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I feel your pain. I used to be across 0day hip hop channels on irc, had a massive collection of movies which I would never watch, etc etc, nowadays I feel like Mike Wazowski-Sully whenever I think about it so am paying Netflix, disney, spotify, kayo... -_-
Back in the late 00s and early 10s I was so on top of everty hip hop blog and source of leaks and shit. Mp3 tag editors prepared to make every song pristine on my mp3 player/phone etc.
Now Im like...how on earth I had so much time to do it. But if the prices will increase for all these streaming platforms even more than Imma come back swinging on all of these sites again.
I was out of the loop and got myself back in because streaming services finally crossed the line of cost versus convenience for me.
I got a little secondhand Mac Mini with an external hard drive that stays permanently connected to the TV and installed Jellyfin. It looks and acts just like a streaming platform as it goes and fetches all the movie/show info and thumbnails. I cancelled all my streaming services which will match the cost of the Mac Mini within about three months.
Like riding a bicycle.
I have several terabytes of movies and TV shows on my server which I had downloaded over the years but then Netflix came out and I stopped. I might end up starting up again given how many price hikes and fragmented the market has become.
I gave up life on the high seas for a long time but these companies got too greedy. I dug up my old chest, spent some gold on a new box, put on my old eye patch, and bought myself a stunning Maccaw. It's sitting on my shoulder right now as I type this watching a free movie.
VPN won't protect you from viruses. It's so your real IP isn't revealed and so your ISP doesn't know what you're doing so you don't get done for copyright infringement.
Skip the torrents and check out .nzb. It's not dependent on other users, maxes out your internet connection, retention for content is about 10 years.
Mind you a news server costs about $3 a month if you want the best experience. Haven't looked at a torrent for about 10 years.
Amen.
Plex, Sonarr, Radarr and subnzb.
It's a little work to setup, but once it is then it's objectively better than what you get from paying for a streaming service.
Cannot recommend Stremio enough. A streaming app which feels like netflix and does all the sailing of the high seas in the background if you set it up for that.
Even without using that particular plugin, it's a great app - you search for a show, then it shows you what streaming services (or plugins) it's available on.
Just share the URL mate, ain't nothing illegal about a url.
Don't waste time with YTS crap, get some better x265 1080/2160 rips from 1337x(dot)to or torrentgalaxy(dot)to as an example.
UTRCorp, QxR, ReVyndros are some good uploaders.
Honestly if you have all the popular subscription streaming services for 12 months you might as well buy a 4 or 6 bay nas with some 18tb disks and go to town.
Funny because when netflix was good and cheap it was better than piracy because it was more convenient. Now its expensive and comes with ads. Back to the high seas i guess
It's not even corporate greed in an individual sense from netflix, it's the unsustainable and unrelenting expectation of financial growth by investors. The fruit becomes harder and harder to pick as you go up. Compounded by the entrance of additional competition into the market.
Okay, so yeah it's corporate greed. But with extra context I guess...
Also remember to NEVER under any circumstances change your DNS to one that doesnt block piracy sites like Cloudflare DNS because you could accidentally do illegal things with it
DL stremio. It's a front end that pulls torrents and streams them to any device. You should probably use a VPN as well but I haven't had any issues so far without one
Funny thing is, when you pirate something it's only way to get something totally add free.
If you go and actually buy the physical disc, it's just a copy anyway, with adverts.
Call me crazy, but I kind of love those though. It’s almost like a time capsule. Pulling out an old VHS tape and watching the previews for movies that were coming soon is such a blast from the past. And eventually you will probably feel the same way about 2015 era movies
No ads, either.
Gabe Newell, who owns Steam/Valve, famously said "Piracy is a service problem."
His Steam distribution platform for PC games was built so well that it offered a more attractive product for gamers than pirating games, and it worked, highly effectively.
Netflix also offered a better alternative... for a while. It seems things are changing.
I haven't pirated a game since my 20's (40 now) thanks to Steam. It's (almost) ALL there, all fairly priced, with no shitty gimmicks. Regular sales so the games you're on the fence about still get a shot.. and most importantly it just /works/
When Netflix launched in Australia, I thought Yes! Finally! I can watch content legitimately, subscribed straight away.. Let my friends and family use my account because that made it more worthwhile to me. They jacked the price a few times but okay no dramas it was still value. They gutted the catalogue and started geoblocking.. ok no I get it, that's reasonable although crappy for us Aussies with our already neutered selection.. Then they brought in ads and blocked account sharing while continuing to jack up the price?? And I'm expected to just tolerate this for all 583493 streaming services available now??
-sigh- Ok, well.. we tried. They let us down.. but hey, at least a small fraction of people got to see numby go big in their portfolios or whatever..
Time to wait for the next disruptive service to come along and give us a glimmer of hope before being sold to the vultures and pilfered for all value and logic again I guess.
Piratebay is fine for movies and shows but would avoid for software or games, anyone can get a trusted account without any effort now so it's filled with malware and miners.
Yeah seriously.
r/addons4kodi
I find it a bit odd paying for piracy (Real Debrid) but it’s like 16 euro for 6 months and you get everything in 4K, Dolby Atmos, etc
Real debrid is so sick. It's an actual gamechanger. Stremio/torrentio/RD + an Amazon firestick and you have all of the content on the entire internet, for a one time $60 for the stick and then the cost of the debrid sub.
