(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
Now is a great time to look into VPNs, 1337x, and uTorrent. And of course Jellyfin.
The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it*
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hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
underisk@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
or just get a decent adblocker and stream it.
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Nah fuck all that. Just get Stremio + Torrentio
MBech@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
Problem with that is, what happens when Stremio gets shut down like every other illegal streaming platform to date? What happens when they no longer want to host the stuff I like?
I like having the files locally, so that when streaming platforms die, og just decide not to waste server space on the stuff I like, I can still watch the shows and movies that are no longer avaliable anywhere.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
The problem with Stremio is that it relies on torrents, but only caches the content you’re watching. Essentially, it puts you into a permanent leecher mode, and rarely contributes any meaningful seeding because the content is deleted shortly after you’re done watching it.
Stremio users are the libertarians of the piracy world. They’re staunchly independent, but also completely reliant on the infrastructure that seeders have set up and maintain. They want all of their content available conveniently, without actually putting in any of the “pay it forward” work that piracy relies on to stay healthy.
Essentially, if everyone used Stremio, nobody would be able to use Stremio. Stremio is only possible because of the people who actually seed.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Been having luck with ext.to as well
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I just found something that wasn’t on 1337x, so thank you. :)
murmelade@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Ruski streaming site + adblocker works well for me lately
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
or stremio + Torrentio + Real debrid, this is an easier method for those used to streaming without space on their pc
yucandu@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
1337x is run by nazis.
viking@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
Source?
Also (and this is a genuine question): Why would I care? They don’t earn anything from me. Does their political affiliation matter when it comes to sourcing copyrighted material?
TheBat@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I prefer torrentleech and milkie. Both are regularly open for new registrations.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Stremio+Alldebrid
justaman123@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I just got into Kodi/umbrella/deribit
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 5 weeks ago
all shows are free if you sail the high seas
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
The Amazon Prime model is the scummiest. At least Netflix doesn’t bait you into a subscription just to then tell you actually the show you wanted to see costs even more.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
To play devil’s advocate:
The Netflix equivalent of this is that the show just disappears (the Marvel shows) or you get the first seasons and not the last or even the last and not the first (at one time Prime had part of Lucifer and Netflix had the rest).
The only reason that it went from free to paid (instead of just disappearing) is that they lost the licence for streaming it under Prime Video but they didn’t lose the licence for selling it.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I doesn’t really make a difference whether it was the actual platform or a higher decision; the end result is pissed off fans that turn to piracy instead of giving you money. Then those fans give you even less in the future. There will always be some that just say ‘fuck it’ and pay up, but it’s diminishing returns.
This bullshit is exactly how pirates are born.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Why do they even have limited time licenses? This doesn’t happen for music streaming services.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I mean, for Lucifer it made sense, since first three seasons were under Fox. God, I wish Netflix didn’t “save” that show. At least it would have ended on a cliff hanger instead of a total destruction of the entire show. shakes fist angrily 4 years after the show has ended
Akido37@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There is a subset of shows and movies unavailable on a Netflix subscription with ads.
p0q@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah I was gonna say, aCtuAlLy Netflix does this shit too.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, “do it if you want, but don’t act like you’re justified or ethical”.
Now I’m convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.
I also don’t consider it a change in my own values. It’s a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.
TheSambassador@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Absolutely agree. When I got out of college, I was like “I have some money finally, I’ll support the shows and movies I want to watch by actually buying them online outright and streaming everything else legally!”
And then several of the things I “bought” got removed from my library several years later.
Then instead of 2 or 3 streaming platforms, there were suddenly 6.
Then every streaming service kept shuffling around my favorite shows.
And suddenly, the experience of paying for the content I wanted to watch became way too cumbersome.
dan1101@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is shitty, but as a programmer I’m kinda impressed.
tempest@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I mean those video players lazy load so it probably just requested the next chunk and got the “you gotta pay response” same as if you returned to a specific spot with a link after a long time.
Zoabrown@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Streaming’s new feature: dynamic pricing based on how emotionally invested you are.
mdurell@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Consumers will love it because they now have skin in the game! - some exec
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 5 weeks ago
Putting cameras into all TVs has to pay off somehow.
archonet@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.
Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.
northernlights@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Yes I’m working on ditching these billionaires. Not quite there yet, sometimes it’s a bit of a pain point with the smalah.
archonet@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
Hey, long as you’re working on it. I’ve been working on ripping my entire music collection from Spotify the past couple months before I tell them to go fuck themselves for the ICE ads, after ~10 years of paying for their service. I’m aiming to be done before January.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Arrrrrr
Jhex@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
weird… never seen that in the high seas!
join us you sea dog!
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Psst, hey. fmhy.pages.dev
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Obligatory rentry.co/megathread
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Prime does this a lot where the first season, maybe first 2 are free, but then the rest is paid only. And that’s with a subscription.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
One of the German channels makes you pay for random episodes. So you’ll be able to watch episode 3, 9 and 11 in a season but you have to pay for the rest.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
If I ever run into that scenario … that would be a great reason to raise the Jolly Roger
northernlights@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Yes but I was finishing episode 9 of the 2nd season going into 10. Then poof, whole season 2 is $29.99. For a show with a bad rating probably because it’s so niche if you’re not from LA it’s a complete dud.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The CBS/Paramount app has always had so much tracking in it that it’s blocked by most PiHole like devices and software. Even if you pay for the no ads tier they still won’t play the video if they can’t hit the ad server.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
psst… hey kid! the first hit is free!
