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fmovies has been gone almost a month. I should have added "FBI" up there but really they used FBI to shoot down the service, not be like them.

I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

I started using sudo-lol and seems okay. Streaming can be hinky at times but it works for most of the things I want to watch.

I know that torrenting can be a thing but sometimes I just want to watch and not deal with a whole finding a torrent, download, and then watch workflow.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Dude, there is the golden age I've waited 20yrs for.

Check sonarr/radarr/prowlarr/lidarr etc. A lil work, some mere bucks a month for extra comfyness and you're set. Never worry again.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Pay for piracy? That'll get ya the plank!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Pay for a vpn, which is good for more than just piracy (mostly piracy though)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Must be nice having one or those free computers running on free electricity with free internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I was lucky enough to get a free m1. That thing uses 10w or so when you remove the stupidity and install Linux on it. But even if you have to buy a Pi - it'll pay for itself in a few months of not paying for streaming service.

Let's go crazy and say $. 20/kWh. 10÷1000×8760×.2=$17.5/year. Not free, but pretty damn close.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Silly argument, as i pay for internet too. Also 5 bucks are not even a fucking coffee. For that i get what i dreamt of when i was selling pirate-cds for hundreds of bucks.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Generally I agree. But I'd be willing to pay what I would pay a streaming company if they had all the content I wanted.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude, for that sum you could pay people pirating and servicing it for you 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That's what I do

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

The automated services are quite nice. Ive enjoyed not managing a seed box for a while but it is the only guaranteed way these days.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd never pirate myself, obviously, but a friend in a restrictive country is interested in this. Is there an "easy to get started" guide for him?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Thank you! I'll have a look! I mean my friend will 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I would pay legit services. But to see it all i would need multiple services with multiple apps, half of which wouldn't run on my rooted devices. So fuck them.

Sadly no. Not that i know. But once it's setup it basically runs forever without tinkering. Impressive for open-source. Could name the software and/or services that are helpful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The first paragraph hits so hard. "That show is with this service now, but only the last season. If you want to ~~each~~ watch all of them you'll have to get three subscriptions"

Fuck off...

What'll be the min spec for the setup? Can it be run from a pi 4, for example?

Thanks 💖

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As you're obviously no american, you also know that even if you'd pay netflix (for the FULL price i might add) you only get a fraction of what they got and not a penny discount for it. Sorry, but no. If you want my money, OFFER ME SOMETHING. Or discount me. That is just robbery.

So, you at least need a server for the whole work. A pi could do it, although you might not expect stellar performance off of it, but it would get the job done I assume. Except maybe live transcoding if that's necessary (like watching 4k uhd content on a 720p phone or so).

So min-spec would be the combined min-spec for all services. As they probably also run on linux (i use win-20xx-server) it really should do.

You'd need:

  • The **nars you'd want (radarr=movies, sonarr=series, bazarr=subs, lidarr=music etc. and there's even one for porn lol)
  • a downloader, either usenet (prefered for speed and comfyness) or torrent. So SabNZBd or qtorrent or whatever
  • If usenet, then you'd need a usenet-account (use one with the highest retention (backlog) like eweka.nl (if you wait for black friday or so, they usually have BIG discounts) and probably an indexer (the search-engine kinda). Like 10 bucks a year if you pay only yearly or like 30 lifetime, depends on service. I'd advise for nzbgeek, they're cheap and nearly 100% net a result. You could also go for free ones, but they're always very limited. Probably more than enough for 1-2 movies a week or so. sucks if you want a series with 400 episodes :-)

And of couse:

  • a media-server. Like Plex or Emby. I personally love emby, i even pay them just because (and for some minor benefits). You could also go for the free jellyfin, but it's more hassle to setup and i didn't get it to work reliably (and i'm a fucking pro)

Maybe, if you want to access everything from the outside and don't want that machine to be totally exposed:

  • some (reverse)proxy like nginx or caddy. I Prefer caddy, it's fire&forget like all others mentioned here. Once setup though.

I admit, it's a bit of tinkering and configuring, but once it's working it's fine. The *narrs auto-update reliably, emby does too. Occasionally you might manually update sabnzb and restart emby after an update, but that's it.

I even integrated everything with telegram so I get notifications when someone added/moved/deleted something or stopped playing or whatever else. completely smart-home-integrated too.

if you have more questions, just hit me :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you! Maybe it's time to replace my pi Armada with a proper server and ~~proximity~~ proxmox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anytime. As long as it gets the job done, the PIs are totally fine. At least they don't consume much power :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I meant to write proxmox, but my keyboard seems to disagree.

Yeah, they're awesome when they're the right tool. But you need to switch once your needs outgrow them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Proxmox is nice, using it too on one of my servers. True. I would really not use a pi for that specific use :)