I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.

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    1 year ago

    Other than the recent nonsense, this is why I cancelled Netflix and went back to pirating. Content leaves unexpectedly? Not on my Nas.

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      1 year ago

      Content leaves unexpectedly? Not on my Nas.

      Except when I accidentally rm -rf the media folder but shhhhhhhh

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      1 year ago

      I’ve taken to de-DRMing any e-books I bought from Amazon for that reason.

      Also, the “You can only view this book on 3 devices” – yeah … fuck off.

      Calibre + DeDRM plugin + KFX plugin. Perfectly legal too, as long as you aren’t distributing them.

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          1 year ago

          Thanks. I had a collection from several years ago of Amazon books, though these days it’s my absolute last choice for anything.

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      Content leaving isn’t a problem. If they give up some things they have more money to get the rights to other content, and usually by the time it leaves I’ve either watched it or don’t want to. If it’s one of the rare things I want to watch several times, I can just buy it. But cracking down on password sharing is ridiculous. They’ve been functioning fine with people sharing passwords. I bet the current pricing accounts for password sharing. But now people in college can’t be on the family netflix? Pure greed.

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        9 months ago

        This is incredibly annoying for series. Crunchyroll dropped Bleach, a series with over 350 episodes, when I was at episode ~100. A few years ago I started to manually keep track of the episodes I watched, since you lose your progress when they drop it (true for crunchyroll, prime and netflix)

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        Content leaving is totally a problem. I’ve lost track of the number of times my spouse and I say, “Oh hey, what about we finally watch xyz that’s been in our queue for ages? Yeah that seems like a good one for Friday pizza night! …oh, it’s vanished from our queue, hooray.”

        It’s not my full time job to keep tabs on what’s coming and going from the damn entertainment service that I hope to use in my ever dwindling reserves of free time. Especially when there’s alternative means available that are not too difficult to use.

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      Old school pirating or new school? Last time I remember pirates was like… Napster, Limewire, Kazaa… Then went to TPB before it got raided like 8 times… What’s the current? Is it still torrenting with proxies?

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        1 year ago

        I just got my automated pirating machine set up!

        Here’s the wiki for the *arr apps!

        • Radarr for movies
        • Sonarr for TV shows
        • Prowlarr for index management
        • Optional Doplarr Discord Bot for requests

        Set up your profiles for Radarr/Sonarr to pick the quality of release you want (1080p, min/max file size, etc)

        Feed Radarr/Sonarr your qbittorrent info, nzbget & Usenet info

        They will automatically search the indexes (I use 1337x for torrents & nzbgeek for Usenet) for the files that fit your parameters, download it, and organize it.

        All you have to do is point Plex at the output folders and BAM, automated pirating.

        I even took it a step further and set up Doplarr - a Discord bot that handles requests. Now friends/family can ping the bot with their movie/show requests and it’ll sync up to Radarr/Sonarr and add their requests!