Piracy indicates a service problem. That’s all.
Sorta random but related: Does anyone know how to access (preferably download from) Roku channels privately? There’s one channel I need everything from, but can’t give my TV internet access anymore.
If your subscriptions exceed $65/mo, just cancel them and get cable.
Live TV is so bad that I would take $65/mo of corporate streaming services over FREE cable.
I choose neither, but if those were the only two options there’s no contest.
You’re also paying the ISP so that’s another cost on top of these subscriptions.
I agree a 100%. People are willingly going back to cable and only watching the commercial shit just because its convenient. Meanwhile people who pirate always have first class tickets to the show. Anime has the best subs (no dubbing garbage or AI subs), games already have all the DLC and extras in it, and best of all no advertisements, no shit mysteriously disappearing because they lost a license and we get to pick what we watch.
With piracy you always have the golden ticket, always have the best VIP seats in the house, and its YOURS.
It’s yours because there is a technical debt, which can flummox some. Some of the torrent places, have javascript messes that are trying to do drive-bys.
I have been using NoScript for a long time, and it helps.
I wanted to watch the most recent Rick & Morty season today. Had to look up what streaming service it was on, then had to download the app, but just before I texted my wife to ask what the credentials were (she pays for streaming stuff), I remembered that I could just go download it. So I did. And proceeded to watch 5 episodes with zero ads and zero interruption.
wanted to watch a show with the family on the weekend
the slowest more interruptive part of the process of getting it on the TV was when I forgot to move the downloaded files to my Plex library folder. forty seconds later and it was fixed. and the controls actually worked and weren’t all fucky like most apps are on the AppleTV with the shitty apple remote
Every time I recommend a show and they ask me where they can watch it.
Fuck if I know.
My 7 year old is always telling her friends that she watches such-and-such show on Jellyfin. 😅
Lol that’s how i always get caught.
Why do people STILL recommend TPB in 2026? It’s shady af.
While I’ve moved to arr stack and usenet these days, I’ve literally never had an issue with TPB
I think it’s more a generalised phrase, like when you Google something, but you don’t actually use Google. Saying to look at / use pirate bay doesn’t mean the exact site, just means to pirate it somehow.
Shady how? It ends up being the right place for 99% of my torrents.
Its fine if you know what you are doing. But because anyone can set up a pirate bay mirror at this point, it can be a bit iffy to download stuff from there. I’m in a happy position of being able to use a excellent private tracker, but about once a year I do get something from pirate bay because I cant find it elsewhere. I do feel a bit icky after, but so far, all has been fine. knocks all the wood I can find
Same
I was getting something from TPB and got an email from Nintendo when I forgot to turn on my VPN.
Did Nintendo email you, or did your ISP forward you a DMCA notice?
oh yeah now that I think it was a forward from my ISP about the Nintendo DMCA notice?
Ok, good deal. Those are pretty much toothless. If Nintendo themselves contacted you, I would be very worried.
oh really? cause I was shitting my pants when I first saw it
Yeah that happens. The company issuing the DMCA notice doesn’t know who you are, they just log the IP address and send a notice to the ISP, who forwards it to you.
The ISP can absolutely cancel your account if they keep getting notices about your activities though.
I mean that has nothing to do with tpb but just you not force binding vpn adapter to your torrent client
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Lol let them email as much as they want. I’m not Gary Bowser.
I’ve never torrented with a VPN. I guess nobody cares in South Africa
Everytime I look for alternates I end up with sites that offer torrents of movies that end in .exe. so I end up going back to TPB.
Ext.to had been a great source for movies and shows. It’s now my first stop.
Been using 1337x for years with no issues
EDIT: Do not go there without ublock tho
Ditto. Kinda miss my private tracker. But, 1337x + VPN works fine for me.
But also be very careful you don’t end up on a typosquatter like 1377x. There’s many.
As long you downloading only video/music content you are safe. The worst outcome could be only wrong content
I have been out of the 🏴☠️scene for a while and this was the most trusted one back in the days. Are there other alternatives now?
There are dht search tools like rats-search (https://github.com/librats/rats-search) that seams to do p2p searches. But um, be careful since you can find some pretty fucked up shit there.
You can use an aggregator these days like Knaben. Much easier
Thanks
I would recommend 1337 instead. Has pretty much every category like TPB.
But if you are interested in self hosting, check our Arr stack for full automation and jellyfin as media center.
Thanks a lot
Uindex, but it’s recent stuff only.
Thanks
Well as shady as a midnight walk to the convenient store… So not actually that bad.
What’s the expert opinion on using Stremio with the extra add-ons for streaming? Seems a little too easy and convenient to be true.
I can’t help but wonder what they get out of it, and how safe it is. Am I overthinking it?
I’ve been doing Stremio for over a year now. I used to have RealDebrid but it started having issues for me so I started using Premiumize instead. The last year has been INCREDIBLE. I think it’s ridiculous to have to pay for something monthly and STILL get hit with ads. It’s bullshit.
disney, prime, netflix is mostly slop anyways.
Option C is to just go without, but apparently I’m the only fool doing that
Books are better than TV anyway. Once you own a book, no corpo fuckwad can take it away from you.
Unless it’s an ebook on an ereader.
Even then, DRM-free formats like EPUB and PDF still exist, and places like Kobo still sell them.
True that, physical books are one of the last forms of physical media still not laden with DRM (along with the rare collector vinyls, cassettes, and videotapes). Even then - I also boycott most writers anyway, but that’s for other ethical reasons.
The DRM is the cover, according to some jackets I’ve read. Basically, it says something like, “if you received this without the cover, contact the publisher.”