Yeah real debrid is the go.
Mostly using it with Kodi on Xbox or stremio web on Xbox.
I was using my computer hooked up to TV but computer is dead so I have no PC in the house.
Full speed torrent downloading is handy as well if using it on PC
I was so happy to just pay for such a broad selection of stuff. It meant I didn’t have to pirate. Now it’s headed back the other direction and quickly.
Never stopped pirating or buying physical media.
Honestly, steaming can get fucked. I'd rather build on my own library knowing that everything is available when I want to watch something.
The reality is that the pricing wasn’t sustainable. It never was. This is how Silicon Valley technology works:.
1. Pump lots of venture capital funding into a product which is unsustainably good for the price (ie making a loss). This makes the product very desirable.
2. Get lots of customers hooked. Grow at any cost. Establish market dominance.
3. Figure out how to be profitable (with adds, raising prices etc).
Examples of this: Facebook, WhatsApp, Uber, AirBnB, Netflix … Reddit
Netflix is hugely profitable and despite cracking down on password sharing, increasing prices and introducing ads the number of users still continues to grow.
You’re right, and ultimately some of these services will collapse due to a combination of pissing off too many customers along the way, fragmentation, and unjustifiable price increases that erode your customer base and ultimately render them unprofitable.
Under the hood, Uber already seems to be teetering on the edge of oblivion.
If a supermarket does it, we call it predatory pricing. Have a bank account, cut prices, lose money, outlive competitors, last one standing, raise prices. But it's OK for a startup because they're in a "growth stage" or something.
Basically the Amazon model. Absorb the loss (or buy out competitors) until you're the last player in the market then profit exponentially, the entire Amazon basics line is built on it. Amazon vs diapers.com is a good read
You are right and there is a very good explanation video of this on YT, everyone must watch it:
[The internet is starting to break](https://youtu.be/wVYG1mu8Lg8?si=Zysiir7ZaNsm_nP3)
Just a heads up if anyone else has access to your account they can just restart your plan and there is no way to actually remove your card details short of deleting your account.
Also when the plan is renewed you will automatically be placed on the most expensive option because go fuck yourself.
Ask me how I know.
I quit when they expected me to pay for a 5 person unshareable family account for 4k content.
If I want to see something on Netflix enough I’ll pirate it. They’ve too quickly forgotten that they built their business on being easier than pirating and more cost effective than pay TV. Now they’re just a modern PayTV channel pack.
Same, but they’ve started giving me pop ups to “upgrade”.
No thanks. Although I reckon eventually they’ll just force me, in which case I’ll likely be cancelling it.
What I do these days is only subscribe when there’s something specific that I want to watch. And immediately after subscription payment goes through, I unsubscribe. That way I don’t need to keep track of my recurring subscriptions, since they are all one-off.
As a result, I only have Netflix for 1-2 months a year.
The Amazon Prime is trickier though, since it includes free delivery. It may be worth getting an annual subscription ($79) if you buy from Amazon at least once a month on average.
I have Amazon Prime and I think that is the only subscription I will keep, the rest (Netflix, D+, AppleTV, etc) will be just a month or two subscription while I binge watch everything I need. Sounds like a good strategy to stay a normal sailor this way.
The early days of Netflix, where it was the only streaming service and content owners were happy to give them contracts for relatively little money are gone. The surge in new services opening up trying to get a slice of the pie, including content owners has split up catalogues, driven streaming to try to create exclusive content, and put all of them under financial pressure.
We'll probably see some consolidation/collapses before long. One thing is for sure, the golden age of streaming is over.
I think this day has just arrived, for sports fan anyway. Foxtel now is $58 a month for their full package, two screens available. To get Kayo with two screens is $35 a month, add netflix on top for $26 and Foxtel Now is a better deal
It is cable. Actually it's probably worse. I never got Foxtel as a kid but atleast from what I understand they had everything and you just had to pay for whatever you wanted to watch. Now it's like what $75 - $100 bucks a month if you want all the various services.
You get free access through your local library or a university. I work for UQ, so I log in through them. Basically it's an educational resource that just happens to be chock full of great films and docos.
Honestly. What’s even on Netflix worth watching anymore?
I had the 4 screen plan up until the password debacle. Then I cancelled. Subbed for one month for One Piece and one month for Avatar.
Netflix occasionally brings out some of the best shit out there, Blue Eye Samurai is one of the best series I have ever seen. Damn shame I will have to pirate season 2
I’ve been using these for years:
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Readarr
- Lidarr
- Prowlarr
- qbittorent
I got sick of the family requests coming via WhatsApp so I bought a Domain and used cloudflare tunnels to set up Overseerr.
Game changer. Once your video quality and audio quality preferences are set in the *arrs the system requires basically no maintenance.
It all runs on a Dell ultra small form factor mini PC with a Direct Attached Storage (RAID5) hooked up for my files. It’s a QNAP TR-004.
Plex + Servarr's on a Synology NAS was turned on the month netflix went to household only accounts, now all my extended family uses it instead of 3-4 netflix et al accounts
I just pirate everything now. Screw em. I swapped to streaming for convenience initially but things like debrid / stremio are more convenient now with how fragmented everything is.
