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Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet
- camillomiller 7mo agoWe abandoned piracy too soon. We fell for the trap that enshittified everything. It is time to pirate again.
- idontwantthis 7mo agoI just bought a bluray drive and I've started ripping movies. The quality is fantastic on an HD bluray upscaled on a 4k tv, and even a DVD looks far better than I thought it would, and far better than it did 20 years ago when DVDs were current.
- k12sosse 7mo agoVinegar syndrome has a couple UHD releases that are on 100GB BluRay. Storage available has been.. ahem, sparse. But you can get a real nice nearly-automated workflow for ripping with makemkv.
- account42 7mo agoBeware that not just any Blu-ray drive will work with UHD Blu-ray discs. There's both hardware limitations (100GB aka BDXL) and firmware restrictions (incl. copy protection) for with the drive needs support. Some drives with the hardware to support BDXL but without official UHD support can be patched to support UHD but check the MakeMKV forums before you buy such a drive. I haven't come across any Vinegar syndrome releases yet (that I'm aware of) but lots of Shout! Factory or Arrow Video ones. From the Films that I'm interested in more have UHD releases now than not.
- idontwantthis 7mo agoThat’s a really cool project. For now I’m just grabbing them from the library and record stores. Can’t justify spending more on them than I would on streaming.
- parpfish 7mo agoIn the music space, piracy won. After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything. Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.
- eucyclos 7mo agoBandcamp does ok without ignoring what the artists want. I think the biggest issue with buying directly from the musician isn't the price but the friction of purchasing online
- k12sosse 7mo agoJokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket. These two equations are tied together. Before, the lucky artists were front-loaded their buckets of cash from the labels. But now the royalty cheques are measured in pennies and the live music enjoyers seem to be the equalization payments.
- jamboca 7mo agojesus go to a basement it's like $15 at most and you can meet actual artists
- colesantiago 7mo agoI point to this resource to my friends and family when they want to get stuff for free. A great resource as an alternative to hostile and expensive subscription based "services" that shouldn't be businesses.
- ranger_danger 7mo ago[flagged]
- freakynit 7mo agoAwesome site. Easy to remember as well.
- with 7mo agoWe need to make all of this so much more popular again
- hatmanstack 7mo agoToo much free stuff already and anything new will eventually become free. I'd rather wait or direct money to the projects I support.
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- ls612 7mo agoThe modern bible of online piracy.
- CobrastanJorji 7mo agoNote for the hacker crowd: they don't mean free as in speech. They mean free as in beer that fell off a truck.
- stackghost 7mo agoWhen I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles. Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity. Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.
- akoboldfrying 7mo ago[flagged]
- staplers 7mo agoMeta, openai, google have a bridge to sell you
- redrove 7mo agoThat’s long gone, especially around here. YC is YC. It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.
- stackghost 7mo ago>It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website. It is sad. There are definitely some talented people here but the pervasive corporate bootlicking is pretty hard to take, at times. Certain usenet newsgroups had a similar vibe, once upon a time, but usenet couldn't solve the spam problem.
- vovavili 7mo agoYcombinator is far from your average venture capital rent-seeking company. I am surprised that a person who thinks this way without added nuance would spent time on this website.
- joshribakoff 7mo agoVery cool. I have a similar side project for scraping youtube playlists and aggregating open source texts. Mainly materials for computer science, system design, and DSA (data structures and algorithms). On GH as joshribakoff/leetdeeper
- mediaconsumer 7mo agostremio + debrid had been nice for most things. after a bunch of random stremio plugin outages i built my own little app that just talks to apibay and the debrid back end and links it up to vlc a few months ago and have just used that.
- BLKNSLVR 7mo agoHaving some knowledge about 'how the sausage is made', the smoothness of a stremio + debrid setup feels pretty close to magic.
- dottjt 7mo agoWhich debrid service do you use?
- PacificSpecific 7mo agoReal debrid has been pretty good for me
- mediaconsumer 7mo agoalldebrid. their 4.0/4.1 api has all the stuff to decode magnets and browse their files. filter mkv,mp4,etc. i made a little database of imdb tt values to assist autosuggest for searching and a nsfw filter for the few friends and family using the app. have thought about extending it to realdebrid/torbox/etc but it's just been kinda set and forget. every once in a while will add a feature... most recently i think was seeing if there was a matching srt file and feeding that along with the video file to vlc so you get subtitle support if it's not baked into the video file
- mediaconsumer 7mo ago[dead]
- Markoff 7mo agopaying to pirate is absurd with these debris services personally I'd rather recommend stremio + torrentio, though I prefer offline watching for zero buffering issues and no wait
- akoboldfrying 7mo ago[flagged]
- zetanor 7mo agoYou can find their work for free here: https://fmhy.net https://fmhy.net Just keep it hush-hush.
