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    And this is exactly what is pushing people back to piracy. It’s easier to get all your movies from the pirate bay than it is to find it legally and pay for it.

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    Honestly I put up with doing that when the prices were better. After damn near 15 years I had to dust off the hat and sail the seas. It forced me to learn how to set up a home server which I’ve never even entertained the idea of until now.

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      I’m about to be in the same boat (pun intended). I think I’m going to learn to use Linux and set up a home media server at the same time.

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      Yrah, I went land lubber for a few years there too. Now I’m back flying the black flag and teaching friends. I’m starting to learn about plex too.

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    What really annoys me is paying for the biggest Netflix package to get 4K content, then you watch a somewhat recent (non-Netflix) movie like The Equalizer (2014) and it’s 1080p or less with a terrible bit rate.

    That movie is available in 4K HDR. I know because I downloaded it to my Plex server and switched to watching that after 15 minutes of watching macroblocking and pixelation artefacts via the legal method.

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      Your next step is to stop paying for the shit version. Things only change when you hit their wallet

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      What annoys me ever more is that despite paying for the 4K tier of the streaming platform, and the ‘best tier’ on my Internet plan. If I were to watch a not insignificant amount of 4k movies - I would hit my ‘data cap’ and be unable to use the Internet at all for the rest of the month.

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          That I have a data cap of 100GB and after that I am at 56kbps speeds? Because we treat the internet as a luxury instead of a utility.

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            WTF, Internet providers once tried to impose data caps on home internet here in Germany, but they dropped that real fast.

            And 100GB isnt even a lot of data, its more like a top tier phone plan, not even close to enough for a home.

            I will soon get gigabit fiber for 40€ per month, so yeah.

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              Hey now, that’s unfair to 3rd world countries. I live in a 3rd world country and we don’t have data caps lol. Only place I’ve heard of them is in the US and Australia (notably not 3rd world countries).

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              Welcome to comcast ‘business practices’. I have a 1 TB cap too, I think they charge $10 per bundle of 50 or 100 gb after, or something equally ridiculous for ‘overage charges’.

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      It’s a consequence of only thinking one quarter at a time.

      If all the content creators pooled their content into one platform and split the profit based on viewership, they’d be making far more money on the deal. I’d gladly pay $50/month for access to everything in one place.

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    Just Watch is a great app for finding out where something is.

    Yes. It is fucking ridiculous that we need an app to find this stuff, but at least there’s an app…

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        I type it in Radarr or Sonarr and let my -arr stack work its magic. Depending on how popular a show or movie is, I can watch it in a few minutes on my Kodi TV. Wouldn’t really call it annoying.

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          Check out overseerr. You can search for movies or tv shows from there and it will request to radarr and sonarr for you. But what’s nice is it shows you all the popular shows, gives your recommendations, you can search by streaming service if you want.

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            Overseerr has been a game changer for my Plex/jellyfin which I share with 10+ friends and family. They submit tons of requests and it all automatically shows up on my nas without me needing to be bothered. I used to only download what I wanted and only take special requests and only for movies or completed series because I didn’t want to be harassed every week for the latest episode. Now my recently aired row is a constant stream of new episodes aired that week and I get friends saying “oh I didn’t know you had series x, now I don’t need that streaming service” - it’s not obvious to them still that I can get almost anything if they reauest it and overseer makes it so frictionless.

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            I know this is a bit late for a reply, but sonarr and radarr allow you to set specific requirements it must meet as well as things you’d like it to have. In my case, I’ve told not to get anything 4k or above (no 4k displays so why bother) or less than 720p and to prefer h265 since they are always a lot smaller files. It will even replace h264 copies if a new h265 comes out. It does great at finding nice looking copies in a small file.

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        I’m in an invite only site that I’m not going to name and there hasn’t been a single instance of something not being uploaded there that I wanted to watch.

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    Don’t forget that when you search you also need to wade through AI-generated SEO trash that doesn’t actually tell you which service it’s on.

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      I’m so fucking done with the garbage AI articles that give nothing. Do nothing. Just waste time and space to try to eat up and revenue I don’t even give because I have ad blocker sup to wazoo. If I had any way to punish them for the damage it’s doing to the internet I would in a second.

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        I feel exactly the same way. I was searching on google for niche item x to buy. First couple of results were paid ads, then came 10+ dropshipping sites I’ve never heard of before. I miss the old internet

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      Section 1

      What is streaming? To understand what streaming is, first we have to explain how the Internet works.

      The Internet…

      The Universe…

      Goddamn it just gimme the fucking information already!

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      I use aggregators like Plex and Google TV to tell me, but even then it’s a pain and not always correct

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    Kill the dvd and blu ray.

    Because nobody wants that stuff. It’s old and uncool. Streaming is it.

    Now we own nothing.

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          If someone likes DVDs such as the person in this twitter post then a dvd player wouldnt be a bad purchase.

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        Disc prices are stupid now as well. Streaming seemed to kill off the year old bargain bin discs, so instead of picking something up for £3 or £5, the 4K discs are all like £25 each. They can suck my balls if they think I’m paying that.

        Bring back DVD prices, and I’d cheerfully own some 4K discs again.

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    When pirating becomes easier and more convenient than using the legit services, the industry is doing something very wrong…

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      I’ve been on three, and Prime’s decision to have ads on a paid for service has seen me cancel that.

      Swapped it for a VPN and went on a smash and grab of all the stuff that hasn’t been on streaming for the last few years, and frankly, the others are on borrowed time now as well. Mike Flanagan is almost single-handedly keeping my Netflix subscription alive.

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        K thats not like a silver bullet, is it? I feel like thats sort of orthogonal even tho in letter you may be able to access all the shit. We need like a “Beeper” app for streaming services or something, I dunno

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          The VPN is for a torrent client. No need to worry about streaming services when you’re sailing the high seas instead.

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            Which one’s that and but can you literally stream without having to dwn to completion. I just wanna watch shit like a certain prime service but I hate having to readjust whatever to watch each subsequent episode/season. Just wanna netflix and chill dammit aha

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          With a VPN you can torrent shows/movies as soon as they’re out on streaming. How is it not a silver bullet?

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          Stremio is kinda beeper for streaming. In stock config you can search a show ir movie and itl show where it’s available and has links to the right app if you have them installed.

          Or you can install some plugins to sail the seas.

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              Yeah the plugins are mainly there to provide a harbor for your ship.

              Best part is that you can download the app from the playstore and the plugins are available trough the app without any external site.