Because when it was reasonable value some ppl wanted to pay to prop up the film and tv industry IF it was priced fairly, so the people who worked on those shows could have viable careers. Now it’s a bit of a piss take.
Because for a while there, it was more convenient than pirating.
Now it costs 10x as much, you have to worry about 8 different streaming services, ads, stopping access with vpn, etc.
It's no longer more convenient, especially with ways to pirate that are pretty much seamless. So back to pirating i go.
It's nice to just browse and click play. Organizing a Plex server and running it on a PC dedicated to it etc isn't exactly fun when you want to sit on the couch and turn it on y'know.
Admittedly having a decent home server has a large front loaded cost, but it means having access to practically everything on all streaming platforms, as well as a huge chunk of the total bluray/DVD releases in history. I feel like that guy in the 80's who bought a lifetime plane ticket for $250k and ended up going on something like $20m worth of flights.
Just sail the high seas. Been downloading for years and never had issues. Also look up the Dallas Buyers Club ruling in Australia, a precedent has been set. I listen to Louis Rossman and he makes the point constantly that pirates get the better experience (DRM free, viewable offline, free, higher resolution and bitrate) and these companies treat the paying customer like criminals, take content you paid for away from you and just given you a worse experience. The 'convience' factor Netflix had has been eroded with the price raises, ads, the password sharing crackdown and loss of content. There are services like Plex/Jellyfin that make your library look like a streaming service and you can curate your content on your own terms.
Only Korean dramas are keeping Netflix afloat.
They had a chance to make some genuinely good TV in the 2021-24 era but the execs cheaped out every time and we got shit like Witcher.
The kicker is that the Witcher had a lot of potential to be good, and they still managed to screw it up. Even when they do manage to luck out and produce their own good original content, there's no point in watching it and getting invested because it's likely to be cancelled after the second season anyway.
The only way Netflix will lower their prices is for a very large percentage of their user base to quit paying for the service. Otherwise they will continue to increase their pricing.
I cancelled Netflix last month.
Best decision ever. Fucking dungheap content.
I only have Disney+ now, I got it for $5 a month via someone I know.
It’s at the point where streaming is the new cable, gotta buy them all or miss out.
That’s why all of us should be sailing in the high seas, ifywim
I don't watch most of the shows on Netflix so got rid of it a few years ago. Might get it for a while every now and then if a few good series accumulate. Though it is pretty rare that I am interested in a Netflix show, there is a immature tone/style to most of their shows, that I am not that fond of. Apple, Paramount, Prime, Binge have more mature, polished shows.
and as predicted by anyone with half a brain:
[https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peacock-netflix-apple-tv-plus-bundle-streaming-comcast-1236002375/](https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peacock-netflix-apple-tv-plus-bundle-streaming-comcast-1236002375/)
Streaming effectively turning into PayTV complete with 'bundles'. It was a good few years but we've ended up exactly right back where we were running from.
I think this weekend I'm unsubbing from every single subscription service I've got, and then only activating them on occasion when there's something I want on. I don't think I've even watched Netflix in two months.
Is that sea shanties I hear in the distance?
It seems funny to me that Netflix was supposedly what "killed" piracy by making things affordably, conveniently and easily available (no more month-long waits to catch up the US with shows, no region locked DVDs, etc.).
Slowly, the industry has done everything they can to undo that with ads, price hikes, removing content and requiring so many different subscription services that piracy is once again the easier and "better" alternative.
Now watch them all be shocked that people are pirating stuff rather than paying huge amounts for ads on ten different streaming services.
Also: remember that THIS is why they want to get rid of physical media. You will watch exactly how they want you to watch, and at the prices they set, period.
Yeah, this is the modern business model. Offer an innovative, convenient, and cheap product - let people share it even - then when you've got enough people on board you start the squeeze. Increase prices, ban shared accounts, pump in ads, pump up prices again and hope enough people stick around to cash in. If/when it goes to shit then whatever, you've made your money and have cashed out.
This is disappointing. The main thing that made streaming services viable was the fact is was both legal, affordable, convenient and readily available. With the rise of a dozen other streaming services with varying content and the 180 on sharing rules plus price hikes, I’m thinking of just going back to plex for everything.
It's also bricked now on many devices it used to work on using a Netflix app like home projectors etc. as in the app loads and you can select shows, but when attempting to play there's an error 'Netflix is no longer available on this device'
Cancelled - back to pirating I suppose.
It’s shit. Like you can’t login at different places without them getting the shits and making you prove yourself.
Then there hasn’t been many new seasons coming out or even updated seasons like outlander has had. 6-7 and maybe 8 coming out and they haven’t added them. I’ve been waiting 2-3 years for some series to have the next season. So much of it now is voice over shit. They need new movies and tv series.
Also I’d pay if the service is good. With them not bringing new movies or series out much, or having the new seasons coming out. It’s abit of a rip off.
I noped out late last year when banker profits meant more than me enjoying my plebeian existence.
Lol at Netflix still flogging more. Their content isn't good enough to pay that much.
