• @slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
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    I run a massive streaming service too, which is also way bigger than all the streamers combined. It’s just only distributed over my private home network. Jellyfin for the win!

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      Love my Jellyfin server, but I have 2 gripes over just using VLC.

      • Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.

      • JF won’t boost volume past 100% like VLC.

      Know of any fixes?

      • @Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
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        119 months ago

        Are you playing directly on your server?

        For the first one at least you could solve it by running JF with a Chromecast or similar device.
        Feels cleaner than a wireless mouse in the living room too, IMO

      • @gdog05@lemmy.world
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        You can run your Jellyfin connection inside of Kodi which has a ton of configuration options like the volume control.

      • @slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
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        59 months ago

        I don’t watch on my computer, that’s just where it’s hosted. I watch mostly on my AppleTV using Infuse (also great for other Apple products as well)

      • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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        19 months ago

        It’s weird to me that anyone would use a PC hooked up to a TV from a couch in 2024, but I’m sure it (otherwise) works for you.

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          it’s not weird at all, for one, you get to use a keyboard, for second, you get to use actual real hardware that isn’t spying on you and selling your data. You also get to use a real QWERTY based, or whatever other layout you want that isn’t ABCDE what a fucking abomination that layout is.

          plus you get a whole desktop OS if you please, or if not you can cold roll something specifically for a TV. You just have so many more options, than you do when using a smart tv or generic streaming box.

          • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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            Instead of using a streaming or other settop device? That’d be far, far more normal for the use cade.

              • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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                From a couch, though? That was the use case here.

                I have one of those as well for one desktop system. And I will stream to TVs as a second monitor from laptops sometimes. But I don’t think that’s the setup they have.

                Which of course is a good setup if it works for them! Or for you :)

            • @InternetUser2012@midwest.social
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              I find it convenient, but I’ve had pc’s hooked to tv’s since broadband became a thing. I can watch anything, download anything, play games, check banking, ect.

            • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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              I have one of those Google streaming devices but I hate giving up my privacy. Also, I saw fast food ads on the device’s home screen one day and I couldn’t disable those. That was the last straw.

              So now I use a raspberry pi 5 running arch with Firefox to stream everything to my TV. I even got a remote working with it that works fairly well, moves the mouse and everything. It was a lot of work but now I own my experience and don’t have to give Google my data in that particular way anymore.

          • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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            Already back in the 00s you could get a media player box, with a remote, that hooked to you TV and played video files from any share in your network or an HDD hooked up to it.

            Nowadays you can get an Android TV media player box with Kodi on it (or you can install it), again with a remote and hooked to your TV to do the same as that 00s media player box but looks a lot more fancy.

            Or instead of an Android TV you can get a Mini PC or older laptop, ideally with Linux, with an HDMI output which you connect to your TV, install Kodi on it and get a wireless air-mouse remote (if you get one with normal remote buttons rather than the stupid “for Google” ones, the buttons seamlessly integrate with Kodi so you don’t really have to use the air-mouse stuff).

            Alternativelly if you want to avoid Android but don’t want to spend 150 bucks on a mini PC, you can get one of those System On A Board devices like one of the Orange Pi ones, put LibreElec on it (small Linux distro built around Kodi) and do the wireless remote thing with it.

            The back end of any of this is either files on a NAS, on a share on a PC, a harddisk connected directly to the device or even something like Jellyfin running somewhere else (which can be outside your home network) or even any of the many IPTV services out there.

            It has never been this easy to put together a hardware and software solution, entirely under your control - read: just as easy to use for corporate streaming services as for “personal” media - to watch media in your living room with the same convenience as purpose built devices for that, and it has never been this convenient to use or looked this good.

            • @InternetUser2012@midwest.social
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              I think it’s just easier to use a cheap computer. You can use your vpn, adblockers, takes zero setup time to watch whatever you want to watch.

              The 00’s comment, I modded the original xbox to run xbox media center (XBMC) which turned into Kodi. My friends where blown away I could download movies and watch them on my tv.

              • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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                Well, the easiest IMHO is the Android TV box (mainly because it comes with a remote) but I personally have a cheap Mini-PC because I used it to do a lot more than just being a media box and it still just sits in the living room in the TV stand.

                Way back when I started (trying to have something in my living room, rather that absolute started which was way before that) all that I had was a cheap media box with an interface that was basically a file browser, accessing files over Samba.

                Stuff is way fancier nowadays AND you can do it with much cheaper hardware if you want to.

