Today is a no better time to set up a storage machine and loaded with Jellyfin.
You can pirate whatever shows, including ones that can't even be legally sold, and run your own service.
If you add the Arrs suite, then you can also get dynamic additions of shows you watch, and just have them show up.
And well, if Meta and ilk can use pirate libraries in a commercial setting, I see nothing wrong in piracy in a non commercial setting.
bayarearefugee · 4h ago
> Today is a no better time
Agreed.
And anyone creating or supporting generative AI built from massive unfettered internet scraping that wants to lecture me on the ethics of violating copyright to sidestep the monstrosity they have built can take a flight to Hypocrite Island and go fuck themselves.
ulrikrasmussen · 3h ago
With Chromecast getting more and more unstable (and not working on LineageOS, forcing me to use Chromium on a laptop) and now streaming services turning to engagement optimizing ad monsters, I guess I'll start doing that.
I had really hoped that the streaming era would have ended up in a better future where I could buy movies and TV shows in the same was as I buy them on Bandcamp: Watch some of it, maybe all of it, for free, and after payment you can either stream it OR download it and play it however the fuck you want on whatever device you want, with whatever software you want.
Ads are not just a question of whether you can pay to turn them off. The mere presence of ads on a platform is pure poison for its content curation, and further gives the streaming vendor incentives to control you as a user and take away your freedom.
lm28469 · 4h ago
Even manually downloading torrents and watching them from my laptop plugged into a projector like it's 2006 is more convenient than netflix at that point. People who grew up after the peak of piracy really don't know what they're missing
thatguy0900 · 4h ago
Piracy is still peak, there's 0 reason to download anything or install any special software. Just go to yandex and type watch (show/movie) online.
You can pirate whatever shows, including ones that can't even be legally sold, and run your own service.
If you add the Arrs suite, then you can also get dynamic additions of shows you watch, and just have them show up.
And well, if Meta and ilk can use pirate libraries in a commercial setting, I see nothing wrong in piracy in a non commercial setting.
Agreed.
And anyone creating or supporting generative AI built from massive unfettered internet scraping that wants to lecture me on the ethics of violating copyright to sidestep the monstrosity they have built can take a flight to Hypocrite Island and go fuck themselves.
I had really hoped that the streaming era would have ended up in a better future where I could buy movies and TV shows in the same was as I buy them on Bandcamp: Watch some of it, maybe all of it, for free, and after payment you can either stream it OR download it and play it however the fuck you want on whatever device you want, with whatever software you want.
Ads are not just a question of whether you can pay to turn them off. The mere presence of ads on a platform is pure poison for its content curation, and further gives the streaming vendor incentives to control you as a user and take away your freedom.