Shrinkflation, hitting online world too.
That’s why I pirate. Jellyfin FTW.
I was a long time pirate back in the day, and thinking of sailing once again. However all my old booty spots are gone. What is Jellyfin?
A great UI to stream your movie files from your TV. A bit like Plex, but open source.
Tbh, all you need nowadays for most stuff is a VPN , Qbittorrent and 1337x.to
Download speeds are such that a 1.5gb film takes about a minute to download (in Europe, not sure about third world countries lol)
If you need something more obscure, look up how to add the search engine to Qbittorrent
Realdebrid costs equal or less than vpn and you don’t need to jump any hoops.
Goated thank you so much
I highly discourage 1337x. They got caught not banning a user who intentionally uploaded malware. Forgive the reddit link, but there aren’t a lot of piracy news sites.
Damn. Just learned that trusting 1337x and IGGGAMES was a bad idea. Trying to teach my little pirate how to be safe on the high seas only to find out the places and people I thought were safe aren’t so.
There’s now a whole ecosystem of applications to streamline the download of series (sonarr) and movies (radarr) using torrents or Usenet (prowlarr). Pair those with a good player like Jellyfin or Plex and you have a nice media center that for sure won’t stop working everytime your family tries to watch a movie…
I’m like you, hadn’t pirated outside of games since early 2000s and just started again. Wait until you see the shit we have now, it’s mind-blowing how far it’s come.
And with Jellyfin if you have the upload speeds you can even host for family etc, so anyone sharing your Netflix now can just login to your Jellyfin server, for them it will be a comparable experience.
Pirating games is basically unheard of for me, unless it’s a product not readily available on a modern storefront.
Nintendo has a problem with me playing Pokemon Omega Ruby on a 3DS emulator? they are free to offer a switch version.
This is because steam is not an asshole, which is a big reason why I kind of got disappointed when they stopped offering movies. I like having those on the same platform
Do you need to set up a VPN for doing that? Or can they just log in straight up?
I’m still maining plex, and at least there, they just create a plex account, you grant access to that account, and that’s it. Don’t even have to open ports. My guess is with JF since there isn’t a central account host, you’d probably have expose some ports on your network to be able to login without a VPN.
They can just log straight in, there is an android app or they can even login via a browser
Nevermind that shit, Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid. I’m fucking done with these greedy-ass companies. I was paying Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple, Paramount , MLB.tv and HBO, and pretty content to do so, and they all continually removed content and adjusted their pricing to reduce what I was getting for my money. They finally pushed me beyond my tolerance limit a few months ago and I’ve been back to sailing the high seas for the first time in 20 years.
I have more content now, all at acceptable quality options, all with good subtitles instead of the mess HBO was, and all on the same platform instead of having to jump between 7 different apps. I’m done with them and I’ll stay done with them until they pull their heads out of their asses.
Edit: if you get a cheap computer, a Chromecast, a FireTV, or what I have - an Nvidia Shield TV, then you get even get a nifty remote controller and a good standard browsing platform for everything.
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I think one of those should work… Sign up for a private tracker or two
It’s like Plex, but with fewer features and a worse interface.
Add the *arr apps into the mix and you get super low effort pirating, legit changed my life when I set it all up lol
I’ve tested jellyfin this week on my dedicated server. It’s cool but most of my files need transcoding to be played on the browser, which my weak server CPU cannot handle. The best option I found to stream any file format without eating up all server resources on this machine is to set up a simple nginx server with autoindex streaming the files to VLC. I use the “Open with VLC” browser extension to quickly open the links. Playback performance is quite good (scrubbing is fast) and everything plays well.
Cool
On it’s like Plex.
I like Plex and Real Debrid too.
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It helps me organize what I download. I m trying *arr softwares now for content.
Piracy always rises up from service issues. This is a service issue
The trick is to pirate everything first and if it’s good then pay money afterwards to support the creators
thats if the corporations behind it are actually paying the creators
And as an added bonus: If I buy the blu-ray, I don’t need to keep the massive 4k remuxes on my server. It’s a win-win.
Piracy is a service issue. - GabeN
- Einstein
“Thanks for the money, fuck you”
They must think so little of me, as if I’m grateful for this?
This is it isn’t it? I’d complain and cancel but they don’t care about how I feel.
maybe or maybe not. but they do care where you spend your money
Cancel it, problem solved.
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Shrinkflation isn’t just for meatspace products.
Heh, meatspace
Thank you for being a loyal subscriber. Please hold still while we fuck you
So right after I signed up at the beginning of this year, they switched from HBOMax to “Max.” I paid for a year in advance, and of course when I signed up there was nothing about them switching to a new brand. All of a sudden it was full of trash reality shows and ID Discovery true crime. I have no idea what possessed them to do that.
Then once it switched over I stopped being able to stream any new HBO shows on mobile and customer service won’t refund me any amount. Not that I can even communicate with them effectively. It’s all “chat” with AI or people who have no idea what I’m saying. Half the shows still won’t play on mobile for me.
TL;DR I paid for a year of HBO. They changed their selection a few months in. I lost mobile access to a bunch of their shows. And now I’m losing even more features before the year is up. That’s quite literally not what I paid for.
How exactly is any of that legal? Genuine question. What about the Federal Trade Commission? Isn’t there fucking anybody regulating these corporations in the US?
