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Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 184 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yo-ho, all together, hoist the coooolors high...

[–] [email protected] 101 points 9 months ago

Yup, streaming has just become cable v2. I dusted off the VPN and went back to that. As a famous someone once said:

Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem

If the experience with piracy is FAR superior to streaming you can guess which way I'm going to go....

[–] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Pirating is work. Streaming was convenience.

The less convenient streaming is, the more likely I’m willing to work.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Was work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Piracy is not a lot of work nowadays. Setting it up once takes some time, but after that everything is automated. If I want to watch a movie or show, I enter my overseer URL into a browser, search the name of it, click on request, and a few minutes later it will be ready to watch on my Plex and Jellyfin, that are also shared with friends and family so they can also browse my library and request stuff easily

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a dream. Is there a guide for that setup?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://dev.to/rafaelmagalhaes/home-media-server-with-plex-sonarr-radarr-qbitorrent-and-overseerr-2a84

Keep in mind that in most countries you will need a VPN to safely download torrents without getting a copyright notice. And for torrenting you need a VPN that supports port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What VPN do you suggest?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I personally use Torguard. It's pretty cheap, especially on sale, supports port forwarding, is fast enough to saturate my internet connection, and supports Wireguard