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Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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LOL.

We pay for 4K, but we don't get more than 720p unless we use some proprietary shit hardware and agree to their super-invasive "privacy policy" - and they expect people to NOT set sail in the high seas? GTFO..

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

1 of those 12% is just me lol /s

[–] Grass 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I get pissed at my family for being traditional hoarders but I somewhat inherited that as a data hoarder. The amount of stuff I have pirated over the years and not actually used or watched is hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same here. But on the bright side, at least data hoarding doesn't take up a ton of physical space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Well, it does if you do a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What are we taking TB wise?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have about 10TB of stuff. Around 600 movies and not quite 200 TV series. I'm planning on leaving societies embrace and being away from it all in a couple of weeks and have been hoarding stuff to keep me entertained, if needed. I'm not the one you asked, but here you go. I don't really feel like I have a ton of stuff, from a datahoarder perspective, but probably a little more than the average torrent monster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hm are those high res movies? 10 TB seems to small

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Kind of all over the place, but mostly 1080 or so. Here's a little data:

I have 48 movies that are 1.7G, 43 that are 1.5G, and so on.

# of movies   SIZE
     48 1.7G
     43 1.5G
     33 1.9G
     31 2.2G
     31 2.0G
     30 1.6G
     27 1.8G
     25 1.4G
     21 2.1G
     19 2.5G
     16 1.3G
     14 2.6G
     14 2.3G
     12 2.4G
     10 2.8G
      9 3.0G
      9 1.1G
      8 4.1G
     ...

[–] Grass 1 points 7 months ago

Probably around 30tb but all in, but drives being from 400gb to 8 tb of varying age and make. Most are just shelved and in the off chance I want something from them they get hot swapped in the dock thing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just upgraded my truenas and plex to 8tb drives. 1600+ movies, 60+ TV series, 40,000 songs. I seed as much as I can, have uploaded over 5TB this month alone. Come get some.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I haven't used Torrents in years, since subscribing to Netflix. But I'm fed up with needing to pay 5+ different subscriptions to get coverage across shows, so perhaps time to think about other options. What are some of the best torrent sites today,?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I use OnTheSpot downloader to grab albums from spotify at 320kbps - https://github.com/casualsnek/onthespot

Use Soulseek (nicotine+) to grab more obscure stuff. Can get everything on there, just sometimes slower and not as reliable as a torrent.

I use these sites for movies, in order of convenience:

https://ytssss.jamsbase.com/ (basically just YTS)

https://www.magnetdl.com/ (search sucks, but if you get used to it, it has huge libraries of TV series)

https://en.torrentgalaxy-official.site/

https://rargb.to/

https://1337x.to/home/

https://psa.wf/ (PSA RIPS)

I don't really download apps anymore, so malware really isn't an issue, but make sure you're using UBlockOrigin plugin and a VPN like TorGuard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could try the *arr software. Sonarr is tv, radarr is movies and lidarr is music. You can use jackett to act as an indexer and it will automatically grab the shows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could try the *arr software.

Haha, do you ever feel like the last one to get the joke? I do sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I've used them for a very long time, maybe a decade if they have been around that long, could be a bit less. I've seen them referred to as the *arr suite/software many times. I didn't know there was a joke to get until you pointed it out, I'm still facepalming.

So you are not the last one.

In my defence, I'm not a native speaker, but still..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

My friends and I have been joking too much about this naming scheme without even mentioning what appears to be the intentional meaning... I feel rather dumb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

yeah, i've thought about it. but it's cathartic to find music/movies, download and organize them, choose artwork in Plex, things like that. I've got them all organized in media monkey.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

96KHz audio or bust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

oh god, the difference between some of my old rips at 128 and 320 is damn near night and day. i though the song just sucked, but the quality was just shit. also found a track that got corrupt, but still played, but at 1/10th the speed, it was about 30 minutes long, but normally only 3 lol. just stretched the fuck out of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

1337x and YTS are preferred for me. No sign up/log in BS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Regarding music, there's also the slavart discord and their bot which allows you to download music from different streaming services in lossless formats

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You can also use this site for DDL's if you'd prefer them. No ads or premium and actively updated: dhokla.net.