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Definitely don’t go to fmhy.net and definitly don’t join the [email protected] community. Also don’t visit torrentgalaxy.to, 1337x.to or solidtorrents.to. You probably also wouldn’t want to check out rutracker.org or therarbg.com.
Please do not do this. It’s illegal and you could end up getting free movies and tv shows.
It’d be a damn shame if you accidently downloaded cloudstream, an android app that allows you to download and watch offline, or just stream nearly any show or movie. I wouldn’t recommend the super stream source, as it almost always has a version available. Also, just in case, maybe don’t download tachiyomi to allow you to read any comics, manga, or graphic novels you want. It also has shitloads of hentai and pulls from almost every website imaginable.
And avoid Anna’s archive, as it has tons of ebooks which might(I’m not a lawyer) actually just be legal?
You the real MVP.
Cloudstream says you need to install sites from repositories in order to stream. What sites or repositories should I avoid at all costs?
You absolutely should not subscribe to a VPN before not visiting any of those sites. I can’t recommend www.privateinternetaccess.com or www.expressvpn.com at all, clearly having never used them. They’re also useless for circumventing cell network limitations on video quality. Completely useless, otherwise I’d use them to subscribe to a cheaper lower data tier but still get 4k video.
please also don’t check about protonVPN.
Thanks a lot for telling us which services to avoid. You’re a lifesaver.
Also, stay away from usenet and definitely don’t use the arr apps to automatically download your favorite shows and movies.
Btw, you should also never get a seedbox to torrent anonymously. You also need to stay away from private trackers.
Imagine if people set up a Plex/Jellyfin after visiting those sites to have their own streaming service setup. Pure madness!
After learning how to do it on lemmy.world/c/selfhosted ! Madness
So like what’s the actual deal with pirating content nowadays? I remember in the early 2000s it was don’t seed and don’t torrent just-released content and you won’t get caught. Are the companies more rigorous nowadays? Are they going after people and you really do need a VPN? Can you torrent content at a human-watchable pace (like a show or two a month, maybe a movie or two a week) and no one’s going to notice you?
Depends on the country. In the U.S., instead of chasing users themselves, they have leveraged the Internet providers to act as enforcers. If you torrent something they first send you notice of violation from your Internet provider.
If you continue to torrent, they can
cancel your service or the copyright holder can start legal action.Honestly, I would never torrent anything anymore. There are great webpages that offer streaming for no cost.
A direct download/streaming site can be shut down at any time. Torrents are resistant to censorship, as they are decentralized. Just grab a good VPN or a seedbox and you can torrent as much as you want.
Just get a VPN and torrent like normal in the 2000s. Nothing has changed. Seeding is not really a big deal anymore because everyone’s internet speeds are so fast.
Also definitely dont look into setting up sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, and overseerr in combination with Plex or jellyseerr in combination with jellyfin. Otherwise you could find yourself with an extremely low touch automated downloading and organizing system that you can let your friends log into to request movies and shows without them needing to bug you at all for it to be downloaded in your preferred quality, size, codec, etc and automatically show up in Plex/jellyfin as soon as it finishes downloading, all renamed and sorted into folders as you please. That would be horrible.
i wouldn’t download a car because i have no space, but i would stream it.
I unironically love that fmhy.net’s site would work well in Gopher.
When will the greed stop? At what point will these corporations realize that the average American is completely stretched thin financially and will have to cease unnecessary expenses? They’re all just shooting themselves in the foot.
“When will the greed stop?”
Never
Incorrect.
It will stop when our species exterminates itself out of greed.
Climate change will probably only thin our numbers by the billions as a result of of the owner’s greed, but then they want to profit off AI, and CRISPR, and innumerable other potentially profitable means to our self-extinction.
The greed will stop when all the humans are dead almost certainly by our own hands, and humans are actively working to accomplish this.
As consolidation continues corporations do not need to compete on prices as there are no alternatives. Yes people will pirate but they’ve already lobbied vendors to embrace DRM and governments to make it illegal so that makes it as annoying as possible.
