Honestly im not even angery at Facebook for illegally torrenting 81tb of books from Libgen, im pissed that Facebook torrented 81tb of books from libgen and then didnt seed (apperantly they didnt want to be caught but they could have used a vpn like the rest of us).
Shareholders own the business; workers, even the ceo, technically, work for the shareholders to create profit. The authority of the directors to direct comes from the shareholders who own.
Sure, if you own 0.00001% of a business, you can't do much if 99% want profit made in a particular way (or "in whatever most profitable way"), but you still own that 0.000001%; 0.000001% of the work and profit is done for you.
Shareholders don't individually sanction business decisions, only targets. And often they are not even aware what the company did until the next board meeting. If it's mentioned at all. So calling them complicit is a long shot, and shows that you don't really know anything about the matter.
I agree shareholders don't direct the individual decisions - that's the directors' job. And the directors don't write the individual programs, that's the programmers' job. There's an awkward hierarchy that makes culpability difficult to ascribe. But look at it another way round:
The legal system obliges executives to increase shareholder value. Because the company belongs to the shareholders, not to the execs - the exec is just a person appointed, contracted, to do a job for the company. The exec is required to increase value, because that's what the shareholders require. And for public companies, the law adds a layer of stability, so that people can buy and sell shares on a large scale smoothly.
But still, the decisions made by the company employees (including CEO) are, in principle, work contracted by the company to fulfil the wishes (get more money) of its members (the shareholders).
So, although the shareholders didn't sanction some particular decision, what they did do, is bestow authority on the directors/etc to make that decision on their behalf. Then after the decision the directors are accountable to the shareholders who, if they disagree, can either request the directors change their decisions, or fire them and appoint new directors in their place to better fulfil their wishes. The directors act on the authority of the shareholders. Unless they violate that authority, then the authority-giver bears a responsibility. And if they do violate that authority, the authority-giver bears a responsibility to separate the company from that wrong act done by its employed director. Even the minority shareholder, who has no practical control of the company, willingly profits from the actions of those employed for their sake - and can willingly sell up and not be part any more.
The machinery of capitalism smooths this over, and provides legal safeties and legal frameworks, to make it easy for money to flow. But - though my original comment was a light-hearted reply to a light-hearted jibe - in my actual opinion this machinery of capitalism makes it easier to profit from evil decisions and feign innocence. "I didn't decide to do that evil thing, I just profited from it. ...Oh, and I'm keeping the profits."
So, in the end, I do call shareholders complicit. Complicit in part, because you might say, "I agree with decisions A, B and D; not C; but on balance I will still support this business as it is, as a member of the company of owners." But still complicit.
Streaming services don’t sell content, they sell convenient access to content, and it’s been getting less convenient as time goes on. So less people feel like it’s worth paying them.
Also just overall shittier. Every time I stream something these days, it's pretty much guaranteed to pause/buffer or atomatically lower the quality even over fiber. I'm not going to pay for a subpar product.
Watching videos off a PLEX server or other private local network
Watching freemium with ad blockers
I'm sure I'm missing a few more. But there are so many ways to watch - even without explicit piracy - that the MPAA considers should be deemed illegal because they're not getting paid per viewer.
I'm Gen X and I've been pirating since we bought a second VCR when I was a kid and used it to duplicate tapes and then return them to the rental store. Then they added copy protection, so we got a dual-deck VCR that beat it. Then DVDs came out, so we got a dual-deck DVD copier.
Did I mention that my dad was a film historian?
He also would sometimes xerox entire books for himself. And he got himself a CD duplicator and a cassette duplicator later on and started doing the same thing with CDs and audiobooks he got from the library.
Miss you, dad. You would love torrenting if you could figure it out.
I swear I saw an article a while back of someone who set up a multi-SD card reader with an obnoxious number of SD cards as an external drive. I can't find it now but I think that's the only way I could afford that much storage.
Saves up that $20-$500 a month you'd spend on steaming and keep an eye on shucks.top for when prices hit all time lows.
Typically around Black Friday and other common sale event that hide main steam media.
