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And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg....

(And that "watch similar movies" thing can go to hell too)

ETA:

Jellyfin is great, yes.

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 87 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don your pirate hat and sail the high seas, matey. Arrr.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The solution is there... but it will take time for normie core to require this vital skill that was lost due to netflix.

Remember folks, media is 100% discretionary spend, if corpo does not give you the service you need, it is well within your ability to punish the parasite's profit ;)

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

A friend showed me their workflow for piracy and it's really incredible just how easy it all is. Literally just download an OVPN config from whatever VPN provider you subscribe to, connect to the VPN and search in qbittorrent (and use the link in qbittorrent to download the necessary search plugins)

Like obviously this is a few decades of software refinement, legal battles plus a fair amount of large companies turning a blind eye to the obvious. So it's shoulders of giants and all but it's still kinda jarring

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

key here is the decentralized model. if you note how they are always going after other corpos or institutions to enforce their "property" rights. there is no effective way to go after global population on individual basis. they tried suing people in the US but that backfired as public opinion sided with grandmas lol

fedi is already using this approach. that's the only effective way for plebs to send a message.. vote with your feet, find services that respect you. anything less than that is an extraction/exploitation racket. most key industries work like that and there is no recourse for things like housing, education, and healthcare.

[–] Juvyn00b@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Just as an fyi - people are still getting successfully sued on US soil when trackable (someone didn't use VPN)

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

If you think qbittorrent is impressive you should see someone streaming from Kodi or Stremio +Real-Debrid or some other debrid service. Its how streaming TV and movies should be.

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My wife and I moved into our first house together on Halloween, 1995, so that night we drank a bottle of champagne, watched Young Frankenstein, and handed out candy. Every year since then we've done the same thing to celebrate our anniversary of living together, though sometime a different movie. This year, we couldn't find our DVD, so decided to stream it and found what you did. Apparently Disney bought it and for some reason decided not to make it available. Very frustrating.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's simply unacceptable. I have a copy, but that's still unacceptable that you can't stream a film that amazing anywhere legally.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My point yes, thanks. Now how is the young generation going to learn how to pronounce Igor?

My kids will probably never buy a dvd player but you can bet I'm showing them how to find things like this regardless.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read it was pronounced Igor.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] scarabine@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago

I suppose they also say “Froderick”

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol I know you meant that as Igor, but I totally ready that as Igor at first

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's actually not right... it's Igor, with an r.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Oops, you're right. My apologies to his family.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago

And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…

Because they took an arm and a leg and didn't leave us with enough to get high quality prosthetics.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Find a spare/cheap computer. Install home assistant/unraid/TrueNAS (bunch of platforms that run docker and have app installers but any of those three are pretty easy to get running). Pay for access to a Usenet backbone provider and one or two Usenet search providers. Black Friday will have some sales on yearly subscriptions. Install Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyseer, and Bazaar (if you're huge into subtitles like me). Alternatively, also install and setup Prowlarr. Get your Usenet stuff working in Prowlarr. Point Radarr and Sonarr at Prowlarr. Point Jellyseer at Sonarr and Radarr. Share with friends. I will personally handhold anyone who wants to do this for themselves.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Usenet pros:

  • not p2p so no real chance of getting busted
  • max out your bandwidth the whole time you're downloading
  • no need to seed, no ratios, etc
  • Cheap AF

Usenet cons:

  • Files aren't forever. Servers do delete content after some time so search results aren't always available on your server
  • Usenet servers, especially in the US, are pretty responsive to DMCA demands
  • Not free
  • Complexity of setup (Sab + Arrs) are a barrier to entry
  • Public nzb search engines aren't always going to have what you need. Private search engines are usually invite only and/or cost money per year
  • Far less variety for niche stuff than torrents (imo, ymmv)
[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Quality and ease. Torrents don't always have enough seeders or they disconnect. You can get by on them, but it's a case of getting what you pay for. I go through a lot of media as do my friends using my server. The cost is negligible and basically means I have no headaches.

[–] darvocet@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

I need to be learned

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Looks like a 20th Century Fox production. Which Disney owns now, right? So why isn’t it streaming on Disney? Kind of pathetic.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 9 points 1 month ago

I think it's either:

  • they have to pay residuals to the actors for every stream, and they'd rather not do that
  • not 100% sure if it applies in this situation, but somehow they can write off the value of media just by making it unavailable, which gives them a tax break
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

works for me

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[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

About 80% of my use of Netflix is "hear about a cool film, open up the app, it's not on Netflix, close the app".

[–] Mora@pawb.social 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The other 20% is: Netflix creates a amazing series, I hear from it like 3 months later, watch the whole thing, ending with cliffhangers, and its already cancelled.

[–] MrBobDobalina@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I always wait and check first. Like that show 1899, looked pretty damn great but I'm not watching something about anything mysterious that got cancelled

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm watching Silo because there's a book anyway

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

YAHARRR!!! DON'T BE SO QUICK TO LOSE HOPE YOUNG SAILOR!!!! For the riches you seek are not far away!!!

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Everything is available for streaming when you have Stremio.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"I'm afraid Young Frankenstein has grown up. All that's available is Old Frankenstein."

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

If you have your own domain name+control over the DNS entries, a cute trick you can use for Jellyfin is to set up a fully qualified DNS entry to point to your local (private) IP address.

So, you can have jellyfin.example.com point to 192.168.0.100 or similar. Inaccessible to the outside world (assuming you have your servers set up securely, no port forwarding), but local devices can access.

This is useful if you want to play on e.g. Chromecast/Google TV dongle but don't want your traffic going over the Internet.

It's a silly trick to work around the fact that these devices don't always query the local DNS server (e.g., your router), so you need something fully qualified


but a private IP on a public DNS record works just fine!

[–] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel the need to point out that some dns servers block this. In piHole for example, you need to allow this. Some Routers do it too.

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[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also why I invested in the hardware and software for Blu-ray ripping. I now have a Pioneer drive in a USB enclosure, and can now rip even 4K Blu-rays from any region. So many special features I was missing out on, though a lot of disc releases are cheaping out on them these days.

Only annoying part about ripping is the freaking maze of playlists on many Blu-rays, especially for Special Features, and none of the player software I've tried yet has a feature to tell you what playlist and video file you're currently watching. So you basically have to rip everything and then check each video file afterwards.

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[–] Subtracty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Desperately wanted to watch Young Frankenstein in the week before Halloween. It's just the right kind of relaxing spooky comedy. Tried to find it legally. Honestly tried for longer than I am willing to admit. For a few years, the subscriptions were just so convenient, and I didn't have to worry about getting a virus or knowing which link to click. Well, no Young Frankenstein was the final straw. Bring on the high seas!

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try living in a small country, there's tons of stuff like that.

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[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Couple things I've tried to watch recently that I couldn't find anywhere. I was even willing to buy it (streaming, maybe they're available on physical media).

Basketball Diaries

Less Than Zero

Very annoying.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've never heard of Very Annoying. Is it good?

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago

In this case, piracy is the moral thing to do. I wouldn't even call it piracy at this point.

[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Guess I better borrow it before it's hard to find!

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