      • geogle
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        JF won’t boost volume past 100% like VLC.

        For when you need to take it to 11

      • KillingTimeItself
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        Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.

        apparently this is supposed to be coming in the 9.0 feature release. So soon™ I’d have to look to be sure, but apparently it’s coming.

        Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

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          Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

          Adding replaygain tags to your content could help here, but it’s a manual process, particularly since it’s not normally included in released videos. And I’m not sure if jellyfin supports replaygain tags from video (presumably it does for audio only files).

          mpv definitely does support it at least, with “–replaygain=track”.

          Of course, none of this helps with OPs situation, because enabling replaygain will actually lower the volume on most files, so it can account for high dynamic range content.

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            yeah considering i have literal terabytes of youtube content on my jellyfin, i think i’ll probably abstain, unless i do some really dirty automation on it, in which case i might not, because that would be funny.

      • @criitz@reddthat.com
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        You might want to consider streaming it on your TV. Modern TVs should have a Plex app at the least. Or use a Chromecast or other setup. I watch on my couch with the TV remote. Its the same experience as watching Netflix.

        • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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          I am streaming to my TV. 50" TV on my desktop for a daily driver, 55" (wired) on the wall for media.

          • @criitz@reddthat.com
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            I guess what I meant was to run it on a TV-native platform that you control with your remote, instead of streaming your PC display to the TV and still using the mouse and keyboard. Xbox has a Jellyfin app for example. I use Plex and my TV has an app for it. Also I can use Chromecast and throw it up from my phone or PC and control that with the remote.

        • @slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
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          Plex isn’t Jellyfin though. Lots of TV’s/TV OS’s have Jellyfin app but it’s pretty basic. I’d recommend an AppleTV with Infuse, it’s super built out with all sorts of great features. It’s a better app than all of the streaming services

    • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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      How many PBs you got and how many clients (humans)?

      How much traffic across your network in terms of a daily average?

      Do you have a local recommendation system running? For example I found a last.fm clone, self-hosted hut I haven’t found much for video

      • @slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
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        Uh it’s just me and whoever is on my local network. I don’t port anything or have any users outside my home. When I go on trips I just download movies and shows from my network to my devices

  • @Snapz@lemmy.world
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    Nobody gives a shit, you’re not doing enough to punish trump for his obvious, literally filmed and recorded crimes.

    This is the equivalent of the cops celebrating after beating peaceful college protesters while pissing their pants and freezing while the uvalde kids were slaughtered and psychologically tortured.

    You’re focusing on the non victory and ignoring the failures. Cowards.

    • @AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
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      You’re focusing on the non victory and ignoring the failures. Cowards.

      That’s not true, they successfully did their job of protecting capital and the owner class. Same reason they don’t go after Trump. He’s in the owner class, so their job is to serve and protect him.

    • @Adalast@lemmy.world
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      When cops only legal responsibility is to enforce the law, and the laws are written to protect corporate interests, of course they will stand outside the school and arrest protesters. SCOTUS has ruled that way so many times that “to serve and protect” is literally gaslighting.

      • @AlbinoPython@lemmy.world
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        Nobody gives a shit, you’re not doing enough to punish trump for his obvious, literally filmed and recorded crimes.

        This is the equivalent of the cops celebrating after bearing peaceful college protesters while pissing their pants and freezing while the uvalde kids were slaughtered and psychologically tortured.

        You’re focusing on the non victory and ignoring the failures. Cowards.

          • Lad
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            Tout le monde s’en fout, vous ne faites pas assez pour punir Trump pour ses crimes évidents, littéralement filmés et enregistrés.

            C’est l’équivalent des flics qui se réjouissent d’avoir abattu des manifestants pacifiques à l’université tout en se pissant dessus et en se gelant pendant que les enfants d’uvalde se faisaient massacrer et torturer psychologiquement.

            Vous vous concentrez sur la non-victoire et ignorez les échecs. Lâches.

  • @kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

  • Lad
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    Five men convicted by the court of the high seas for being absolute chads

    • @anlumo@lemmy.world
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      They didn’t need the army of lawyers to get license deals, so that’s not a fair comparison.

      • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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        Their scale was also an insignificant fraction of what Netflix has, making the point even more irrelevant.

        The best figure I could find on Jetflicks user count was 37k, where as Netflix has 269 million users.

        • @calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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          Prices should go down with scale not up though.