Netflix was supposed to be the attractive option to piracy by providing affordable content to the masses. Now they have priced themselves out of my budget and reduced sharing. Granted both my brother and I only use it a few times a month, it certainly doesn’t justify having two seperate accounts.
So now I sail the high seas. Netflix got greedy and now they get $0.
Free-to-air TV is free and we are forced to watch ads to cover the cost of broadcasting, etc.
Now Pay-TV makes you pay for a subscription and then watch ads. And no one complains about it.
That's what happens when you win at Capitalism.
The cool thing is that this is one of the rare times that consumers really have a palatable option to vote with their feet via sailing the seas.
The craziest thing is that if you like to do everything on your PC, all the damn streaming services refuse to stream 4k to a PC because of weaker copy protection, so I sail the seas while \*being a subscriber\* to Prime.
Ultra HD my arse... it's shown time and time again that is not what gets delivered.
at the moment, the best anti-piracy strategy seems to be making nothing we want to watch and just pumping out crap. If I did sail the 7 seas hypothetically, I would hardly be grabbing anything anyway
at this rate a subscription to Readings Books would be better value for money
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I recently rediscovered the joys of ye olde Caribbean sailing
*”Take what you can, give nothing back”*
More a guidline than a rule.
aye
*but please seed your torrents.
"It's more of a guideline than a rule."
If someone wanted to ahh… visit the Caribbean, where would you recommend starting?
There is a whole sub dedicated to it with a pretty noob friendly megathread that helped me heaps
Back in the day I was all over it and then… life and now I’m 34 and like ???
I feel your pain. I used to be across 0day hip hop channels on irc, had a massive collection of movies which I would never watch, etc etc, nowadays I feel like Mike Wazowski-Sully whenever I think about it so am paying Netflix, disney, spotify, kayo... -_-
Back in the late 00s and early 10s I was so on top of everty hip hop blog and source of leaks and shit. Mp3 tag editors prepared to make every song pristine on my mp3 player/phone etc. Now Im like...how on earth I had so much time to do it. But if the prices will increase for all these streaming platforms even more than Imma come back swinging on all of these sites again.
I was out of the loop and got myself back in because streaming services finally crossed the line of cost versus convenience for me. I got a little secondhand Mac Mini with an external hard drive that stays permanently connected to the TV and installed Jellyfin. It looks and acts just like a streaming platform as it goes and fetches all the movie/show info and thumbnails. I cancelled all my streaming services which will match the cost of the Mac Mini within about three months. Like riding a bicycle.
I have several terabytes of movies and TV shows on my server which I had downloaded over the years but then Netflix came out and I stopped. I might end up starting up again given how many price hikes and fragmented the market has become.
I gave up life on the high seas for a long time but these companies got too greedy. I dug up my old chest, spent some gold on a new box, put on my old eye patch, and bought myself a stunning Maccaw. It's sitting on my shoulder right now as I type this watching a free movie.
What’s it’s called?
r/piracy
They don't mince words
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/movies\_and\_tv/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/movies_and_tv/)
1. A VPN, recommend Proton 2. qBitorrent bound to your VPN network interface 3. 1337x(dot)to
Why vpn? I’ve torrented for the last 10 years on a burner laptop (for viruses) and never used a vpn, never had any issues
VPN won't protect you from viruses. It's so your real IP isn't revealed and so your ISP doesn't know what you're doing so you don't get done for copyright infringement.
Who in Australia has ever been done for downloading movies?
Well, that depends on whether you want to be the test case.
I'll take those extremely good odds
I did get a letter from Optus a few years ago about pirating stuff, but I just switched ISPs haha
Not like there are whole subreddits dedicated to sailing…
Skip the torrents and check out .nzb. It's not dependent on other users, maxes out your internet connection, retention for content is about 10 years. Mind you a news server costs about $3 a month if you want the best experience. Haven't looked at a torrent for about 10 years.
Amen. Plex, Sonarr, Radarr and subnzb. It's a little work to setup, but once it is then it's objectively better than what you get from paying for a streaming service.
Cannot recommend Stremio enough. A streaming app which feels like netflix and does all the sailing of the high seas in the background if you set it up for that.
Even without using that particular plugin, it's a great app - you search for a show, then it shows you what streaming services (or plugins) it's available on.
For tv shows, it's pretty EZ to find TV if you remember to dot your RE. For movies, Y, you should TS but then paint dots on your bMX
Just share the URL mate, ain't nothing illegal about a url. Don't waste time with YTS crap, get some better x265 1080/2160 rips from 1337x(dot)to or torrentgalaxy(dot)to as an example. UTRCorp, QxR, ReVyndros are some good uploaders.
English please, pirates are meant to be illiterate
Zoechip.cc
watch.lonelil
Honestly if you have all the popular subscription streaming services for 12 months you might as well buy a 4 or 6 bay nas with some 18tb disks and go to town.
Same - Arrrrrr
Consider piracy. It's cheap, easy, and has a broader catalogue.
Funny because when netflix was good and cheap it was better than piracy because it was more convenient. Now its expensive and comes with ads. Back to the high seas i guess
This. When Netflix first came out, there was a huge drop in piracy. Now, due to corporate greed, people are going back to pirating.
