The real winner of the streaming wars.
As a designer, programmer, and music engraver/editor, I've always paid for all media I've consumed because I've strongly believed creators deserve to be paid.
But after the Napster, Ticketmaster, Netflix, and dozens of other egregious examples of corporate sadism, I’m proud to sail the high seas now.
I had stopped piracy for probably 12 years? Streaming was easy and cheap and worth it. I have a huge collection of movies I bought on google play. Then everything went to shit and everyone kept hiking the prices while losing anything interesting.
I like my plex server now. To the point where when I had amazon prime for shipping I still torrented the new season of the boys and hazbin.
This is the way
We just need Torrentz to be more, well umm....... anonymous
It's as anonymous as you are willing to be, vpn (through a vpn) over i2p, or clear text, it's up to you.
Torrent+ is seriously a great streaming service. Great selection. Affordable prices.
It's just the best.
hey! I stole this first!!
It's called sharing, not stealing, my brother in Christ. ;-
fucking pwned
I never stopped. Big corp always lulls us into a false sense of security before springing the trap. I streamed for a little while but always kept me sails dusted.
You dust your sails?
There was a period of time when streaming video from the official sources was more convenient than piracy and that was worse the price for a lot of people. Their greed eneded this time.
I was perfectly happy with streaming services for a couple years when there were only like 2 good ones. I stopped torrenting for a long time and now I'm back to torrenting again
Do you use a VPN? I downloaded a random movie a few years ago and got the email from my cable company stating something along the lines of "we recently notice a download of blah blah blah was detected on our network. Please call to re activate your Internet". So I called and told them "I just got my son a computer I didn't know you could download movies"
But laying for a VPN will cost as much as a streaming service and it's so slow. And I guarantee sooner or later VPNs won't even work in a few years (meaning your ip could be backtracked to the original computer)
Speed doesn't matter too much, if you use a cheap spare computer off Craigslist to download your stuff. Just download what you want to watch ahead of time. Plus, you get near 100% uptime on seeding
I use proton vpn
The best, most reputable VPN, Mullvad costs $5 USD. Plenty are cheaper than that if you pay in advance for a few years.
The cheapest streaming service will roughly double that.
How fast is it?
I just did a speedtest over wifi and got 530 down / 260 up with 45ms ping. I connected to a server a few states away and also got about the same with the closest server. I do have gigabit fiber though
I have gig fiber as well but my modem is not rated for it. So I pull, hardlined, around 300mbs down lol.
When I had Mulkvad my speed test would go from about 335mbit to like 327mbit when connected to a somewhat close server.
Connected to servers across the ocean it'd be like 310.
They got a money-back guarantee if you don't pay with something completely anonymous like cash in the mail.
Never ran a speedtest. Fast enough