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It’s the end of an era.
  • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    sings Farewell and adieu to you greedy streamers.
    Farewell and adieu, to you subscription pains
    For we’re now returning to the torrents of the pirates
    and we may ner see you curs’d streamers again

    We’ll post and we’ll flame like true software pirates
    we’ll post and we’ll flame, all over the net
    Until we can find us an FTP server
    And get all the slop that we’re ach’n to get

  • The_Grinch [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    They want >$100 a month to come out with maybe one movie and maybe two TV shows worth watching each year? No thanks, piracy for me has become more of a means to assuage my fear of missing out and keeping in touch with the cultural moment than actual enjoyment of the media they’re putting out right now.

    I do not believe the quality would go down if their budgets were cut significantly.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    And that’s why I use the questionably legal streaming sites… at this point I have been radicalized enough to find copyright an offensive premise

    • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      stremio + real-debrid + orion

      Basically, orion finds the torrents, a debrid service cache’s torrents and streams them to you, stremio renders the stream.

      No need for a VPN, no need to seed, no need for the *arr family, nice UI with high wife-approval-factor to browse content.

        • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          11 months ago

          torrentio

          probably none! I’m new to stremio and orion was the only way I could find to link stremio to real debrid. Thanks for mentioning this one I’ll look into it!

          orion is non-free btw. I assume torrentio is also paid ?

          edit: just installed, I see it’s free. Looks great. I may have been turned off previously by the utorrent logo 😆

        • slaintrax@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Tried the trial and it found higher quality releases more often. I just don’t understand how it works with the credit system.

    • PotjiePig@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Get Kodi, and look up instructions to get ‘the crew’ Plug in added to it, and then grab a month subscription to real-debrid and check it out. Bit of an effort to get set up, but once it is, it works arguably better than streaming. 4k, better bit rate, sports and all the TV shows and Movies, language and sub options, the lot.

      I have it all set up on my TV box, and while browsing can be a bit wonkier, my watching experience is unmatched.

  • HonestMistake_@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Oh well, there’s plenty of space for all of ya here on the high seas, welcome aboard, mateys!