Either use them as is or shuck them (crack them open) and install as internal hard drives.
There are guides around setting up these things, look for a tutorial that mentions Plex, Radarr or Sonarr and go with what works best for your available hardware.
And you too will be a data hoarder in few short months.
Oh I'm a data hoarder. Just with 12TB right now. The trouble is I have to double everything to expand the NAS at my friend's house that I'm doing encrypted off-site backups to....
That’s correct, you’re a “pirate” matey. There’s also a rising trend in using these iptv apps some else is hosting and they’re desperate to find a bad name to give them, I believe this is what the article is aimed at
For me, piracy isn’t about the cost. I’ve spent 1000’s of dollars on home servers, Apple TVs, NAS, hard drives, Usenet/VPN subscriptions, and indexer subscriptions. Not to mention all the extra time it takes to set up and keep everything running.
I do it because I get a higher quality product. The last time I did the math, for the size of my collection and the cost of everything I’d spent would be the equivalent to having paid $10/Blue-ray for what I have.
I also do have many streaming services through different bundles, but the low bitrates and constant switching of services means it’s harder to find and lower quality to watch than just adding something in Radarr and playing it in Plex.
On the other hand I legally stream music all the time and am very happy with the product. You pick one provider of your choice, pay a reasonable price, get access to nearly all the world’s music, modern and historical, and the audio quality is more than reasonable.
It’s on the movie and TV industry to fix their piracy problem. The music industry has even provided them a template.
For me its not so much quality as it is control. I set things up exactly the way I want with exactly the content I want and I know it's not going to suddenly change tomorrow. This is why I dont go for streaming unless it's from a server I control.
In the early days of streaming it wasn't quite as bad. A few licenses did expire, but it wasn't like most things were just going to disappear overnight. And Netflix started out with strong original programming, so there was still always value.
Now, though even though I've spent a lot of money on my server and a lot of time futzing with it, it's worth it to me compared to futzing around figuring out which streaming service has the license this week for the show I want to watch.
Plus, unless I totally lose my Plex/Jellyfin database (has happened before as I've tinkered around learning things), my watch history stays with me. I can pick up a show where I left off, even years later. Not true if a show moves to another streaming service.
I view it kinda like the trade-off paying for anything vs DIY. Sometimes it's worth paying a premium to hire someone, especially if it's way outside your skill set. Other times you interview contractors, and either the price is way high, or you get the sense they have no clue what they're doing and will wreck your project. If you DIY then there's a learning curve and you won't always get everything right, but you have total control.
I've stolen all my content since the 90s, never stopped. When a service for TV and movies like Steam comes along, I'll consider buying.
But know what? Such a service can't exist. Hollywood has spent too many dollars on Rube Goldberg machinations to protect their copyrights that it's a Bulgarian clusterfuck. Welp, fine by me, not my problem.
You know, I nearly stopped piracy entirely for a brief period, back when Netflix was top dog of streaming platforms.
Didn't last very long...
Now I don't pay for any subscription platform but one; Humble Monthly. All series and movies I either watch with friends through a dedicated Jellyfin server (owned by one of those friends) or through stremio.
Oh yeah they did do an anime adaptation of meshi. My Tumblr feed got obsessed with the Manga.
And I blatantly lied because I forgot they distributed arcane which is one of the greatest shows I've seen. I started watching because it was gay, I found myself sobbing because it's actually well done and as someone with ptsd I loved how they depicted jinx's. Incidentally it made me want a mistborn movie in the arcane/spiderverse style
I'm in college, and a lot of striminals don't pirate streaming services like Netflix, but instead pirate live sports streams, because the legal alternative is pay like $70/mo for an ad-infested service. Nobody is paying that.
Pay a ridiculous amount ($479 for a season of NFL Sunday Ticket right now) and still maybe not be able to watch the game due to blackouts. Or this one is on ESPN. Or this one is on Amazon. Can't watch this one just because fuck you. This one is in London and requires a subscription only accessible in one county of England.
The reason why I don't pay for a lot of media is because, if I pay for it I won't be able to watch what, when, where and how I want to.
