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Why not just pay $5/mo for a Plex share with tens of thousands of the most popular movies and TV shows? I haven't torrented or paid for content in years. If I

Why not just pay $5/mo for a Plex share with tens of thousands of the most popular movies and TV shows? I haven't torrented or paid for content in years. If I want to watch something and it's not on the server, I message the admin in Bangalore and he adds it. Sure I don't "have" the content in the sense it's not sitting on spinning disks, but I don't care. Life is too short to try to collect widely available digital media.

wccrawford 4y ago
One of the advantages of local storage is that internet outages don't necessarily affect your ability to watch some shows. One of the main advantages that streaming has for me over live TV is the ability to watch things when I want to, without restrictions. Don't even get me started about commercials. Amazon Prime has been putting up movies without commercials, and then adding commercials later. This has bit our movie group a few times lately. Very frustrating.
- julianlam 4y ago
  > One of the advantages of local storage is that internet outages don't necessarily affect your ability to watch some shows. This came to a head for me not too long ago when my internet went out for a little while. I told my wife we could just watch the antenna TV, and she simply couldn't grok the idea that TV signals were coming to the house without the internet working.
nickthegreek 4y ago
Collecting the media can be almost 100% automated with sonarr and radarr. Getting content can be even easier than messaging an admin.
leonhard 4y ago
Never heard of this. Where would one find such a service?
- honkdaddy 4y ago
  /r/PlexShares! Lots of options, they all have largely the same stuff. There are also more specialized ones if you want anime, Bollywood, K-dramas, etc. Just shop around and find one with a free trial. It's not very automated, so you'll have to chat with them over Discord, but once it's set up it's completely hands-off. Good luck!
- 29083011397778 4y ago
  Reddit [0], for one. I'm beyond sure that Discord has at least one community for this as well, but somehow piracy feels morally okay compared to Discord silo-ing off areas of the internet - ergo, I have no link, sorry. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/plexshares/ https://old.reddit.com/r/plexshares/
sshagent 4y ago
what is this plex share?
- honkdaddy 4y ago
  I answered above - but the tl;dr is to check out /r/PlexShares.
10729287 4y ago
Plot twist, OP is the admin in Bangalore.
pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
How long do you think that's going to last?
- jokowueu 4y ago
  IPTV boxes still exist so these will last forever since they are still quite obscure . What these Plex share owners do is advertise first . Reach the number of users they need then go private and it becomes invite only . This what happened to the one I joined and it's perfect for 2 years now . What I find odd about these Plex shares is the insane catalog they have which includes Vhs rips of obscure 1980s slasher films
exadeci 4y ago
Some servers allow you to sync the content on your devices as it's possible with Plex you often just need to ask them. Very helpful when flying for 30h

wccrawford 4y ago

One of the advantages of local storage is that internet outages don't necessarily affect your ability to watch some shows. One of the main advantages that streaming has for me over live TV is the ability to watch things when I want to, without restrictions. Don't even get me started about commercials. Amazon Prime has been putting up movies without commercials, and then adding commercials later. This has bit our movie group a few times lately. Very frustrating.

julianlam 4y ago
> One of the advantages of local storage is that internet outages don't necessarily affect your ability to watch some shows. This came to a head for me not too long ago when my internet went out for a little while. I told my wife we could just watch the antenna TV, and she simply couldn't grok the idea that TV signals were coming to the house without the internet working.

nickthegreek 4y ago

Collecting the media can be almost 100% automated with sonarr and radarr. Getting content can be even easier than messaging an admin.

leonhard 4y ago

Never heard of this. Where would one find such a service?

honkdaddy 4y ago
/r/PlexShares! Lots of options, they all have largely the same stuff. There are also more specialized ones if you want anime, Bollywood, K-dramas, etc. Just shop around and find one with a free trial. It's not very automated, so you'll have to chat with them over Discord, but once it's set up it's completely hands-off. Good luck!
29083011397778 4y ago
Reddit [0], for one. I'm beyond sure that Discord has at least one community for this as well, but somehow piracy feels morally okay compared to Discord silo-ing off areas of the internet - ergo, I have no link, sorry. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/plexshares/ https://old.reddit.com/r/plexshares/

sshagent 4y ago

what is this plex share?

honkdaddy 4y ago
I answered above - but the tl;dr is to check out /r/PlexShares.

10729287 4y ago

Plot twist, OP is the admin in Bangalore.

pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago

How long do you think that's going to last?

jokowueu 4y ago
IPTV boxes still exist so these will last forever since they are still quite obscure . What these Plex share owners do is advertise first . Reach the number of users they need then go private and it becomes invite only . This what happened to the one I joined and it's perfect for 2 years now . What I find odd about these Plex shares is the insane catalog they have which includes Vhs rips of obscure 1980s slasher films

exadeci 4y ago

Some servers allow you to sync the content on your devices as it's possible with Plex you often just need to ask them. Very helpful when flying for 30h