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The most fascinating thing, is that most people have been paying for media for so long that they FORGOT how piracy used to work. When I explain to them how pir

The most fascinating thing, is that most people have been paying for media for so long that they FORGOT how piracy used to work. When I explain to them how piracy works now, how automated and easy it's become to use (setup is another thing), they are shocked. Basically piracy took a kind of microservice approach, where one app does downloading, and another set of apps (each specific to a type of media) handle finding that specific thing, sending it to the download client, and then moving, renaming, when it's done. All you do is use an app of your choice to say I want this, and everything else goes to work .. then when you want to watch it, its streamed wherever you want by another app of your choice. Sounds difficult but the actual use of it is very very simple. Gone is the manual searching, moving, checking, etc... Heck I don't even manually find and fix subtitles anymore.

mulmen 3y ago
> Heck I don't even manually find and fix subtitles anymore. The UX in streaming services gets worse with every update, to say nothing of the constant catalog changes. I do want to dip my toes back into the piracy world. What makes me nervous is how to remain anonymous. I know a few people who got hit with torrent warnings. Is it all still newsgroups? What's the state of the art in home piracy setups now?
- intothemild 3y ago
  I'm not going to advise on anything related to piracy sadly. I don't want this thread to turn into a guide. But there is something you touched on, how the UX gets worse... The UX of piracy keeps getting better. Also, side note... Why can't streaming services just have ALL the subtitle languages? You can get around this with a VPN, so they have the license... Why not just let us chose? Why have only a couple languages to chose from at best.
- throwaway290 3y ago
  It's not easy if you want quality. I like more obscure stuff in best res for my screen (can't stream that on average connection) and without a registration only torrent tracker it'd take a lot of time to find a dl. I'm sure I'm not in the know on this to do it best though. And for bad quality yeah shady basic web streaming sites exists though. Keep in mind they are packed with unstoppable video ads and malware js though. I don't poke them with a 10 foot pole usually. I sub to Apple TV btw. Some originals are very good. UX works for me.
- dns_snek 3y ago
  > What makes me nervous is how to remain anonymous. I know a few people who got hit with torrent warnings. Any VPN service will be sufficient to cover your tracks and avoid those warnings, e.g. Mullvad.
ilyt 3y ago
I just set up a piece of code... gotta be 15 years ago now, that just gets RSS link and extract last X torrents from it. Turns any torrent tracker with RSS feed into subscription service

mulmen 3y ago

> Heck I don't even manually find and fix subtitles anymore. The UX in streaming services gets worse with every update, to say nothing of the constant catalog changes. I do want to dip my toes back into the piracy world. What makes me nervous is how to remain anonymous. I know a few people who got hit with torrent warnings. Is it all still newsgroups? What's the state of the art in home piracy setups now?

intothemild 3y ago
I'm not going to advise on anything related to piracy sadly. I don't want this thread to turn into a guide. But there is something you touched on, how the UX gets worse... The UX of piracy keeps getting better. Also, side note... Why can't streaming services just have ALL the subtitle languages? You can get around this with a VPN, so they have the license... Why not just let us chose? Why have only a couple languages to chose from at best.
throwaway290 3y ago
It's not easy if you want quality. I like more obscure stuff in best res for my screen (can't stream that on average connection) and without a registration only torrent tracker it'd take a lot of time to find a dl. I'm sure I'm not in the know on this to do it best though. And for bad quality yeah shady basic web streaming sites exists though. Keep in mind they are packed with unstoppable video ads and malware js though. I don't poke them with a 10 foot pole usually. I sub to Apple TV btw. Some originals are very good. UX works for me.
dns_snek 3y ago
> What makes me nervous is how to remain anonymous. I know a few people who got hit with torrent warnings. Any VPN service will be sufficient to cover your tracks and avoid those warnings, e.g. Mullvad.

ilyt 3y ago

I just set up a piece of code... gotta be 15 years ago now, that just gets RSS link and extract last X torrents from it. Turns any torrent tracker with RSS feed into subscription service