If I could buy movies and TV series as h265 files with high bandwidth and no DRM I would pay for it.
I would also pay for streaming if it had all content available, no DRM that forces me to use Chrome to watch anything higher than 720p and a good interface.
But those things will never happen because executives are too greedy.
They don't even respect the integrity films and shows themselves anymore. Now in later releases they'll remove the music that was selected by the director to best pair with a scene, simply because they don't want to keep paying royalties for releases of old movies. And that's if they don't just stop selling them all together.
It's sadly been an issue for several decades with TV. Older TV shows used in re-runs would often have the original music replaced if it was anything by big bands because they didn't want to continue paying those royalties. They'd even sell DVDs with lousy replacement music instead.
Yuuup. Or they'll remove "problematic" storylines. Part of why it's not only morally justified, but morally imperative to pirate your favorite shows. Won't be long before Disney is erasing all the gays from all the shows because the current administration wants them to
The way this is phrased makes it sound like more than a third (60% of 69%) of millenials only ever consume media through piracy, which I find very hard to believe.
What seems more likely to me is that the survey asked people if they have ever used piracy and now they're trying to make this seem like a much bigger deal through misleading phrasing.
I haven't seen those posters, but those are also quite telling about their world view.
Piracy sites can and do expose people to all kinds of nasty stuff, but everyone knows (or should know) that and they take the risk anyway.
The media companies would rather assume that's because people are evil and like to steal things, than to do a little introspection and see it's their own bad service driving customers to piracy.
There's even a great case study for this in another type of media: Steam, despite its faults, has almost eradicated game piracy.
Piracy is an access problem.
I have the same trio (Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid) setup and it works great. You might need to relink Real Debrid and Stremio--it happened to me once when I let my Real-Debrid subscription lapse for a bit.
Not sure, but just tested it on my Stremio and the RD links worked perfectly. And I've used other Real Debrid features (on the site itself, so probably not relevant to API) and they worked same as ever.
Seriously, they make it seem like this is new.
Been a pirate since the early days of Napster.
Hell, was pirating DOS games on floppy in the early 90's.
Video stream pirating is just the latest form, and won't be the last.
My main thing that pushes me towards being a striminal is that every service has all exclusive content.
If I wasn't too watch star trek or star wars, hello Disney+. Stranger things? Netflix. The list is long, I won't bore you with what you're probably aware of.
Moving to bring a striminal, as they say, you can watch what you want, when you want, where you want. You get everything in one place, and don't have to flip flop between services to simply see what's available.
The cost of all of the services is a problem, sure, because it's so damn costly for all of them combined. But that's not my primary factor. It's just so damned inconvenient to maintain so many disconnected accounts, and agglutinate all of the information into a sensible list of what's new or available across all services.
I just want it to be easy and they've intentionally made it not easy.
I won't comment if, or how many Linux ISOs I may or may not have.
Strongly reccomend using Jellyfin for your media libraries. Even if you don't have a dedicated server and just want to watch on a pc, it works better than VLC.
Doesn't jellyfin require connecting to a server to even work though? Most VLC features work anywhere without any connection, obviously streaming would require a connection still.
You can fire up the server on your PC and just connect to it; so yeah, it does need a server, but it can be ran and connected to locally, just plug in the IP address it makes into a browser on the machine your running it on. The only reason I personally have a dedicated server for Jellyfin is because I frequently switch operating systems on my main PC
The reason its better is because it unironically has a better frontend than most steaming platforms. The streaming client is the same thing you'd get with a Netflix or a Hulu and it has the basic stuff like saving your place not just in episode but with timestamp, but the cool shit is: it fetches descriptions, thumbnail, cast, genre, and etc for anything you throw at it, and you can filter your library by genre, the director, and even the cast members, and it fetches this automatically upon it scanning new media.
There's not anything that hulu/Netflix do that Jellyfin can't, it categorizes seasons under shows in the same way, and all it requires is that the names are somewhat right. I've only had to fix the names of like 3 pieces of media, and I usually just throw the raw torrent filename at the server. Just make sure you have all of the episodes in a folder with the same name as the show.
