Online piracy in the EU is increasing for the first time in years, driven by a lack of legal alternatives and income inequality.
I was fine when it was just Netflix and Hulu. Corporate greed pulling their content to get their own piece of the pie en masse made me hoist the flag and join the Kodi Real-Debrid gang.
Pay and support small indie labels/studios, pirate or straight up boycott the big players. Every dollar that goes to them helps fund the war on free (as in freedom) exchange of information
@Pixelle3D yep. When Netflix was basically the only game in town they beat out pirating as the market has shown they are willing to pay for convenience. But with the saturation in the market making the convenience not convenience…que return of the pirates.
Docker and linuxserver.io are your friend regarding setup 😄 and yea hardware may be a bit expensive, but as a single user, you may just rent a little stack at a privacy respecting server farm (and cold backup your stuff some other where)
Every stupid-ass studio thinks they’re going to pull their content from Netflix and people are going to pony up $10-$15 per month for just one studio’s content, when that’s what we paid for everything all in one spot? Pshaw! Get a clue, losers.
As a lifetime sub owner of Plex, they managed to fuck up the complete database 2 times in a month, which takes a day to create on a beast of a machine, because of intro/outro detection.
Ugh, I have tried to love Jellyfin… it’s just not as feature filled and doesn’t have nice clients across all phones and smart TVs. It’ll get there… but not yet.
I do miss the old Plex mind you, was a much better app.
Does the EU have a history of such action? From my perspective, the EU’s sorta always been the cutting edge of consumer protections and is nearly anti-corporate with the common-sense protection bills they put through for member states to implement.
A metaphor for this feeling of being attached to metaphorical strings which restrict you against your will, with them getting a tighter grip on you over time.
Yeah, and telling people to just pay for a VPN isn’t a great answer either - that’s just another fucking pay-forever subscription with the price rises of Netflix plus the added jank and nonsense that comes with being a copyright infringement hobbyist.
Maybe I’ll just cancel everything and do totally offline ripping of borrowed physical media from the public library, like some kind of pirate hermit.
Yeah, same with music. So often I want to give my damn money to artists by buying albums, but “not available in your country”. If I go to UK or DE store, I get “your card is not local”, even though it’s not an issue with 99% other products. Come on.
Most of the money doesn’t even reach the artists. So better pirate all music online and support artists more directly at their shows, through their shops, by donation or whatever.
Sure, that’s what I do. But it’s still amazing that greed driven labels are setting hurdles themselves to get the money. And ocassionally I can’t find some rare versions in the seas, so still would like to just pay.
Bandcamp and Boomkat. I really wish more artists sold direct to consumer. I have no interest in streaming. I think it’s stupid that while storage gets cheaper they keep pushing streaming.
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Pay and support small indie labels/studios, pirate or straight up boycott the big players. Every dollar that goes to them helps fund the war on free (as in freedom) exchange of information
@Pixelle3D yep. When Netflix was basically the only game in town they beat out pirating as the market has shown they are willing to pay for convenience. But with the saturation in the market making the convenience not convenience…que return of the pirates.
And if you setup your seedbox correctly, piracy is more convenient than any streaming service.
@Petter1 probably true, its always been a hardware issue for me. But the whole “setup” is what turns away much of the general public.
If governments would just get out of the damn way…
Docker and linuxserver.io are your friend regarding setup 😄 and yea hardware may be a bit expensive, but as a single user, you may just rent a little stack at a privacy respecting server farm (and cold backup your stuff some other where)
Every stupid-ass studio thinks they’re going to pull their content from Netflix and people are going to pony up $10-$15 per month for just one studio’s content, when that’s what we paid for everything all in one spot? Pshaw! Get a clue, losers.
Plex + Usenet + Sonarr + Radarr
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Don’t forget prowlarr, readarr, lidarr and jellyseer
As other mentioned, be ready with jellyfin, no one knows how long until ROI seeking investor kill the cow.
*Jellyfin
As a lifetime sub owner of Plex, they managed to fuck up the complete database 2 times in a month, which takes a day to create on a beast of a machine, because of intro/outro detection.