This is the way
Find your mate that knows how to run a plex server and never worry again, they’ll keep you hooked up and running no issues
It's not even corporate greed in an individual sense from netflix, it's the unsustainable and unrelenting expectation of financial growth by investors. The fruit becomes harder and harder to pick as you go up. Compounded by the entrance of additional competition into the market. Okay, so yeah it's corporate greed. But with extra context I guess...
Shocking, as piracy is obviously illegal as well as being morally wrong Somebody should post a list of these sites so we know which ones to avoid…
If we had food replicators, governments, farmers and corpos would kill us and fight wars over what they would claim to be "food piracy".
It kind of already exists. Some seeds are patented, and you're not supposed to save any seeds from crops you might grow.
Monsanto is (was?) Good for this. I remember there was a lawsuit because his crops were cross-pollinated from a Monsanto-owned crop.
>Monsanto is (was?) Good for this Monsanto was bought out by Bayer and renamed in an attempt to leave the bad reputation behind.
Yeah, thought so. Bayer is just as bad though, so it's just a case of polishing a turd.
Also remember to NEVER under any circumstances change your DNS to one that doesnt block piracy sites like Cloudflare DNS because you could accidentally do illegal things with it
DL stremio. It's a front end that pulls torrents and streams them to any device. You should probably use a VPN as well but I haven't had any issues so far without one
If you use Real Debrid servers you don't need one, because the traffic goes through them.
Funny thing is, when you pirate something it's only way to get something totally add free. If you go and actually buy the physical disc, it's just a copy anyway, with adverts.
We have a Bluray of Fury Road and it has an UNSKIPPABLE lengthy ad thanking us for not pirating.
I just watched it last night and didn't hate that as much as the four skippable ads for completely forgettable 2015-era movies
Call me crazy, but I kind of love those though. It’s almost like a time capsule. Pulling out an old VHS tape and watching the previews for movies that were coming soon is such a blast from the past. And eventually you will probably feel the same way about 2015 era movies
JellyFin and an *arr stack is a gamechanger, honestly.
They forgot their real competitor, apparently.
No ads, either. Gabe Newell, who owns Steam/Valve, famously said "Piracy is a service problem." His Steam distribution platform for PC games was built so well that it offered a more attractive product for gamers than pirating games, and it worked, highly effectively. Netflix also offered a better alternative... for a while. It seems things are changing.
I haven't pirated a game since my 20's (40 now) thanks to Steam. It's (almost) ALL there, all fairly priced, with no shitty gimmicks. Regular sales so the games you're on the fence about still get a shot.. and most importantly it just /works/ When Netflix launched in Australia, I thought Yes! Finally! I can watch content legitimately, subscribed straight away.. Let my friends and family use my account because that made it more worthwhile to me. They jacked the price a few times but okay no dramas it was still value. They gutted the catalogue and started geoblocking.. ok no I get it, that's reasonable although crappy for us Aussies with our already neutered selection.. Then they brought in ads and blocked account sharing while continuing to jack up the price?? And I'm expected to just tolerate this for all 583493 streaming services available now?? -sigh- Ok, well.. we tried. They let us down.. but hey, at least a small fraction of people got to see numby go big in their portfolios or whatever.. Time to wait for the next disruptive service to come along and give us a glimmer of hope before being sold to the vultures and pilfered for all value and logic again I guess.
Thanks for the long reply. I am feeling exactly the same. But what’s happening today is called daylight robbery going unpunished.
Rarbg used to be a good source, too bad they closed down
Use qbitorrent. The built in search scrapes dozens of sites - including a cached rarbg :P
And you can add your own public and private trackers to your search engine.
magnetdl .com No ads and it has everything.
Some alts: 1337x(dot)to, torrentgalaxy(dot)to
Stremio with torrentio is the way
with realdebrid.
Honestly I still use the Pirate Bay and proxies, apparently people don’t like them anymore but they have never let me down even to this day.
Been using Pirate Bay for well over a decade. I've found lately that it's starting to let me down at times. Lime Torrents fills the gap for me.
Piratebay is fine for movies and shows but would avoid for software or games, anyone can get a trusted account without any effort now so it's filled with malware and miners.
Reading this thread warms my cold dead pirate heart. Luckily pirate bay is exactly where we left it.
Yeah seriously. r/addons4kodi I find it a bit odd paying for piracy (Real Debrid) but it’s like 16 euro for 6 months and you get everything in 4K, Dolby Atmos, etc
Real debrid is so sick. It's an actual gamechanger. Stremio/torrentio/RD + an Amazon firestick and you have all of the content on the entire internet, for a one time $60 for the stick and then the cost of the debrid sub.
Shhh
Yeah real debrid is the go. Mostly using it with Kodi on Xbox or stremio web on Xbox. I was using my computer hooked up to TV but computer is dead so I have no PC in the house. Full speed torrent downloading is handy as well if using it on PC
Don't even need the Stick. The Stremio app works so well natively on both our TVs and google home on the projector.
That’s exactly what these greedy morons are pushing people back to. Just a pisstake.
Do you guys use a vpn here?
I was so happy to just pay for such a broad selection of stuff. It meant I didn’t have to pirate. Now it’s headed back the other direction and quickly.
Please seed.
Never stopped pirating or buying physical media. Honestly, steaming can get fucked. I'd rather build on my own library knowing that everything is available when I want to watch something.
