i mean, what else should i do when half of the content i want to watch "isn't available to stream in my area"
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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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.
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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.
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.
Fuck the shows, too. That money goes to Ticketbastard. Buy their merch, directly if possible.
Yeah, big shows are a pain in the ass anyway. I rather meant small shows by local hosts.
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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.
I've been using Bandcamp to buy albums. They are claiming that 82% of the money goes to the artist.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
That's a good point. I never thought about it that way.
What does "debrid" even mean? I know what it is, but what's it supposed to mean?
What's a better alternative? Edit: for a tv with an android box.
The design decision that every story needs pictures even if there aren’t any pictures of the thing they’re talking about, is stupid.
At this point I assume every terrible decision like this is done for SEO reasons.
Needs a thumbnail somehow.
Yes. That is stupid.
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.
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Fuck let’s hope that the EU doesn’t use this to ban VPNs
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.
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.
Could they even stop people though?
Yeah, good luck finding me.
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@Pixelle3D yep. When Netflix was basically the only game in town they beat out pirating as the market has shown they are willing to pay for convenience. But with the saturation in the market making the convenience not convenience...que return of the pirates.
And if you setup your seedbox correctly, piracy is more convenient than any streaming service.
@Petter1 probably true, its always been a hardware issue for me. But the whole "setup" is what turns away much of the general public.
If governments would just get out of the damn way...
Docker and linuxserver.io are your friend regarding setup 😄 and yea hardware may be a bit expensive, but as a single user, you may just rent a little stack at a privacy respecting server farm (and cold backup your stuff some other where)
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Ironic, seeing as those streaming services are now going under.
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*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
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.
Dpending on what you need, there are plugins which can detect intros, change UIs etc
U got any invites left over for a german community mah dude?
Honestly I just went with Eweka + NZBMatrix, I've not got time to find a way into cool groups
Thanks for the info. Thats something to start! I'll look into it.
SceneNZBs is what you are searching 😉
Thx a lot!
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.
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