(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
The open seas is calling you.
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It’s like the grocery stores that have digital price tags on them that they can adjust at anytime. They totally going to do surge pricing and other bullshit. I complete expect oh you picked up that item? Purchase just gotta up as soon as it’s touched
Sail with us on the great ship Stremio
Stremio kind of sucks. You’re leeching a torrent you’ll never seed.
not true, it does sort of the opposite:
debrid services cache torrents in order to provide them at high speed to clients (that’s why they aren’t free: they need data storage).
this is a good thing, because it means the swarm is only taxed once per file, instead of constantly by potentially hundreds of streamers.
from stremio’s FAQs:
How Debrid Services Work with Stremio
Stremio itself is a media center application that aggregates content from various sources through add-ons. Debrid services enhance this experience by:
- Converting limited or slow hosting links into high-speed premium links
- Providing access to higher quality sources that might otherwise be unavailable
- Bypassing throttling and download limitations imposed by file hosts
- Offering cached torrents for instant streaming without waiting for peers
So you’re telling me that they’re offering a paid service for free. That makes me trust and want to use it even less.
EDIT: Turns out that stremoo doesn’t use debrid. That’s something a stremio user can configure. By default, you do leech torrents and never seed then.
use or don’t; who cares?
just don’t spread lies…
Sheesh, this place is turning into reddit faster than I’d like. Relax dude.
Streaming’s new feature: dynamic pricing based on how emotionally invested you are.
The Amazon Prime model is the scummiest. At least Netflix doesn’t bait you into a subscription just to then tell you actually the show you wanted to see costs even more.
To play devil’s advocate:
The Netflix equivalent of this is that the show just disappears (the Marvel shows) or you get the first seasons and not the last or even the last and not the first (at one time Prime had part of Lucifer and Netflix had the rest).
The only reason that it went from free to paid (instead of just disappearing) is that they lost the licence for streaming it under Prime Video but they didn’t lose the licence for selling it.
all shows are free if you sail the high seas
Now is a great time to look into VPNs, 1337x, and qBittorrent. And of course Jellyfin.
or just get a decent adblocker and stream it.
Ruski streaming site + adblocker works well for me lately
Nah fuck all that. Just get Stremio + Torrentio and pair it with Real-Debrid. No fucking around with downloading torrents and building a library. Just pick what you want to watch, and watch it. Works like any other streaming platform, except everything’s in one place.
The problem with Stremio is that it relies on torrents, but only caches the content you’re watching. Essentially, it puts you into a permanent leecher mode, and rarely contributes any meaningful seeding because the content is deleted shortly after you’re done watching it.
Stremio users are the libertarians of the piracy world. They’re staunchly independent, but also completely reliant on the infrastructure that seeders have set up and maintain. They want all of their content available conveniently, without actually putting in any of the “pay it forward” work that piracy relies on to stay healthy.
Essentially, if everyone used Stremio, nobody would be able to use Stremio. Stremio is only possible because of the people who actually seed.
Psst, hey. https://fmhy.pages.dev/ Stop giving money to these assholes.
Torrent their show for fucking you over.
Argh matey!
Aye. The seas are calling.
Is it possible that season one is free and season two cost money? That’s a common tactic.
Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, “do it if you want, but don’t act like you’re justified or ethical”.
Now I’m convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.
I also don’t consider it a change in my own values. It’s a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.
And people ask why did I stop bothering with Big Media for the most part.
Who cares? Be a pirate
Buy a nas, start storing your own media. All subscription services will remove content, raise prices and introduce more ads. Its not a question of if but when.
Also, you are like a child sucking the capitalism tit when you use these services. Take your pride back.
Change to Linux when you are in the spirit. Grow up and join the adults.
grow up and join the adults
🙄
Prime are bastards about this.
