cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/1072752

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/K4EIh

  • rich@feddit.uk
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    I cancelled all my subscriptions and just pay for a seedbox instead.

    Only two subscriptions I have now are Spotify and Game Pass…because they are actually worth it.

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      Even Spotify though continues to Jack their prices with no extra benefit. I’ve hoped for lossless audio from them for so long, but instead they just charge more for a bad UI driven by engagement instead of user experience

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        It’s, in layman’s terms, server space you rent out and can use for your downloads. torrent clients like transmission are usually built in. I pay £5 a month for 2tb space and enough bandwidth to keep a good ratio.

        So instead of downloading to my pc, I download torrents to the seedbox (at a blazing fast speed) and then download files from there to my pc whenever I feel like it, again at stupid good speeds.

        I have FTP access, so I’ve just added it as a folder/mounted drive on my windows and Linux mint file explorers. Works great. Also have it on my smart TV as a web address for quick streaming of whatever I downloaded.

        Edit: this also eliminates the risk of downloading Torrents locally.

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        It’s basically a web based software that handles the download of torrents for you and then offers a download link for you to get it on your machine

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      Same for me. Had Netflix and Prime.
      Cancelled Prime. Student plan ran out and wanted to spend less (on Amazon and buying random stuff.
      Cancelled Netflix. Didn’t use it, convinced my mother to let it go (only after saying how much it costs).

      Renting a seedbox for 15€ per month, Spotify for music and since this month I burried my life long hate for YT premium and now also have that (and wish for a plan without yt music for 3-4€ less).
      Reason why I did YT premium was, because I already watched more YT than Netflix anyway. And it’s near daily for about 2-3h. Well worth it (for way too much money).

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        For YouTube premium I just did the whole vpn to turkey and pay for a year upfront which was like £12 for the year

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                Sure and with that trade off I have a rock solid experience with no issues at all.

                Sometimes you get tired of android and the jank and want shit that just works so you can get on with your day and just focus on other things.

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                  Apple is a huge mess tbh, you have NOT done tech support for Apple stuff, it’s a pain. Android, otoh, is a breeze. I’ve always found Apple stuff jankier.

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    Good news for Lemmy. Pirate the fuck out of everything and never ever feel any guilt about it comrades.

    🏴‍☠️ ☠️ 🏴‍☠️ ☠️ 🏴‍☠️ ☠️ 🏴‍☠️

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    24 years of continuous piracy. All I pay for is a seedbox. Paying these scummy corporations nothing each month feels great!

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        So with a seedbox its basically an offsite swrver that you tell to download the files you want, rhen you download them direct from the seedbix. Because theyre dedicated servers you get better download and upload speeds for preserving your ratio, you don’t have to use local storage to seed things, and it can be safer if your seed box is in another country because your isp doesn’t see any torrent traffic.

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          …but if you’re paying for that seedbox with your credit card, aren’t you creating a pretty clear paper trail between you and your piracy?

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            If the seedbox is in a country that doesn’t care about torrenting and is hosted by a company that doesn’t care, they’re the only ones who would be aware of it. It’s not illegal to pay for a server or to download files from your server.

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              What countries don’t care about torrenting? Surely most countries with decent bandwidth are signed up to WIPO?

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                Lots of countries don’t care about torrenting , at least not the way the US does. Without the riaa/mpaa going after individual users can you point me to a single high profile legal case involving an average downloader? People in alot of other countries don’t even bother with a VPN. Not sure why you’re bringing up a un group as I’m pretty sure that’s mostly for diplomatic disputes, I’ve definitely never heard of it used to prosecute someone for downloading movies. This info is all widely available online. I’m happy to have answered a one off question for you but if you’re just trying to be difficult I have no interest in continuing to answer your questions when the info is very easy to obtain with a quick search. There’s lots of torrent friendly countries out there where the movie studios don’t make legal policy.

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                  I’m honestly not trying to be difficult. I live in the UK and used to live in the Netherlands so my concerns are largely with European jurisdictions. In both countries the government has taken steps to prevent piracy and the UK recently changed its laws to ensure 10 years prison time, though that’s for “commercial” piracy only. They’ve also brought in Draconian new surveillance laws explicitly to combat piracy.

                  I bring all this up because I’m honestly confused. A lot of the seedboxes I see are based in the Netherlands (fantastic bandwidth there!) but I know that people living there are generally quite fearful of being caught torrenting (newsgroups are more popular for this reason). It seems reasonable to me that given that the authorities across Europe generally play well together that they’d share enforcement of this sort of thing, so I don’t understand how feralhosting manages to function then.

                  I mention WIPO just because it’s an international agreement that all signatories would make efforts to prevent IP violations, so I assume that this means that most countries would at least share information on this stuff.

                  It just seems weird is all. A seedbox in Egypt, sure, they’re not likely to care about American copyrights all that much, but the Netherlands? Germany? How does that even work?

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    Trusting promises of corporations is like believing that a wild cobra won’t bite you. It’s definitely possible, highly unlikely they will keep the promise.

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    Also love how they’re all going to make a cheaper plan with ads so they can either double dip or push you towards the more expensive plan. Nothing but making things shittier for the end user, love that innovation.

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      stremio has gotten way worse after rarbg went down. doesnt seem to scrape torrentgalaxy correctly even with the torrent already cached and i have no idea how to fix it

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        idk if it has other capabilities, but to use on android basically just install it from the play store then install a bunch of community plugins for various sites. torrient io scrapes most public trackers

        can cast to TVs too if your phone/tv has the capability