          There’s initial investment on the initial servers (and the software), and afterwards it should be a linear increase of server costs per user, with some bumps along the way to interconnect those servers.

          The cost also scales per content. Because that means more caching servers per user and bigger databases, and licenses.

          So this service has less users and more content, it should be way more expensive. The only reason they are cheaper is because they don’t pay those licenses.

          • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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            The cost of storage in this case is more or less irrelevant - traffic is what matters here. You’re also not getting any mentionable bulk discount on the servers for that matter.

            The key is that you can engineer things in completely different way when you have trivial amounts of traffic hitting your systems - you can do things that will not scale in any way, shape or form.

      • @FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
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        Its almost like its unecessary shit made up in order to keep profits away from working people artificially

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          It’s true that Hollywood is corrupt and csuite pay is absurd, but those deals are the only mechanism by which ANY money makes it to the writers, actors and staff who deserve it

          • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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            It’s the exclusivity bullshit that gets me.

            It could be: New movie is released! Anyone who pays the price tag gets to stream it!

            But no, we must bidding war gouge.

            On top of that, X Y and Z services exist in America, but not in other countries, so in this other country, everything is on Netflix, while I had to jump between three different services at one point just to watch Stargate

        • @WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world
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          Yeah its almost like if we didn’t keep extending copyright protections a bunch of stuff would be in the public domain and any streaming service could offer it without having to deal with licensing.

          • @zbyte64@awful.systems
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            179 months ago

            Certain types of content. But YouTube’s own existence started because people made content without licensing rights.

            • @evidences@lemmy.world
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              Technically YouTube exists because three horny nerds wanted a dating site with video integration. It only turned into a video sharing site when they realized they couldn’t find the clip of the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction and they decided they wanted to build that platform instead.

          • @Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
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            Not really. I can undersgand licensing but at this point it’s become a distopian practice completely separated from the basic need to monetize the content an make a profit. That’s why those companies become such gargantuans monsters.

          • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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            Nope. People will still make content. It’ll be on far less of a budget, but that didn’t stop the Film School generation of independent films in the 1970s (before which you had to sell your life and soul and beating heart to a studio). In between all the schlock were the occasional arty films we consider classics today.

            And then there’s government subsidization of art projects, as per the National Endowment of the Arts.

            I think the MCU movies, the DC movies, the many studio iterations of Spiderman have shown us what capitalism eventually churns out. Sony actually chose this path content as product the same resort to formula that plagued the music industry in the 1980s (and drove the Hip Hop Independent movement of the next half-century).

            We just need to empower artists. Make sure they don’t have to moonlight as restaurant wait staff in order to eat and pay rent while they create, and make sure they have access to half-decent (not necessarily high end) hardware with which to do their thing. And yes, as Sturgeon observes, most of it will be schlock, but through sheer quantity of content we’ll get more gems than Hollywood is putting out.

            • @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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              If you take away the ability to own and control your intellectual property, then you won’t be empowered.

              Licensing art allows creators to earn a living off of their hard work.

              • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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                Not in the US or the EU. If you make music in the States, then RCA or Sony owns your content, not you, and when they decide they’ve paid you enough (which is much less than they’re getting) then they still own your stuff. Also, if you make an amazing film or TV series ( examples: Inception, Firefly ) and the moguls don’t like it, they’ll make sure it tanks or at least doesn’t get aftermarket support, which is why Inception doesn’t have any video games tie-ins, despite being a perfect setting for video games.

                Artists are empowered in their ability to produce art. If they have to worry about hunger and shelter, then they make less art, and art narrowly constrained to the whims of their masters. Artists are not empowered by the art they’ve already made, as that has to be sold to a patron or a marketing institution.

                No, we’d get more and better art by feeding and housing everyone (so no one has to earn a living ) and then making all works public domain in the first place.

                Intellectual property is a construct, and it’s corruption even before it was embedded in the Constitution of the United States has only assured that old art does not get archived.

                I think yes, an artist needs to eat, which is why most artists (by far) have to wait tables and drive taxicabs and during all that time on the clock, not make art. The artists not making art far outnumber the artists that get to make art. And a small, minority subset of those are the ones who profit from art or even make a living from their art, a circumstance that is perpetually precarious.

                But I also think the public needs a body of culture, and as the Game of Thrones era showed us, culture and profit run at odds. The more expensive art is, the more it’s confined to the wealthy, and the less it actually influences culture. Hence we should just feed, clothe and home artists along with everyone else, whether or not they produce good or bad art. And we’ll get culture out of it.

