• affenlehrer@feddit.orgEnglish
        14·
        11 days ago

        I was hoping that it’s some kind of piratey alternative to Netflix.

        I’ve stopped pirating more than a decade ago but streaming and “buying” content is getting worse and worse.

        Now I’m just downloading older movies from YouTube and similar services or look it up on archive.org.

        Pirating was quite simple in the olden donkey / emule / kazaar etc times. BitTorrent was simple at the beginning as well. Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.

        IRC seemed complicated as well and I can’t bring myself to ever look into usenet because to me it was my first “social media” and it breaks my heart to see what it turned into.

        Also it’s super weird because it’s not meant for this purpose. It’s like using twitter to share base64 encoded warez. It kinda works but it’s not meant for it.

        • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          I’ve stopped pirating more than a decade ago but streaming and “buying” content is getting worse and worse.

          Even when buying physical copies, BD movies have at least one, sometimes two layers of DRM to put up with; AACS and sometimes BD+ on top of that, and even DVDs technically have DRM although that was blown wide open eons ago.

          Also, although CDs are DRM-free, for now, there’s a 9/10 chance that if you get a new CD album instead of a lossy download through iTunes/Apple Music or wherever or streaming it through Spotify, that it’ll be brickwalled to hell; blame Oasis on that one for starting the Loudness Wars, meanwhile if you go to track down an old vinyl album or even a CD pre-1995 or so, it’ll likely have been mastered decently; a lot of the time an old vinyl album is mastered better than a new CD album, both because of predating the Loudness Wars by decades typically, and also because a mastering house will have had a 20Hz-20kHz window to work in with vinyl generally.

        • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
          15·
          11 days ago

          Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.

          This isn’t really true. Maybe you have that impression because piracy communities tend to be filled with snobs who constantly humble brag about all their private trackers and paid services. You can still find good quality versions of almost everything through public trackers.

          • bebabalula@feddit.dkEnglish
            8·
            11 days ago

            Depends. Like OP I stopped pirating when they made Netflix available in Denmark, and like OP I’m also feeling the deteriorating device. But finding danish content in the public trackers seems a lot harder than it was in ye old days

        • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
          14·
          11 days ago

          You can still download an entire blockbuster from piratebay.

          Arr software and Jellyfin make it easier and accessing it convenient, but at the backend, we’re all still doing the same shit.

          VPN yo ass up and download some movies, choom.

        • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          9·
          11 days ago

          There’s still tons of content available on public trackers. Just be sure to use a VPN so you don’t get nasty letters from your ISP. It’s not hard, just connect to the VPN and bind your torrent client to the VPN interface.

        • ColdCreasent@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          But don’t use the pirate bay…bad place. Other places are much better and have good reputations.

  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    Netflix is a building in hollywood, near a pretty solid vegan mexican place and a good cost efficient thai place last i checked. Right across from a historic fire station that i think does tours i kept meaning to take.

  • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    My TV controller has a dedicated Netflix button. Around 2 months ago I sat on it and it started playing a movie. Turns out “meh, it seems about right” is not a good way to check your credit card statements.