You also should be able to connect any device on your network to the Jellyfin server with just an IP address, even though its not running on a dedicated server. You can connect to it on your phone, and if you have a smart TV anywhere in your house it almost definitely has a Jellyfin app; i got a roku in my bedroom and an androidtv in my living room and they both work fine.
I will say tho, this will only work if everything is on the same network. Depending on your router, you MAY be able to port forward the server to (a) specific outside IP address(es); if you want to share it with a different trusted network. You could also just have the port open, so anyone with your IP address could connect, but I cannot understate enough how bad of an idea this is. In general, if you wanna connect from anywhere, it will require VPN bullshit and its honestly really not worth it IMO.
Overall, I think Jellyfin is better than VLC unless its being ran on a laptop, its fr like if Netflix had access to your private library.
Awwww, that's so cute how they side-stepped "... what they want, how they want, "; You know? That bit of it all that we can't buy their way because they won't sell it to us.
Yeah, I used a modified Spotify client without ads, uninterrupted skipping, etc. to set random songs as my alarm. I download what I like through various sources, music wise, however to find new artists I use YouTube Music so have a client for that too (I have random tastes, and over the years got into artists who never really made it big at all: YT is good for the very obscure stuff most folks would call "people screaming into the mic" which, I mean, I guess it is but it could be music too..)
I forget the one exactly, however it's usually posted on the Mobilism forums by the dev. That site has a good amount of apps with ads and such stripped.
Look man, not one goddamn person who worked on Xam'd is getting a red penny from me paying to watch it legally. I'm not gonna reward some corporation whose only contribution was having enough money to buy the rights to make money off of it. Piracy is actually the only ethical way to consume most older media
You've been pirated by a smooth striminal.
100% of Facebook employees are striminals who downloaded 80 TB of books from Libgen.
81tb actually.
Honestly im not even angery at Facebook for illegally torrenting 81tb of books from Libgen, im pissed that Facebook torrented 81tb of books from libgen and then didnt seed (apperantly they didnt want to be caught but they could have used a vpn like the rest of us).
wtf is this real????
I doubt every single employee was involved in downloading that.
100% of Meta shareholders are striminals whose employees were paid to download copyrighted books.
Sounds like you have no idea how shares work.
Shareholders own the business; workers, even the ceo, technically, work for the shareholders to create profit. The authority of the directors to direct comes from the shareholders who own.
Sure, if you own 0.00001% of a business, you can't do much if 99% want profit made in a particular way (or "in whatever most profitable way"), but you still own that 0.000001%; 0.000001% of the work and profit is done for you.
Shareholders don't individually sanction business decisions, only targets. And often they are not even aware what the company did until the next board meeting. If it's mentioned at all. So calling them complicit is a long shot, and shows that you don't really know anything about the matter.
I think you're evading responsibility.
I agree shareholders don't direct the individual decisions - that's the directors' job. And the directors don't write the individual programs, that's the programmers' job. There's an awkward hierarchy that makes culpability difficult to ascribe. But look at it another way round:
The legal system obliges executives to increase shareholder value. Because the company belongs to the shareholders, not to the execs - the exec is just a person appointed, contracted, to do a job for the company. The exec is required to increase value, because that's what the shareholders require. And for public companies, the law adds a layer of stability, so that people can buy and sell shares on a large scale smoothly.
But still, the decisions made by the company employees (including CEO) are, in principle, work contracted by the company to fulfil the wishes (get more money) of its members (the shareholders).
So, although the shareholders didn't sanction some particular decision, what they did do, is bestow authority on the directors/etc to make that decision on their behalf. Then after the decision the directors are accountable to the shareholders who, if they disagree, can either request the directors change their decisions, or fire them and appoint new directors in their place to better fulfil their wishes. The directors act on the authority of the shareholders. Unless they violate that authority, then the authority-giver bears a responsibility. And if they do violate that authority, the authority-giver bears a responsibility to separate the company from that wrong act done by its employed director. Even the minority shareholder, who has no practical control of the company, willingly profits from the actions of those employed for their sake - and can willingly sell up and not be part any more.