                You can argue that a world of guaranteed meals and homes is not the world we live in, but then I can argue that piracy (and other renegade action) absolutely is part of the world we live in and will continue to thrive so long as global IP racketeering continues. Thieves and beggars, never shall we die.

                • @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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                  Sorry, I’m not going to read all that, but it seems like you’re upset about the shitty deals made by record labels and other large corporations, not intellectual property rights.

      • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        Like Boeing’s CEO making 300 million… imagine 300 people who worked their ass off could make million. Or 1500 hard workers could be making 200k. But nah, let’s just drag these huge bags of money into this one asshole’s account. Oh there were a couple of crashes right? 👍 Our thoughts and prayers 🙏. But not our money wagons.

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        179 months ago

        Does Netflix make shows? Or does it slam its name onto filmmakers it pays to make content? If so, one of those things simply requires throwing cash at people, which I think is a skill that most people can learn.

          • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            They had to operate under the radar to avoid the law, so you know the answer to your question

            • @iopq@lemmy.world
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              So Netflix actually pays for shows to get made, so when everyone pays for Netflix, it lets everyone enjoy them. Pirate sites only extract value from the hard work of the producers, without paying them.

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                producers don’t make the content, they speak to the right people in their exclusive circles to finance it, put their name on it, and then pay the directors and actors a tiny fraction of what it earned

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    “The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services”

    They used the basic tools that most(?) pirates use today like sonarr and radar??

    I don’t mind people pirating…i do mind people pirating and profiting from redistribution.

    • Y|yukichigai
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      Guessing they used Sonarr, Radarr, qBittorrent, maybe an NZB client…

      Would you look at that, I’m sophisticated now.

    • sunzu
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      redistribution = service?

      Why would they work for free?

      Not gonna pretend like this aint illegal but i don’t cry over some IP owners losing money… EVER, fuck 'em

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        Oh I don’t care that the IP owner don’t get money.

        IDK, I just don’t like the ethics of pirating media for profit, the entire idea is that it should be accessible to everyone, not just those with money. Cover your operational cost? Sure…Making millions in subscriptions? That is an asshole move IMO. If you’re paying, you might as well pay the people who are making the media in the first place instead of some rando that had nothing to do with it.

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          All fair points.

          I think the issue is that IP owners are mega corps, ie people who made the content don’t own it and can’t provide it anyway.

        • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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          This doesn’t seem that different from paying for usenet. It’s not like they’re making DVDs of pirated movies and selling them on the street corner; they were basically just aggregating content and the service they were providing was making it easily searchable and accessible, not doing the actual pirating, from the sound of it, unless I’m misunderstanding the situation.

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            This doesn’t seem that different from paying for usenet.

            i would think it would be a little different from usenet, considering that usenet would be a service that you pay for, and people who use that service would host content on it, so that other users can download that content. Which effectively removes the immediate liability that you would have in this case, where you are explicitly hosting a pirated streaming service, and then charging for it, for the explicit purpose of streaming said pirated content.

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              Yeah, I suppose I should clarify - that was in response to the objection to paying for pirated content; it’s different from the service provider’s point of view, but from the end user’s point of view, they’re paying for pirated content either way.

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                yeah, from an end user perspective, it’s the same.

                But i was referring mostly to the legal technicalities there, where one would be significantly more spicy than the other.

                Nice root instance btw, getting jumpscared by pawb.social is a rather funny timeline to live in.

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                I don’t have an issue paying ISPs to access pirated content either, that’s the same as paying for Usenet access IMO. You’re paying for network access for a lot of different things, pirated content just happens to be part of it. Paying a streaming service specifically for pirated content is vastly different from paying for general network access, even from an end user perspective.

  • @Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    The only thing I’m pisseed about is the fact that I was unaware of its existence. Fuck the system

    • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      Because the legal options are garbage.

      The pirates provide a better service with more content for cheaper than the legal options; and pirating yourself takes effort as well as cost (hardware, trackers, usenet, etc).

      Some people are happy to just pay for decent service; others like to learn about the process, then setup and run their own servers.

      To each their own.

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      I dont subscribe to any streaming service (except the occasional free prime trial, to be full disclosure), not even the one in the news story… but I can still answer your question…

      Because I want to pay a single service to watch everything. Like Netflix used to be. Watch everything I want, for one monthly price that was reasonable.