I’m done. Just cancelled. No longer worth it and the constant price rises aren’t justified.
[удалено]
I cancelled when one of my kids moved out and netflix wanted more money, even though the same number of screens in use as before.
The reality is that the pricing wasn’t sustainable. It never was. This is how Silicon Valley technology works:. 1. Pump lots of venture capital funding into a product which is unsustainably good for the price (ie making a loss). This makes the product very desirable. 2. Get lots of customers hooked. Grow at any cost. Establish market dominance. 3. Figure out how to be profitable (with adds, raising prices etc). Examples of this: Facebook, WhatsApp, Uber, AirBnB, Netflix … Reddit
Netflix is hugely profitable and despite cracking down on password sharing, increasing prices and introducing ads the number of users still continues to grow.
You’re right, and ultimately some of these services will collapse due to a combination of pissing off too many customers along the way, fragmentation, and unjustifiable price increases that erode your customer base and ultimately render them unprofitable. Under the hood, Uber already seems to be teetering on the edge of oblivion.
Uber would be betting on outlasting the transition to driverless cars. Cut out the wage and the cost dramatically goes down
If a supermarket does it, we call it predatory pricing. Have a bank account, cut prices, lose money, outlive competitors, last one standing, raise prices. But it's OK for a startup because they're in a "growth stage" or something.
Basically the Amazon model. Absorb the loss (or buy out competitors) until you're the last player in the market then profit exponentially, the entire Amazon basics line is built on it. Amazon vs diapers.com is a good read
You are right and there is a very good explanation video of this on YT, everyone must watch it: [The internet is starting to break](https://youtu.be/wVYG1mu8Lg8?si=Zysiir7ZaNsm_nP3)
Same and I also joined my local library yesterday. Maybe Netflix has done me a favour, less tv and out of the house more.
Our library has an app called kanopy that works like Netflix. Some great stuff on there, all free.
Thanks for that info
How very dare you. How else will the executives be paid huge bonuses for doing relatively very little
Just a heads up if anyone else has access to your account they can just restart your plan and there is no way to actually remove your card details short of deleting your account. Also when the plan is renewed you will automatically be placed on the most expensive option because go fuck yourself. Ask me how I know.
How do you know?
I quit when they expected me to pay for a 5 person unshareable family account for 4k content. If I want to see something on Netflix enough I’ll pirate it. They’ve too quickly forgotten that they built their business on being easier than pirating and more cost effective than pay TV. Now they’re just a modern PayTV channel pack.
Premium plan now: $25.99 per month, was $22.99 Standard plan now: $18.99 per month, was $16.99
I'm still on the old cheap standard plan 10.95 basic HD plan, no idea how.
Shhh, so am I. I’m sure they’ll scrap it eventually but I think as long as we keep subscribing we can keep the old plan for now.
Yep I've seen some users (maybe US) posting that they've been told their basic HD plan is expiring and they have to go to Ads or 16.95
Same, but they’ve started giving me pop ups to “upgrade”. No thanks. Although I reckon eventually they’ll just force me, in which case I’ll likely be cancelling it.
What I do these days is only subscribe when there’s something specific that I want to watch. And immediately after subscription payment goes through, I unsubscribe. That way I don’t need to keep track of my recurring subscriptions, since they are all one-off. As a result, I only have Netflix for 1-2 months a year. The Amazon Prime is trickier though, since it includes free delivery. It may be worth getting an annual subscription ($79) if you buy from Amazon at least once a month on average.
I have Amazon Prime and I think that is the only subscription I will keep, the rest (Netflix, D+, AppleTV, etc) will be just a month or two subscription while I binge watch everything I need. Sounds like a good strategy to stay a normal sailor this way.
Streaming is just becoming more and more like cable TV every day. Soon Foxtel will look like good value 🤣
The early days of Netflix, where it was the only streaming service and content owners were happy to give them contracts for relatively little money are gone. The surge in new services opening up trying to get a slice of the pie, including content owners has split up catalogues, driven streaming to try to create exclusive content, and put all of them under financial pressure. We'll probably see some consolidation/collapses before long. One thing is for sure, the golden age of streaming is over.
I think this day has just arrived, for sports fan anyway. Foxtel now is $58 a month for their full package, two screens available. To get Kayo with two screens is $35 a month, add netflix on top for $26 and Foxtel Now is a better deal
$58 for a full package? Is this the one when you call them that you want to cancel and they give you a huuuge discount just to stay?
It is cable. Actually it's probably worse. I never got Foxtel as a kid but atleast from what I understand they had everything and you just had to pay for whatever you wanted to watch. Now it's like what $75 - $100 bucks a month if you want all the various services.
Cable was a lot worse... $100 was low end for cable, it still had ads and you couldn't choose what to watch or when.
I keep trying to cancel my Foxtel and they keep giving me deals. I now have the Platinum package for $40 a month.
Look, I know they aren't glamorous but SBS on demand and kanopy are great services for free.
ABC iview is also excellent
Never heard of kanopy, cheers!
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You get free access through your local library or a university. I work for UQ, so I log in through them. Basically it's an educational resource that just happens to be chock full of great films and docos.
