Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

1y ago

QBittorrent is better though.

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Plex & Sex Netflix & Chill
- Soon to be "Jellyfin & Get it in"
  
  oouuuu maybe it's time for me to decentralize everything.
  
  what's the difference between jelly and jam?
  
  I'm still riding Emby, but it feels like they're also stagnating, with it taking forever(literal years) to implement some seemingly simple features. Too many times have I looked up some desired minor feature just to find out they said on the forums back in 2019 that they're working on it. That pace might be forgivable if they were a non-profit open-source project, but they ditched open-source a while ago and have paying customers. It's getting ridiculous.
  
  Because of the layoffs or did I miss something else?
  
  Can someone convince me why jellyfin is better? Keep in mind I’m a lifetime plex pass user. And I have plex stuffed full of plugins like audnexus and YouTube metadata downloader so I can use plex as an audible service and repository for my favourite YouTube series’ or automatically pulling down YouTube podcasts and having all the metadata auto fill.
  I also use the watch together feature to watch things with a friend often and an attractive sleek UI matters more than it should.
  
  Do you know if you can run it on a Fire Stick?
- Thank you for giving me a new line I can use to make my fiancée roll her eyes lol
- How about "Kodi and fucking"?
  
  Kodi and cuckold... Oh hang on
  
  Kodi and kopulate
  
  Kodi and coitus
- Jellyfin and sin
- Plexplay is my favorite fetish.
- Plex is killing itself now, time to move on

Seed and... seed?
- Tor and wh.or.e
  
  Shit I just posted that.
- Pilfer and pump.
- Sneed's Feed & Seed
  
  formerly Chuck's
  
  So, now what.
- uTorrent (pronounce micro torrent) and micro…. Nevermind…
- Seed and leach that... torrent.

Prices going up? Password hard to share? Embrace tradition. Return to pirate ship.
- Oh, I had her docked and ready, just in case.
  
  😏
- I'm taking her out of mothballs to set sail on the cyberseas.

Unlike some, I never took off my pirate hat. That's been me the whole time.
Except for the whole not being alone thing.
- I mixed piracy with s couple of tge larger streaming sites for a while. I'm 99% piracy now. (technically have prime video, but don't watch it)
  
  I use the streaming services I have for unrelated reasons (included with something else usually) in a half-hearted attempt to support the creators, but I will pirate most viewing media (TV + movies) by default now.
  
  At one point Prime had all of the Star Trek, all of the Stargate shows, the Simpsons, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. That alone made it worth turning on.
  These days I stream various YouTube channels on my smart TV more than I open up Prime.
- Depends on whats on deck! Aye!

Netflix, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Google...
The enshittification is going full steam ahead.

This but radarr/sonar
- Sure if you want your filenames out of your control and at the whims of databases run by no intelligent person at all.
  
  You caim people that wrote complex open source applications are not intelligent at all because it has one thing you dislike, but can't set Docker up to solve the issue? RTFM
  
  You, uh… you know you can customize the way file names are saved, right?
  This one’s a “You” issue, big guy.
  
  I think you may be the one lacking intelligence here.

Radarr and boneherr

Leech and seed.
- Hijacking this comment cause more people REALLY need to know about Debrid services, such as Real-Debrid. It "caches" torrents, so anything you want can be downloaded instantly at your connection's maximum bandwidth; no waiting for seeds. And since you're not distributing anything, you don't have to pay for a VPN, either.
  EDIT: It's kind of like a seed box, except it's more of a collective seed box. So if at least one user added the torrent before, you can download it immediately.
  I have a Gigabit connection and was able to download three different AAA titles, 50+ GB each, play all of them, then decide that I don't like any of them, all within a couple of hours. It's mind-blowing how much faster it is than using a torrent client.
  Even better, you can integrate it with your favorite media center app like Plex or Kodi (personally I prefer Stremio for its Netflix-like interface). Now you have every show and film from every streaming platform -- all in one place -- streamed instantly to your TV. I'll never use torrent clients ever again. They take too long.
  EDIT: It bothers me that so many people are willing to dismiss Debrid services without even giving them a chance. Here's proof that this is legit -- /r/Piracy megathread on reddit | Video 1 | Video 2 (sorry for the shaky phone video. I just wanted to get this evidence out quickly before people move on to a different thread, and it's kinda difficult to have a steady hand when you're trying to film and click at the same time.)
  
  The "too good to be true" sell and complete lack of detail / pricing on their website is sketchy imo. I'm immediately suspicious of any org that profits off of piracy in such an opaque way
  
  Just wanted to chime in and say I was a skeptic till a few days ago. I tried the $4 30 day plan to see if it was for me, and wow, I'm amazed.
  I did it for stremio as I don't have the storage to keep up with local hosting and it's simple for the non technical members of the house.
  Blown away by how much faster it was to play a full 4k HDR stream with atmos. It was buffering like mad before. I'm a believer now.
  