How exactly is any of that legal? Genuine question. What about the Federal Trade Commission? Isn’t there fucking anybody regulating these corporations in the US?
There are government websites you can report this to, though I do not know what effect that will have.
IANAL, but my understanding is that if you paid for a year for a certain set of services they have to give you those services for the whole year, or refund you your money.
Until each and every one of us reading this commits to expending the energy, and sacrificing the leisure time, to actually pursue what small options we have, this is only going to get worse.
That, and voting into office people that’ll actually write regulation laws to curb these bad behaviors from corporations.
If you paid for a service you were not rendered, presumably with a credit card, and attempted remediation with the company, hopefully in writing or recorded in some form, you can do a charge back with your credit card.
The only way this becomes less likely in the future is if you sue them. Given you’re locked into a year contract, a lawsuit is the only kind of consequences they might face.
I had purchased a year in advance last fall and when it switched over, it only didn’t play on m9bile for me for a week, then I was able to stream on mobile regularly. However, with their changes, I chose not to renew my subscription. Their quality is degrading quite a bit, it was no longer worth it.
Thats the same time that they cancelled raised by wolves. Fuck discovery and fuck corporate mergers.
Ja I got the email today, and I’m like, what new features? This is anti new features.
if you want to try your luck, I suggest contacting their customer support to notify them of this issue. I did too.
Did you cancel during that call?
Because they put your concerns in a furnace, if you didnt.
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And what did that do for you?
absolutely nothing. But they said they will inform someone of my complaint. maybe if enough people complain, they will be more likely to respond?
I’m doing everything I can to blow this up, even if some stuff leads nowhere its worth a try. I contacted press websites as well.
Customers cancelling over the shrinkflation, and leaving the feedback as to why you’re cancelling, is really the only thing that companies will respond to. Because of their fiduciary responsibility to their share holders, their share price is all that drives these decisions.
Gotcha, the expected response.
I would cancel if I were the customer, but I have a peg-leg and an eye patch already. Good luck!
ARGHHH, touch water!
They didn’t inform anyone. They laughed as they hung up. The only four words they understand are “I want to cancel”.
I have never seen a company actively promoting that they have less to offer. Jesus Christ will capitalism please just come to a crashing halt already
Thank you for being a loyal Max subscriber
Like this is a gift from them?
I’d give them a call: “i don’t mind these changes for 65% of the previous fee, unless you want me to cancel right here right now”.
See if they are willing to compensate, if not just cancel and yarr matey.
It’s just entertainment in the end, nothing we can’t live without or have loads of replacements available.
You clearly haven’t met my parents, if they couldn’t get youtube or fox news they would go comatose on the spot
They sound really dramatic and difficult to deal with (an assumption based on what i usually hear about people that are similar in preferences etc).
If this is right, take care.
When contracts don’t include prices
Digital shrinkflation.
I love the wording of “some features will change” and even “new features” when the only change is that features will be removed.
It blows my mind that people actually pay for these services other than the release groups that rip them for me.
I still can’t believe these release groups do their services for free. Godbless.
I dont get how that blows your mind. Families typically dont have the time to jump through loops so they pretty much have to pay for some kind of streaming service. I use to sail the seas all the time but between work, family, and trying to find time to myself there’s no time.
But they’re jumping through hoops having to pay a bunch of different companies subscription fees to use their apps that have no common interface so its literally nothing but hoops.
All you have to do is ask c/piracy or any community really where to get some Plex or jellyfin access
It blows my mind that you think the average streamer knows anything about pirating. It’s so much easier for the average person to download the app, put in your email, link a payment, and you’re in. Majority of streamers have never even heard of Plex or jellyfin, let alone participate in any pirating communities.
People need to learn how, but I doubt most people with a full-time job would care to learn. It ain’t really jumping through hoops when it’s easy to subscribe to a streaming service.
Do you send the actors and production staff a few cents each for every rip? I understand big studios evil, etc, etc, but piracy is not without cost.
Don’t they currently get $0 for streaming
I can only speak for myself, but I started buying blu-rays a lot more once I dropped streaming services in favor of piracy. I’ll happily throw some cash toward the creators of things I like, and that’s a more direct way to do so.
When it comes to indie stuff or blockbusters that were huge risks for the studios like Dune, you should pay for it if you have the ability. Pirating doesn’t directly hurt most of the people who worked on the film, as they usually get payment upfront. It does hurt them in the future, as studios won’t finance similar future projects or projects with those creators. This is why you should pay for risky movies that are of higher quality.
If Dune didn’t make the money it did, the franchise would have ended there. I was surprised it did as well as it did, as while I never doubted that it would be a good movie considering the people that made it, I was convinced it wasn’t something most people would appreciate. The director’s last film, Blade Runner 2049, was better than the first movie, but not enough people saw it in theaters. I was blindsided by Dune even getting made, let alone being a financial success.
Bottom line, pay for movies you want people to make more of if possible. Pirate shit you don’t care about. If you can’t pay for media because of financial hardship, pirate away. Investors have made streaming services suck for consumers while squeezing workers into having little disposable income or time. They deserve piracy, as it’s the harvest they have sown. Property is a social contract, and by not letting workers see the benefits of ownership, they have every right to not respect it.
When the studio heads at the top stop making exponentially more than the crew that actually created the content then I may consider paying for it.
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