The machinery of capitalism smooths this over, and provides legal safeties and legal frameworks, to make it easy for money to flow. But - though my original comment was a light-hearted reply to a light-hearted jibe - in my actual opinion this machinery of capitalism makes it easier to profit from evil decisions and feign innocence. "I didn't decide to do that evil thing, I just profited from it. ...Oh, and I'm keeping the profits."
So, in the end, I do call shareholders complicit. Complicit in part, because you might say, "I agree with decisions A, B and D; not C; but on balance I will still support this business as it is, as a member of the company of owners." But still complicit.
Oh fuck, you're gonna make me strim
But step-criminal.. I strim from there..
At least you're not scum...
Offer a better service for a better price.
Streaming services don’t sell content, they sell convenient access to content, and it’s been getting less convenient as time goes on. So less people feel like it’s worth paying them.
Also just overall shittier. Every time I stream something these days, it's pretty much guaranteed to pause/buffer or atomatically lower the quality even over fiber. I'm not going to pay for a subpar product.
I'm a download a car kinda guy, so a downiminal?
I'm an anime kind of guy, so an animal?
Sigh. Furries.
Animinimal.
they "watch what they want, when they want, where they want, and they don't pay for it."
Damn. Are these guys trying to sell me on being a striminal now?
Whoever wrote that was definitely giggling to themselves as they were typing.
I'm pretty sure it was written by Strong Bad.
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
A strooth miminal
Oh boy here I go strimming again
I'm sure I'm missing a few more. But there are so many ways to watch - even without explicit piracy - that the MPAA considers should be deemed illegal because they're not getting paid per viewer.
I'm Gen X and I've been pirating since we bought a second VCR when I was a kid and used it to duplicate tapes and then return them to the rental store. Then they added copy protection, so we got a dual-deck VCR that beat it. Then DVDs came out, so we got a dual-deck DVD copier.
Did I mention that my dad was a film historian?
He also would sometimes xerox entire books for himself. And he got himself a CD duplicator and a cassette duplicator later on and started doing the same thing with CDs and audiobooks he got from the library.
Miss you, dad. You would love torrenting if you could figure it out.
Only a little
Huh...
Ohhh you NASty NASty striminal
I've got another 80Tb on the way. Entirely because you're the first random person I've seen who has more than me.
I didn't post the size of my games and adult content volumes. 😜
DAMN IT
I started with 28TB, plenty for movies and TV shows... right?
Then I started running local AI and I feel like I need triple the storage.
I'm not saying all my problems in life would be fixed with more storage. But I just need one more hard drive.
After all, why shouldn't I use just one more SATA power splitter...
I swear I saw an article a while back of someone who set up a multi-SD card reader with an obnoxious number of SD cards as an external drive. I can't find it now but I think that's the only way I could afford that much storage.
Saves up that $20-$500 a month you'd spend on steaming and keep an eye on shucks.top for when prices hit all time lows.
Typically around Black Friday and other common sale event that hide main steam media.
Either use them as is or shuck them (crack them open) and install as internal hard drives.
There are guides around setting up these things, look for a tutorial that mentions Plex, Radarr or Sonarr and go with what works best for your available hardware.
And you too will be a data hoarder in few short months.
Oh I'm a data hoarder. Just with 12TB right now. The trouble is I have to double everything to expand the NAS at my friend's house that I'm doing encrypted off-site backups to....
You gotta pump those numbers
that's a lot of streaming bro, better clear the cache
Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books for their AI, and they’re the 4th biggest company in US
I fucking love committing strime. I fucking love committing strime.
I don't want to do anything else but commit strime all damn day.
I FUCKING LOVE COMMITTING STRIME
It's strimin' time!
Take that strime, you shit.
I don’t stream my pirated content like some pleb. I can afford storage space and know how to set up a server
If you can't *arr, you ain't a pirate.
You still stream from the server.
Yar, I don' be likin' this new diction, "striminal." I'll be a pirate 'till me dyin' day.
Lets find whoever coined this doubloon and make them walk the plank!
Literal disinformation and libel. Violating copyright is a civil tort, not a crime.