  Buddy,
  I saw your post by chance. I am an old sailor of the seven seas (15+ years) and torrent (with a seedbox) has been my favored ship for years. But I did à test with your solution: what a breeze it is (even for me who watch movies with french subtitles)
  Thanks for putting that much energy in explaining and convincing that stremio + RD is a very convenient tool; it indeed is.
  
  Use whatever works for you.
  The *arr + torrent client setup just works so well, I can't be bothered to change it. The *arr software automatically picks out good torrents that are the format you requested and that are seeded. I never really saw it not saturate my connection. For movies, I have to wait a few minutes (depending on file size and my own connection speed). For TV shows, new episodes are downloaded automatically as soon as they are released, so I just have to select the episode under "new episodes" in my media center app on whatever device I'm on.
  Even if I were to use a debrid service, I'd probably still use a VPN for it because I wouldn't want them to log my real IP.
  
  Can confirm, it's pretty great. I use it with Syncler. It can be a pain to setup, but once it works, you're golden.

Fire up the jellyfin
- 👍

And libretorrent on android. Piracy always rules.
- Ttorrent Wants in on the list of alternatives

Transmission has been my go-to for quite awhile
- Sorry, this thread is full of fucking puns, and you didn't make the obvious one.
  
  Trans-missionary?
  I'm struggling to thinking of what would be the obvious one?
  
  Transmission and emission?
- Transmission + VPN in docker is the way to go.
  
  Could you link me to a setup guide 👀
- Nzbget gang here… for the gangbang?

Enshittification and masturbation.

You know what's hotter? Running an automated piracy server using Plex (Or Jellyfin i guess xoxo) and the -arr family of apps on a raspberry Pi so you can pretend you've got a cute little netflix system :^)
- Sonarr+Radarr+qBittorrent+Jellyfin=I'M GETTING LAID
  
  Or just use Stremio.
- Requires slightly more hardware than a pi, but once you get to the double digit terabytes range of storage, you can honestly have a better plex/jellyfin library than Netflix in any one particular country (except maybe the US? I think US netflix has all the good shows and movies that we're missing here in Europe).
  Netflix might have more volume, but there's a lot of low quality shit nobody wants to watch, whereas you can just throw literally every blockbuster ever made on just a couple of terabytes at lower quality levels.
  
  I have an always-on vpn container and a transmission server container on my home server. Then I use transmission as a client on my laptop and I don't need to continually connect and disconnect.
  Any interest in a how-to guide? I won't get to it for at least two weeks, mind.
  
  Even without the volume you can have a "better" library, especially when platforms like Netflix sometimes cut out episodes or scenes from shows. Community, for example, is missing a bunch of scenes on Netflix that can mess up the story a bit.
- Friends that use my server call Plex -Flix.
  
  Mine is shamelessly named after me too lmao

I switched to Deluge from qBittorrent a while ago and I don't even remember what it was that made me switch.
- I did the opposite and also can't remember why I did it.
  
  Story of my life.
- When I set up my newest media server I could not get the permissions to work on deluge with a mounted network drive for the life of me. Dumped a good 20 hours into it with minimal success.
  qBittorrent worked out of the box.
- What's wrong with plain old Transmission?
  
  Gonna be honest here i loved transmission until one day it just decided to stop working, no fixes would work, not even a full reinstall of it. Switched to qBit and it just worked so whatever
- It it just me or does Deluge after a while use a lot of RAM? I keep using it, because I'm too lazy to look for an alternative. Maybe it's just a memory leak in my linux distro's version.

I'm a simple man I use Stremio.
- Stremio combined with RealDebrid is untouchable. Almost every show and movie you could ever think of, ready to go.
  
  I discovered real-debrid yesterday, thanks to this post.
  I was playing around with it last night using kodi. I'm gonna try out stremio thanks to your suggestion.
  That said - it didn't seem that reliable with kodi. Like I got through a whole movie but it just died once or twice. I ended up switching to another torrent / link and it played through to the end just fine.
  I imagine this won't necessarily improve with the switch to stremio. Was I just unlucky? Or is this the usual experience?
  edit: yeah ok you're right. kodi + real-debrid. great stuff.
  
  Stremio is hard to beat for ease of use, but personally I prefer Kodi/Fen for
  Kodi's ability to customize audio - ie turn up center channel so you can actually hear what actors are mumbling without needing to constantly adjust the volume
  Fen's interface and ability for the user to discover new content
  The downsides are Kodi's (relative) lack of stability compared to alternatives and the fact that you have to manage storage meticulously if you're using a smart device to run it. Kodi's thumbnail cache can get out of control rapidly.
  
  You got any good overviews of RealDebrid outside of “google.”
  Not sure where to look for info, but I’ve been doing this for a looooooong time (25+ years?) and always like to learn more. Currently rocking a 125+ TB server hosted in my basement for all my Linux isos and figure there may be another way.
  No worries if not! I’m not expecting a novel or anything from anyone personally - just hoping there’s a decent crash course and some decent suggestions.
- Stremio has been useless until I got fiber internet. Now it's my preferred way to watch stuff.

