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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] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

123movies, hdtoday are still working if you want alternatives ✌️

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

sudo-flix, piracy app hosted on github. Probably will be taken down like popcorn time, that nintendo emulator, and a bunch of other things. Wouldn't surprise me if they ended up on radicle, or codeberg, or I2P or something...

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

fmovies dot llc seems to work fine.

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

Oh nice! I didn't know they had more urls. I was using fmovies24.to

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Losing fmovies wasn't the bad thing as there are dozens of clones. It's the hosting services that really took a hit. The reliable ones have been down for a while. The ones left buffer much slower and can't handle peak times as well. Those years with fmovies really felt like the golden age of piracy.

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

MegaVideo was the golden age

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

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

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[–] [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 😁

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[–] [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.

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[–] [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)
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[–] [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) (4 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 :)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I am confused. Sudoflix is down since a week or two already. How is it still working for you? They had a successor that they named on their page, maybe you mean that one.

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

Huh, thanks for sharing, I didn't get this one so far. I saw a link to one of the sites on it and that's it.

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

I'm not sure what OP's talking about, because fmovies is working for me just fine.

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

What URL are you using? I didn't realize they had multiple. Another user posted their .lcc domain.

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

I've had this open in a tab for several weeks now. Just refreshed, checked new episodes of stuff that's come out in the last few days, no issues. I wasn't even aware there were mirrors/clones.

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

looks awesome. gonna have to search for a URL

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Does sudo flix work like stremio with torrentio? I.e. I just type what I want and get a list of pirate sources to watch directly?

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