You've been hit by—
You've been hit by a smooth striminal
Ow!
Is this pro or anti piracy? Because it kinda makes pirating sound like a good idea.
Doesnt streaming imply remotely accessing? Im not streaming, just watching a local copy
That’s correct, you’re a “pirate” matey. There’s also a rising trend in using these iptv apps some else is hosting and they’re desperate to find a bad name to give them, I believe this is what the article is aimed at
For me, piracy isn’t about the cost. I’ve spent 1000’s of dollars on home servers, Apple TVs, NAS, hard drives, Usenet/VPN subscriptions, and indexer subscriptions. Not to mention all the extra time it takes to set up and keep everything running.
I do it because I get a higher quality product. The last time I did the math, for the size of my collection and the cost of everything I’d spent would be the equivalent to having paid $10/Blue-ray for what I have.
I also do have many streaming services through different bundles, but the low bitrates and constant switching of services means it’s harder to find and lower quality to watch than just adding something in Radarr and playing it in Plex.
On the other hand I legally stream music all the time and am very happy with the product. You pick one provider of your choice, pay a reasonable price, get access to nearly all the world’s music, modern and historical, and the audio quality is more than reasonable.
It’s on the movie and TV industry to fix their piracy problem. The music industry has even provided them a template.
For me its not so much quality as it is control. I set things up exactly the way I want with exactly the content I want and I know it's not going to suddenly change tomorrow. This is why I dont go for streaming unless it's from a server I control.
In the early days of streaming it wasn't quite as bad. A few licenses did expire, but it wasn't like most things were just going to disappear overnight. And Netflix started out with strong original programming, so there was still always value.
Now, though even though I've spent a lot of money on my server and a lot of time futzing with it, it's worth it to me compared to futzing around figuring out which streaming service has the license this week for the show I want to watch.
Plus, unless I totally lose my Plex/Jellyfin database (has happened before as I've tinkered around learning things), my watch history stays with me. I can pick up a show where I left off, even years later. Not true if a show moves to another streaming service.
I view it kinda like the trade-off paying for anything vs DIY. Sometimes it's worth paying a premium to hire someone, especially if it's way outside your skill set. Other times you interview contractors, and either the price is way high, or you get the sense they have no clue what they're doing and will wreck your project. If you DIY then there's a learning curve and you won't always get everything right, but you have total control.
Saying this as if any current streaming service or even Netflix in its prime actually fulfilled this requirement.
Stremio with torrentio. Powered by torrents.
If you want some live channels on Stremio, look for an add on called Moveonjoy
I've stolen all my content since the 90s, never stopped. When a service for TV and movies like Steam comes along, I'll consider buying.
But know what? Such a service can't exist. Hollywood has spent too many dollars on Rube Goldberg machinations to protect their copyrights that it's a Bulgarian clusterfuck. Welp, fine by me, not my problem.
You don't say?
You know, I nearly stopped piracy entirely for a brief period, back when Netflix was top dog of streaming platforms.
Didn't last very long...
Now I don't pay for any subscription platform but one; Humble Monthly. All series and movies I either watch with friends through a dedicated Jellyfin server (owned by one of those friends) or through stremio.
I didn't pirate for years thanks to Netflix. These days I don't even bother to pirate netflix
Dungeon Meshi and Castlevania were worth pirating
Oh yeah they did do an anime adaptation of meshi. My Tumblr feed got obsessed with the Manga.
And I blatantly lied because I forgot they distributed arcane which is one of the greatest shows I've seen. I started watching because it was gay, I found myself sobbing because it's actually well done and as someone with ptsd I loved how they depicted jinx's. Incidentally it made me want a mistborn movie in the arcane/spiderverse style
"Young" Millennials depending on your definition the youngest millennial is 29-32 this year.
Why stop there? Why not striminalennials.
Striminnials.
I'm in college, and a lot of striminals don't pirate streaming services like Netflix, but instead pirate live sports streams, because the legal alternative is pay like $70/mo for an ad-infested service. Nobody is paying that.
