And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…
(And that “watch similar movies” thing can go to hell too)
ETA:
Jellyfin is great, yes.
Everything is available for streaming when you have Stremio.
“I’m afraid Young Frankenstein has grown up. All that’s available is Old Frankenstein.”
You jest, but reading the user reviews on RT, I can tell a lot of the jokes in this film are lost on the gen-z crowd. Shame, really. But I guess it’s inevitable.
That’s simply unacceptable. I have a copy, but that’s still unacceptable that you can’t stream a film that amazing anywhere legally.
My point yes, thanks. Now how is the young generation going to learn how to pronounce Igor?
My kids will probably never buy a dvd player but you can bet I’m showing them how to find things like this regardless.
Now how is the young generation going to learn how to pronounce Igor?
Tyler, the Creator?
“Eye-garr”
listen here you…
It’s pronounced Igor.
I read it was pronounced Igor.
Nonsense.
I suppose they also say “Froderick”
Lol I know you meant that as Igor, but I totally ready that as Igor at first
Sorry, I have terrible penmanship.
That’s actually not right… it’s Igor, with an r.
Oops, you’re right. My apologies to his family.
I’ve been snapping up DVDs of every film I care about over the last five years. Especially the holiday films since you know they’re going to hold those hostage.
Doesn’t anyone rip library DVDs any more?
Looking back I really cannot fathom how we watched DVDs and thought the image quality was acceptable. I am way too spoiled by HD and UHD.
A lot of content from pre 2008 era are still that same quality… Just comes with the territory.
Esp TV shows
I haven’t had in optical drive in my computer in probably almost 10 years.
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Yes. My library has some DVDs but not this movie.
Have it on DVD
Find a spare/cheap computer. Install home assistant/unraid/TrueNAS (bunch of platforms that run docker and have app installers but any of those three are pretty easy to get running). Pay for access to a Usenet backbone provider and one or two Usenet search providers. Black Friday will have some sales on yearly subscriptions. Install Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyseer, and Bazaar (if you’re huge into subtitles like me). Alternatively, also install and setup Prowlarr. Get your Usenet stuff working in Prowlarr. Point Radarr and Sonarr at Prowlarr. Point Jellyseer at Sonarr and Radarr. Share with friends. I will personally handhold anyone who wants to do this for themselves.
I need to be learned
Please teach me
I’ve been spreading the piracy gospel every chance I get. This is how I’d explain to a layman how to set up a rig similar to mine.
1). First and foremost, you need to do this shit behind a VPN. You’re specifically looking for a VPN with port forwarding so you’ll get better download speeds on your torrents. I’m using ProtonVPN because when I was setting my rig up for the first time about a year ago, that was the top recommendation. Just do a little research and type in “best VPN for torrenting” into your favorite search engine. Set up your VPN as instructed. You’ll want to make special note of the “openvpn” username/password. You’ll need it later.
2). Next, you’ll need hardware. While any old laptop that’s been sitting around collecting dust is probably fine, you’ll run out of storage on it pretty fast if you want anything more than a few shows and movies. If you’re running out of storage space, I would recommend a Network Attached Storage device (NAS). There’s lots of brands to choose from, but I’m partial to Synology.
3). Next (regardless of hardware) you’ll want to be familiar with Docker and the container model. Essentially, containers allow you to run a little piece of software in a self contained virtual environment. All you have to do is tell docker the containers’ dependencies and configuration and it’ll spin up the container you ask for it.
4). Next you’ll want to get smart on the arr stack. This is a set of services that run in docker containers that can completely automate your piracy activities. At a high level, you specify the TV shows and movies you’re interested in, then the arr stack will search for the torrent, download it, and move it to where your content distribution service is scanning for new media.
5). Not sure where else to put this, but I’d recommend gluetun for the VPN client (this is where you’ll need your openvpn credentials), qBittorent for your torrent client and Jellyfin for your media distribution. These are all services that can run in Docker containers. I’d recommend using the docker containers from https://fleet.linuxserver.io/ since they tend to standardize the configuration of their docker containers.
Resources:
https://old.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/rikthc/list_of_recommended_vpns_2022/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathreadhttps://wiki.servarr.com/
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki
It’s a lot to distill from into a single Lemmy comment, but hopefully this sets you on the right path!
