I cancelled all my subscription services today and fired up the ol' abandoned Plex server. I was paying for the convenience for awhile to be honest, but I'm over it now. Internet and a VPN are mostly all anybody needs anymore.
Also unlike streaming services, the tools around this stuff have only gotten better over time. It's so much easier now to set up your own personal streaming service than when I was last into it years ago.
Netflix had it, lost it due to a more competitive landscape. Now they all have reached about peak saturation and are struggling to hit those massive numbers where people are doing it willingly, they they think they can strong arm people into it. Streaming is all about convenience. Can I sit on the couch and put on something relatively engaging for a few that seems relatively reasonable? Ya? Cool. The further you move away from that model the more people start to look elsewhere. Pirating has gotten a lot, and I mean a LOT easier, and that arm is only so strong.
I used to sail the seas with great passion about 10-15 years ago. Then music, and video streaming came along and was fairly priced and I happily became a landlubber. Over the past year I've begun sailing again because all the services want a slice of a pie that's just not that big. Sailing is better than it ever was. The boats are much larger, faster and even look and sound better.
The best part is the boats just drive themselves these days as long as you use proper equipment like sonar and radar
Add in prowlarr\jacket, bazarr and gluetun (with desired torrent\usenet client) containers and you're bulletproof.
Please can you post a link to such instructions for an old sailor who is back on the boat?
How would a sailor get started readying his ship?
I started with qbittorrent, and the built-in search engine. I just activated all of them using the automatic settings and it was great. But the search engine named Jackett never worked, so I wound up going here:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin
and after a bit I had it sorted out and working. Just make sure you follow the instructions step-by-step, and pay attention to the API key part. You don't have to go anywhere to get a key or pay anything, it's generated automatically.
Then I started looking into Sonarr. Since I had Jackett working, and Jackett will export Torznab links, transferring them over to Sonarr was pretty easy. Just copy the Torznab link and the API key into the Sonarr indexer settings, for each Jackett indexer you want to use in Sonarr. One thing I had an issue with was setting the content for each indexer, it defaults to some strange "5200", "5400" tags for some reason. If it can't detect the correct content, it won't pass the test, and you can't save the settings. I just opened up the content menu and clicked the box for everything, and then the test passed and the indexer was set up. It should be pretty straightforward after that. I had a few problems figuring out which settings and tags to use for each show (I like 4k UHD, but some shows are only 1080p, etc.) but I had things working nice after about a week.
Guess it's time to increase the range of my sonar
And radar.
Did you know that jellies have fins? Crazy world
We can joke now, but we won’t be once they lobby the governments to make VPNs illegal
I always see this, but lobbying to make VPNs illegal is stupid and will never pass. So many companies use VPNs for their own security measures, they’d never allow something like that to pass.
Now that ungodly encryption back door law the UK passed, that could happen.
How about “illegal for private non business use?”
Imagine getting arrested or fined for trying to protect your own privacy. Like what the fuck.
Arrrr!
I subscribe to +, netfix, hulu, prime and all the cable. All my R are perpetually in order though. If i find a show/movie worthy, it gets stowed. If they f me over bad enough to leave, I'm not going empty handed.
Begun, the pirating has.
I'll try pirating, that's a good trick!
This is where the fun begins.
it's just so obnoxious they're pretending they get to charge more for using a website somewhere else. simultaneous streams, sure - at least that makes sense that it's something the company would know and reasonably suffer from. but the idea that you're formally tethered to somewhere is so fucking invasive and fundamentally wrong. it's the INTERNET you sick fucks. it's not like they're paying extra shipping because someone has a family in alaska.
See you on the high seas matey!
I never found my way to a port. Been out on the sea for so long I don't remember how land even looks like.
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
All studios had to do was follow the path of music streaming. It’s practically rid of piracy on a mass market because most streaming service has practically the same content. So it’s a matter of user experience they’re competing with, not the content they host.
