• Synapse@lemmy.world
    73·
    4 months ago

    Back when I was telling everyone to watch Severance.

    "Is that on Netflix?

    -hum, Apple TV I think.

    -you have Apple TV ?

    -…sort off"

    • WereCat@lemmy.world
      13·
      4 months ago

      I had cousins account and I found torrenting still much more convenient than having to open Netflix in the propper browser or app to play with semi-decent quality.

      • lugal@sopuli.xyz
        9·
        4 months ago

        In my country, Netflix shows often come out later than in the US so why pay money when I can get a greater variety of shows earlier for free on other streaming sites?

        Streaming is a gray area. Germany is relatively strict with torrents but on streaming, you neither own nor share it at any point

        • uis@lemm.ee
          1·
          4 months ago

          Germany is relatively strict with torrents

          Don’t be worse than Russia. Please fix.

            • uis@lemm.ee
              3·
              4 months ago

              In Russian law only sharing is illegal, not downloading. And proving your intent is impossible if you don’t have formal education. Basically “I didn’t know” is rock-solid defence.

              • lugal@sopuli.xyz
                1·
                4 months ago

                I think it’s technically the same in Germany but indent doesn’t matter that much so it’s illegal even if you claim you didn’t know. Also owning it is also illegal I think. When you stream it, you don’t own it.

                And honestly I don’t see the benefit of downloading it. Do I have to wait till the whole season is out or do I torrent each episode separately? Neither sounds fun. I can just click the episode I want to watch and watch it. Why bother to download it as a whole?

                • uis@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  Do I have to wait till the whole season is out or do I torrent each episode separately? Neither sounds fun. I can just click the episode I want to watch and watch it. Why bother to download it as a whole?

                  What does this has to do with anything? You just download and watch. You can even download and watch at the same time. Or download and watch later even without internet.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    4 months ago

    I watched it at a friend’s house.

    You don’t know her, she doesn’t go to this school, lives in Canada.

        • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 months ago

          Radarr is your personal fleet that will go plundered and get the booty for you while you lay in your comfy hammock drinking rum.

          (You tell Radarr a movie and it will download it for you, rename it and add it to your media center automatically, also for upcoming ones. Sonarr does the same for shows, downloads the episodes once they are out.)

        • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          5·
          4 months ago

          Glorified VLC.

          Look, for me to “stream” movies to my friends using VLC I have to set up a finnicky RTSP server and get the settings right and then even then half the time it chokes on the video and the stream stops because it doesn’t like certain file types/encodes.

          Jellyfin takes out all the hard work of setting up a complicated streaming service for you and your friends.

        • SeekPie@lemm.ee
          5·
          4 months ago

          Jellyfin can be self-hosted with Radarr to automatically download shows you want to it and be streamed with Jellyfin.

  • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol
    23·
    4 months ago

    Why pay corporate scum when you can not :| sorry not sorry people in the entertainment industry. You should negotiate better union terms.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
      16·
      4 months ago

      Yes, it really does come to morals.

      Like, would I really feel ok supporting an industry like that? With their shitty wages, horrible copyright practices, just evil corporate practices (nepotism, extortion, sexism, etc) - not exclusive to entertaining industry, but I can def chose not to support & fuel the suffering.

      I want & do pay for small studio projects, FOSS initiatives, etc.
      Let’s normalise that so that such support may grow and change the world.

      Long live there *arr services & their contribution to worlds culture & humanity through equality/comradeship.

      • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol
        4·
        4 months ago

        Yep, supporting artists and not parasitic corporations is always preferable. Unfortunately, said parasitic conglomerates try to get their greedy piggy tendrils into everything they can

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
          3·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, it’s really hard and often impossible to support the artists that you want.

          A good movie, but most of the people involved made fixed wages (no sales) whilst 90+% of the protis goes to the studio and the lead actor and director (+ credited people that never even saw the project, but you know, money favours)?
          Yeah, your money vote does not go to what you want to support/sponsor.

          A publisher is selling a game that it got by buying a studio & getting rid of the devs? What’s their added value? That’s just capital yields, like landlording.

      • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        4 months ago

        I have grown up with pirating. I didn’t even know that you can pay for stuff for a while lol. Yet just the other day I bought the plushie DLC for portal revolution, caz it was an amazing experience, and it was a free passion project from the fans to the fans.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
          1·
          4 months ago

          Yes, I do the anti-boycotting as much as I can too.

          Also bought all the games I played growing up (the ones you can buy that is).

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been aware of Radarr and Sonarr and such for some time, but thanks to this meme, I get why they end with “arr” now. Thanks!

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    4 months ago

    I always just say I pirate it. What’s surprised me is the number of people who then ask where I got it from. I assumed most normies would look down on it more than has been my experience.

    • LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml
      3·
      4 months ago

      At my job my experience has been that people act like you would also steal money or something. I tend to say I forgot where the show streams Google it.

  • Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world
    16·
    4 months ago

    It’s the worst when you talk about a series you “acquired” and they ask you: “Cool! Where did you watch it? Is it on Netflix?”

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
    13·
    4 months ago

    “If I could talk to my great grandfathers, I would say that the old times are gone. So much has changed. When all else fades away, The Pirate Bay will remain. It will always be with us.” -Brule

    • Norgur@fedia.io
      34·
      4 months ago

      They’ve got no time to post because they’re busy watching all the things they want without taking on another job to pay for another dozen or so subscriptions.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      101·
      4 months ago

      .world pre-emptively blocked them (twice) because they’re nerds they’re hosted in the EU and they thought they’d get in trouble by association for being federated with instances that promotes discussion of something illegal in their physical server’s jurisdiction. They had a lot of traffic. The db0 comm is still alive.

  • gareins@lemm.ee
    11·
    4 months ago

    I have access to netflix but always pirate while connected to Trakt in order to have a history of what i watched and to be able to continue watching wherever, whenever

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    4 months ago

    If you’re going to have one service, the last one to get is Netflix. Hulu and Disney are $20 ad-free in a package right now. That’s probably the best value out there.