Just send them to JustWatch.
When i try to explain my jellyfin/Arr setup to coworkers that ask “what site do i use to watch shows for free” it just goes right over their head or they stop listening. Even in reductionist terms. If its more work than going to a special website, searching and hitting play, they just aren’t interested.
I’m the opposite
Them: You should check out this show I’ve been watching, it’s great. Do you have Disn-----
Me: I can get anything online. How do you spell the name of the show? Thanks for the rec. If you need help getting anything you aren’t subscribed to let me know.
l’pirate bay. it’s a french site for classy artsy films
“Oh, I download it from well known and respected torrent sites. All the services I might use are crap.”
If you can’t proudly say your pirating sure you need to find a new friend group
It’s just that they have no idea how to answer the question
Well they said “co-worker”, I can understand not divulging that in a workplace.
I’ve never worked an office job that wasn’t pirating software openly and somewhat proudly when pointed out
Eh fuck it, what are they going to do, call the FBI on me? Employer certainly doesn’t care.
Plot twist: dude works at Disneyflix :D
“An ex-Netflix engineer’s take on piracy; in a YouTube drama near you”
Highly dependent on workplace. Many with govt contracts could feel an obligation to punish this.
My employer is the government
My da has a mate who’s literally a peeler and was showing him his piracy set-up. His mate was also talking about his.
It’s on Plex on my Synology ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Me: The internet ;) ;)
I just taught my coworkers how to pirate shit. Fuck Disney.
Best of luck with your endless tech support anytime something doesn’t work.
This right here is what keeps me from charging for Jellyfin access.
This was like two years ago and I’ve never had an issue. Have some faith in humans.
This ties into the comment I was going to make separately. For context, my dad recently passed. First father’s day without him. My mom asked to watch a movie that meant something to the both of them because they saw it together in a drive in on release and it was very memorable because the technology and techniques used were fascinating at the time. She complained that it wasn’t on Disney+ or anywhere.
You may have guessed it, but she requested Song of the South. One serious moral quandary later, I got it ready for her to watch.
Tomorrow is gonna be rough, but at least my sailing might bring some good memories for her.
Sending lots of love to you and your family.
That is a great movie. Don’t let social justice warriors tell you it’s not. Sorry to hear about your dad.
Just give them a usb of the show for Christ’s sake! Sneaker net that shit. Which show btw?
Isn’t that too risky though? That can be an evidence when argued in the court
If your coworkers are the level of douche bag that they might take you to court, then probably don’t even talk about your favorite show with them
It’s not necessarily deliberate. Your coworkers could be distributing the copy to someone else and police’s gonna find out where it comes from
I almost envy the place where this is the kind of shit police are able to worry about.
I don’t know where you’re from but in my country, police are cyber-patrolling (lol) to hunt down illegal contents.
I would think that cyber ops would be more concerned with fraud, underage sexual content, sexual predators… That kind of stuff.
Usually the MPAA sues people for distributing video content, and in many places, they’re not super aggressive about it.
If they are going after sneaker net distribution, this is the most inefficient use of resources ever! As a taxpayer I would be outraged to hear about something like this. I can’t imagine this being an issue outside of N. Korea
A lot of risk narcing on someone irl
Or from the other side, taking a random ass USB stick from someone you barely know? Nah. Who the hell knows what it could be infested with.
nah teach a man how to fish!
I tried that once. They never watched the show and didn’t give back the USB. 🙁
USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks
They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.
If they don’t give one back nowadays so be it.
Back in the day it was a terrible loss though
I wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.
I had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious.
So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source)
And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn’t help but share the results of.
About $3.20.
So yeah, about a dime a dozen… 111 years ago lol.
Which is interesting, because the point of the phrase is to imply something is so commonplace that it practically has no value. It’s so commonplace you can get a dozen of them for a dime!
So technically while the relative value of the dime in this phrase decreases, the relative value of the phrase itself increases as the dime’s value ever further approaches negligible, ever better emphasizing the point!
Words are fun.
I stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.
Welcome to Wrexham.
Not the kind of guy who’d watch something from a USB. Technically not a co-worker but a former co-worker, because he retired a couple of years ago.
I did this for a coworker not too long ago.
I think it was for Firefly…
They gave the USB drive back too. Win-win
The Pirate Bay - free streaming service
The Pirate Bay
Its pretty outdated these days
In what way? I use it from time to time to get movies and series. Is there any downside compared to other methods?
Genuine question, I’m not too familiar with the pirate world beyond pirate bay.
It just doesn’t have that many files anymore, since not that many people use it. 1337x.to is more popular now
Say it loud and proud: https://hydrahd.com/
This is how we fight back.
Thanks for the site, I’d genuinely never heard of this and was looking for something new!
Anytime!
This is a good one.
There doesn’t seem to be any way of saving videos there, am I missing something?
No. Most sites don’t offer their own ways to download videos.
If you want to save videos, you can always use a browser addon. I use VideoDownloadHelper for Firefox and it allows me to download any video, even on Linux.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
Yes I’m aware of that, I assumed that a site recommended on here would have that as a main feature otherwise it’s not much use for archiving. I already tried yt-dlp and it doesn’t seem to be supported.
If someone is unaware of piracy: Tell them.
If someone is aware of piracy and doesn’t care: “I don’t really know, I just got it off of a torrent site.”
If someone is aware of piracy and cares too much for a company they don’t work for: You can ignore them.
Do you know of any easily shareable beginner’s guides?
I love turning friends onto free media, but I don’t always want to walk them through it.
Not really beginner friendly because it doesn’t teach you much but the site has a nice list of resources that go even boyond piracy: https://fmhy.net/beginners-guide
I appreciate it!
fmhy.pages.dev/beginners-guide/
fmhy.net also hosts the same guides I believe
You could share this sublemmy’s pinned post, or the megathread it links to:
Thanks so much!
Depends on how cool they are
Right, exactly. The alternative to this meme is offering them access to my Plex server.
I get this almost daily, my whole family and several friends know I’m good at recommending things to them so they always go to me to ask what to watch. I’ve had to start looking up and writing down where each movie and show is available “normally”. I have no issue saying I get everything via other means but whem it became a thing where people started asking “can you also look up where it’s available” just because it’s not always easy to figure that out and they knew I didn’t know and generally find it quicker than them.
It’s more difficult in Europe. For example, when South Park: Post Covid released on Paramount+ in the US, there was no legal way to steam it in Germany or Austria AFAIR. And these are not exactly third-world countries.
Sounds like a business model to me. if i didn’t pirate everything i’d sign up anyway