If you happen to go the Unraid route (Unraid is fantastic, but not free) Spaceinvader One on YouTube has great tutorials. That’s where I got most of my info initially. It’s definitely worth it and I think a good deal easier. I am not good with code and really like having a visual interface and it helps with that. I am not a master at any of this but I’ve learned a lot and I’m pretty comfortable now. To do a YouTube series myself, I feel like I’d need to know more. But there are definitely resources out there to get you going. If you follow some of this and run into problems, feel free to reach out to me. Or the selfhosted community here has been amazing. But you might start with one of the aforementioned frameworks. I think it’s easier than going straight to docker. Docker isn’t difficult, but managing IPs and networks and ports can cause some frustration and confusion.
This guy has a pretty good install on home assistant operating system (HAOS is important. Not just home assistant, but HAOS). When you have HAOS up and running, you can add the repository that Alex Belgium has created. He’s done a great job at getting so many docker containers ready to go in home assistant. Huge, huge props to the guy. And once you have the repository, you can start to install the individual containers and it’s not terrible. I think Spaceinvader One’s videos can get you through much of it. Just skip the installation part and go to setup.
It’s a lot and I can’t go step by step but I will answer and help in someone’s journey as best as I’m able to.
why usenet over torrents?
Quality and ease. Torrents don’t always have enough seeders or they disconnect. You can get by on them, but it’s a case of getting what you pay for. I go through a lot of media as do my friends using my server. The cost is negligible and basically means I have no headaches.
Usenet pros:
- not p2p so no real chance of getting busted
- max out your bandwidth the whole time you’re downloading
- no need to seed, no ratios, etc
- Cheap AF
Usenet cons:
- Files aren’t forever. Servers do delete content after some time so search results aren’t always available on your server
- Usenet servers, especially in the US, are pretty responsive to DMCA demands
- Not free
- Complexity of setup (Sab + Arrs) are a barrier to entry
- Public nzb search engines aren’t always going to have what you need. Private search engines are usually invite only and/or cost money per year
- Far less variety for niche stuff than torrents (imo, ymmv)
And once again we see the advantage of owning vs renting.
You probably can get the bluray from one of those bulk sellers. Pick up a bunch of movies and get combined shipping
What bulk sellers of bluray? Is that a thing?
Yes
Check ebay
Yeah wouldnt that reward bad behavior?
Although buying physical also send an important market msg
Consolation prize: the Gene Wilder documentary on Netflix is pretty good if you haven’t already seen it
I was not aware of that but will track it down.
RIP to the whole cast of this film.
works for me
Is jellyfin considerably better than plex for local and offline usage?
Personal preference, really. For me, jellyfin is much simpler to use, very easy to self-host in docker. And the clients are great too. I use desktop, android and roku regularly.
Client apps are more limited but otherwise floss purist swear by it
Any difference in remote access? I think you gotta pay plex for that.
That’s also true.
Remote access is above my pay grade though.
I remote access jellyfin just fine. Got a reverse ddns proxy on my synology nas so you can probably do the same thing for free.
Better is subjective.
Simpler in a more streamlined sense, yes. Plex is more hands-off, and is doing a lot behind the scenes to automatically configure itself to your hardware for the best transcoding experience and such.
Jellyfin needs a little more work but can get there, it just needs to be shown the hardware and be configured correctly, but I find Jellyfin to be simpler and less cluttered overall when properly finished, with less strings attached to a parent company.
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Not cool man. Keep that offa lemmy so we stay clear of trouble.
Look at my ETA. I already watched the movie.
He ain’t doing anything wrong per se but some lawyer could try to send a letter to a Lemmy host so deff not good decorum.
Got to play defensive as to not attract the heat. I am sure corpos and governments don’t appreciate decentralization as much as “normal” fedi usarr.
We’d all love to live in a world where copyright and crime are separated but right. I love Lemmy and don’t want it to become locked down / censored all the time. We censor ourselves a little, to avoid large scale probs like lawyers for our admins.
When in doubt, just follow the rules on: @piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I watched it on a website a few months ago for class
About 80% of my use of Netflix is “hear about a cool film, open up the app, it’s not on Netflix, close the app”.
The other 20% is: Netflix creates a amazing series, I hear from it like 3 months later, watch the whole thing, ending with cliffhangers, and its already cancelled.
I always wait and check first. Like that show 1899, looked pretty damn great but I’m not watching something about anything mysterious that got cancelled
I’m watching Silo because there’s a book anyway
A 3 book series. Really good.
Immediately thought of 1899 when cancellations were mentioned. It was so damn good. Atmospheric, moody, mysterious, well written. I am fucking livid that the story won’t be completed.
