Fuck yeah they do, I have 3 of them. I use Stremio for watching all kinds of movies (although I also use Amazon Prime) and even my older family members know how to use Stremio that’s how easy it is to use.
Fuck yeah, Stremio is the best. Everything is there. No smart TV owner should go without.
Protip: Install the Trakt.tv plugin to get viewing recommendations based on your viewing habits, and then you can cancel Prime Video. (And all other streaming platforms too.)
I use Amazon Prime for shipping unfortunately, it’s just far too convenient to not use it (doubly so now that I have a knee injury and find it hard to walk), so I just end up getting Prime Video for free
I still don’t understand what’s going on with the fire stick though. What are people actually doing to it?
Nothing. What people think and say is jail breaking is actually side loading custom android apps, which is actually already part of android. Amazon IMO made it more difficult than it’s supposed to be. I installed vlc and stremio and use it alongside all the other apps. Nothing groundbreaking nor illegal. That’s not jailbreaking, it’s using Android the way it’s designed to be used.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just buy a TV or stick running stock Android? (Or GoogleTV, which is literally just stock Android with a launcher designed for TVs.)
That’s what I did, and I have no issues side-loading any app I want. If it’s got an APK, it can be installed.
So from my understanding the pirate sticks come preloaded with channels. Is that just streamio? I use torrents for downloading, so I am kind of naive.
Stremio is basically Netflix for torrents. Its interface is similar to the popular steaming apps.
Upon initial install it just looks like another paid steaming app with prices on all the content; the secret is to install plug-ins that allow you to steam torrents (Torrentio). Pair it with a Debrid service (like Real-Debrid) and you don’t even have to wait for seeds. The show/movie starts playing instantly, just like the paid streaming apps. Like a Library of Babel for media, except it’s real.
And the nice part about having a Debrid service is that it works any torrent, not just TV/movies. I have gigabit internet, so I can download literally any game I want in under an hour, even 100+ GB AAA titles.
Is it like Jellyfin? Or Plex?
I admit I don’t really understand what a debrid service does or how it works, or how it’s helpful for privacy… But it sounds interesting
Yes except simpler because you don’t have to build a library of content. The plug-ins do it for you.
A Debrid service downloads torrents and uploads them to various file hosting websites, allowing you to directly download any active torrent at speeds up to 1Gbps. If the torrent you want isn’t in their database (because it’s less popular), then it behaves like a torrent client, except since it’s running on a server you can shut down your PC and go about your day as it downloads in the background. Most torrents with at least a half dozen seeds are usually immediately available for direct download.
It doesn’t really protect your privacy, per se, but it gets your ISP off your back because in most jurisdictions they don’t care how much you download illegally, so long as you’re not distributing the files, like you would with a torrent client. (Sharing pirated files is how they get you.)
The bad news is that these services also hit and run, so by using one you’re not helping the health of the torrent. I wish they didn’t do that, but I’m so used to having any file I want delivered quickly that I’m willing to sell part of my soul to have the convenience.
Shut up ars you grass
There is a difference.
Say you buy a used PC or android stick and want to use it for piracy, ok, doable, but you’ll be doing most of the work. Kodi builds can get you there easily.
but compared to firesticks?
Firesticks have a piracy singularity going on. The entire secondary phase of cracking the OS and installing is intended for piracy. It’s an open and shut, easy, one-two punch to get into the ecosystem. All of the hardware is easy to track and maintain. My cousin has a hacked firestick and he can’t even open Microsoft Word. You can buy them pre-hacked with no real input or work needed on your part.
So what kind of software are they running on there ? Is it more than a link to a pirate streaming site ?
Same way as an HDMI cable enables piracy?
Over twenty years since launch, the DRM solutions provided by Google and Microsoft are in steep decline. A complete overhaul of the technology architecture, licensing, and support model is needed. **Lack of engagement with content owners indicates this a low priority.**It’s funny that even the techbros don’t like them
Oh no! Anyway…
its very cool when you are in a european country but dont speak the nations language like example, hungars in romania, and netflix has either It or english…
rare amazon win
This is just “android sticks allow sideloading apps”. Nothing Amazon specific to any of this.
If Big Media is losing all this money, why aren’t they claiming these losses on their taxes?
Is it because the haven’t lost a dime?
They do
What formula do they use to calculate these losses? Are there guidelines posted by the IRS?
I’m sure they do what all huge corporations do.
Make shit up and then say “oops, sorry, here’s a tiny fraction of the profits we made keeping that money for so long as a fine teehee”.
Just leaving this here : https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
This is battle they can’t win and it just makes everything stupid trying.
Because the content industry is do destitute. They aren’t making billions?
Yeah, but asking film/tv producers for permission would kill my content collection!
Ask by writing a letter that says if you don’t reply it means it’s okay, then the tricky part happens, you need to fold the letter into an airplane and throw it in the direction of Hollywood, ideally into a trash bin, or paper shredder.
To be frank it’s not Amazon’s problem.
Its the content publishers problem.
And Amazon isn’t enabling this, they’re just making an Android device.
The users are putting software onto the device.
This article sets a dangerous precedent. That if Amazon doesn’t lock the firestick down like Apple that they’re enabling piracy.
Its not Googles nor Microsoft’s responsibilities either. They helped, probably solely for money, but they’re not obligated to continue to update their DRM.
This article should have framed how DRM repeatedly hasn’t worked.
They should just remove the DRM from all streaming services. The fact that new TV shows can be downloaded within minutes of airing is a good indicator that it doesn’t work for its intended purpose. It just makes me find another source since I can’t watch them using my preferred browser and operating system.
The more piracy the better imo. And I don’t need to explain why anymore, that is obvious
Amazon is already locking down the fire stick. A few years ago you could easily modify the software via adb, deactivate the updater, uninstall the menu. In the meantime they made it much harder, luckily I modified mine in time.
I do the exact same thing in my Chromecast w/GTV (yes, and also a firestick 4K).
These are android devices, and that’s how android works and competes with Crapple (full disclosure, I also hate Google).
Internet enables most, if not all the piracy.
Wow… this is at least 3 times the world money stock worth of damage!
The real enablers are the guy who make the movies and tv shows in the first place. If they don’t make stuff, no one would pirate that stuff.
Poor service enables most, if not all piracy.
The mitochondria enables most, if not all, piracy.
One could say it powers most, if not all, piracy.
Mitochondria the powerhouse of
the cellpiracy.lol why do we all remember this irrespective of language. i speak austrian and many here know it too. xD
It’s fascinating, I’ve heard it online and in person from multiple nationalities.
In our case it’s not so special because my mother tongue is German…Your comment about speaking Austrian reminded me of one of my many visits to Germany. I was at the Oktoberfest in München and my group got chatting to a local, whereupon he proudly proclaimed: “Here… you are not in Germany; you are in Bavaria!” Made us chuckle :-)
Austria is atleast a real country (other than Bavaria) and from a recent travel to Vienna I can tell that Austrian is - while closely related to German - a language on its own.
Atleast in countries with some sort of internet access. For example Cuba enjoyed current movies and shows despite a strict US/Western embargo through a combination of smuggled USB pen drives and a peer-to-peer radio network.