In a sense I do think this kind of approach matters more than people give it credit for. Most people tend to see piracy as a way to consume media without supporting the rightsholders of that media, but even pirated consumption is still support.
A person who is, say, pirating Harry Potter books and other media is still giving Rowling and her franchise and ideas space in their head, maybe contributing to further conversations about her, and overall inadvertently promoting her whether they like it or not - as opposed to having used that time and energy to consume media from someone more worth the time and effort, like say, Ursula Le Guin.
For example I was watching a video from a YouTuber who does controller reviews. In that video he briefly mentioned two controllers that were of such poor quality that they were literally unusable. He went on to say that he would not be making videos about them, because he found that even when he goes out of his way to give a controller the worst review possible, tons of people still buy them.
Personally, I think that information freedom matters enough that anything published under licenses that are more restrictive than copyleft, permissive ones, or straight public domain is unethical. If private property is theft, and it is, that absolutely extends into knowledge and culture as well. If I were a purist about that, I would go out of my way to use things like the fully free Linux distros, and only consume media under those aforementioned licenses. Truth be told I don’t though, I do pirate corporate media sometimes. But I do try to give space where it counts too - trying to use some time and energy to seek out any kind of media that’s more open.
Tl;dr: play Battle for Wesnoth.
That is indeed my philosophy - “even pirated consumption is still support” in the form of giving a platform, publicity, or space in your brain. Even further so considering the many, many problematic artists out there, and the many other artists that have collaborated with them, making entire genres nearly unconscionable as a result.
I mean nobody is going to give you a medal for doing it so why deprive yourself?
The feeling of smug superiority is its own reward.
More like the feeling of not contributing to the problem, if anything I’m worse-placed for not knowing “general culture” references
What problem does sharing media contribute to, exactly? How many artists are starving because a fan downloaded their discography, vs the sheer amount of money owed to artists in unpaid royalties and “creative accounting”?
- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/james-taylor-sues-warner-brothers-over-royalties-185798/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/05/09/how-little-richard-was-exploited-by-a-bad-record-deal-and-never-fully-cashed-in/
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/little-richard-made-millions-it-all-went-to-his-label/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/jermaine-dupri-sues-sony-music-over-alleged-18-million-royalty-dispute-involving-so-so-def-artists/
And this is happening to stars; it’s got to be worse for smaller artists.
Artists make money from their fans. Fans discover artists through media sharing. If nobody shared media, I wouldn’t have discovered my favourite bands and spent hundreds of dollars on tickets over the course of my life, or my favourite authors whose books I have bought as gifts many times over, or when I was younger my favourite kinds of games, that I would go on to spend tens of thousands of dollars on over the course of my life (and not just on Steam!).
From where I’m sitting, it sure does seem like it contributes - but not to problems.
Media conglomerates insist that if people can’t afford their prices, then they should go without their product. I’m doing exactly that to show a point - namely, that they’re not as necessary for a good living as they think they are.
That sounds like a very different point than “media sharing is a problem”. And for what it’s worth I don’t think you’re wrong - there are plenty of talented independent artists who share their work for nothing and accept donations. No need to buy entertainment from giant corporations.
But it’s important to remember that it’s a social thing to be able to talk about the latest whatever. Not keeping up does cost a certain something; whether that something is valuable to you personally is another question again.
And that is valid.
I have never subscribed any of these streaming services. The pressure from friends was intense but at the end of the day I simply felt no need and even less appeal to it.
Nowadays, I hear those same friends how expensive it has become to keep all of these services to follow their interests and how the catalogue has been degrading.
I sincerely do not care.
I have the blessing and the curse of never having had the chance of having a social life. No peer pressure in exchange for no support network. Not quite the fair deal, but I must do with what I have.
Yes, you are. /s
I’m a sucker, I pay for everything. I don’t pirate anymore.
If there’s nothing to watch then don’t subscribe to four different services. Streaming gives you more say in which channels/services you get than cable does.
And trials are okay, if you cancel it on time.
aand that’s exactly what we do 😜
Isn’t Pirate Bay loaded with ads?
Not when you’re using Firefox with uBlock Origin. Don’t use any pirate sites without a good ad blocker.
Don’t use any
piratesites without a good ad blockerLike the base commander made us repeat every Friday muster: WRAP IT UP!
Thanks to "arr, I haven’t had to even look at an indexer in years. I don’t miss manually trolling for torrents.
between strem.io and *arrs you never have to touch a pirate site friend
Private tracker users are a bunch of rich old douchebags laughing at people who aren’t members of their in group? That tracks.
More like $165/month
I frequently listen to my coworkers/mutuals list how many streaming services they have and how much they cost a month, leaving the proper maths to only to the listeners because they won’t hear the real bill… I had to quit one that cost “only” 19€ per month because I wasn’t able to afford it anymore!
i cant imagine paying for 5+streaming which would easly be 100+, plus most of the shows/movies, they allocate all the resources to that one show but neglecting another.
Yeah, same. Everything is like 20-25 per month if not more, it just doesn’t make sense. Or 10-15 WITH ADS? Why would I pay for watching ads? But they say they have to have all the +5 services, because they watch one, spouse the other and the kids want these…
These are the same people that also spend 10k annually on drive through coffee, work cafeteria lunches and second coffee, then takeout for dinner; while also complaining how expensive everything is and how poor they are. The word “budget” isn’t in their dictionary
Literal NPCs lol. How can people be this financially illiterate? It’s like NOT consuming sth is an idea that never crosses their minds. Like they need to have everything, even if they don’t need it.
