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First, child services has been called on multiple occasions and has done nothing. The police don't care either. They're disabled so they can't just leave.

They have a laptop that they can use whenever they want but their patent is extremely opposed to piracy and won't pay for my friend to buy movies or a streaming service. They watch DVDs from the library on their laptop.

They're also not tech savvy so I need a plug and play solution that will allow them to pirate media without anyone else in the household being aware of it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

JellyFin or Kodi & a couple of raspberry-pi's

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In days of yore people would just pass around USB drives. But I guess that's too low tech for the fancy kids these days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

In times long past, sneakernet was the fastest data transfer method for large data. With today's internet transfer rates, I'm not sure if that's true anymore.

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

They still do in many parts of the world.

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

That's basically cuban internet

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Plex. If they set up a free Plex account and you setup a plex server, you can share whatevr pirated goodies you have with them. This requires an old laptop or pc (ideally dedicated to mostly just this purpose) being on all the time on your end. Anytime they visit plex they can tab over to your or whomever’s server and browse movies in a netflix type interface. A Plex server is pretty damn easy to setup, basically just download, install, and point plex to whatever folder has shows or movies. Also, Tubi, Pluto, and Plex have a surprisingly good amount of content that doesn’t require any piracy.

*if you wanna get fancy you can add a couple of apps that automate dling and adding stuff to your plex library, like sonarr for shows and radarr for movies, and then use overseerr so that your friend can request to add or automatically add things to your server without having to do any pirating themselves.

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

I would also recommend tailscale to make setting up the server connection easier. Just send your friend a link Tailscale gives you and she can connect her computer to yours without any port forwarding or what have you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Whatever you do, be careful not to fuck it up.

I once got me a VPN, set up my bittorrent, and started downloading through the VPN.

...Or so I thought.

It wasn't until I got a warning letter from my ISP that I figured out I'd fucked up my VPN configuration and I had been torrenting over an open internet connection.

Are you set up to pirate content yourself at your own house? If it were me, I'd set up a VPN on your own network (with OpenVPN or something) and have your friend set up a VPN client and connect to your network. From there, you just allow the VPN to access your own Plex (or whatever).

If your friend wants to see anything in particular, either you have your Plex set up to download what they want on request or just have them ask you to download it and make it available in the usual way.

Under those circumstances, if something went wrong, the wrongest it could go is that your friend failed to gain access to the content. The chances their household might receive a warning letter or whatever are about as close to zero as they can possibly get.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's why I use a proxy server. I don't need to hide anything but my torrenting, and qBittorrent won't connect at all if the proxy connection doesn't work. I've never had a nastygram for 15 years or more.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is why you configure your torrent client to only connect on the tunnel adapter. No tunnel, no interface, no ISP flags.

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

And then double check it all using ipleak.net

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

That's what I'm getting at, though. I thought I had.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

A VPN and strem.io would probably work. Nice thing about stremio is that it has basically the same ui as Netflix

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Search for "fmhy" (Free Media, Heck Yeah!) - they keep a regularly updated wiki with all sorts of piracy options, including streaming sites that can be visited in a browser via incognito mode. It's extremely comprehensive with how-to's & all that.

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