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I started pirating movies again after a decade (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Digester@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was a happy Netflix user until 2018, before that I haven't really pirated any movies (with very rare exceptions) for almost a decade but I recently started again. I'm was doing my monthly budgeting and realized I was paying for too many subscription services. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Shudder, Disney+, Hulu and Crunchyroll. My family likes to watch different types of content that is distributed on many different platforms.

I was never subscribed to these many services until a couple years ago. I was thinking which service I should cancel when I realized I had the option to cancel all of them this entire time. I'm torrenting again and I started saving a considerate amount.

The only service I'm paying for is Spotify which I think it's fairly priced and offers all the music my family listens too (and it's convenient). All the competitors pretty much offer the same content and that's how streaming services should be.

I remember back in the day using eMule and BitChe (to look for torrents). Now I'm using Deluge as my torrent client and I I get my torrents from 1337x. What sites are you guys using?

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[-] SouthWest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

#stremio anyone?

[-] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using Qbittorrent and LimeTorrents.

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Iptv, stremio, real debrid and torrentio ftw! I'm paying for things, but it's a fraction of what we paid for all the subscriptions. And I can actually find things I want to watch!

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

My family still has netflix so I use that sometimes. But... most of the time I'll download from a few places for movies:

rarbg, though the original went down I found a new one at https://therarbg.com/
yts, again the original went down but I've been using https://yts.mx/ which is fantastic.
stremio. set it up with some plugins and it's pretty useful.
this one is a little weird but https://databasegdriveplayer.xyz/player.php?imdb= I have a browser extension to pop up the relevant link on the imdb page, so I can just click that. not always best quality, but for some rarer titles it really does end up helping.

for client I've always really used transmission. it's small, comfy, works.

[-] 123Opie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Therargb is a good one, thx! Sadly I cannot (yet) add it to jackett.

[-] theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Deluge leaks your ip address if you use a VPN, I use QBittorrent for this reason.

[-] greenkarmic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

You can configure Deluge so that it can only use the VPN interface and nothing else. This way if the VPN drops even just a second, you're safe. You set this by entering the VPN IP in the the "Outgoing Interface" box in the Network settings. If the VPN IP changes, you need to update it (which can be automated using a script).