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I've been a good boy for 5 years or so but the seas call to me. Are streaming sites the way to go now or is torrenting still a better bet for mainstream movies and tv? I'd imagine all of my accounts have been deleted on those sites so I'd be starting over.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Stremio + ThePirateBay plug-in works great (allegedly)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Just watch this https://piped.video/watch?v=yvhv7bgmz64 lol (videogameduneky video)

[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Commenting to bring awareness to the ‘arrs. Radarr sonarr and lidarr will get you all the media you need organized perfectly. It runs on any device but take a few days to figure out. Once setup it’s a set it and forget it thing. Uses torrents and or usent so use a vpn. Mine runs on a 10 year old raspberry pi 2 and a few usb hdds. Been going strong with very little maintenance for 6 years at this point.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Agreed. Combined with a jellyfin instance and you will never want to come back. As said before, it takes a while to setup at first (especially if you download animes which aren't exactly handled the same way), but when it's done you'll see you weekly episodes magically appear with nothing to do on your side, and that's just great

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use Real Debrid with Stremio + Torrentio. I just need to figure out how to add the manual torrent search & download plugin for Real Debrid since I watch a lot of obscure British TV, not everything is hosted already.

For mainstream stuff, it just works. For obscure stuff, it's about 50-50 if it's on there.

Manually downloading torrents is just for stuff I'll be transferring to a mobile device, like audiobooks. And cracked software, I suppose. I needed Adobe Acrobat for something and torrented it.

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

I used to use a kodi box. Every month or so I'd have to find a new source. I might have to dig it out and give it another try.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We do both honestly. Stream for TV and crappy movies, I don't need to see every nose hair and skin pore. Movie night is torrent. 17 years with no traditional tv or paid services in our house.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Pay for real-debrid and set up a kodi addon like Seren on a streaming box. You'll get an equivalent experience to paid/official streaming platforms without having to pay for them all, including browsing popular shows without having to download them ahead of time or manage a home server. It's still torrenting under the hood, just a lot more convenient

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kodi + add-ons is great if you like tinkering, otherwise I would recommend Stremio with the Torrentio add-on. Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid is the easiest way to consume pirated media IMO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I've heard good things about Stremio + Torrentio. Does it have trakt integration or similar equivalent? I think the discovery in addons that have this makes a big difference. I have many different categories to browse that might sound similar, e.g. Trending, Trending New, Most Watched, Most Popular. But each one has a specific and plainly disclosed ranking methodology and that's very useful to avoid constantly being recommended to watch The Office, Breaking Bad, cowboy soaps etc

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

And you can use it for any torrents, like games & software. It's way cheaper than any streaming site and so much more worth it.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

Torrents and usenet will get you high quality videos if that's what you want. Streaming sites are usually only have low bitrate videos.

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