• hihi24522@lemm.ee
    52·
    4 days ago

    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

      • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        4 days ago

        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.

  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Hmm, pay $20 a month apiece for 20 different shitty streaming services that use ads, or $6/month for Usenet access and $1/month for indexer access, and get every movie and TV show for nothing extra…

    Choices, choices.

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 days ago

      What’s the easiest/best way to start with UseNet? I’ve wanted to give it a try for the longest time - but it just feels like such a daunting task to try and figure out…

      • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        It’s not complicated. The Usenet provider gives you access to Usenet, and the indexer lets you search it for whatever you want. You then download it with a Usenet client. You can do it manually, much the same way as you download a torrent from any site. if you’ve downloaded a torrent before, you would be able to manage Usenet with no issues at all.

        Or, if you’re willing to spend a few hours setting up the Servarr apps on an old computer like I did, you can automate the whole thing. I recommend this option, because you do it once and then you have a seamless way to fetch files from torrent and Usenet both without ever doing anything more than typing in the name of the show/movie. The Servarr apps search for, download, and import media into my library so that I can stream them to all my devices using Jellyfin (or Plex, if you like corpo apps). They even fetch proper subtitles for everything, and I also have it set up so after I’ve watched an episode, it’s deleted to make room for something else. It’s as easy as Netflix, at a fraction of the cost.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
      103·
      5 days ago

      I agree with the sentiment but if a large majority would stop using these services and pirating wouldn’t it result in either less entertainment or more crackdowns?

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
        48·
        5 days ago

        Nope. It resulted in the original Netflix, aka a service that actually worked and had everything we wanted for a time. Direct reaction to mass piracy and actually reduced it by 90℅ iirc.

        You also can’t crack down on non centralized services and the more decentralized nodes, the harder the job becomes and the more expensive. At some point it will become uneconomic to go after pirates.

        And, yes there will be massively less movies & shows which is very good. We live in a fresh hell where billionaires push out half baked shit every week and the only way to tell them is to not buy it.

        • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
          10·
          5 days ago

          Good points, thanks for taking the time to explain your point. I strongly agree with the on about the quantity of slop churned out nowadays.

          • tiramichu@lemm.ee
            7·
            5 days ago

            The slop is an unfortunate consequence of the streaming model.

            Because there is so much content on streaming and it’s so readily accessible, watching a movie isn’t an “event” anymore in the way it was when DVD or VHS was the only option. And when you pair this with second-screen devices (phones) then it all adds up to people treating movies as background entertainment while they scroll their phone or do something else.

            And because of that, the way shows and movies are produced has changed, too. The reason everything seems like homogenous cookie-cutter crap is because it is. In fact Netflix have specifically been asking producers to dumb content down so viewers can still understand it even when they are only paying half attention.

            Of course, there are still talented people out there making great movies and shows, but they are increasingly drowned in a sea of copy-paste mediocrity.

            And I do feel sorry for all those perhaps equally talented but less senior writers, directors, editors and artists who might never get to produce a movie they are truly proud of, because they’ve been captured by the streaming content factory that demands of them only a constant treadmill of dumbed-down slop, cheap and quick and instantly forgettable - and that people will only ever half-watch.

            • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
              3·
              4 days ago

              This is indeed a crying shame. I do not understand the concept of watching a movie while scrolling on my phone but maybe that’s just because I grew up with VHS and normal TV programing.

              Again, thanks for the detailed reply, it was very interesting!

        • Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          They really should have just built their own Netflix but profits get split amongst the copyright holders. Every single one of their analysts was warning them what would have happened if they couldn’t solve this real world game theory problem.

      • Affidavit@lemm.ee
        5·
        4 days ago

        The current model has its own issues. The amount of series that are cancelled after the first or second season is ludicrous. Also, and I’m not sure if it’s related to streaming or the constant writer’s strikes, but series have reduced from 16-26 episodes per season from the height of the piracy-era to 6-10 nowadays.

        If the reduction in piracy led to this deterioration in quality, then I can’t imagine it could get any worse if everyone started pirating again.

        Personally, I reckon it will incentivise the numbskulls in charge that no one is going to pay for 48 separate streaming services and they’ll be forced to adapt (likely via packaging/merging streaming services together).

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
      7·
      4 days ago

      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

        • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
          3·
          4 days ago

          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

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            31·
            4 days ago

            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