Netflix execs needs a new jet.
That’s OK. I’ve already removed Netflix
How do you watch TV shows and movie now ?
I just don’t watch many shows and a lot of the stuff coming out I don’t find that great anyway so I’d rather do something else with my time than pay more for worse service.
I personally buy the shows I want and rip them to my media server. It seems to be about $10/season, $10-15/movie, which I think is cheaper in the long run than paying for no-ads on these streaming services.
On top of that you get to keep the blu ray artworks and extras so pretty worth it i might say
Yup, and I can lend them to people as well. If I recommend someone, there’s a good chance I have it, and there’s also a good chance it’s not on whatever streaming platform they use.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
We welcome all the new members that discover the free internet 🏴☠️
Hmm voyager shows me no posts in there (although i see them via browser). How come?
lemmy.world blocked this instance, maybe you openend it on the browser without being logged in?
Lemmy.world blocked that community, what’s the post about?
Piracy. Lemmy.world blocked piracy related subs since they are babies. Leave Lemmy world man. Come to the dark side
Its just a link to the community [email protected]
Lemmy.world is hosted by real people, not corporations with tons of money to spend. Getting sued could potentially ruin the admin’s life, so it’s perfectly understandable.
If they actually consulted a lawyer, I’d be fine with the decision.
They did not. They make rash, uninformed decisions, based on feelings not reality, as a knee jerk reaction to other unrelated events.
So it’s not very understandable. They could have consulted a lawyer for less than a month of their hosting costs.
There is literally zero possibility of them getting sued over this. It was nothing but a way to cement their hold as the biggest community. Yes, this makes me a hypocrite. I’m just too fucking lazy to switch.
Sorry, why would blocking piracy communities cement our hold on anything?
Just to be clear, I wasn’t involved in the choice to block piracy related communities, but I just don’t see how blocking them helps the hosts in any way except preventing legal disputes.
In the US, you can sue anyone for any reason, even if it’s frivolous.
You force the other side to respond, making them hire a lawyer to defend you, even if the case is dismissed on its merits.
I very much disagree with lemmy.world’s decision to block the community but I completely understand it. I exercised my right to move to a new instance in response.
Lemmy.world is hosted by real people
Lemmy.world is hosted by real assholes
FTFY
What instance would you recommend?
I like dbzer0 but also really like sopuli.xyz and slrpnk.net. Oh also literature.cafe.
All of them have great uptime too.
Can’t go wrong with any of these. They’ve all got good local communities too.
+1 for sopuli. Chill, only defederates from meta, nazis and sketchy porn.
Ugh. I do like the idea of defederating in theory, but this is the third time I’m going to have move instances because something I want access to is blocked.
Is this just a ‘me’ problem or something everyone has to deal with from time to time?
We all gotta deal with it on any instance that is not your own. It’s not unheard of for people to create their own lemmy instance so they have exacting control over their federation.
It works well!
Give up your universal account that accesses everywhere. Multiple accounts is the way.
I had the same issue when initially coming to Lemmy, and made several accounts before I got so annoyed I did the research and chose an instance specifically for its federation/defederation policies; which led me to where I am now.
Lemmy.zip has defederated only illegal content such as csam and gore, as well as meta because fuck corporate.
I just generally dislike the idea of an arbitrary censorship list being applied to my content feed, I can choose and block myself.
I also would rather manage what I block or federate to. I hate that Lemmy enables instances to have too much control over its users, deciding what you can and cannot see and admins can see your PMs too. I got fed up with Lemmy.world because of their federation fuckups, why would communities that talk about piracy but don’t link to anything cause an admin to get sued? They won’t, reddit allows more piracy talk than Lemmy.world does lmao. Obviously Nintendo searches through the fediverse for anyone even saying they pirated stuff, right guys?! Nah I just don’t care for their admins. I usually dont agree with whatever their admins say, I even saw someone from world complain about Lemmy.world policies on their thread and the user got their account deleted by an admin with a nice smug response from them. I can’t have my own instance since I don’t have the money to spare, otherwise I would since it is BS that Lemmy doesn’t allow users to have the same control over their feed as an admin.
I would be pretty annoyed to let lemmy.world decide what I should read on the Lemmyverse :)
It’s that or being politically correct…
… what?
And that’s why I have a VPN, so I can yo-ho-ho with a bottle of fuck you!
That is the best sentence I’ve ever seen.
I can’t take credit, it’s a joke I stole from Civvie11 (Amazing game review show, I highly recommend it, especially if you like Boomer Shooters)
The show has the attitude of “If you fail to provide a way to legally obtain your product, you have no right to gain angry when someone pirates it.” and constantly brings this up when it reviews games like Nintendo’s Geist or Activision’s Wolfenstein remake (Which since Activision and ID Software are owned by the same company now could be re-released without issue, but for some reason they’re just not)
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!
Seems reasonable from a business point of view. They are approaching a saturation point and changing how they make money so shifting the KPIs only makes sense.
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.
