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I started pirating movies again after a decade (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Digester@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was a happy Netflix user until 2018, before that I haven't really pirated any movies (with very rare exceptions) for almost a decade but I recently started again. I'm was doing my monthly budgeting and realized I was paying for too many subscription services. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Shudder, Disney+, Hulu and Crunchyroll. My family likes to watch different types of content that is distributed on many different platforms.

I was never subscribed to these many services until a couple years ago. I was thinking which service I should cancel when I realized I had the option to cancel all of them this entire time. I'm torrenting again and I started saving a considerate amount.

The only service I'm paying for is Spotify which I think it's fairly priced and offers all the music my family listens too (and it's convenient). All the competitors pretty much offer the same content and that's how streaming services should be.

I remember back in the day using eMule and BitChe (to look for torrents). Now I'm using Deluge as my torrent client and I I get my torrents from 1337x. What sites are you guys using?

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[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My family still has netflix so I use that sometimes. But... most of the time I'll download from a few places for movies:

rarbg, though the original went down I found a new one at https://therarbg.com/
yts, again the original went down but I've been using https://yts.mx/ which is fantastic.
stremio. set it up with some plugins and it's pretty useful.
this one is a little weird but https://databasegdriveplayer.xyz/player.php?imdb= I have a browser extension to pop up the relevant link on the imdb page, so I can just click that. not always best quality, but for some rarer titles it really does end up helping.

for client I've always really used transmission. it's small, comfy, works.

[–] 123Opie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Therargb is a good one, thx! Sadly I cannot (yet) add it to jackett.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer much more to pay for Real Debrid even when their servers are not as perfect as Netflix or alike, they are cheaper and have all the content that you'd normally want to see.

[–] OptimisticPrime@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to share those downloads in an easy netflix-like way you should consider a small homeserver with Jellyfin. Even a newer raspberry pi is strong enough for streaming to 2 or maybe 3 people at the same time, unless files need transcoding to different codecs.

[–] dizzy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That combined with the servarr docker containers beats any streaming service hands down

[–] theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deluge leaks your ip address if you use a VPN, I use QBittorrent for this reason.

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[–] aeternum@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is why i pay for spotify, because it's so much easier than downloading and hosting music. The music industry got it right. Sign up with any music service and you'll get likely the same or very similar music libraries. But with TV and movies, there's all this fucking exclusive shit. They can eat shit if they think I'm gonna pay more for streaming than fucking cable/pay TV. Fuck that shit.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If I actually cared about watching stuff, I probably would be to. Right now all of my entertainment is YouTube/Twitch with AdBlock, so kind of pirating? Maybe when I actually bring a girl home I'll pirate something to watch if I can't just steal my parents Netflix login still lol. I have zero intentions of ever subscribing to streaming services.

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