Are we reading the same thing? Netflix has more competition now than it ever has. When Netflix had cheaper prices when it has no competition than it does now. Piracy has been making a huge resurgence as well.
“More competition” meaning less access, people having to pay for multiple different services instead of having it in one place.
The competition should be about having the best platform, not exclusive content. There’s no reason why the same show couldn’t be on two different platforms. And available globally. Practically, all you really need is more local servers for where there’s more traffic.
When Netflix started they entered the market as a licensor of content from studios to be distributed as part of a streaming service.
This possibility largely no longer exists. All of the studios have bought out competition, stopped licensing a lot of their popular content, and now release their content themselves. This means there is little competition in the film distribution market for streaming, beyond PayPerView.
Oh you sweet summer child…
America is founded on greed and power, it’ll never stop.
As long as people pay for it and they make massive profits through it.
I mean, look at the last situation in which netflix addressed account sharing. Their user number actually increased because of it from what I have read.
Those people that can’t afford it will most likely switch to a less expensive tier and then probably see ads. I have seen that recently with my father who wasn’t even bothered or annoyed by the constant ads while watching a single episode.
I don’t understand how people are ok with ads? They annoy me so much. It’s wasting your time so it can attempt to manipulate you into buying stuff with the money you can’t afford to spend.
We keep saying this but they keep profiting more and more every time lol. Remember when everyone on reddit was gonna quit Netflix for the password sharing block? Ya, their users increased afterwards.
To be fair, we only have their word for how many subscribers they have.
If Netflix is out right lying, I’m sure stockholders would be happy and not tank the stock at all
As long as they are profitable, and the stock price is up, the stockholders wouldn’t even question their user numbers.
Lol no, stockholders wouldn’t want to risk the fallout of Netflix being caught
When enough people cancel. Keep paying, they’ll keep raising the price.
They’ll stop if everyone sailed the high seas.
Price of WD red HDD’s about to go up too
Storage right now is probably as cheap as its gunna get for a while, good time to stock up
Well… New tech should make higher storage densities mainstream again in 1-2 years. Seagate just released 32TB HAMR drives for commercial use
I wish there was a betteter way tou say “yes, you are right”
We should all know that Netflix’s method of “throwing money at the wall and hope one of the shows becomes a hit, cancel immediately after a season if it doesn’t work out” is completely unsustainable at this point, as this kind of dehumanizing disposablilty of production is the exact " industry disruptive" approach to expect from a bunch of arrogant Silicon Valley techbros, so this cost increase should not come as a surprise.
Many long running shows have had pretty bad first seasons, “Parks and Rec”, the US version of “The Office”, and “The Simpsons” comes to mind, and these shows would never have even gotten off the ground if Netflix was running them, because as with all industries, it takes a while for people to find their footing and get to know each other to work together effectively.
The real sad part is, the industry that has copied Netflix’s “disruptive” approach are now finding out that the emperor has no clothes and are desperately trying to pass the cost off to anybody else for their own survival, which is why it is more important than ever to fight for the dignities of the people who worked on your favorite shows for your entertainment.
I could very well be mistaken and please correct me if I am. I remember reading that canning a show before season 3 or so was a way of getting around union costs that kick in for a ‘longer’ running show. A very anti labor strategy designed to cash in quickly then drop it so Netflix wouldn’t have to share the wealth.
To be frank, I don’t think they care about anything else other than keeping people on the platform. Which is not such a bad goal to be had if they tried to achieve that with quality of service, good offering of entertainment, etc. What they are doing is desperately trying to create some long running series where on which people will get hooked and won’t be able to leave even if everything else starts sucking. Should this ever happen I think we can fully expect their next step to be reduced amount of licensing towards other shows and movies.
But as you rightly put it, you can’t grow forever and ever increasing revenue can only be had in dreams.
Actually, I don’t think they care about retention at all, because to the industry retention = stagnation. They only care about new subscribers because that “shows” growth. They much prefer hearing “We increased subscriber counts by 10%!” over “We kept 100% of subscribers YoY!”