Pay a ridiculous amount ($479 for a season of NFL Sunday Ticket right now) and still maybe not be able to watch the game due to blackouts. Or this one is on ESPN. Or this one is on Amazon. Can't watch this one just because fuck you. This one is in London and requires a subscription only accessible in one county of England.
The reason why I don't pay for a lot of media is because, if I pay for it I won't be able to watch what, when, where and how I want to.
If I could buy movies and TV series as h265 files with high bandwidth and no DRM I would pay for it.
I would also pay for streaming if it had all content available, no DRM that forces me to use Chrome to watch anything higher than 720p and a good interface.
But those things will never happen because executives are too greedy.
They don't even respect the integrity films and shows themselves anymore. Now in later releases they'll remove the music that was selected by the director to best pair with a scene, simply because they don't want to keep paying royalties for releases of old movies. And that's if they don't just stop selling them all together.
It's sadly been an issue for several decades with TV. Older TV shows used in re-runs would often have the original music replaced if it was anything by big bands because they didn't want to continue paying those royalties. They'd even sell DVDs with lousy replacement music instead.
Yuuup. Or they'll remove "problematic" storylines. Part of why it's not only morally justified, but morally imperative to pirate your favorite shows. Won't be long before Disney is erasing all the gays from all the shows because the current administration wants them to
Only 69%? We gotta pump those numbers up. My Plex share accounts for at least 6 people.
When no one was looking, the striminal watched forty episodes. He watched 40 episodes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
New Rule: Any article that introduces a new tech-based slang term (eg. "phubbing", "striminals") is worthless
It makes it sound cool! We're cool! See? We can say cool slang things too! Like skibidi our new cool term "steiminals"!
Phubbing was a term for like, 3 months.
Who the fuck says striminals?
The way this is phrased makes it sound like more than a third (60% of 69%) of millenials only ever consume media through piracy, which I find very hard to believe. What seems more likely to me is that the survey asked people if they have ever used piracy and now they're trying to make this seem like a much bigger deal through misleading phrasing.
Yes, thats exactly whats happening. Media companies are fearmongering as well, they put up posters saying that streaming sites can hack you.
I haven't seen those posters, but those are also quite telling about their world view. Piracy sites can and do expose people to all kinds of nasty stuff, but everyone knows (or should know) that and they take the risk anyway. The media companies would rather assume that's because people are evil and like to steal things, than to do a little introspection and see it's their own bad service driving customers to piracy.
There's even a great case study for this in another type of media: Steam, despite its faults, has almost eradicated game piracy. Piracy is an access problem.
At least one? I mean, how many do you want to use? When you set up your system, you don't need more than one.
Streaming sucks, I need to own my content. 1080p and higher download quality only.
Laughs in Streamio + Torrentio
I had that, but I haven't had time to fix it since real-debrid stopped working.
It's working fine for me. The number of torrents went way down, but picked up and are nearly back to normal now 👍
I have the same trio (Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid) setup and it works great. You might need to relink Real Debrid and Stremio--it happened to me once when I let my Real-Debrid subscription lapse for a bit.
Didn't real debrid cut off their api?
Not sure, but just tested it on my Stremio and the RD links worked perfectly. And I've used other Real Debrid features (on the site itself, so probably not relevant to API) and they worked same as ever.
Of course not. I'm a law abiding citizen, I'm not smart or sexy enough to commit copyright infringement.
Seriously, they make it seem like this is new. Been a pirate since the early days of Napster. Hell, was pirating DOS games on floppy in the early 90's. Video stream pirating is just the latest form, and won't be the last.
My main thing that pushes me towards being a striminal is that every service has all exclusive content.
If I wasn't too watch star trek or star wars, hello Disney+. Stranger things? Netflix. The list is long, I won't bore you with what you're probably aware of.
Moving to bring a striminal, as they say, you can watch what you want, when you want, where you want. You get everything in one place, and don't have to flip flop between services to simply see what's available.
The cost of all of the services is a problem, sure, because it's so damn costly for all of them combined. But that's not my primary factor. It's just so damned inconvenient to maintain so many disconnected accounts, and agglutinate all of the information into a sensible list of what's new or available across all services.
