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dml2135 5 days ago

It's down from it's heyday for the mainstream, but for the dedicated few, it's better than ever before. Gone are the days of manually searching for a movie on tracker sites, downloading them, organizing your library and watching stuff on your laptop.

There are now open-source, self-hosted applications that automate that entire process, so it's as simple as requesting a movie on your phone and having it show up on your own personal streaming service on your TV a few minutes later.

IshKebab 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

What are the names of these immoral piracy applications, so that I can know to avoid them if I happen to stumble upon one?

xtracto 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Do not under any circumstance download Stremio (available in Firestick as well). Also don't try to install the Torrentio extension for Stremio. That would allow you to play pirated content with one click I your TV, similarly to PopcornTime.

DaSHacka 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Plex/Jellyfin for streaming, the *arr suite for cataloging/downloading [0]

[0] https://wiki.servarr.com/

jajuuka 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's so nice to have all my legal media backups cataloged and organized and easily viewable. My server isn't powerful enough for 4k HDR though so I need to upgrade it.

kylehotchkiss 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

:D I'm glad you're protected from these terrible services now

neuralRiot 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I know a guy who knows a guy that says that you don’t even need that, you just browse the movies and press “play” as there is direct torrent streaming now. But I don’t know anything about all this i just use my VCR with the clock flashing 12:00.

aegypti 5 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, for $30 a year you can instantly stream any torrent with no real setup or install. The most used client is a PWA that calls out to VLC or whatever.

Bluray 4K 100+GB copy of Dune Part 2 at >70Mbps with maybe 5 seconds of buffering at the start. Literally can’t replicate it with legal streaming.