Fuck Plex
Ugh, I have tried to love Jellyfin… it’s just not as feature filled and doesn’t have nice clients across all phones and smart TVs. It’ll get there… but not yet.
I do miss the old Plex mind you, was a much better app.
Dpending on what you need, there are plugins which can detect intros, change UIs etc
U got any invites left over for a german community mah dude?
Honestly I just went with Eweka + NZBMatrix, I’ve not got time to find a way into cool groups
Thanks for the info. Thats something to start! I’ll look into it.
SceneNZBs is what you are searching 😉
Thx a lot!
Ironic, seeing as those streaming services are now going under.
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Fuck let’s hope that the EU doesn’t use this to ban VPNs
Could they even stop people though?
Yeah, good luck finding me.
Does the EU have a history of such action? From my perspective, the EU’s sorta always been the cutting edge of consumer protections and is nearly anti-corporate with the common-sense protection bills they put through for member states to implement.
Genuine question.
EU is usually very pro consumer but not long ago there were (and there still are) some shit takes on piracy and stuff.
I don’t think they’ll ban VPNs though. It’s not pro consumer and it’s anti-privacy which EU is also very strong on.
The design decision that every story needs pictures even if there aren’t any pictures of the thing they’re talking about, is stupid.
Needs a thumbnail somehow.
Yes. That is stupid.
At this point I assume every terrible decision like this is done for SEO reasons.
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A metaphor for this feeling of being attached to metaphorical strings which restrict you against your will, with them getting a tighter grip on you over time.
pinches you owo
Except that you’re not contributing anything to help your crew mates when using a debrid service that just leeches and nothing else.
No honor among thieves I suppose :'D
What’s a better alternative? Edit: for a tv with an android box.
That’s a good point. I never thought about it that way.
We need i2p or veilid torrents ASAP, to protect uploaders and downloaders. One of the main reasons people don’t seed is the threat of lawsuits.
We have those on I2P already, see tracker2.postman.i2p for example.
Yeah, and telling people to just pay for a VPN isn’t a great answer either - that’s just another fucking pay-forever subscription with the price rises of Netflix plus the added jank and nonsense that comes with being a copyright infringement hobbyist.
Maybe I’ll just cancel everything and do totally offline ripping of borrowed physical media from the public library, like some kind of pirate hermit.
What does “debrid” even mean? I know what it is, but what’s it supposed to mean?
i mean, what else should i do when half of the content i want to watch “isn’t available to stream in my area”
Video needs to be like music streaming.
One price, all the content, pay the rights holders based on how much of their shit was watched.
It’s really not hard. You just need to stop being such greedy fucks.
It is a bit more complicated than that, different countries have different laws.
But I do agree that Netflix has taken the easy approach by only limiting the content to which they don’t have to do any research.
Yeah, same with music. So often I want to give my damn money to artists by buying albums, but “not available in your country”. If I go to UK or DE store, I get “your card is not local”, even though it’s not an issue with 99% other products. Come on.
Most of the money doesn’t even reach the artists. So better pirate all music online and support artists more directly at their shows, through their shops, by donation or whatever.
Fuck the shows, too. That money goes to Ticketbastard. Buy their merch, directly if possible.
If my card was working a couple weeks ago, I totally would have supported a small local band by buying on of the $10 CDs they were selling.
Yeah, big shows are a pain in the ass anyway. I rather meant small shows by local hosts.
Oh, absolutely. But even most small shows are done through Ticketbastard these days, unless it’s like some backyard or county fair type thing.
Sure, that’s what I do. But it’s still amazing that greed driven labels are setting hurdles themselves to get the money. And ocassionally I can’t find some rare versions in the seas, so still would like to just pay.
I’ve been using Bandcamp to buy albums. They are claiming that 82% of the money goes to the artist.
Bandcamp and Boomkat. I really wish more artists sold direct to consumer. I have no interest in streaming. I think it’s stupid that while storage gets cheaper they keep pushing streaming.