I suspect your story is not unusual. Piracy is, at worst, a morally neutral action.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Similar outcome. At this point, I mostly just rent 4k online because my massive Plex library has bit-for-bit Blu-ray rips of everything I care about enough to have on hand. But I spent years building that library by ripping physical media.
I still buy and rip CDs because I love album art and want high quality. If not for the former, I'd likely go flacc or lossless and buy online.
The problem with older media is that you have to actively create torrents, the tracker might fold, etc.
With eD2K, it's very old school P2P filesharing, just give it a directory and the files on it are shared on the network.
Of course, the "push" part to torrent tracker sites isn't as active.
I use both torrents and eD2K, depending on what I'm looking for.
I started pirating around 2000. Early days of bittorrent, before that Napster and others. Maybe I'm out of touch and/or old. But YT premium/music has be very convenient and cost effective for me. As far as movies, paying for a couple of streaming services is way easier than delving through scummy torrent sites waiting for movies to download.
I'm fairly tech savvy but I've been off the high seas for awhile. If anyone knows a way to get movies/music with the same ease of use as the paid stuff I'd love to know about it.
Fair. I use YouTube almost exclusively on PC and my phone, and setting up an ad-free environment on both was fairly easy for me. But if I were to switch to a TV, I just might have bought yt premium. It's not that expensive, after all.
Also, I still pay for netflix. It just has the right amount of convenience that I am ok with to pay money for.
qBittorrent + Plex makes it pretty easy; you can search for torrents from within qBittorrent, so no scummy sites
Super cool that you can search for torrents with in qBittorrent. I'll check it out.
It takes a little bit of dicking around, you have to add the torrent sites you want to search, but it's not hard.
This is the guide I followed
Thanks. Trying to use my steam deck for media so this is very helpful.
Bflix.gg or some other similar site, in a browser with ublock. That's what I do for 90% of what my girlfriend and i watch, then we torrent some things that were really excited about, or like a season at a time of a tv show.
As far as movies, paying for a couple of streaming services is way easier than delving through scummy torrent sites waiting for movies to download.
That's all well and good until you basically start google searching whatever you want to watch to see which subscription it's on. Super Mario Movie? Not HBO or Netflix, it's on Peacock. Snowpiercer (show)? Not streaming on any service anymore.
At a certain point having it available is more convenient than paying 5 different subscriptions to see which has what.
Also it can be very easy to automate this so you don't even have to search anymore. You just put in the name and it does it for ya!
Using the *arrs is pretty convenient if you know how to use docker (or even if you dont) and then you can connect them to Plex or jellyfin to view, it won't be instant like Netflix and co but at least its free/cheaper (cost of VPN or seedbox). You can even setup overseerr or jellyseerr to simplify the movie/show requests.
So much this. Watched so many anime for free that I ended up spending a bunch of money on figurines, mangas and other merchandise!
@TheImpressiveX if you don't have money to spend but the movie is older, one can also hit up charity stores. I find good Blu ray and dvds for a few dollars at the local st Vincent DePaul stores all the time. It takes patience but it pays off. I've got some great full seasons of TV shows too for like $5
Just check disk for damage before buying and that the right disk is in the right box.
I'm so confused by the tier list of what is good resolution. I thought AV1 was the best encode at the moment, I'm not concerned with size but resolution. Are these remixes the best for that?
Remux is lossless usually so it's the closest to blu-ray
It's not about resolution, it's also about bitrate. Higher bitrate = higher quality.
Though I am excited for the futute of AV1. I'm still confused how they managed to make videos look great while keeping bitrate and file sizes low...
It's not just bitrate but how good the retail encode of a Blu-ray is. There are certain movies where a smaller bit-rated Blu-ray is actually the best option. Private trackers are filled with comparisons between all the available Blu-rays to figure out of which one is the best in terms of video/audio quality. Buying a Blu-ray may still not get you the best quality.