• @[email protected]
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    2091 year ago

    With Netflix already having ads we are now 75% of the way to “cutting the cord” going back to reinventing cable again.

        • @[email protected]
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          131 year ago

          I had to upgrade mine probably 2 years ago now. I had nearly maxed out the 12TB I had. Now I have almost 30TB and some breathing room. Granted a lot of that is non-movies/TV but a good chunk of it is.

          • Miqo
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            31 year ago

            I have an Asustor Drivestor 2 and a 4tb Seagate NAS HDD. IIRC, it was around $300 total. I’ve only been using it for a few months, but it’s an easily expandable setup if you want to add more storage later!

        • Prophet Zarquon
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          21 year ago

          Indeed.

          • Ad-blocking (before anything online)
          • DHT crawler, or index sites if DHT has too many results
          • right-click/long-press on magnet URL
          • copy link
          • paste magnet link
          • remove tracker URLs (not needed)
          • go
          • enjoy

          Hm, 8 steps, is one more than the 7 stages of grief; but I’ll take this over yet-another subscription service that continually degrades in quality for the dollar.

    • ares35
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      if it was still just netflix, and everybody didn’t have their own streaming service, that would be different.

      but when you add up netflix, prime, disney, paramount, peacock, max, and whatever else, the wallet definitely says it’s just like cable.

      do one at a time and rotate, maybe have one you ‘always’ have. you can’t watch 10 different services at once anyway.

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      “Again”?

      I’ve still been out here since Napster. Welcome back aboard, we kept the torrents warm for you.

      • @[email protected]
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        201 year ago

        I like something I saw on here awhile ago that was something like " streaming services where only successful because they where slightly more convenient that pirating " for a while I mostly used a couple of streaming services despite most of the apps having really bad interfaces . But my Plex server has been growing in size lately while the streaming services are being cancelled.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          My breaking point for paying for something that I could otherwise get for free is convenience. Doesn’t even need to be a lot, I just refuse to pay for a product that artificially more of a hassle than the identical product that I can obtain for free.

          It’s not so much that I want a superior product, it’s that I refuse to pay money for an inferior alternative.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            My line is ads if I’m paying for something I’m not watching ads . I actually pay for YouTube premium because it’s worth it in my opinion for the amount I use for it and I use YouTube music alot too .

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        As someone who doesn’t sail the high seas, I thank you. Sometimes it looks like there won’t be any classic media left without your efforts.

        • TimeSquirrel
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          Seedboxes. Download the torrent on someone else’s computer, and then directly download it to yours through an encrypted connection. Sorta like a “money-laundering” for pirated content.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          Qbit+VPN to grab, radarr/sonarr to catalogue, overseerr to request, and plex/jellyfin to watch.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I was using torrents for years before I started messing with Usenet. Now I’ve got it set up it’s easy to grab pretty much anything and at higher quality than before.

    • Jo Miran
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      131 year ago

      Some of us never stopped sailing the high seas matey. Yarrrrr!

    • Maggie Maybe
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      @OldWoodFrame @ZeroCool yeah I will never, Comcast/Xfinity are total scum bags and I would pay extra to never give them money ever again. Unfortunately I am forced to use them for Internet, there’s no way I’m paying for their cable TV programming.