Pechente@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Sometimes Prime Video in Germany also used to only have dubbed versions of tv shows and movies. It was infuriating that I couldn’t watch the original versions. The service was also generally buggy and poorly made. I canceled Prime because it was so bad.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Wait, you pay for Amazon prime and you have to pay for the show?? Why on earth…
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They also show ads unless you pay more than the prime membership.
I haven’t opened prime since that day.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
I cancelled it the day they announced that
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Man, that’s not ok
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Yeah, there’s stuff under the subscription and stuff you pay for (although you can pay for anything if you’re not a subscriber iirc)
It gives them a perverse incentive to remove shows from the subscription tier if lots of people are watching it. You also get shows where the first few seasons are in the sub, and then suddenly switches to pay for.
They’re an easy cancel.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Your suffering is not a KPI so it doesn’t matter.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Your suffering is not a KPI
Some days I doubt that.
nerdschleife@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I tried watching Pluribus on Prime where it was listed. It played the first episode enough to get me hooked, and told me I needed to pay to watch the rest. Straight to jellyfin we go.
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 5 weeks ago
this is something apple does, the first episode of most of their shows is free. surprised to hear they’re on amazon tbh
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Amazon has Apple shows, I think you pay for your subscription through them instead of Apple? I see Starz shit on there too.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Pluribus was such a complete disappointment for me… I don’t know … ok well yea I do know why most people like it. Though for me, I know way too much sfience and tech, so the many parts that are not realistic stand out and fly in the face of Vince’s very realistic style of presentation. That massive juxtaposition royally fucks the whole show for me.
1984@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Buy a nas, start string your own media. All subscription services will remove content, raise prices and introduce more ads. Its not a question of if but when.
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
grow up and join the adults 🙄
frostysauce@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, so cringe.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
How do you even “rip” media from streaming services? Like how to bypass the drm thing and convert the data to a file?
1984@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Most people dont do that themselves. They just download.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
You let somebody else do it.
They’re are ways that involve extracting keys from vulnerable devices if I understand correctly, but if they become well known then they get blocked.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I had a popup for ad free Amazon, a few dollars a month, so that was relevant to my interests and I signed up, then watched a movie.
There was another popup “ad-free experience is not available for this program”
I immediately cancelled, the popup should say “here’s an ad, fuck you”
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 weeks ago
Only had youtube cutting of a clip halfway because it was suddenly set to private. The amount of clips I put in Watch Later to have them disappear is also too high. Stop recommending slop that disappears later, stupid alghorithm.
mech@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
The wind is calling you out to sea, matey.
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Cancel all subscriptions which are just “We own the copyright to music, tv, movies etc” and find your digital art through simple file sharing networks on the internet. FOR EXAMPLE:
Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid (If you don’t want to pay for real debrid it still works just can be a bit slower) A torrent streaming solution for most/all tv shows and movies. Soulseek, a file sharing platform mostly for music. I have yet to find a decent lossless streaming solution.
If you want games, Ebooks, or other kinds of media, type fmhy.net into your browser and they have a tonne of different media types and links for you to choose from. If your just starting check out there “adblocking and blocking trackers” section its a decent start for making sure you don’t get caught or anything.
Bwaz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Canceled Prime earlier this year. Haven’t missed it, can certainly do without ut.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Aaand it’s free again
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
After HBO was taken over by David “Piece of Shit” Zaslav multiple shows and movies disappeared while I was in the middle of watching them. I haven’t resubscribed since
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Torrent their show for fucking you over.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
we were in the middle of one of our favorite scifis when that happened. now we own the box set. then we realized it was the only reason we had that subscription. oops to them i guess.
justaman123@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The annoying thing I’ve noticed is that they have been making the last season of shows cost money. I was like what just happened, I thought there was a whole nother episode
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
this thread just reminded me i needed to go and download season 2 of mr mayor
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Yup. It’s all shitty these days. Just ☠️🏴☠️
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The first hit is free
Knightfox@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Argh matey!
ohlaph@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The open seas is calling you.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
ARR YE MATEY! TAKE TO THE SEAS, YE LANDLUBBER, AND PAY FOR YOUTUBE PREMIUM! ARR! TIS A FINE SERVICE, AND TIS ONLY $15 A MONTH! ARR! A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR ME!
Jarix@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s like the grocery stores that have digital price tags on them that they can adjust at anytime. They totally going to do surge pricing and other bullshit. I complete expect oh you picked up that item? Purchase just gotta up as soon as it’s touched
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Haha jellyfin goes brrrrrrr
makyo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sail with us on the great ship Stremio
potustheplant@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Stremio kind of sucks. You’re leeching a torrent you’ll never seed.