I just want it to be easy and they've intentionally made it not easy.
I won't comment if, or how many Linux ISOs I may or may not have.
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I'm a streamennial, but I know a few streazoomers, and also few bootreams.
Ok but that sounds based as hell
Striminal Platoon 42069 leader, reporting in!
All information should be free, everywhere, forever.
Strongly reccomend using Jellyfin for your media libraries. Even if you don't have a dedicated server and just want to watch on a pc, it works better than VLC.
Doesn't jellyfin require connecting to a server to even work though? Most VLC features work anywhere without any connection, obviously streaming would require a connection still.
You can fire up the server on your PC and just connect to it; so yeah, it does need a server, but it can be ran and connected to locally, just plug in the IP address it makes into a browser on the machine your running it on. The only reason I personally have a dedicated server for Jellyfin is because I frequently switch operating systems on my main PC
The reason its better is because it unironically has a better frontend than most steaming platforms. The streaming client is the same thing you'd get with a Netflix or a Hulu and it has the basic stuff like saving your place not just in episode but with timestamp, but the cool shit is: it fetches descriptions, thumbnail, cast, genre, and etc for anything you throw at it, and you can filter your library by genre, the director, and even the cast members, and it fetches this automatically upon it scanning new media.
There's not anything that hulu/Netflix do that Jellyfin can't, it categorizes seasons under shows in the same way, and all it requires is that the names are somewhat right. I've only had to fix the names of like 3 pieces of media, and I usually just throw the raw torrent filename at the server. Just make sure you have all of the episodes in a folder with the same name as the show.
You also should be able to connect any device on your network to the Jellyfin server with just an IP address, even though its not running on a dedicated server. You can connect to it on your phone, and if you have a smart TV anywhere in your house it almost definitely has a Jellyfin app; i got a roku in my bedroom and an androidtv in my living room and they both work fine.
I will say tho, this will only work if everything is on the same network. Depending on your router, you MAY be able to port forward the server to (a) specific outside IP address(es); if you want to share it with a different trusted network. You could also just have the port open, so anyone with your IP address could connect, but I cannot understate enough how bad of an idea this is. In general, if you wanna connect from anywhere, it will require VPN bullshit and its honestly really not worth it IMO.
Overall, I think Jellyfin is better than VLC unless its being ran on a laptop, its fr like if Netflix had access to your private library.
Lmk if you have any questions :)
100% of GenX'ers in this household.
Sell full quality 4k video files, with no DRM, and I’ll never use a sketchy streaming site ever again.
I haven’t infringed on a single game that’s available on GoG
Sorry but I'm streamennial not striminal.
Awwww, that's so cute how they side-stepped "... what they want, how they want, "; You know? That bit of it all that we can't buy their way because they won't sell it to us.
Looks fake, but still funny af.
Who is "we"? I have to know who came up with this amazing addition to the English language.
My posse don't walk around like striminals or flex like big gorillas
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Only 69%? Nice. Thought it would be way higher though. I mean. The youngest of us are almost 30 now.
So what are Gen Xers who do this called?
Ximinals
Yeah, I used a modified Spotify client without ads, uninterrupted skipping, etc. to set random songs as my alarm. I download what I like through various sources, music wise, however to find new artists I use YouTube Music so have a client for that too (I have random tastes, and over the years got into artists who never really made it big at all: YT is good for the very obscure stuff most folks would call "people screaming into the mic" which, I mean, I guess it is but it could be music too..)
What Spotify client do you use?
this is one i used. https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX
I forget the one exactly, however it's usually posted on the Mobilism forums by the dev. That site has a good amount of apps with ads and such stripped.
Hell yeah
Look man, not one goddamn person who worked on Xam'd is getting a red penny from me paying to watch it legally. I'm not gonna reward some corporation whose only contribution was having enough money to buy the rights to make money off of it. Piracy is actually the only ethical way to consume most older media
Nice.
They are saying that like it is a bad thing.
Bad for shareholders maybe.
People actually pay for content?
Nice!
What's this from?
Nope, just hard working pirates sailing the rough seas