Pirate Everything at This Point
Way ahead of you.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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I pay for an emby share personally.
Plex/emby/jellyfin, there are a ton of paid shares out there that are cheap.
I pay for an emby share personally.
I read this as "enby share" and thought, "Is that like a queer polyamorous social group? If so, I want in."
(BTW I use emby share to pirate too, so no need to explain. My brain just expects the word "enby" first.)
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Question, what even is a "Generative AI ad"?
Is the lead actress of the horror movie I'm watching look into the camera and tell me about the new coca-cola while she waits for the monster to come get her?
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Stremio is everything I could ever want and more.
Yep, link it with real debrid As you are, sailing the seas in style.. Great UI. Evan has a calendar to keep track of your series.
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My only criticism is that they have the big bang theory as the main thing shown right when you go to the website. I wouldn't be surprised if at least a few people just left as soon as they saw that.
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It's the way of all subscription based entertainment. To increase profit eventually the choice comes down higher subscription fees or introduce ads.
And once ads are there, it's a one-way street. Until adpocalypse.
If it's in your systems in an open format it's yours, if it's outside your systems or wrapped in some kind of locked format that forces you to go through somebody else's software it's de facto theirs.
Due to my own experience in software development with 3rd party solutions from way back, I never adhered to Streaming solutions (even though I was tempted) and always stuck to getting my entertainment in a media format I controlled (legitimately for a long as I could, not so much once even physical media started having DRM) because I was aware that it's risky to outsource so much control over one aspect of what you do (in this case entertainment) to an entity which, frankly, sees you as nothing else that microscopic fraction of their bottomline.
(The funny bit is that if Netflix would sell me their Series in an open file format that I could download and at a reasonable price, I would have sent lots of money their way, same as I spent lots of money on DVDs and even VHS tapes back in the day. In fact all throughout that period I was doing something like that for games: as soon as I discovered GOG with their DRM-free downloadable installers, I started acquiring all my games by buying them from GOG)
In the fullness of time, my caution seems to have been proven right.
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Already doing it
Way ahead of you, Mr. Rossmann.
Well, it's not that difficult to cancel a subscription...
Don't give them any ideas
Soon they'll just tap into your partner and make them speak ads throughout the day.
You know, you and Black Mirror are laughing, But my wife sends me links to products off TikTok all the fucking time and I'm not even on TikTok.
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Previously, on Best of Netflix: price increases, flip-flopping on their account sharing stance (currently on "don't do that"), removing shows without warning, iffy show recommendations by their algorithm, inability to watch shows offline etc.
So, if you're not already pirating at this point I have to ask: what are you waiting for? Seriously, why are you giving these companies money?
Piracy isn't the only alternative to streaming! Please consider putting a side a certain amount of money each month to buy physical disks, making films isn't free and buying disks is the best way to suport them. Then you can pirate the rest.
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