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Or pirate for 0€.
arrr!
This is the way
How much is that in usd
$32
Damn metric system.
... and the tanking exchange rate.
These new tariffs are a bitch
Is that Fahrenheit joke? Nice.
I do love piracy and I do do it sometimes. But sometimes I don't want to spend 20 minutes finding a torrent and then another 30 minutes to an hour waiting for it to download.
My main issue with it is that I have to pre-plan if I want to watch anything through that method.
You can't make some tea and popcorn, poop, and come back to watch it? C'mon, what's 20 min!
That's what automation is for.
Whenever I come across an interesting movie/show; I open a webpage that I host, search for a title (results from imdb) and click 'add+search'.
~15min later, it's available for me, my friends, and my family to watch on my own private streaming service. (for such reliably quick downloads, I recommend usenet over torrents)
Sonarr, Radarr, Emby/Jellyfin
Other users besides me can even request content via Ombi.
that's sounds so complicated, just downloading it myself is easier
if someone made one application to install and set it up automatically id probably try it though
My setup is a conglomeration of a quite a few different pieces; but they are not all required. I'd encourage you to explore, start small and expand into new pieces/areas when you feel comfortable. I started this ~8 years ago with basically 0 knowledge of hosting web services; and just built up the knowledge through exploration over time.
If all you're looking to do is watch movies, and you're happy to play the downloaded media directly on your pc (or move the files around manually, just like manual torrenting); the only piece you need is Radarr.
Once setup; You tell it what movies you want to watch, it searches for those using the indexers you've given it (YourBittorrent, TPB, and BadassTorrents for example), choses the best results out of them all based on things like upload date, seeds, quality descriptors in the title, etc. Then passes that to your torrent/usenet client. Finally it will rename and sort the files into nicely organized media folders for you, once the download client has marked it as complete.
This is slowly what I'm working on
There's a ton of people happy to help on !selfhosted@lemmy.world if you run into troubles :)
When it renamed them... Do you continue to seed (in the case of torrents)?
Torrents have two options:
Ideally you use Hardlinking - This creates a 'copy' of the file that's just a link to the original data, instead of actually duplicating it. This only works when both 'copies' are kept on the same drive/filesystem; but gives you two versions so you can leave one available to seed and have one renamed and sorted away.
Failing that, it can fallback to plain duplicating the files. One copy kept to seed, and one copy sorted away.
Personally, I've switched to usenet for 99% of downloads, so seeding isn't really a thing. It's there as a fallback though.
Thanks! This is useful.
https://www.stremio.com/
https://torrentio.org/
ooo that looks interesting. I will look into it more when I get home. Thanks for sharing
It's complicated to get set up. Once done, it makes everything very simple.
Ombi always gave me issues and I switched to Overseerr. Similar but more in the *arr family. Since you use Jellyfin, can use Jellyseerr instead for a better integration.
Then use Prowlarr to sync Torrent/Usenet sites to all the *arr services.
The three of them are all pretty similar, achieving the same goal; whatever works for you.
I've never had an issue with Ombi, so I've stuck with it. I actually use Emby instead of Jellyfin, so Overseerr isn't an option, and I've just not had a reason to try out Jellyseer over what's already setup and working.
Prowlarr is definitely a good recommendation. I used Jackett for the longest time; but being able to modify indexers in one place, then have it propagate to the rest of the stack is so much nicer. It lists a ton of indexers to look into too, if you need more.
You don't have to download anything, there are amazing streaming sites: https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide
There's also rentry.co/megathread
Use Usenet instead, way faster downloads. Also lots of clients can stream torrents, so as long the torrent its being seeded well enough you can watch right away.
Worst case just go to one of the 100s of sites with free streams of basically every popular show and movie.
Any kickstart guide for a total noob?
This guide is pretty good, but I'll also explains the basics here.
You pay a provider for access to Usenet files, which you locate through an indexer, and download through a client such as nzbget.
Picking a provider is the most complicated part. The guide explains how to choose one and r/Usenet has a page in their wiki for good provider deals. I use NewsDemon and they've been fine.
Indexers are pretty much the same as torrent indexers, they can be free or paid, public or private. NZBGeek has been great for me, and AnimeTosho is nice if you want to download anime.
The download clients work similarly to torrent clients with the addition of configuring the connection to your provider. Whichever provider you choose will have instructions for connecting to it.
Downloads aren't peer-to-peer like torrents, so a VPN isnt as necessary, just make sure you pick a provider that doesnt keep logs. It also doesnt hurt to use one if you already pay for one and its not too slow.
One you've picked your provider and indexer, setting everything up is super easy.
I have my number of different sites, without torrents, that are overall faster to use, with uBlock. No login, no bullshit design, no pop ups advertising new "features".
And torrents don't need to be predownloaded, you can stream them.
Where are you looking for torrents, and how bad is your internet? It usually takes me about a minute to find a torrent, and downloads are rarely longer than 15
himovies.to
Often has cam videos too, which are recorded from theaters before being released outside. The quality is not necessarily as bad as it sounds.
For the case of better quality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesync
While the other end of the spectrum may be a shaky smartphone footage.
iflix, fmovies, sudo flix are all streaming alternatives. Free. No signups required.
When I wanna watch a movie, I have it in less than two minutes. But I’m blessed with gigabit, and I’m on some private trackers.
Psssst use nzb
Kodi and realdebrid solves that problem for me.
If everyone did that, then they might start cracking down.
At the very least, though, this person should be service hopping instead of paying for 13.
No, the last time everyone did that Netflix was created, which has nearly killed the piracy for most people.
We're just going back to the basics.
But then, there was a second, then a third, a fourth... And they all have different catalogues.
Umm...actually. (<--joking)
Netflix was one of the biggest reasons movie studios were freaking out about piracy. Back then people would use Netflix, a DVD rental by mail service, to rip or copy movies in bulk. Even my father (I'm 52) had a machine dedicated to copying Netflix DVDs. So it is very ironic that Netflix streaming ended up being the "solution" to a problem they had exacerbated.
The problem they have now is that it is very easy and cheap to rip streams, and bandwidth is fast and plentiful (vs early 2Ks). People rent a movie off of Prime, rip the stream, and upload it to Mega out of spite.
Piracy is a result of a service problem. I would gladly pay a reasonable fee monthly for access to any and every show I want to watch. I'm for sure am not going to pay for 12 different streaming services so I can watch severance on one, the office on another, the wire on a third when I can just download it for free.
Hell I would pay a pirate a monthly amount just to have seamless turnkey access. But the level of effort is so low these days that honestly there's no reason to pay for streaming.
I always forget they ever made DVDs, I don't think they ever did that outside of USA.
Under other US administrations, I'd picture a new model or iteration. Right now? Paramilitary busting down doors and more states banning porn for some reason
Thankfully though, the US != the entire world
Unfortunately, though, they are mostly based out of the US, which means instead of innovating (which is what I think he was implying) they will just make shit more miserable for everyone, but mostly for those in the US. Until US people learn to stop spending money on companies doing harm, we're fucked. Examples are drastic price increases, cracking down on password sharing, and shelving "costly" media instead of trying to improve service.
Just a side note, I haven't personally paid for these services for a long time