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I started pirating movies again after a decade (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was a happy Netflix user until 2018, before that I haven't really pirated any movies (with very rare exceptions) for almost a decade but I recently started again. I'm was doing my monthly budgeting and realized I was paying for too many subscription services. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Shudder, Disney+, Hulu and Crunchyroll. My family likes to watch different types of content that is distributed on many different platforms.

I was never subscribed to these many services until a couple years ago. I was thinking which service I should cancel when I realized I had the option to cancel all of them this entire time. I'm torrenting again and I started saving a considerate amount.

The only service I'm paying for is Spotify which I think it's fairly priced and offers all the music my family listens too (and it's convenient). All the competitors pretty much offer the same content and that's how streaming services should be.

I remember back in the day using eMule and BitChe (to look for torrents). Now I'm using Deluge as my torrent client and I I get my torrents from 1337x. What sites are you guys using?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Man, I've been thinking about doing the same thing. I was just talking with my wife about how nice it was when you basically had Hulu and/or Netflix.

What's really pissing me off is having Disney/Hulu/ESPN as one account - that used to be called cable and I fucking hated it.

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

unRAID and Plex is the way.

Guide is a little outdated, but works like a dream. Ibracorp (Google them) is also very handy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

#stremio anyone?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Iptv, stremio, real debrid and torrentio ftw! I'm paying for things, but it's a fraction of what we paid for all the subscriptions. And I can actually find things I want to watch!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

welcome again.... and i stopped pirating movies and started streaming over internet on pirate website.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Deluge leaks your ip address if you use a VPN, I use QBittorrent for this reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can configure Deluge so that it can only use the VPN interface and nothing else. This way if the VPN drops even just a second, you're safe. You set this by entering the VPN IP in the the "Outgoing Interface" box in the Network settings. If the VPN IP changes, you need to update it (which can be automated using a script).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Too many shitty streaming services. Just pay for a reliable VPN and torrent to your heart content. I'm using qbittorrent and transmission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have surf shark vpn. Are they reliable or who do you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Qbittorrent has search engines as plugins, just google it and choose which ones you want

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is why i pay for spotify, because it's so much easier than downloading and hosting music. The music industry got it right. Sign up with any music service and you'll get likely the same or very similar music libraries. But with TV and movies, there's all this fucking exclusive shit. They can eat shit if they think I'm gonna pay more for streaming than fucking cable/pay TV. Fuck that shit.

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