Honestly. What’s even on Netflix worth watching anymore? I had the 4 screen plan up until the password debacle. Then I cancelled. Subbed for one month for One Piece and one month for Avatar.
Netflix occasionally brings out some of the best shit out there, Blue Eye Samurai is one of the best series I have ever seen. Damn shame I will have to pirate season 2
I’ve been using these for years: - Sonarr - Radarr - Readarr - Lidarr - Prowlarr - qbittorent I got sick of the family requests coming via WhatsApp so I bought a Domain and used cloudflare tunnels to set up Overseerr. Game changer. Once your video quality and audio quality preferences are set in the *arrs the system requires basically no maintenance. It all runs on a Dell ultra small form factor mini PC with a Direct Attached Storage (RAID5) hooked up for my files. It’s a QNAP TR-004.
I don’t understand any of what you just said lol
And what app do you use to play the content? Plex or other alternatives?
Plex + Servarr's on a Synology NAS was turned on the month netflix went to household only accounts, now all my extended family uses it instead of 3-4 netflix et al accounts
I just pirate everything now. Screw em. I swapped to streaming for convenience initially but things like debrid / stremio are more convenient now with how fragmented everything is.
I've never paid for any streaming service, I started sailing around 2000, can't see why anyone would choose any other way
Because when it was reasonable value some ppl wanted to pay to prop up the film and tv industry IF it was priced fairly, so the people who worked on those shows could have viable careers. Now it’s a bit of a piss take.
Because for a while there, it was more convenient than pirating. Now it costs 10x as much, you have to worry about 8 different streaming services, ads, stopping access with vpn, etc. It's no longer more convenient, especially with ways to pirate that are pretty much seamless. So back to pirating i go.
It's nice to just browse and click play. Organizing a Plex server and running it on a PC dedicated to it etc isn't exactly fun when you want to sit on the couch and turn it on y'know.
Netflix killed Foxtel, now they're becoming Foxtel.
Its like Foxtel. You paid for it and it still have ads! Like wtf.
they all follow the same pattern, amazing how many people fail to see it.
Yar har, fiddle de dee Being a pirate is alright to be Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free You are a pirate!
Words you can hear.
Yes Piracy is the answer and these greed filled corporate cunts can eat shit. Anyone use newsgroups? Best client please.
Streamio with real debrid
Bye Netflix. And go fuck yourself.
1 month of Netflix costs the same as 6 months of paid sailing.
Admittedly having a decent home server has a large front loaded cost, but it means having access to practically everything on all streaming platforms, as well as a huge chunk of the total bluray/DVD releases in history. I feel like that guy in the 80's who bought a lifetime plane ticket for $250k and ended up going on something like $20m worth of flights.
I've been sailing the seven seas for years. The range on Netflix is fucking garbage
Wonder why everyone is going back to piracy. Too many streaming platforms and too pricey
What bull. Would rather watch Tubi for free with ads then pay to not have ads. Haven’t watched Netflix that much.
Just use SBS demand, ABC iview and youtube.
Time to sail the high seas, me hearty; there's a whole subreddit dedicated to it with a link tree for streaming and torrents that are safe.
Qbittirrent ad-less open source client for sailing
Every time there’s publicity about Netflix price rise or password sharing crackdown is when I remember I have Netflix. They’d wanna be careful. 🤔
I'd rather not click the news corp link. How much is it now?
$7 -》$8 $17 -》$19 $23 -》$26
Sorry, added to the original post.
$8 with ads, $18 for cheapest without.
After they did the whole can’t share between households thing, we cancelled. Haven’t missed it one bit.
Just sail the high seas. Been downloading for years and never had issues. Also look up the Dallas Buyers Club ruling in Australia, a precedent has been set. I listen to Louis Rossman and he makes the point constantly that pirates get the better experience (DRM free, viewable offline, free, higher resolution and bitrate) and these companies treat the paying customer like criminals, take content you paid for away from you and just given you a worse experience. The 'convience' factor Netflix had has been eroded with the price raises, ads, the password sharing crackdown and loss of content. There are services like Plex/Jellyfin that make your library look like a streaming service and you can curate your content on your own terms.
A VPN is free or a few bucks a year for a good one.
Only Korean dramas are keeping Netflix afloat. They had a chance to make some genuinely good TV in the 2021-24 era but the execs cheaped out every time and we got shit like Witcher.
The kicker is that the Witcher had a lot of potential to be good, and they still managed to screw it up. Even when they do manage to luck out and produce their own good original content, there's no point in watching it and getting invested because it's likely to be cancelled after the second season anyway.
and they now advertise their stupid mobile games, even in the premium package, seriously thinking of sailing the high seas
Don't forget they have also removed beloved content from the service. So you're paying more for less of what you love.
Are they actually trying to lose customers?
The only way Netflix will lower their prices is for a very large percentage of their user base to quit paying for the service. Otherwise they will continue to increase their pricing.
