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 129 points 2 years 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@feddit.uk 45 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 16 points 2 years 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 30 points 2 years 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 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] occhineri@feddit.de 5 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 13 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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[–] artaxadepressedhorse@lemmyngs.social 38 points 2 years ago

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 35 points 2 years 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 20 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] Pixelle3D@midwest.social 14 points 2 years ago

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

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years 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 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years 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.

[–] Soundhole@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

I love good news!

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@artemis.camp 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

Could they even stop people though?

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, good luck finding me.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me" hello" My server "bonjour"

[–] detectivesniffles@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

your server: bonjour

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

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

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[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Plex + Usenet + Sonarr + Radarr

🏴‍☠️🎩

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 24 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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

SceneNZBs is what you are searching 😉

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

Thx a lot!

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

feel the pinch

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