- akoboldfrying 7mo agoThanks, but I should have been clearer: I meant the work they use to pay for their groceries. That's the good stuff.
- inigyou 7mo ago[dead]
- h4x0rr 7mo agoYou mean the work that pays for the yachts of some billionaires?
- akoboldfrying 7mo agoCould you be more specific about which payment is upsetting you? Assuming OP is not a billionaire themselves, I can only think of cash flowing from a billionaire employer to OP for work done by OP. But I don't see how that could "pay for" the billionaire's yachts?
- jrflowers 7mo agoI like how this went from “piracy is categorically theft” to “trickle down economics is real and good” in so few posts, it is an impressively rapid display of statements that look like silly opinions but are actually objectively false assertions
- peter_d_sherman 7mo agoThis looks like a reasonably good page (there possibly are better ones) for general AI chatbots, rate limits and sign-in requirements: https://fmhy.net/ai https://fmhy.net/ai
- inigyou 7mo ago[dead]
- LocalH 7mo agoPiracy is preservation. Always has been. Rightsholders must not be allowed to control how works are preserved, else they can very easily steal from the eventual public domain in ways that mere piracy can never be considered stealing.
- 1317 7mo agowell maybe but they don't do a very good job at it popular stuff that you could watch anywhere, you can pirate of course but anything more obscure is impossible to find, or was there at one point but is now long gone
- circularfoyers 7mo agoWhose "they"? Private sites do a phenomenal job at preserving a large amount of rare content.
- 1317 7mo agowhat's the point if no one can see it
- franga2000 7mo agoI think it's insane that the concept of a legal deposit [0] is so rarely extended to films or other media. Even more insane is that US courts have found it to be unconstitutional. A primary school's student newspaper needs to send two copies to the national library, while a movie can be played in every cinema in the nation and...nothing?? Let alone video games and other, more complicated media... Everyone likes to shit on patents, but patents are designed well. You invent a thing and in exchange for publishing it openly, you get time-limited exclusive rights to it. Why the hell is copyright not like that? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit
- zahlman 7mo ago> Everyone likes to shit on patents, but patents are designed well. I think the critique of patents has more to do with the patent officers often being ignorant of blatant, widespread prior art, or having a bizarre idea of how the relevant legal principles should apply in a particular problem domain.
- FiniteIntegral 7mo agoI've used this site for years, I originally found it off their subreddit. When they finally moved to a dedicated site it really improved the whole user experience from whatever reddit CSS was doing. The admins keep it consistently updated and remove problem sources on a regular basis.
- flexagoon 7mo ago> The admins keep it consistently updated and remove problem sources on a regular basis. It's very much a community effort! There's a semi-open discord (the invites are only open on fridays) with a website suggestion and voting system
- smusamashah 7mo agoThis is a very interesting sub https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories This reminds of FTP directories I used to download things from. There were FTP search engines (they are probably listed on this website already).
- dvntsemicolon 7mo agoThis is a fantastic resource. Not just for illegal purposes either. There is plenty of free stuff that is legal here. It's easy to remember the URL too.
- renegat0x0 7mo ago- the site is awesome, but could be better - I was also a fan of githubs awesome lists (eg. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted) - I think separated lists are cool, because they focus on one subject, like self-hosted above... but if all awesome lists were in one big list... - awesome lists are often data, with a lack of search functionality. fmhy site has a search functionality, but I often prefer searching links by a 'tag' - what most of awesome lists lack is 'votes', or 'ranking' My solution is to provide links, with tags, and 'ranking' https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database. Provides search by link, title, description, whatever. I think that is where it all should go. Also my database captures links from fmhy.
- input_sh 7mo agoI think an important distinction is that most of the awesome lists required an entry to have some sort of a sentence-long pitch about why something's awesome instead of a giant list of items with no way to distinguish between them without clicking. That's far more important than tags in my opinion. That said, I am biased as I maintained quite a few of them years ago and am happy to see today's youngling maintain this tradition of low-effort contributions to make a source that's better than a search engine when looking for stuff in a specific niche.