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I was fine when it was just Netflix and Hulu. Corporate greed pulling their content to get their own piece of the pie en masse made me hoist the flag and join the Kodi Real-Debrid gang.

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[–] danakongur@iusearchlinux.fyi 135 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i mean, what else should i do when half of the content i want to watch "isn't available to stream in my area"

[–] Blackmist 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Video needs to be like music streaming.

One price, all the content, pay the rights holders based on how much of their shit was watched.

It's really not hard. You just need to stop being such greedy fucks.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

It is a bit more complicated than that, different countries have different laws.

But I do agree that Netflix has taken the easy approach by only limiting the content to which they don't have to do any research.

[–] Careve@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, same with music. So often I want to give my damn money to artists by buying albums, but "not available in your country". If I go to UK or DE store, I get "your card is not local", even though it's not an issue with 99% other products. Come on.

[–] occhineri@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Most of the money doesn't even reach the artists. So better pirate all music online and support artists more directly at their shows, through their shops, by donation or whatever.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck the shows, too. That money goes to Ticketbastard. Buy their merch, directly if possible.

[–] occhineri@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, big shows are a pain in the ass anyway. I rather meant small shows by local hosts.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

If my card was working a couple weeks ago, I totally would have supported a small local band by buying on of the $10 CDs they were selling.

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Bandcamp to buy albums. They are claiming that 82% of the money goes to the artist.

[–] 01011@monero.town 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bandcamp and Boomkat. I really wish more artists sold direct to consumer. I have no interest in streaming. I think it's stupid that while storage gets cheaper they keep pushing streaming.

[–] Careve@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, that's what I do. But it's still amazing that greed driven labels are setting hurdles themselves to get the money. And ocassionally I can't find some rare versions in the seas, so still would like to just pay.

Pay and support small indie labels/studios, pirate or straight up boycott the big players. Every dollar that goes to them helps fund the war on free (as in freedom) exchange of information

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Except that you're not contributing anything to help your crew mates when using a debrid service that just leeches and nothing else.

No honor among thieves I suppose :'D

[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We need i2p or veilid torrents ASAP, to protect uploaders and downloaders. One of the main reasons people don't seed is the threat of lawsuits.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and telling people to just pay for a VPN isn't a great answer either - that's just another fucking pay-forever subscription with the price rises of Netflix plus the added jank and nonsense that comes with being a copyright infringement hobbyist.

Maybe I'll just cancel everything and do totally offline ripping of borrowed physical media from the public library, like some kind of pirate hermit.

[–] 0v0@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

We have those on I2P already, see tracker2.postman.i2p for example.

[–] Pixelle3D@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

That's a good point. I never thought about it that way.

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

What does "debrid" even mean? I know what it is, but what's it supposed to mean?

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's a better alternative? Edit: for a tv with an android box.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The design decision that every story needs pictures even if there aren’t any pictures of the thing they’re talking about, is stupid.

[–] billygoat@catata.fish 11 points 1 year ago

At this point I assume every terrible decision like this is done for SEO reasons.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Needs a thumbnail somehow.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. That is stupid.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Every stupid-ass studio thinks they're going to pull their content from Netflix and people are going to pony up $10-$15 per month for just one studio's content, when that's what we paid for everything all in one spot? Pshaw! Get a clue, losers.

[–] sirico 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me" hello" My server "bonjour"

[–] detectivesniffles@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

your server: bonjour

my server: va t'en saint-simonaque de fucking user. pft tarbarnak!

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@artemis.camp 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck let’s hope that the EU doesn’t use this to ban VPNs

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does the EU have a history of such action? From my perspective, the EU's sorta always been the cutting edge of consumer protections and is nearly anti-corporate with the common-sense protection bills they put through for member states to implement.

Genuine question.

[–] Waker@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

EU is usually very pro consumer but not long ago there were (and there still are) some shit takes on piracy and stuff.

I don't think they'll ban VPNs though. It's not pro consumer and it's anti-privacy which EU is also very strong on.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could they even stop people though?

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, good luck finding me.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Ironic, seeing as those streaming services are now going under.

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[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Plex + Usenet + Sonarr + Radarr

🏴‍☠️🎩

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Jellyfin

As a lifetime sub owner of Plex, they managed to fuck up the complete database 2 times in a month, which takes a day to create on a beast of a machine, because of intro/outro detection.

Fuck Plex

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh, I have tried to love Jellyfin.. it's just not as feature filled and doesn't have nice clients across all phones and smart TVs. It'll get there.. but not yet.

I do miss the old Plex mind you, was a much better app.

[–] fatboy93@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Dpending on what you need, there are plugins which can detect intros, change UIs etc

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

U got any invites left over for a german community mah dude?

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I just went with Eweka + NZBMatrix, I've not got time to find a way into cool groups

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info. Thats something to start! I'll look into it.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SceneNZBs is what you are searching 😉

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget prowlarr, readarr, lidarr and jellyseer

As other mentioned, be ready with jellyfin, no one knows how long until ROI seeking investor kill the cow.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)