I’ve returned to doing what Australians do best by committing crimes that start and end on a boat through international waters 🏴☠️
I cancelled Netflix last month. Best decision ever. Fucking dungheap content. I only have Disney+ now, I got it for $5 a month via someone I know. It’s at the point where streaming is the new cable, gotta buy them all or miss out. That’s why all of us should be sailing in the high seas, ifywim
I don't watch most of the shows on Netflix so got rid of it a few years ago. Might get it for a while every now and then if a few good series accumulate. Though it is pretty rare that I am interested in a Netflix show, there is a immature tone/style to most of their shows, that I am not that fond of. Apple, Paramount, Prime, Binge have more mature, polished shows.
and as predicted by anyone with half a brain: [https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peacock-netflix-apple-tv-plus-bundle-streaming-comcast-1236002375/](https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peacock-netflix-apple-tv-plus-bundle-streaming-comcast-1236002375/) Streaming effectively turning into PayTV complete with 'bundles'. It was a good few years but we've ended up exactly right back where we were running from.
Yup! I canceled my subscription and moved to Stan last month. Fuck that bs
Time to join us in sailing the forbidden seas
It's because they have to pay extra to have all the shows turned upside-down
People are still using Netflix and not flying the Jolly Roger?
I think this weekend I'm unsubbing from every single subscription service I've got, and then only activating them on occasion when there's something I want on. I don't think I've even watched Netflix in two months.
Is that sea shanties I hear in the distance? It seems funny to me that Netflix was supposedly what "killed" piracy by making things affordably, conveniently and easily available (no more month-long waits to catch up the US with shows, no region locked DVDs, etc.). Slowly, the industry has done everything they can to undo that with ads, price hikes, removing content and requiring so many different subscription services that piracy is once again the easier and "better" alternative. Now watch them all be shocked that people are pirating stuff rather than paying huge amounts for ads on ten different streaming services. Also: remember that THIS is why they want to get rid of physical media. You will watch exactly how they want you to watch, and at the prices they set, period.
It’s a commodity, not a necessity. You can pay for it or not. If it’s too too rich for your liking don’t pay and get on with life.
I refuse to pay for prime or Netflix when it has ads for a premium service fuck that.
suddenly torrents get popular again
This shit has become worse than cable TV.
Yeah, this is the modern business model. Offer an innovative, convenient, and cheap product - let people share it even - then when you've got enough people on board you start the squeeze. Increase prices, ban shared accounts, pump in ads, pump up prices again and hope enough people stick around to cash in. If/when it goes to shit then whatever, you've made your money and have cashed out.
Oh no. Guess I will continue not renewing my subscription.
This is disappointing. The main thing that made streaming services viable was the fact is was both legal, affordable, convenient and readily available. With the rise of a dozen other streaming services with varying content and the 180 on sharing rules plus price hikes, I’m thinking of just going back to plex for everything.
It's also bricked now on many devices it used to work on using a Netflix app like home projectors etc. as in the app loads and you can select shows, but when attempting to play there's an error 'Netflix is no longer available on this device' Cancelled - back to pirating I suppose.
It’s shit. Like you can’t login at different places without them getting the shits and making you prove yourself. Then there hasn’t been many new seasons coming out or even updated seasons like outlander has had. 6-7 and maybe 8 coming out and they haven’t added them. I’ve been waiting 2-3 years for some series to have the next season. So much of it now is voice over shit. They need new movies and tv series.
Also I’d pay if the service is good. With them not bringing new movies or series out much, or having the new seasons coming out. It’s abit of a rip off.
I noped out late last year when banker profits meant more than me enjoying my plebeian existence. Lol at Netflix still flogging more. Their content isn't good enough to pay that much.
Tubi and SBS On Demand deadset has content than Netflix anyway. Cancel and enjoy your lives.
*slides eye patch across the table
I unsubscribed after the second price hike. Fuck them. I’ll find a way to watch without them. Same way we did when Foxtel became too expensive
I love that piracy has made such a resurgence
Netflix was supposed to be the attractive option to piracy by providing affordable content to the masses. Now they have priced themselves out of my budget and reduced sharing. Granted both my brother and I only use it a few times a month, it certainly doesn’t justify having two seperate accounts. So now I sail the high seas. Netflix got greedy and now they get $0.
I guess everyone is going to cancel. Again.
They do realise that they're pushing people back to pirating right?
Free-to-air TV is free and we are forced to watch ads to cover the cost of broadcasting, etc. Now Pay-TV makes you pay for a subscription and then watch ads. And no one complains about it. That's what happens when you win at Capitalism.
r/Plex and r/piracy just went up in subs..
It's because the aussie dollar is laughably weak now. That and corporate greed.
Yo ho ho….
Stremio + RD $26 for 6 months. DM me for details or just google it
Just don't subscribe/pay anymore, Mr. Blackbeard Rrrr
I swear Disney has done similar.
Don’t worry, it’s just the US, Canada, and Australia where it’ll be expensive
The cool thing is that this is one of the rare times that consumers really have a palatable option to vote with their feet via sailing the seas. The craziest thing is that if you like to do everything on your PC, all the damn streaming services refuse to stream 4k to a PC because of weaker copy protection, so I sail the seas while \*being a subscriber\* to Prime.
Yarrrr!!
Ultra HD my arse... it's shown time and time again that is not what gets delivered. at the moment, the best anti-piracy strategy seems to be making nothing we want to watch and just pumping out crap. If I did sail the 7 seas hypothetically, I would hardly be grabbing anything anyway at this rate a subscription to Readings Books would be better value for money