      But its not like that anymore. Every company looked at how well Netflix used to do, went “Fuck them! I want all that money for my self!” and took their content off Netflix, and made their own streaming services.

      Now if you want to consume any media, You have to subscribe to 50 different subscription services, for hundreds of dollars a month, Which is just Cable 2.0 but with worse service and options.

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      piracy is a service issue.

      also, fuck IP owners, pigs got too fat while cutting on service.

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      My guess is It’s probably cheaper and has much greater variety. You can watch anything from any streaming service through one single interface at the price of one service.

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      My guess is because they did all the pirating for you so you didn’t have to worry about dealing with the technical hurdles of doing so.

      If a service like this came around that allowed me to pay with Monero and did not require any personally identifiable information, I would totally fucking use it.

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      because IPTV is like $6 per month and has every single channel known to earth… it’s a tiny fraction compared to any cable especially if you watch sports (the only real reason to pay for cable anyway)

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      Because all the legal services are incredibly anti-consumer and are offering less services, with (more) ads, for more money every year.

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        The entire system exists for the benefit of business, not customers.

        Just look at what happens with accused theft in a store. You get accused of theft? Cops are there in no time, take you to the ground, throw you in the back of the cop car. only after they’ve gotten the humiliation and brutalization in might someone come and take your proof that you didnt steal anything.

        You accuse the store of stealing from you? Due to not following their own policy on returns, or overcharging and an item and not fixing it Police won’t even show. just tell you its a civil matter and to suck it up.

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      You pay like $5/Mo for the content of all streaming services and more instead of the $500/Mo it would cost to subscribe to each of them individually. Plus you’re not taking any legal risk as a customer.

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      49 months ago

      In addition to other things people responded with, piracy services tend to not collect users data or prevent us from watching with a VPN enabled.

      • Saik0
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        or prevent us from watching with a VPN enabled.

        Man this one chaff’s me the most. I way a paying Netflix customer like 8 years ago. I had IPv6 setup as a 6rd tunnel through HE (Hurricane Electric) because my ISP didn’t offer IPv6. Netflix treated that as a VPN and blocked me as a paying customer… Even though I lived/payed from the same fucking locale. It’s not like I was using a VPN to bypass a Geoblock. I was just making IPv6 available to myself. I cancelled because of that. You do not get to tell me how I access the internet at large, especially when I’m not even being shady about it.

    • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      The majority of piracy is not free.

      I’ve paid for usenet, seed boxes, private servers, and more recently torrent cache services.

      You pay because it’s much cheaper than commercial services and a better experience with more content.

    • @exanime@lemmy.world
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      Pirating implies some knowledge and effort some people may not have or want to get into

      Paid Legal services are so enshitified some people may think they are getting ripped up

      Paid illegal services are often HUGE bang for buck value (no enshitification, no limits, no nonsense and often better customer service)

  • @digger@lemmy.ca
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    The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services… for illegal copies of TV episodes, which they then downloaded and hosted on Jetflicks’ servers.

    So they used some variant of Sick Beard?

    • @bitchkat@lemmy.world
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      If you’re using sickbeard, switch to medusa. The originally developer of sickbeard is a nut case. He took the project back from the team that was doing development so they forked it and renamed Medusa.

    • @aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
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      609 months ago

      nah probably the arr stack

      Sonarr: (Automatic TV series downloads)

      Radarr: (Automatic movie downloads)

      Tdarr: (Automatic transcoding of media, can help save you a lot of disk space)

      Bazarr: (Companion app to Radarr and Sonarr, manages subtitles)

      Prowlarr: (A replacement for Jackett from the Arr team)

      Lidarr: Music

      Readarr: Books

      Mylar3: Comic books

      Plex-Meta-Manager: (Automatic collections and metadata)

      Overseerr: Request tracking and website front-end

      Ombi: Let users request both movies/tv shows from a simple web interface.

      Dopplarr: Discord bot to make movie/tv/anime requests

      Pulsarr: Browser extension for adding movies to Radarr or Series’ to Sonarr while browsing IMDB or TVDB.

      • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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        Tdarr: (Automatic transcoding of media, can help save you a lot of disk space)

        That’s a new one to me, I’ll have to check that out. Thanks!

        Been doing conversions via Emby, but it’s not a very powerful tool for that.

  • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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    It’s sad that these people got taken down. Maybe the next people to do it will do it from a country that does not have extradition with the United States, so they would be safe.

    Edit: As for payment providers attempting to take such a service down, Monero would be the answer to this.