Streaming sites? My brother in Christ, you need to ditch those unreliable websites that hardly work and go down all the time, and get a proper media center setup. Here are some terms to look up to get you started:
- Stremio
- Stremio addons: Torrentio, Streaming Catalogs, Trakt.tv
- Real-Debrid
That’s the basic setup you’ll want for a proper good time. Instantly stream any show or movie from any provider for free (Netflix, Disney, Prime Video, HBO, Apple TV, etc.). Get recommendations based on your viewing habits. Compatible with all your devices, including smart TVs. Torrent-based so it won’t get taken offline (at least not anytime soon). Torrents are downloaded to a server so there’s no waiting on seeds (which is what Real-Debrid does. Optional and $3/mo but it makes the experience much smoother, especially if you want to watch something older/more obscure).
Trust me, this is the way to go. Once you get everything set up, it’s so easy and straightforward to use that my grandmother could navigate Stremio and not even know that it’s a pirate service. Good luck and happy sailing. 🏴☠️
I watched furiosa in HD 2 weeks ago.
Zero problems.
I watched house of dragons a few nights ago, no problem.
Last night I watched the original episode of ancient aliens no problem.
I use Firefox, bookmarks (many sites exist), and ublock, and a proxy.
I spend zero dollars. I have zero problems.
I have all the things.
When all the sites get banned, I might take more drastic measure. For now, I have no problem even when one or 10 sites go down.
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.
We are officially round the circle.
From cable tv with ad breaks to streaming ad-free and back to streaming with ad breaks.
And that’s why I just cancelled Disney+ and Netflix. They were reasonably priced before, so I subbed. They hiked, so I left. Just those two together (Disney+ bundle + Netflix no-adds) was almost $40, which when added to my internet package, would basically be paying for cable.
So instead of that noise, I’m self-hosting. Screw 'em.
don’t forget about the ‘bundles’. lock you in to paying for six to keep you from service hopping.
This was always the plan.
Piracy is always a service issue
I haven’t pirated stuff in years but started again this year. It sucks that my favorite torrent site was shut down though.
I started last year again, after they killed the family plan if you don’t share a household. Instead of paying $10 to Netflix we now pay $7 for a 2TB cloud storage account where everyone uploads their pirated movies.
RIP RARBG you are missed
therarbg.com is a good mirror/clone
I use Jackett to reduce dependency on specific sites
I’m gonna look into this, thanks! 😄
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 👀
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.
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.
What software are you using to self host and serve your library?
Jellyfin. I was previously just using minidlna, but Jellyfin has an app for our TV and looks much nicer than the basic interface dlna offers.
I’m running it on an old PC running Linux, and it was pretty easy to set up.
Don’t know about OP, but Plex works great! Get a Synology NAS and run your Plex server on that
Plex is pretty commercialized these days and I don’t doubt they’re likely selling your data.
Yeah, the server isn’t FOSS, so I’m not bothering. Jellyfin is FOSS and gets the job done.
I’ve tried ripping my DVDs and can’t get it to work. Can you share details on how you did that?
I use Handbrake or MakeMKV depending on the disc. MakeMKV I mostly use for Bluray, Sometimes the odd DVD doesn’t work correctly with Handbrake.
In Handbrake, I just select the Quality and keep original Audio source, I’ve not needed to change any of settings.
If you use MakeMKV, Its “raw” so large file size (Some Bluray files I’ve had are like 40GB), You can run that file through Handbrake to reduce it.
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
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.
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.
Own your files. Play them in native resolution. Accept no compromises.
Since you say native resolution I assume you mean the highest resolution and bitrate available. Because playing the native resolution of a DVD is way way worse than streaming.
Buying everything on Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray would be very expensive if you watch. It’s also not very convenient.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with buying Blu-ray’s but don’t pretend it’s the perfect solution to all the problems.
High seas my peeps
This is the way. The only no-bullshit media platform is the one on your hard drive.
Pricing (US Dollar)
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Standard with ads*: $6.99 / month
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Standard: $15.49 / month (extra member slots can be added for $7.99 each / month) [Full HD]
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Premium: $22.99 / month (extra member slots can be added for $7.99 each / month) [Ultra HD]
What does a member slot mean by the way? Is it a person (as in if you want seperate recommendations for you, your wife and kid you pay for two more slots) or is it a home (as in your family, the grandparets, friends you share the account with etc. since they started cracking down on password sharing. Obligatory never had or even used netflix (other than seeing a few movies at friends’ places)
I’m guessing it’s for additional households because they disabled password sharing.
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I quit netflix recently after almost 10 years of continuous subscription. When they raised the price again it was a good Occasion although not the reason. I think so was done with it for a while now.
I guess I’ll start reading books again - or watch a few films instead of stretched out series.
Already canceled a long time ago. When I subbed they had all the good shows in one spot. Then everything got split up among others services and it was no longer worth it.
Plus the content they make themselves is hit or miss. And the misses are in far bigger numbers.
Seems like they brought themselves to a spot where growing more is very hard so they start messing with subscriptions to get more money.
Just curious what they are going to do when that stops working, because I think the next step is just to realize more growth is very hard. And anything they change may add subscribers but it may also cause them to leave, so they have to turn the knobs very carefully.
Line must go up at any cost.
The beatings shall continue until morale improves
My Netflix is called rutracker, your Netflix is called The Pirate Bay
My Netflix is called Jellyfin With Suspiciously Acquired Media From Dubious Corners of the Internet.
