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I cancelled all my content subscriptions and I'm back to torrenting. I barely watch anything made my Netflix regardless. I think either Dark or the 3rd season o
by jasonvorhe 11mo ago
I cancelled all my content subscriptions and I'm back to torrenting. I barely watch anything made my Netflix regardless. I think either Dark or the 3rd season of Stranger Things was the last time. Snyder's SciFi movie wasn't much good either. By now the streaming services are en route to become as terrible as whatever they were set out to replace. Once one of them started heavily advertising their own productions everywhere inside their apps I would've cancelled any remaining subscription at the latest.
- kwar13 11mo ago> back to torrenting lots of people have, and we've come now full circle. I wonder if it was inevitable.
- an0malous 11mo agoIn a society that’s built on the foundations of perpetual profit growth it is. Sometimes you just can’t innovate, so instead of improving the product you cut the costs and enshittify. We’re in an enshittification regime right now. Why are there alternating cycles of innovation and enshittification? I think it’s because investors are always trying to pull forward profit, but because they only have a 10 year horizon on investment strategy they tend to create cycles that are around that same period. If there was less investment, the innovation would be slower but the reactionary enshittification would be lessened too.
- NegativeLatency 11mo agoIt’s better than ever with stuff like jellyfin/plex and all the sonarr/radarr… apps. I’ve been running bitmagnet too which has been great for actually finding torrents.
- wombat-man 11mo agoI torrent too, but I think it makes sense to buy/rent or sub to a service in many cases. Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make. So, especially for ongoing series that I'm enjoying I want them to keep renewing it. I subscribe to ad-free versions of services so I don't really run into ads a lot unless I'm trying to watch something live on TV.
- jasonvorhe 11mo agoIrrelevant to me. The amount of TV shows I enjoyed that got canned after S01 has burnt me so much that I wait until I know if there's a sensible finale at the end or if it ends on a cliffhanger that'll never be resolved before I even dive into a new show.
- emsign 11mo agoFirefly *cries*
- roboror 11mo ago>Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make. Social discourse is also heavily weighted
- squigz 11mo ago> I torrent too, but I think it makes sense to buy/rent or sub to a service in many cases. Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make. So, especially for ongoing series that I'm enjoying I want them to keep renewing it. I wonder if any of them track torrent metrics for this reason.
- wombat-man 11mo agoIf it's not already on a streaming platform it might help them sell it to Netflix or something. But I think they ultimately are a lot more interested in effect on revenue than popularity among pirates.
- venturecruelty 11mo agoHow did good movies and TV shows get made before the panopticon? How did we get Casa Blanca when there were no Nielsen ratings?
- JetSpiegel 11mo agoIt was real for the actors, som ehad really fled the Nazis (including the ones playing the Nazis).
- CSMastermind 11mo agoI'm almost back there at this point given how annoying streaming services are getting.
- emsign 11mo agoI also collect discarded physical media, there's still lots of people who want to get rid of their collections for nothing because of "Dude, there's streaming now, duh."
- Retz4o4 11mo agoBest sources to start accumulating? Just ebay?
- teach 11mo agoLikely Facebook Marketplace or maybe Craigslist. eBay is pretty rough these days by all accounts.
- venturecruelty 11mo agoeBay, yard sales, Goodwill, local thrift stores, Facebook Marketplace, etc.
- emsign 11mo agoFor specific music Discogs.org is a very good marketplace. It's not free, it's a second hand marketplace, people don't give away things, but prices aren't worse than retail except for actually rare collector's stuff. But I've used it a lot to fill in the gaps in some artists' discography. Also older CDs are usually mastered with a bigger dynamic range, so they sound better on music hardware with a functioning volume knob. ;) So I much prefer buying original CD releases versus re-releases of an album on CDs anyway.
- emsign 11mo agoAlso: Your relatives and friends. And their friends and friends' friends. Your neighbors. Ask around. And whenever someone moves, they usually want to get rid of things.
- jwrallie 11mo agoBuying used media could also a viable option. My kid likes to watch the same thing over and over, subscription content does not make sense for her. You just have to buy it slowly.
- skeptrune 11mo agoHard agree. My read on the whole situation is that this is R.I.P. for Netflix as a tech company.
- jaggederest 11mo agoWe're going to see something like the way Boeing was hollowed out by taking over McDonnell Douglas I'd guess. I have no insider knowledge but WB doesn't seem like a poison pill you can take without adverse impact.