They’re not even slowly raising prices, they are very rapidly raising them. We’ve reinvented cable.
Last year Hulu went up $1, this year $3.
Which isnt so weird when you realise it’s Disney.
Actually, cable didn’t even raise prices this fast. We’ve, unsurprisingly to anyone familiar with capitalism, created something worse.
Perhaps they realized number of people that keeps paying versus number of people who cancel their subscription results in net positive revenue, so they are testing where the line is. All the while trying to fund some new content to get more people to come back.
I wouldn’t doubt there’s collusion. It’s very convenient that none of these services are taking advantage of this and are seemingly raising all of their prices simultaneously.
Inflation and supply chain issues bro ;)
Thanks for reminding me that I haven’t even watched Netflix in a minute. I cancelled it. Fuck them.
I’ve been a Netflix customer for over 20 years. The recent password crackdown and constant price gouging led me to cancel their service yesterday. Yo Ho MF’ers.
I canceled just after the CEO said that paid customers could be getting ads. Knew that was the beginning of the end
Never mind the price, Netflix just doesn’t have stuff I want to watch anymore.
Netflix does have good shows, but they’re just so few and far in between. I stopped my subscription about a year ago, and haven’t missed it. I’ll resubscribe this month to watch Fall of the House of Usher, then unsub again just because there’s nothing to watch.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if others are doing this, the streaming companies catch on, and we pay a bulk amount for a season a la early iTunes again
I agree, I just hate that when they do have good shows they cancel it immediately 🤦. I cringed when they canceled 1899 and inside job.
The ones I really miss are the Ghibli films :/
Argh matey, I’d rather walk the plank than pay those greedy pigs! Tis the high seas for me landlubbers!!!
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Sounds like Netflix is panicking and scrambling. The frequency of their subscription hikes increases and increases. Perhaps they think they can price hike their way out of the dissatisfaction they have delivered to subscribers. Keep trying Netflix, find that magic subscription price point that will surely cover for all the subscribers you’re shedding with your idiocy and will definitely not hasten your arrival to 0% revenue. Increasing that price won’t lose you more subscribers right? Of course not. Burn Netflix burn.
More like they took on a shitload of very low interest debt back when the fed rate was 0%. Now that the fed rate is 5.5%, they can’t just roll over the loans and have to start paying them back.
They’re finding the optimal price point. Each time they raise they lose some customers, but their increased revenue leads them to being more profitable afterwards. Eventually the price increases will result in so many people leaving that they’ll have to stop.
Problem is, this strategy has exactly one direction: irrelevance. It can take a very long time to get there, but eventually you lose so many subscribers that your competitors have begun eating your lunch. The profits were solid so you didn’t care. It’s the normal business life cycle, and Netflix is well into the mature phase. We have worse quality and higher prices to look forward to.
Netflix’s lowered revenue growth is the highlight. That’s what they and their investors focus on, with subscriber satisfaction being an afterthought. The price hikes haven’t shown any effect on that downward trend either. But hey, keep hiking I say. Fires burn bigger when fuel is added and these people can’t differentiate water from gasoline. Having washed my hands of this company, I’m looking forward to further scrambling when revenue growth is nil and then negative and the stock drops and drops and the corporatists wail.
it’s amazing that they think people are going to continue to pay them at these prices for no content
Some people seem to believe the customers are suckers who will eternally take the price hikes, but even the most gullible fool still doesn’t have infinite money. At some point they’ll have to cut something or the bank will cut it for them.
Well, back to the seas it seems. It was fun while it lasted. One might as well pay for a VPN instead.
I’m sure they did the math they’ve calculated that the increases will offset the loss is subscribers. From the article it looked like the royalties will increase so less subscribers paying more is even more profitable.
It wouldn’t be the first time companies precisely calculate next quarter earnings and fail to account for the long term survival of their business.
Honestly I’m beginning to think it’s a myth that they “did the math” with how many have made bad decisions.