Did you guys stop for a while then?
Who else kept their Jolly Roger up knowing it’d come to “this” someday?

Deluge and sploosh

Deluge Gang
- By far the best downloader IMO.
  qbit works better when I’m using my phone, but I don’t frequently use my phone to administer my setup.

Sonarr + Radarr + Plex + Sabnzbd
- *Arr + Ratio
- transmission with VPN + nzbget instead of sab
- Sonarr + Radarr (really, they could roll these into one by now) + Sabnzbd. Hold the plex. I mean who is watching download bars these days? Just wait for it to email me it's ready!
  
  Nzb360 to manage.
  
  Radarr is a fork of Sonarr.
- How do we setup all this ? I have a desktop PC , its an i5? Can I setup all of the above ? If not, whats the hardware I have to buy ?
  
  Go with docker images and save your setup files/commands, so you can always redeploy on a NAS/new server later. Go with lscr.io/linuxserver images.
  It probably took me a good 20 hours to setup. Then dozens more hours to get my existing library imported, but that's just part of the process.
  Initially it is time intensive, but it's totally worth it. Make sure you make proper backups, so you don't lose your work.

Transmission for life...

I swapped to using Kodi + RealDebrid and it has just been great. Just a miniscule amount of money for an experience that's just as good as regular streaming.
- I hate Kodi’s UI with a passion. Looks like Steam’s Big Picture mode puked over with pixelated low quality text.
  
  There are a ton of different themes out there. You can probably find one you like.
- I recommend Stremio w/ Torrentio + RealDebrid instead of Kodi. Much more secure as you’re not installing potentially malicious plugins onto your machine, and it has a significantly better UI. Plus you can run it on your phone!

Stay free (libre) software my guys. Deluge.
- I mean I use Deluge anyway, but Qbittorrent is also libre and actually has a more permissive license (so more freedom)
  Edit: apparently I looked at the wrong qbittorrent in github. The real one is GPL too so no more free than Deluge.
  
  Deluge is GPLv3 only. Qbittorrent is a mix of GPLv2 and GPLv3. Personally I'll stick to v3 since it includes specific terms that protect against modern DRM and ways to circumvent GPLv2.

Then you're shitty American ISP throttle you for too many downloads. Fuck I hate Comcast, and no they are not fooling anyone changing their name to Xfinity.
- I'm so sorry for you Americans that seems to have the worst ISPs in the west :-/
  I don't even really care about the bandwidth, I have a fix IP & IPv6 + routing in the "ISP box" for ~33€/month.
- Maybe a useful tip: check to see if the plans that include their modem rental have unlimited bandwidth.
  I’m 99% sure that’s what I’m coasting on, because I don’t pay the extra $$$ for going over any longer.
  Edit: trust me when I say I frequently go over. If there’s a decent image host I’ll take a screenshot of last month’s usage.
  
  The xfi gateway ($20/month) gives you unlimited / no caps, but you have to have their gateway. Otherwise it's $30/month for unlimited without their gateway. The gateway can have the bridge mode turned on quite easily through the Xfinity website.
  
  I'll have to try to remember to check that. There is a chance I'm going on old info.

Wouldn't the equivalent be some illegal streaming sites?

No dark mode? God damn philistines

Yaaaar and boudoir

Tor and removed? Or Netflix and chill?
- Test: who.r.e whor.e removed
  
  Nice try.

cloudstream for ease of use.
(streams ovee https tho)
open source and as easy to use as netflix.
scroll through selection of movies, click and play.

Is there a specific version of Qbit to use? Asking for a friend...
- I'm only aware of this one. Is there another one you've heard of?
  
  There's a couple forks I believe, but I was specifically asking about the actual version number. Say, the latest 6.5.2 or an older 4.x.x. I've heard things over the years about "the best" version to use, but it's all old now that I am curious what the verdicts is these days

media share servers, even better [when they're not getting banned, or forced to use jellyfin lol]

There are so many good sites now with a VPN, downloading is obsolete. Websites are just as good as Netflix, can skip intro, auto play, get subtitles, auto next, etc. I used to torrent but now I just watch on the sites online. No need to fill SSDs
- Aside from comparison of quality, running a streaming platform is very resource intensive, hence requires a lot of money.
  The burden of torrent download is instead spread among many peers.
- I dunno, sometimes you can't count on them to buffer quick enough.

“i just learned bout piracy isnt it the coolest thing ever let’s tell everyone!”
- Damn, imagine posting about piracy to the piracy community. That's crazy!
  
  Imagine posting content instead of memes that out you as a moron
- you're on the piracy community... what do you expect to see here?
  
  Discussion about piracy? Not memes from 10 year olds that just learned what a utorrent is
- Da fucks this booollshit.
  
  Just some guy looks like

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