They'd be losing even more money.
Netflix is profitable, Spotify never was. The differences between the realm of movies and music are so numerous that I won't even bother listing them. Music and movies studios concerns are vastly differents, their economic realities are vastly differents, the product is too.
Arr, the wind she blows
Do it like me: never subscribe! Ez gg
I cancelled my Netflix the moment that announced their new account sharing policy, which, looking back on it was probably too early to count. I don't personally share my account, but I knew that if they were able to pull it off that every other streaming service and probably other services would do the same thing.
Consumers can beat these large corporations, but only when they stand up for themselves. See Wizards of the Coast and Unity. Unfortunately Netflix subscribers did not, and now this is the new standard.
Canceled once they started enforcing the new policy in Germany. I will the same once Disney does it. I have kids in school that use it and when it is not for the whole family anymore it is not interesting enough anymore.
I am tired of especially Disney saying they are losing money on the service. Loosing how? It is produced and paid for. Then strengthen your brand by making every household with kids paying you a monthly fee instead of picking up dvds at a yard sale.
Beancounters telling you you missing out on sales you never had in the first place and never will have.
Hoist the anchors, and man the sails! ❤️
Disney+ quality has been decreasing lately. If it weren't for huge Disney animated movies collection there that the kids play on repeat, half of the people wouldn't bother with Disney+.
Ahh, may they join Netflix in their journey to 0% then negative revenue. These corporations look at their subscribers with disdain and assume no matter what they do, subscribers will be dumb enough to be treated poorly and still pay them. Netflix is losing subscribers who pay $16 - $20 and replacing them with those that pay half as much. Then they shout from the rooftops that they are gaining subscribers. They've set their trajectory towards their doom. Watching them all burn will be great.
I first read the enshittification post during the Reddit blackout. It's on point.
Thank God I never bothered with their bullshit in the first place
May it go as well as the Netflix password-sharing crackdown (id est, followed by a flood of unsubscribes).
I hate Netflix as much as the next guy but let's not shield our eyes from reality. Their move was actually very successful. A small percentage of people unsubscribed, but that number was dwindled by the number of new subscribers. Netflix basically proved that people for the most part don't care and will subscribe just to keep watching. Of course Disney and others will follow suit after seeing that.
Jokes on them, if (when) this reaches the US, I'm going to stop regularly subscribing. The only reason I usually have a subscription is for my nephews in another state. If I'm no longer subscribing for them, I'm just going to subscribe when a show I want to watch is on, so 1-3 months a year.
They don't really care tbh. A few may cancel their subscription but enough will continue to justify the decision. Netflix stats are already available to see.
What if I GOTO a friend's house and sign in using my own account, then tmforgetting it's there, will I get in thenshit with Disney? This anti password sharing thing is dumb af.
Just say your homeless
I get Disney+ because I got some deal from my ISP. Outside of Andor, there is no series worth watching on Disney+. I've watched through all of the Marvel stuff I care about (or I already own my favorites like Guardians of the Galaxy). If I wasn't getting it for free I certainly wouldn't pay for it.
I'd order the big streaming services like this: Apple+, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, then Disney+ way down that list.
I think Apple+, even with a limited catalogue has some of the best content going.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Starting on November 1st, Disney Plus will begin restricting password sharing.
Disney has not provided many details on how it plans to enforce this policy — its email merely states that “we’re implementing restrictions on your ability to share your account or login credentials outside of your household”.
The announcement comes over a month after Disney’s Q3 earnings call, where CEO Bob Iger said that the company was “actively exploring” ways to address shared accounts.
Disney Plus is just the latest streaming service to attempt to tackle password sharing.
Netflix accounts are restricted based on a user’s IP address; subscribers, depending on the plan they select, have the option of adding additional members to their accounts for an additional fee.
But hey, if it’s any consolation: Canadian users now have access to the cheaper ad-supported tier.
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