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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.

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.

Wow! I only realized now why the *arr software (radarr, sonarr, bazarr ...) are named like that despite using them for years.

Thanks for the epiphany.

What are you talking about? Of course I got the BIOS from my PS2 using a flash drive. Of course I manually backed up physical games I own. I would never illegally download.

If you setup streamio it's literally as easy as using Netflix. And it has everything, it's extremely rare that i find anything that i can't watch

Personally Ive got a pirate streaming service which has a mobile app and desktop website to stream anything from Netflix, apple, Disney, Hulu, prime, etc pretty much every service out there and new episodes pop up within a day. It's no different than opening up the Netflix app. It's pretty damn easy and convenient. Not perfect as sometimes it lags and you need to watch in lower quality but so much more convenient having everything in one spot than needing to search 5 different apps for something to watch.

Another guy in this thread linked an amazing resource for learning:

https://fmhy.net/

My wife and kid love watching stuff on Plex. We might even watch some Dog Man tonight if we have time, then maybe I’ll get to continue The Expanse with my wife after the kid goes to bed.

I set some stuff up automatically, but still do a bunch more manually because it’s easy enough. Once I’ve set it up, the user experience and the A/V quality are excellent.

I’ve even started putting a bunch of FLAC albums into Plex to use it for my music streaming. We Get YouTube music for free but it can get obnoxious to actually use throughout the day.

My wife and kids have a clue - they just tell me to download it. The little ones will learn their piracy lessons on coffee shop wifi, not at our home.

If you are tech savy you can get almost whatever you want with a one click, just like legal streaming, and eve with more quality

If you aren't you can hook up a plex server from a friend or use things like magisTv or similar

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.

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).

That is fair. But I've had more HDD failure than DVD disc rot so far. I prefer physical media which doesn't require engaging my computer.

Given that physical media comes with DRM I can't see that happening

Blu-Ray is a pain to play in VLC, for the times I do want to play it on PC. Besides, I can't much see beyond 480i and roughly 30fps. And I can't rip it as easily.

I mean lemmy.dbzer0.com, the instance that is hosted on. I mean, an intance that allows that probably doesn't have much bullshit authoritarianism. The instance owner is a self-declared anarchist, although, if you are a "right-wing anarchist" (or other right-wing ideologies) you might not like it here.

Other options are:

sh.itjust.works

lemmy.ca

sopuli.xyz

I went from world to shitjustworks. Big worth.

Enjoy! Debrid can also unrestrict file sharing sites like katfile, scribd, etc.

Never had any issues. It works perfectly when I use it with 1337x and TBP.

Dont know why they're beefing with those trackers specifically, but it doesn't affect Stremio's operations one bit. I can still stream any movie or show I want instantly to my TV.

Alas, you can always use a different Debrid service. I simply prefer R-D because it's the most popular, which means that tends to have more content available for instant stream rather than having to wait for seeds. Almost every torrent I want has already been cached by another user for instant download.

anti-piracy swing?

All bark, no bite

I didn't know about any swing and started using it for the past month with no issues so far

My understanding is that not everything is available that way though. I had a friend say they tried to get star trek the motion picture. And while it was there. A month later he still only had half of it. Thats a pretty big name movie to be so hard to get.

This is why pirating isn’t an option to most people, you need like 4 apps and a dedicated pc running as a server to match the one click ease of streaming services, it’s ok for me but I get why my parents or less tech savvy people would be unable to figure it out

Yeah. I just moved my Plex server to my newly rebuilt and Linuxized old gaming machine, a 9700K (8 core Intel) with 32 gigs of ram and a GTX1080 GPU. It is so nice having all that performance available, especially the GPU if somebody needs to transcode while watching.

I can use that machine like normal without affecting anything streaming from the box. Next time I need to encode a video I’ll have to try watching something 4K transcoded to lower bitrate 4K/1080p at the same time to see if I notice anything.

Self hosted jellyfin

Just looked into it a bit more, turns out they're still working, but:

RD received a formal notice from the National Federation of Film Publishers (probably law suit) so RD has to comply and strengthen anti piracy measures.

That started with the deactivation of the API endpoint /instantavailability which is what 3rd party app add ons like torrentio and Fen Lite/Cocoscrapers used to scrape streamable cached links (I think)

The notice also included a blocking of torrents and purge of the cache of specific media, we don't know the full extent of this yet but it seems many links are already being blocked

The reason torrentio is working with RD again is because the torrentio dev built a workaround so that it will still use RD to pull links we just aren't able to see if they are cached or not, I do not know if this is a permanent fix but as far as I can tell, things will continually get worse for RD, not better.

Reddit

Non-Reddit link

Seems like this explains it pretty well, though Stremio has basically an app for every device, not only the firestick:

https://champagne.pages.dev/piracy-guides/firestick/#stremio--trakt

Also, I don't remember doing the "Trakt" part when setting up, just used Debrid and Torrentio to connect it to Stremio.

Someone stole it.

Ik have a beamer and an automated download system on my NAS. I have my own cinema but with a comfy couch, I can pause when I need a new drink or for a toilet break, watch anything I want and I have my own snacks too. Plus, 3 kitties fighting for my lap.

A fiver is a good deal though, cinema over here is expensive. €20 for a ticket. Snacks and drinks are also expensive AF.

You can also rent on YouTube, and even buy there, so you can always access your cherished movies in reliable and enduring Google Services.