The real winner of the streaming wars.
Hollywood can get bent, we need open source culture
We just need Torrentz to be more, well umm… anonymous
It’s as anonymous as you are willing to be, vpn (through a vpn) over i2p, or clear text, it’s up to you.
I had stopped piracy for probably 12 years? Streaming was easy and cheap and worth it. I have a huge collection of movies I bought on google play. Then everything went to shit and everyone kept hiking the prices while losing anything interesting.
I like my plex server now. To the point where when I had amazon prime for shipping I still torrented the new season of the boys and hazbin.
This is the way
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Torrent+ is seriously a great streaming service. Great selection. Affordable prices.
It’s just the best.
I have Amazon prime, so I get access to Prime Video.
My family phone plan comes with a Free™ Netflix account per line.
As a student, my Spotify account gives me access to Hulu.
I can use all of these services at zero additional cost to myself and I still
stealacquire it through different legal avenues. It takes an extra 2 minutes to make sure that I have it forever and that it’ll be easily accessible.Not to mention, no ads. Guaranteed
I renewed Prime for the holidays and then realized… I still get ads. Is that a thing? There’s several levels of paid Amazon Prime, but they still want more money by serving you targeted ads!?
I got amazon prime mostly for the free games, it’s pretty much a steal in my country (if you pay for one year it’s about $1 a month) and I still have to pirate things that are available in the prime video. Why? Because I use Linux and amazon won’t allow me to play videos in 1080p. Only 480p is available.
What pushed be over the edge was trying to watch some older shows in Prime and getting absolute dogshit quality. When I sail I get guaranteed 1080p, no ads, instant seek.
I still use UseNet. Almost as often as I use faxes.
Usenet may be old, but it’s come a long way. Just about all scene content is there, and I max out my gigabit connection during the download from start to finish every time, without having to care about the quantity/quality of seeders, or needing to seed anything myself after downloading.
Ight that last part is the one that did it for me lmao
or nzb, but aye.
Ooooo I only have Torrent, is Torrent+ better? I rarely use it anyway
Torrent+ is not free, you need to download the cracked version on Limewire, and remember to turn off your AV before installing it also don’t forget to enter your real name and address to bypass the registration box 😉
Your missing out big time, Torrent+ comes with a few extra files to play with your computer.
Rip torrent finder. I miss you.
hey! I stole this first!!
It’s called sharing, not stealing, my brother in Christ. ;-
fucking pwned
I use Stremio that plays and streams torrents using sequential downloading. It’s like Popcorn time.
The issue is that this only works when the torrent community is healthy. If everyone used Streamio, nobody would be able to actually use it. Because it doesn’t seed the content, it just leeches and deletes it automatically. So if everyone used Streamio, there would be no seeders, and your streams would never actually work.
Streamio is the “fuck you I got mine” of the torrenting world.
It keeps a cache that it seeds back. Whenever the app is running you are seeding. I think the default is 2GB of cache, which is less than the average of 1.3GiB for a movie. Mine is set to 5GB.
I also seed an average of 10 to 1 using qBittorent so I guess I forgot it could be considered a “fuck you” because I always seed.
Yeah that doesn’t work when you live in a rural area.
The bottom right one should be tor-rent, not torr-ent. It’s a peer-to-peer media rental service running over the illicit TOR network. TOR is yet another project the notorious criminal hacker Linuxos Torvaldos made and named after himself.
People always told Linuxos to keep his legal name and his illegal software separate but he wouldn’t listen. He got caught in a San Francisco public library reading with his wife Stella Richman. What a git.
What is this Linuxos? I only know Lunix, made by a soviet hacker named Linyos Torovoltos
Laughs in usenet
Yea, torrents. Sure. Lol.
laughs in IRC
Usenet really is miles better. It blew my mind how quick and hassle free downloading was.
Please don’t tell us how to access this magical Dreamland or some people might do something unethical towards the streaming providers.
But that would break the first rule of Usenet.
It requires a subscription, which scares off most of the casual “just looking to try it” users. It’s as simple as getting a Usenet subscription. Usenet providers are sort of like ISPs. Each provider will have an umbrella of servers that they sync with, so it’s worth researching which provider you want to go with. Most will have a wide variety of content, but they all follow different policies regarding things like DMCA takedowns. Many people like to get two different subs so they can have a primary and a backup provider.
Subs typically come in both monthly subs and usage subs. For instance, the monthly sub will be unlimited access for a month, while a usage sub will just be like 100GB of download bandwidth, and you don’t get charged again until you use that 100GB. If you’re doing a lot of downloading, you’ll probably want a monthly. So most people will have a monthly subscription for their primary, then a usage sub for their secondary. So they only actually use their secondary if something is missing from their primary, and they’re not constantly maintaining two monthly subscriptions.
Actually using Usenet will require a Usenet reader, which is a program that actually interfaces with the Usenet network. Sort of like how a torrent program is used to download torrents. Most readers will integrate with services like the *arr suite to automatically search for and download content. If that’s something you’d be interested in, look into the suite and see which readers work best.
It requires a subscription, which scares off most of the casual “just looking to try it” users. It’s as simple as getting a Usenet subscription.
Ok, doesn’t sound too bad so far.
[Most people have two subscriptions to Usenet] …the monthly sub will be unlimited access for a month, while a usage sub will just be like 100GB of download bandwidth, and you don’t get charged again until you use that 100GB.
Wait, so I have to pay for access and even then it’s still limited?
You know what works and is unlimited (subject to ISP restrictions that aren’t related to bittorrent)? Torrenting.
Wait, so I have to pay for access and even then it’s still limited?
I mean, all subscriptions are limited in some way. That’s how a subscription works. You either get limited by time (monthly sub) or by usage (data cap). If it were a perpetual/lifetime access license, it wouldn’t be a subscription.
That’s why I said most people keep a monthly subscription for everyday usage, and then only use the secondary subscription when their primary is missing something. The usage doesn’t expire, so it’s not something you need to constantly maintain unless you’re actively using it. So they’re not constantly getting dinged for usage on that second provider, because the monthly doesn’t have a data cap.
The reason people like Usenet is because you don’t need to worry about seeders or dead torrents. You grab the file you want, and it caps out your gigabit download speed every time.
I mean, all subscriptions are limited in some way.
Netflix streaming isn’t limited.
Costco isn’t limited to 5 visitors a month.
Many ISPs don’t limit you to a preset amount of data (fuck you Crapcast).
Netflix streaming isn’t limited.
Yes it is. It’s a monthly subscription. You pay every month. That’s a time limitation. If you pay for a month, you only get a month of usage, just like a Usenet monthly subscription.
Costco isn’t limited to 5 visitors a month.
But again, you only get the month you paid for. It’s a time limitation, just like a monthly usenet subscription.
Many ISPs don’t limit you to a preset amount of data (fuck you Crapcast).
Neither do monthly usenet subscriptions. I think you need to go re-read my original comment, because you seem to think that the monthly subs are limited. They’re not. The only limitation on monthly subs is time. Which is the exact same limitation as the other subscriptions you mentioned.
Yeah I run a small service for friends and its almost all Usenet powered now. I still like to seed torrents anyway just as an extra fuck you.
That’s the spirit!
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