I do love piracy and I do do it sometimes. But sometimes I don’t want to spend 20 minutes finding a torrent and then another 30 minutes to an hour waiting for it to download.
My main issue with it is that I have to pre-plan if I want to watch anything through that method.
Whenever I come across an interesting movie/show; I open a webpage that I host, search for a title (results from imdb) and click ‘add+search’.
~15min later, it’s available for me, my friends, and my family to watch on my own private streaming service.
(for such reliably quick downloads, I recommend usenet over torrents)
that’s sounds so complicated, just downloading it myself is easier
if someone made one application to install and set it up automatically id probably try it though
My setup is a conglomeration of a quite a few different pieces; but they are not all required. I’d encourage you to explore, start small and expand into new pieces/areas when you feel comfortable. I started this ~8 years ago with basically 0 knowledge of hosting web services; and just built up the knowledge through exploration over time.
If all you’re looking to do is watch movies, and you’re happy to play the downloaded media directly on your pc (or move the files around manually, just like manual torrenting); the only piece you need is Radarr.
Once setup; You tell it what movies you want to watch, it searches for those using the indexers you’ve given it (YourBittorrent, TPB, and BadassTorrents for example), choses the best results out of them all based on things like upload date, seeds, quality descriptors in the title, etc. Then passes that to your torrent/usenet client. Finally it will rename and sort the files into nicely organized media folders for you, once the download client has marked it as complete.
Ideally you use Hardlinking - This creates a ‘copy’ of the file that’s just a link to the original data, instead of actually duplicating it. This only works when both ‘copies’ are kept on the same drive/filesystem; but gives you two versions so you can leave one available to seed and have one renamed and sorted away.
Failing that, it can fallback to plain duplicating the files. One copy kept to seed, and one copy sorted away.
Personally, I’ve switched to usenet for 99% of downloads, so seeding isn’t really a thing. It’s there as a fallback though.
Or pirate for 0€.
arrr!
I do love piracy and I do do it sometimes. But sometimes I don’t want to spend 20 minutes finding a torrent and then another 30 minutes to an hour waiting for it to download.
My main issue with it is that I have to pre-plan if I want to watch anything through that method.
You don’t have to download anything, there are amazing streaming sites: https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide
That’s what automation is for.
Whenever I come across an interesting movie/show; I open a webpage that I host, search for a title (results from imdb) and click ‘add+search’.
~15min later, it’s available for me, my friends, and my family to watch on my own private streaming service. (for such reliably quick downloads, I recommend usenet over torrents)
Sonarr, Radarr, Emby/Jellyfin
Other users besides me can even request content via Ombi.
that’s sounds so complicated, just downloading it myself is easier
if someone made one application to install and set it up automatically id probably try it though
My setup is a conglomeration of a quite a few different pieces; but they are not all required. I’d encourage you to explore, start small and expand into new pieces/areas when you feel comfortable. I started this ~8 years ago with basically 0 knowledge of hosting web services; and just built up the knowledge through exploration over time.
If all you’re looking to do is watch movies, and you’re happy to play the downloaded media directly on your pc (or move the files around manually, just like manual torrenting); the only piece you need is Radarr.
Once setup; You tell it what movies you want to watch, it searches for those using the indexers you’ve given it (YourBittorrent, TPB, and BadassTorrents for example), choses the best results out of them all based on things like upload date, seeds, quality descriptors in the title, etc. Then passes that to your torrent/usenet client. Finally it will rename and sort the files into nicely organized media folders for you, once the download client has marked it as complete.
When it renamed them… Do you continue to seed (in the case of torrents)?
Torrents have two options:
Ideally you use Hardlinking - This creates a ‘copy’ of the file that’s just a link to the original data, instead of actually duplicating it. This only works when both ‘copies’ are kept on the same drive/filesystem; but gives you two versions so you can leave one available to seed and have one renamed and sorted away.
Failing that, it can fallback to plain duplicating the files. One copy kept to seed, and one copy sorted away.
Personally, I’ve switched to usenet for 99% of downloads, so seeding isn’t really a thing. It’s there as a fallback though.
Thanks! This is useful.
This is slowly what I’m working on
There’s a ton of people happy to help on !selfhosted@lemmy.world if you run into troubles :)
Next year is the year I buy a new/new-ish dedicated family server. I will have to come back to this
How much is that in usd
$32
Damn metric system.
… and the tanking exchange rate.
Is that Fahrenheit joke? Nice.
If everyone did that, then they might start cracking down.
At the very least, though, this person should be service hopping instead of paying for 13.
No, the last time everyone did that Netflix was created, which has nearly killed the piracy for most people.
We’re just going back to the basics.