Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years - eviltoast

LOL.

We pay for 4K, but we don’t get more than 720p unless we use some proprietary shit hardware and agree to their super-invasive “privacy policy” - and they expect people to NOT set sail in the high seas? GTFO…

    • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      I get pissed at my family for being traditional hoarders but I somewhat inherited that as a data hoarder. The amount of stuff I have pirated over the years and not actually used or watched is hilarious.

        • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          I have about 10TB of stuff. Around 600 movies and not quite 200 TV series. I’m planning on leaving societies embrace and being away from it all in a couple of weeks and have been hoarding stuff to keep me entertained, if needed. I’m not the one you asked, but here you go. I don’t really feel like I have a ton of stuff, from a datahoarder perspective, but probably a little more than the average torrent monster.

            • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              Kind of all over the place, but mostly 1080 or so. Here’s a little data:

              I have 48 movies that are 1.7G, 43 that are 1.5G, and so on.

              # of movies   SIZE
     48 1.7G
     43 1.5G
     33 1.9G
     31 2.2G
     31 2.0G
     30 1.6G
     27 1.8G
     25 1.4G
     21 2.1G
     19 2.5G
     16 1.3G
     14 2.6G
     14 2.3G
     12 2.4G
     10 2.8G
      9 3.0G
      9 1.1G
      8 4.1G
     ...
        • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Probably around 30tb but all in, but drives being from 400gb to 8 tb of varying age and make. Most are just shelved and in the off chance I want something from them they get hot swapped in the dock thing

    • Thermal_shocked@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Just upgraded my truenas and plex to 8tb drives. 1600+ movies, 60+ TV series, 40,000 songs. I seed as much as I can, have uploaded over 5TB this month alone. Come get some.

      • glencairn84@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        I haven’t used Torrents in years, since subscribing to Netflix. But I’m fed up with needing to pay 5+ different subscriptions to get coverage across shows, so perhaps time to think about other options. What are some of the best torrent sites today,?

        • Thermal_shocked@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          10 months ago

          I use OnTheSpot downloader to grab albums from spotify at 320kbps - https://github.com/casualsnek/onthespot

          Use Soulseek (nicotine+) to grab more obscure stuff. Can get everything on there, just sometimes slower and not as reliable as a torrent.

          I use these sites for movies, in order of convenience:

          https://ytssss.jamsbase.com/ (basically just YTS)

          https://www.magnetdl.com/ (search sucks, but if you get used to it, it has huge libraries of TV series)

          https://en.torrentgalaxy-official.site/

          https://rargb.to/

          https://1337x.to/home/

          https://psa.wf/ (PSA RIPS)

          I don’t really download apps anymore, so malware really isn’t an issue, but make sure you’re using UBlockOrigin plugin and a VPN like TorGuard

          • Fred@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Could try the *arr software. Sonarr is tv, radarr is movies and lidarr is music. You can use jackett to act as an indexer and it will automatically grab the shows.

              • SkippingRelax@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                10 months ago

                I’ve used them for a very long time, maybe a decade if they have been around that long, could be a bit less. I’ve seen them referred to as the *arr suite/software many times. I didn’t know there was a joke to get until you pointed it out, I’m still facepalming.

                So you are not the last one.

                In my defence, I’m not a native speaker, but still…

              • nolight@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                My friends and I have been joking too much about this naming scheme without even mentioning what appears to be the intentional meaning… I feel rather dumb.

            • Thermal_shocked@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              yeah, i’ve thought about it. but it’s cathartic to find music/movies, download and organize them, choose artwork in Plex, things like that. I’ve got them all organized in media monkey.

          • chillsmeit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Regarding music, there’s also the slavart discord and their bot which allows you to download music from different streaming services in lossless formats

            • Thermal_shocked@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              oh god, the difference between some of my old rips at 128 and 320 is damn near night and day. i though the song just sucked, but the quality was just shit. also found a track that got corrupt, but still played, but at 1/10th the speed, it was about 30 minutes long, but normally only 3 lol. just stretched the fuck out of it.