Their last price hike they lost 3-5% of their subscribers, the 30% price hike made up for it.
The customers are suckers who will take a lot. Look up skylink satellite tv provider, and their “always free” tier that’s currently 6,90€ a month.
They gave it for free just around the time analog tv was being decomissioned. And after they’ve captured the large userbase, who couldn’t switch back, they pulled the trigger.
If you go with Mullvad (which is one of the best private VPN providers) you even save some money, as it’s just 5 EUR/month. You can also take the 20 bucks that you would have given to Netflix and pay a seedbox company like RapidSeedbox to torrent anonymously.
Huge +1 for Mullvad for their pricing model. 5€/month regardless of “plan” and you can buy as many or as few months as you like. I never feel chained to Mullvad, never worried about subscription running out or getting charged at random moments. Pay 5€, watch whatever you want on the foreign tv websites, forget about vpn for the next 3 months.
If you love Mullvad’s pricing, you may check out iVPN’s one-week plan for $2. Like Mullvad, you don’t need an email address to register, just generate an ID and supports WireGuard. Personally, both Mullvad and iVPN have a similar connectivity performances.
Have you tried changing the MTU? They both mention that on their support pages.
Never tried it. All the time, I’m connected wirelessly.
Just realized that I misread your previous comment. I thought you had connectivity problems, but you just said that both Mullvad and IVPN have similar connectivity performance. Sorry
Mullvad also gives you free multi-hop. It’s not particularly useful for torrenting, but it’s great for privacy in general. But it’s not available in the mobile apps, so I will stick with IVPN.
Every time Netflix changes anything, people freak out and say they’re gonna lose all their subscribers.
And every time, Netflix makes more money than before, because they have awesome data analysis and have a very good idea of how many subscribers will leave and how much more money they’ll make from the remainder.
I remember when they lost like 4% of their subscribers a few years back and everyone was all doom and gloom, but they’d raised their rates like 15%
But they are
Yeah, this is exactly like the Reddit and Twitter situation. No matter how bad it gets, people don’t care. If they’re used to something, they’ll rather put up with the new bad stuff than changing their habits.
I keep hearing people say this no content thing. Meanwhile I just went through Castlevania, one piece, sweet tooth and Kingdom this past week and there’s like 30 shows and movies on my cue
You enjoyed the garbage fire that was Castlevania? Don’t get me wrong, the first season was good enough, but then the writing quickly devolved into a 10 year-old’s edgy fanfic, and the animation quality dropped off a cliff.
If only Konami gave the green light to a japanese studio like Madhouse.
Lol if it’s not a 10/10 it’s “a garbage fire” to you guys. Not everything needs to be a masterpiece
When you have one of the best franchises in the world to draw your story from, it better be 10/10, yes
You know I really should get around to getting a paid tier of proton VPN so that I can have cannons on me ship when I sail the high seas.
I can’t complain about performance. The iOS and macOS apps are good. I am leaving the country for a vacation soon so we’ll see how it goes.
Proton vpn is great! I have switched to their ecosystem.long time ago and only thing they could do better is linux vpn. The official linux vpn cannot do any of the new things as for examole windows app.
Does the Proton VPN trigger captcha queries with Google searches?
Ahoy mateys…time to set sail on the seven seas.
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Yo ho, yo ho… 🏴☠️
Speaking of which, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that Stremio* + Torrentio is a thing, and contains the entire catalog of every streaming provider combined. Works on smart TVs too.
Because of this comment, I’m converting. Thank you so much! Doesn’t seem to hard to figure out and there are plenty of articles online for this. I see a lot of them also add Real Debrid for higher quality and to remove the need for VPN. Anyway, you rock!
Yes, Real-Debrid is a nice addition. Not only can you stream faster with it, you can use it on your PC as well to download any torrent you want instantly without waiting for seeds. It’s a game-changer.
Edit: Also Trakt.tv is another good plug-in if you want suggestions based on your viewing habits.
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