- Forgeties79 11mo agoOne only has to look at the word of mouth reputation of Plex these days to know what's going on. I'd say more of my circle knows about it than doesn't, and a solid 15% run one or use someone else's, including my non-techie friends. Shoutout to Jellyfin it's great, but it is not nearly as turnkey, so Plex is clearly the dominant player for folks hosting their own media.
- s0rce 11mo agoI found Jellyfin was super easy but I came from XBMC/Kodi which was a big struggle.
- Forgeties79 11mo agoI think what trips people up with jellyfin is making sure they aren’t exposing their network. Getting it to work at home is one thing, getting it to work outside your home is a different beast
- s0rce 11mo agoAh, I have no use/interest in remote access to my library. I just have one tv in the house with an NVidia shield that accesses the Jellfin library on a miniPC on the network.
- Forgeties79 11mo agoI got kids so accessing it when traveling is pretty critical, as is the ability to quickly locally download to a tablet lol
- tills13 11mo agoisn't Plex literally an XBMC fork? And Jellyfin a Kodi fork? Something like that.
- russelg 11mo ago
- somehnguy 11mo agoUsenet + the *arr stack + Plex or Jellyfin make it completely effortless to watch any movie or TV show I can think of. And I don't have to play the 'which service has this?' game.
- issafram 11mo agoIf only there was an easy setup/tutorial for Usenet. I have no idea what I am supposed to pay for and what client program to use for acquiring files.
- spiralcoaster 11mo agoSounds like a feature, not a bug
- lukebechtel 11mo agothe garden without the wall is trampled
- venturecruelty 11mo agoI bet if you Google "how to get started with Usenet", someone has written about this.
- tills13 11mo agoHaving figured it out myself, I agree. And it's not obvious that you need both a Usenet _indexer_ (who tells you what content is available) and a Usenet provider (who actually serves you the content). FWIW, and I'm not sure if this is against terms here, but I use newsgeek for the former and giganews for the latter. Both are paid services but reasonably priced imo. When I can find something on Usenet, it typically downloads with speeds > 10MBps vs. torrenting which can exceed that but is usually much slower. You can use whatever client you want. I have the *arr stack mentioned elsewhere in this thread as well and SABnzbd is the recommended option there.
- issafram 11mo ago
- dfee 11mo agoi was in Bend, Oregon last weekend at the last Blockbuster, and it was really appealing. - blu ray rentals were 99¢ / wk - a vast trove of content - no lock-in or monthly fees sure, you actually have to make it to the store... but, 2007 never looked better. now, Netflix was distributing by mail, and i think the promise was for them to stream all their content into homes. but, then it got messy. but yeah, for 99¢ / movie, I'm happy to pay. i'll even occasionally pay to rent through AppleTV.
- whackernews 11mo agoTurns out going outside and interacting with strangers is actually quite good for you too.
- cmrdporcupine 11mo agoWhen we first moved to our rural area here the high speed wireless situation was atrocious and we found that because of that the local gas station & convenience stores still had a pretty active business renting DVD/BluRay movies. Until we could finally get decent high speed Internet without caps, we did that (and bought BluRay discs as well) which was only about 5, 6 years ago. There was something quite nice and nostalgic about it.
- tills13 11mo agoyeah I'm back to Torrenting too. I was more than happy to pay for Prime, Netflix, and maybe Apple TV+ a few times a year but now they expect me to pay for HBO & Crave & x & y & z & a... I might as well get a cable package. The funny thing is, between a NAS & a monthly VPN subscription & usenet subscriptions I probably could have paid for all those streaming services for a few years :D
- cheschire 11mo agoyou haven't priced out the streaming services (ad free tier) lately have you?
- dvntsemicolon 11mo agoI'm using Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid now that I have money to actually pay for it.
- orena 11mo agoI do the following: www.yandex.com MOVIENAME direct streaming And that is it... I have prime + netflix + hulu and such, but I use "yandex.com" as it does not have ads - even if sometimes it takes a bit to load and rarely it gets stuck for a second, it is less time than the stupid ads.
- someoneinworld 11mo agoI think torrents will become almost impossible also, cant netflix implement some sort of layering of video on the fly ( anywhere in between the video you are watching ) which somehow has the account number encoded ( not visible to naked eye ) , that way anytime they find a torrent of the video exclusively on netflix it will be easy to track down the person torrenting it ?
- rewgs 11mo agoDark is so, so, so good. Just wow.
- vagab0nd 11mo agoEvery time I want to watch a movie, I go on Netflix and search. Then I want to scream, "What movie DOES Netflix have??"
- wooger 10mo agohttps://www.justwatch.com/ https://www.justwatch.com/ is my goto wayto find where you can stream something in each country.