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And that's why I have a VPN, so I can yo-ho-ho with a bottle of fuck you!
Piracy is always a service issue
I haven't pirated stuff in years but started again this year. It sucks that my favorite torrent site was shut down though.
RIP RARBG you are missed
therarbg.com is a good mirror/clone
Every time I hear something about Netflix I always wonder how it is even still running. Still wild to me that they had the entire monopoly on streaming and fucked it up anyways.
Netflix didn’t fuck their monopoly up. They just didn’t have an eternal technological moat. Their monopoly had an expiration date which is why they shifted to content generation.
Nowadays the problem they face is that there isn’t enough people on the planet to grow forever, so in order to keep growing they have to squeeze harder.
Their content is terrible tough, there they did drop the ball.
Seems like everything they made that was good was cancelled after one season. I dumped them for that, then they went all greed and now I hit the high seas if there's something I really want to watch.
All good shows that don't blow up to Stranger Things levels get cancelled and the recommendation algorithm prioritizes mediocre over great. Why would I pay for that 🤷♂️
In their defense, they didn't fuck it up (at first), media publishers saw there was money in streaming and decided that they wanted a bigger slice of the pie. When everyone is trying to take the whole pie for themselves, no one ends up with any pie.
However pretty much every move they have done in the past 5 ish years has been fucking it up.
Cool, I was planning to cancel this month anyway. I just finished ripping all of our DVDs and Blurays, so I have quite a bit of content ready to go. I have told my wife and kids I'll buy whatever they want, within reason, and rip it to our private streaming service. I think we'll end up saving quite a bit of money eventually this way, and we have no ads with our self-hosted video service.
Not only no ads but shit you actually want to watch and all right there no hopping from this service to that service to watch a frickin show
High seas my peeps
This is the way. The only no-bullshit media platform is the one on your hard drive.
I LOVE this bit:
"will stop measuring its success in new subscribers, but in growth byr egional revenue."
We're hitting our self defined goals JUST fine guys!
Seems reasonable from a business point of view. They are approaching a saturation point and changing how they make money so shifting the KPIs only makes sense.
We are officially round the circle.
From cable tv with ad breaks to streaming ad-free and back to streaming with ad breaks.
This was always the plan.
And that's why I just cancelled Disney+ and Netflix. They were reasonably priced before, so I subbed. They hiked, so I left. Just those two together (Disney+ bundle + Netflix no-adds) was almost $40, which when added to my internet package, would basically be paying for cable.
So instead of that noise, I'm self-hosting. Screw 'em.
What is Netflix?
Is it that thing that shows up before I watch whatever the fuck I want on one of the dozens of free streaming sites?
Arrr matey.
Streaming sites? My brother in Christ, you need to ditch those unreliable websites that hardly work and go down all the time, and get a proper media center setup. Here are some terms to look up to get you started:
- Stremio
- Stremio addons: Torrentio, Streaming Catalogs, Trakt.tv
- Real-Debrid
That's the basic setup you'll want for a proper good time. Instantly stream any show or movie from any provider for free (Netflix, Disney, Prime Video, HBO, Apple TV, etc.). Get recommendations based on your viewing habits. Compatible with all your devices, including smart TVs. Torrent-based so it won't get taken offline (at least not anytime soon). Torrents are already stored on a server so there's no waiting on seeds (which is what Real-Debrid does. Optional and $3/mo but it makes the experience much smoother, especially if you want to watch something older/more obscure. And it eliminates the need for a VPN. Plus it works for any torrent, not just media).
Trust me, this is the way to go. Once you get everything set up, it's so easy and straightforward to use that my grandmother could navigate Stremio and not even know that it's a pirate service. Good luck and happy sailing. 🏴☠️
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Own your files. Play them in native resolution. Accept no compromises.
Yarr!
Pricing (US Dollar)
Standard with ads*: $6.99 / month
Standard: $15.49 / month (extra member slots can be added for $7.99 each / month) [Full HD]
Premium: $22.99 / month (extra member slots can be added for $7.99 each / month) [Ultra HD]
send a message, cancel and hit the high seas like we did before they came out.