We are right back to the 90's and early 2000's with cable. Replace the word "channel" with "platform."
Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
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Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#552I don’t see why I should ever have stopped pirating. Advertisements are exploitation. They waste time and distract, as well as deceive. On top of that, companies track your usage, data & location, then go on to sell your info to anyone.
You never truly ‘have’ most paid media either, it can just be deleted out from under you, which I find extremely rude and contrary to ideas of ownership and archival.
I never stopped pirating and never will. Most things I want aren’t available to stream, and I’m not waiting years for some bastard streaming company to ingest the media so I can pay for the privilege of watching it in my Plato-cave.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#553I had an account for an unnamed streaming service and I really valued contributing to the production of the content with my small contribution. Then I moved from one country to another. After the move I have a credit card issued by a bank in the country I moved to and said streaming service will not accept it as payment . I can't find a way to actually pay them money. It seems the only way to get access is through so…
I have a similar problem with BattleBots. I want to pay for it, but they don't want to sell it to me online I believe because they sold the exclusive rights to a cable channel in Canada.
So it's not just that they don't accept credit cards from certain places, they won't sell to you depending of where you are too.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#554VPN + BitTorrent client + ThePirateBay has pretty much any current or recent movie or TV series.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#555Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ebooks are the worst offenders IMO. Most stores I’ve seen don’t even tell me the format or DRM, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be an open format
I've started buying from ebooks.com exclusively, because they tell me it's DRM-free EPUB and PDF. I end up paying a big premium in practice over Kindle DRM and discounted paperbacks, but I'm doing my part to convince publishers to offer DRM-free.
Is this a regional thing to buy without DRM? I just checked some books from my reading list and many have DRM. Just some examples if you could double check:
Double Star
Project Hail Marry
Children of Time
A Memory Called Empire
This is How You Lose the Time War
While I know/assume that it will be easy to remove the DRM, I do not want to install Adobe Digital Editions to download the books.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
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I channeled the money I was spending on YouTubeTV into a seedbox that has 0 personal information about me, paid for with Monero (XMR). Much better bang for the buck and completely removes all the potential adverse legal effects that you could have by torrenting on your home / work connection. I was happily paying a netflix and spotify sub for over a decade, but once we started getting greedy with Paramount+, AppleTV+…
How do you access the seedbox anonymously? Unless you use Tor (which doesn't seem practical for movies), they surely see where your connections come from, don't they?
You can buy seedboxes and VPNs with cash-purchased bitcoin.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#557Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dropped Prime for the first time in many years just last month. 2-day shipping is pretty much standard now at Target and Walmart, there was nothing terribly compelling on Prime Video, and I never even used any other services. Why again have I been shoveling ~$12/month in perpetuity to Amazon?
Prime shipping for me is now a week or two! It's not uncommon to wait 12 days for an order that's Prime from the Amazon warehouse to arrive at my house, and I don't exactly live in a super rural area. It's ludicrous IMHO to pay for prime now when we barely use prime video and super saver shipping wouldn't take much longer than prime.
Whoa, that's unbelievably long if you're a Prime subscriber. I pretty much assumed 2-day shipping was standard for every single Prime member in the US. Do you live elsewhere? And how urban is your area if I may ask (approx. population)?
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#558I pirate everything. Haven't subscribed to a service like Spotify, Netflix, etc. in many years. I can listen to my music in CD-quality and bring it anywhere. Same with any movie, TV show, etc. And I know that no one is selling what I find interesting as analytics data. At the same time, I want to support creators, and I'll donate/use services like Bandcamp to directly support folks I appreciate. I have a $100/mo "don…
How do you view that content? Plex, Roku, TVs, and related are definitely spying on what you watch, even if it's locally hosted.
Hook a small PC to each TV and run Kodi.
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As I'm a complete 0 at IT, would you mind explaining how one gets started with this? I have VPN, I've torrented before. How does Jellyfin work and what do I need? Does it sit locally on a laptop/PC (so takes up space) and if it uses the same WiFi as my TV I can play it? That's the bit I really don't understand...
I'm only using it in the most basic form (streaming to my roku from my PC), so hopefully someone with more experience with it can chime in here, but I'll do my best. I saw the software mentioned on reddit a while back, and then I just Googled each product to learn more or download/install it. They are all pretty straight-forward click and launch products with minimal configuration for which you can find guides by a q…
Really appreciate it! I'll have to look into it in a bit more detail. I'm a little tired of having to plug my laptop in via HDMI every time I want to play a movie I can't find on netflix.
The only problem is, I don't have a PC and I really don't want to mix my mac I use for work with torrented movies. So I would have to look into getting a cheap windows machine :)
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#560Earlier quoted context omitted.
Prime shipping for me is now a week or two! It's not uncommon to wait 12 days for an order that's Prime from the Amazon warehouse to arrive at my house, and I don't exactly live in a super rural area. It's ludicrous IMHO to pay for prime now when we barely use prime video and super saver shipping wouldn't take much longer than prime.
Whoa, that's unbelievably long if you're a Prime subscriber. I pretty much assumed 2-day shipping was standard for every single Prime member in the US. Do you live elsewhere? And how urban is your area if I may ask (approx. population)?
Yes, I live in Eastern Idaho, area population about 200,000 people.