Lol that's how i always get caught.

My 7 year old is always telling her friends that she watches such-and-such show on Jellyfin. 😅

wanted to watch a show with the family on the weekend

the slowest more interruptive part of the process of getting it on the TV was when I forgot to move the downloaded files to my Plex library folder. forty seconds later and it was fixed. and the controls actually worked and weren't all fucky like most apps are on the AppleTV with the shitty apple remote

I think it's more a generalised phrase, like when you Google something, but you don't actually use Google. Saying to look at / use pirate bay doesn't mean the exact site, just means to pirate it somehow.

Shady how? It ends up being the right place for 99% of my torrents.

I have been out of the 🏴‍☠️scene for a while and this was the most trusted one back in the days. Are there other alternatives now?

Everytime I look for alternates I end up with sites that offer torrents of movies that end in .exe. so I end up going back to TPB.

As long you downloading only video/music content you are safe. The worst outcome could be only wrong content

While I've moved to arr stack and usenet these days, I've literally never had an issue with TPB

Well as shady as a midnight walk to the convenient store... So not actually that bad.

I mean nobody is going to give you a medal for doing it so why deprive yourself?

And that is valid.

I have never subscribed any of these streaming services. The pressure from friends was intense but at the end of the day I simply felt no need and even less appeal to it.

Nowadays, I hear those same friends how expensive it has become to keep all of these services to follow their interests and how the catalogue has been degrading.

I sincerely do not care.

In a sense I do think this kind of approach matters more than people give it credit for. Most people tend to see piracy as a way to consume media without supporting the rightsholders of that media, but even pirated consumption is still support.

A person who is, say, pirating Harry Potter books and other media is still giving Rowling and her franchise and ideas space in their head, maybe contributing to further conversations about her, and overall inadvertently promoting her whether they like it or not - as opposed to having used that time and energy to consume media from someone more worth the time and effort, like say, Ursula Le Guin.

For example I was watching a video from a YouTuber who does controller reviews. In that video he briefly mentioned two controllers that were of such poor quality that they were literally unusable. He went on to say that he would not be making videos about them, because he found that even when he goes out of his way to give a controller the worst review possible, tons of people still buy them.

Personally, I think that information freedom matters enough that anything published under licenses that are more restrictive than copyleft, permissive ones, or straight public domain is unethical. If private property is theft, and it is, that absolutely extends into knowledge and culture as well. If I were a purist about that, I would go out of my way to use things like the fully free Linux distros, and only consume media under those aforementioned licenses. Truth be told I don't though, I do pirate corporate media sometimes. But I do try to give space where it counts too - trying to use some time and energy to seek out any kind of media that's more open.

Tl;dr: play Battle for Wesnoth.

Books are better than TV anyway. Once you own a book, no corpo fuckwad can take it away from you.

I frequently listen to my coworkers/mutuals list how many streaming services they have and how much they cost a month, leaving the proper maths to only to the listeners because they won't hear the real bill.. I had to quit one that cost "only" 19€ per month because I wasn't able to afford it anymore!

I've been doing Stremio for over a year now. I used to have RealDebrid but it started having issues for me so I started using Premiumize instead. The last year has been INCREDIBLE. I think it's ridiculous to have to pay for something monthly and STILL get hit with ads. It's bullshit.

aand that's exactly what we do 😜

And trials are okay, if you cancel it on time.

Not when you're using Firefox with uBlock Origin. Don't use any pirate sites without a good ad blocker.

Thanks to "arr, I haven't had to even look at an indexer in years. I don't miss manually trolling for torrents.

between strem.io and *arrs you never have to touch a pirate site friend

Private tracker users are a bunch of rich old douchebags laughing at people who aren't members of their in group? That tracks.

Live TV is so bad that I would take $65/mo of corporate streaming services over FREE cable.

I choose neither, but if those were the only two options there's no contest.

You’re also paying the ISP so that’s another cost on top of these subscriptions.