ever in the mood to watch something when I’m away from my ‘linux iso storage and acquisition’ machine.

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      I dont like having DVDs everywhere.

      if they offered DRM free paid downloads so i could give them my money and just host it myself i probably would give them my money.

      but they don’t, so i sail

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        That is fair. But I’ve had more HDD failure than DVD disc rot so far. I prefer physical media which doesn’t require engaging my computer.

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          You can mitigate against HDD failure with RAID and backups.

          I have two 8TB HDDs in a RAID1 configuration. if one dies i can remove the dead one and add a new one to the array and the data will sync back across from the good drive. I also have two 10TB drives in rotation going to offsite storage. every now and again i backup my server to one of these drives, take it to the place i store them and swap them over.

          Only thing i’m missing from the 321 rule is different mediums, considering the amount of data i’m dealing with though the cost of backing up to tape though was prohibitative

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            I swear when I first heard 321 it was “at least 3 copies of the data in at least 2 physical locations with at least one copy being offline” but now I’m hearing of different storage mediums instead of different locations

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      Exactly. Movie? Enter name, wait a minute, watch. Series? Enter name, wait a while longer, watch.

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        My understanding is that not everything is available that way though. I had a friend say they tried to get star trek the motion picture. And while it was there. A month later he still only had half of it. Thats a pretty big name movie to be so hard to get.

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          The problems I have are for very specific categories. A lot of the reality tv isn’t available because they are meant to be watched during the time period they air. The more popular ones are still there, jersey shore for example. Documentaries can be hit or miss, especially the ones that were released for free already on a random site or YouTube. You can always download those directly from the web page though.

          Sometimes I have trouble with very old seasons of shows. Usually its easier to find an entire show torrent, but sonarr can’t handle multi-season downloads so you have to do it manually.

          I have more trouble with things that should be automated requiring manaual intervention than the things not being available at all.

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          Depends. I never have had anything that’s not available. Except one older series that wasn’t available anywhere, not even streaming legally. And for dubbed shit it can be more complicated. But i rarely consume that. I use usenet btw with only two indexers. Could add more and even torrents too, that might even make it better. But i would already be fine with just one indexer at all.

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              It’s just as old as the internet itself. Primary reason was communication. A gargantuan federated forum. The binary-part was just there but not that extensively used. Now it’s the other way round (sadly). Communication is down, binaries are up. As to the legality: It’s federated, worldwide. Some providers do take DMCAs, but (as with the rest of the net) it doesn’t do much. Because first most pir8-content is obfuscated and pwd-protected. And second, the moment something was taken down, someone else re-ups it again :-) Benefits to torrent and debrid and all: Retention. So a thing from 10yrs back you can still get with absolute maximum speed your line can do (and your provider gives you ofc). Fuck seeders and upload-ratio and co. Just get it as fast as anything could be. I usually download with ca. 250mb/s. 100 parallel connections. Only some group’s FTP can beat this. But they’re not for the public.

              As to legally paying: It’s just a service that gives you access to something. like debrid. You can have usenet access just to communicate with people or download linux-distros or anything else legal. Also, even in my very restricted country, downloading is legal. Uploading is not.

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                So it’s federated like lemmy? Interesting. So you pay an instance I assume. But does that get you access to all other instances like lemmy? That seems odd, but possible.

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                  not exactly like lemmy. It’s more like ONE base of content they all share. But it’s not like instance A only gives you interracial gay midget-porn, and instance B only farming-simulators and C only linux-apps :) But yes, you pay one of the providers and usually have it all. There’s a chart somewhere to which one is backed by whom, and hence the best retention you could get. AFAIK Eweka is one of the root-providers (I use them and they have regularly cheap deals). For automated easy downloads you’d also need an indexer. There are free ones but they aren’t offering API-acccess. You can get those very cheap to moderatly cheap. I pay like 20 bucks a year for two indexers (where one would really totally suffice). Kinda like the same you’d need for torrent too. A site to get your torrent from.

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    Or you can buy it for $30, but no you can’t have a digital copy. And if, in the future, the service folds, then you can no longer watch it.

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            I didn’t know for months either until I was trying to help someone find an elusive pdf only available there. Were close to just making a scribd trial when I thought to try.

            Haven’t tried recently but it likely still works.

            Edit: still does!

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      Even after RD’s massive anti-piracy swing?

      I tried put.io and Torbox but they throw errors even when I can see they downloaded the torrent

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        I didn’t know about any swing and started using it for the past month with no issues so far

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          French gov recently went after them and they made a big thing about not hosting copyrighted content, but as far as I can tell nothing’s changed.

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            Their entire reason to exist is to host copyrighted content. They’re just telling the French what they want to hear to get them off of their asses.

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        Never had any issues. It works perfectly when I use it with 1337x and TBP.

        Dont know why they’re beefing with those trackers specifically, but it doesn’t affect Stremio’s operations one bit. I can still stream any movie or show I want instantly to my TV.

        Alas, you can always use a different Debrid service. I simply prefer R-D because it’s the most popular, which means that tends to have more content available for instant stream rather than having to wait for seeds. Almost every torrent I want has already been cached by another user for instant download.

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          stremio and RD are not the same. if RD goes down stremio app/site won’t be affected just the addon

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            Yes I understand that. I never said that they were the same. You don’t need R-D to use Stremio, but it’s a much smoother experience if you do, cause you can stream instantly without waiting for seeds.

            The point I’m making is that any drama involving R-D beefing with trackers doesn’t affect the amount of content available on Stremio. Other trackers exist to fill in the gaps. That’s all I’m saying.

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      Unless you read the fine print, which redefines buying as “not buying, but give us the money anyway”