• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Lol. Wanted to comment exactly that. Netflix drove me to piracy again after I went legit after 25yrs of piracy. Won’t fall for this streaming-bullshit again. Go fuck yourself. And Netflix was even more worse for everyone outside the US. For the same price of course.

    Nah, piracy never been easier: enter name of movie/series, wait a minute, watch. On all devices, rooted or not, mainstream or not.

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      I actually probably spend more on hardware and labour pirating content than I would on multiple streaming services, but at least I don’t pad the profits of enshittified platforms, and can watch what I want when I want.

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        Yeah sure, for the price of my servers i could probably get all streaming-services together for some years :-) But they’re not just for that. Jellyfin is just one of the services that runs on them. But yes, even if not. Better paying 5x for something like that than netflix et al.

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        Ha, I was doing a similar calculation recently. I think the only subscription I ever paid for was Netflix, and for the others I used family and friends’ accounts. Only replacing Netflix, I haven’t broken even, but considering I pirate content from 5-6 different services, it’s absolutely cheaper.

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      Me too. They actually made stop being lazy and make a full automated server specifically for this. Netflix was awful too with the buffering.

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          It’s a vastly superior experience.

          I don’t have to deal with annoying authentication, no ads, works on everything, all content is available in a single app/user interface.

          Cheap. I split the $40/mo seedbox charge with 3 siblings, we all save on streaming.

          I even have audiobookshelf because I like listening to audiobooks.

          No music yet, I don’t have a good (private tracker) source

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              I’ve used Usenet, I can see how it would be good for music. Being able to grab individual tracks on demand would be nice.

              What’s the software stack used now? Manual downloading nzbs from index sites? or is there an *arr equivalent?

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      I learned my lesson with Netflix, I’ll never stop doing things the better way again.

      I still will never forgive Netflix for pulling a show without warning when I was actively watching it. A problem I never get doing it my way.