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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah haha that's way too much trouble. It just works with Plex. Also not trying to make it any more complicated than "it's an app you can download and use anywhere you can use Netflix" for my users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as you’re aware that “it just works” with Plex means it is phoning home to Plex servers with all your logins, actions and movies then you’re good to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've taken all of the proper precautions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds good! Just be aware that Plex has been hacked in the past and handled communications about it poorly, and that it will probably happen again. It was what made me switch to Jellyfin myself, but doesn’t have to be a showstopper for you.