Plex is easy. You can self-host, and your friend can watch on a web browser.
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
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Big plus 1 for Plex, it’s super easy to set up and share out.
Alternatively to Plex, Stremio + a debrid account, you can set it up for them remotely and it is pretty easy to use, and you immediately get more content than all the streaming services combined lol.
But debrid services are not free. OPs friend doesn’t seem to have any income since they can’t afford to pay for their own streaming account.
Yeah, it is not free, but as the top suggestion lists Plex or Jellyfin I suppose OP is willing to get the content for him, and depending on OP's server you need to measure internet and electricity bills.
Real Debrid (one of the cheaper, if not the cheapest debrid services) costs 4 eur per month or 9 eur per 3 months, that is cheaper than any official streaming service, and I'd dare to say it has more content than all the streaming services combined...
Maybe OP can take that costs for him if he is willing to help him, that way at least he does not need to even bother to fetch content for him, and as I have said, it can be remotely set up, so it is pretty much set and forget it.
Nothing wrong with using the RD subscription for OP himself and adding that perk to his Plex server though (Riven + Zurg), if his upload speed is fast enough then the only thing he would have to have in mind is to keep adding content.
Alldebrid is a better choice nowadays since RD have bend the knee to the French authorities and are going to regularly delete pirated stuff from their servers.
I wouldn't say it is a better choice, not at least compared to RD though.
They have been forced to bend the knee as well since they are french based I am afraid, for instance I saw some posts saying that they were not accepting new accounts or generating refunds automatically for new users due to these new rules...
People are looking for alternatives for RD, and I am all in for that for sure, that is why I started my initial comment saying a debrid service and not specifically RD, but that is what I use so I can't speak for all the other ones ¯_(ツ)_/¯
But thanks to the community RD still a quality service, at least for torrent streaming, hence why I still use it.
Stremio is P2P though so without a vpn the parents are probably gonna hear about their ISP pretty soon. Or would debrid enable OP to host some stuff for their friend to access through stremio or something ?
Or would debrid enable OP to host some stuff for their friend to access through stremio or something ?
The debrid service caches the torrents in their servers and usually have better speeds than what the seeders provide, so you get the best experience while streaming and they deal with the DMCA strikes and such.
I see, never heard about them but that sounds pretty useful
It is indeed, I effectively ditched watching 1080p films from my Plex server to streaming 4K remuxes files from Stremio Kodi through RD.
In a nutshell I stopped cherry picking which movies to get in 4K for my Plex Server due to storage issues and now I stream every movie that is available in said format, whether it is a "masterpiece" or not.
Stremio with a debrid service is not P2P. Since with a debrid account you’d stream the movie from the debrid servers and not from a P2P network. I doubt the ISP has flagged the IPs of debrid services. And since the files are transferred under https the ISP can’t see what you are streaming.
Tailscale vpn is free for up to 5 clients and would allow you to vpn to a friend to share content
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.
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
They still do in many parts of the world.
That's basically cuban internet
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.
First off damn that's a sad situation. wishing them the best <3
2nd off, could you get a USB stick of MP4s then use the good ol' "teenager hiding porn in a really obscure file path" trick? Give it like 10 mins to transfer then give the stick back to you?
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.
This is why you configure your torrent client to only connect on the tunnel adapter. No tunnel, no interface, no ISP flags.
And then double check it all using ipleak.net
That's what I'm getting at, though. I thought I had.
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.
JellyFin or Kodi & a couple of raspberry-pi's
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