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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Netflix execs needs a new jet.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's OK. I've already removed Netflix

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Piracy is always a service issue

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I haven't pirated stuff in years but started again this year. It sucks that my favorite torrent site was shut down though.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I use Jackett to reduce dependency on specific sites

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm gonna look into this, thanks! ๐Ÿ˜„

I have a few go-tos foe different types of content but it's always scary they might just stop existing one day.

...I mean...piracy's bad m'kay ๐Ÿ‘€

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Go for the Arr suite. Radarr for movies, Sonarr for series. They work well with Jackett, and actually have an even better (use comfort) alternative to it called Prowlarr. Once set up, maybe spending a couple hours understanding how they work, downloading a movie or a series is as easy as entering its name in a search field, seeing the related list (completely accurate), hitting add and watching the torrent start automatically. And if Jellyfin is configured as well, I can start watching whatever I downloaded with a couple clicks right away on any device I have Jellyfin, in full whichever quality my pre-set profile searched the torrent sites for. That's quite the supply chain, centralized after landing on your host computer, streamable to any local devices or online devices, and can be automated to even search and download queries that come through discord messages.

Understanding the indexer stuff can take a little time at the start, but it is actually as easy as saying that Jackett/Prowlarr is just the middleman between you typing your movie name and searching through all torrent sites you want at the same time. The net has videos of using them if they look confusing at any point. Using Radarr/Sonarr themselves after setting up the indexers is as straightforward as using any streaming services.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Cool, I was planning to cancel this month anyway. I just finished ripping all of our DVDs and Blurays, so I have quite a bit of content ready to go. I have told my wife and kids I'll buy whatever they want, within reason, and rip it to our private streaming service. I think we'll end up saving quite a bit of money eventually this way, and we have no ads with our self-hosted video service.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Not only no ads but shit you actually want to watch and all right there no hopping from this service to that service to watch a frickin show

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yup. The main issue is exclusives, but most of those suck anyway. I told them we'll give it a few months and see where we're at.

But between the two, I'm spending $40/month to avoid ads, so it's probably cheaper to just buy what we want to watch instead.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

A 5TB portable hard drive only costs as much as three months and can hold most of the stuff you ACTUALLY wanna watch. To be fair, DVDs and BluRays can get expensive but at least that's yours forever and you don't have to worry about the studio suddenly deciding you need to subscribe to THEIR bullshit too. If it's not available outside of streaming, well Gabe Newell said it best.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yup. If I can get it legally to own, I will. If I can't, I'll find other methods...

I used Netflix because they had fantastic selection, a pretty decent UI, and good features on their apps. We recently went on a road trip, and both Disney+ and Netflix had "expired" our downloads (which we had downloaded like 2 weeks prior), so our kids couldn't watch most of what we had planned for during the trip. So their features are lacking, pricing sucks, and selection is more limited than when I signed up.

So yeah, if I'm going to have crappy selection anyway, I'll just buy what I want and save the monthly sub.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

What is Netflix?

Is it that thing that shows up before I watch whatever the fuck I want on one of the dozens of free streaming sites?

Arrr matey.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

I have a media server that I use and if I'm going to watch something I think that's the only way to go. With things being the way they are though I'm starting to think that we should just return to books. The "content" industry is just a gambit to extract money from people while turning their brains off.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I LOVE this bit:

"will stop measuring its success in new subscribers, but in growth byr egional revenue."

We're hitting our self defined goals JUST fine guys!

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