(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
Psst, hey. https://fmhy.pages.dev/ Stop giving money to these assholes.
Obligatory https://rentry.co/megathread
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.
They’re the second worst streaming service with the service itself being loaded with dark patterns. The only one I think is worse is Paramount because the app literally never even worked for me.
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.
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.
If I ever run into that scenario … that would be a great reason to raise the Jolly Roger
Yarrr. Mind you, the Germans are good at sniffing out archives and torrents.
psst… hey kid! the first hit is free!
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.
Buy a nas, start storing your own media. All subscription services will remove content, raise prices and introduce more ads. Its not a question of if but when.
Also, you are like a child sucking the capitalism tit when you use these services. Take your pride back.
Change to Linux when you are in the spirit. Grow up and join the adults.
How do you even “rip” media from streaming services? Like how to bypass the drm thing and convert the data to a file?
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.
Sometimes, you find things so niche, you can’t find a torrent for it even after looking through torrent aggregators.
I know how you feel, I searched so long for Encounters of the Spooky kind and I still dont have all of Mr, Vampire.
But also, check archive.org and such. Sometimes stuff ends up in the weirdest places on the internet.you can’t find a torrent for it
If you are talking about books, then annas-archive should suffice. If other media, then private trackers is your only hope. The good ones usually have… pretty much everything
Most people dont do that themselves. They just download. Some people, specially in Russia, just stream movies from sites that exist. I dont do that but its popular.
grow up and join the adults
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You guys are so sensitive. :)
Literally 1984
Maybe so :)
Yeah, so cringe.
I’m on Linux now but why the hell would I want to pay to store media? If I want to watch something I just find it online, 1tb seed it a bunch then leap… The nas collectors almost want piracy to die to complete their orgasm.
Join the middle aged non binary fuck it people.
For me its because a lot of movies from the 80s and 90s are hard to find. Not everything exists online anymore. Popular movies generally do but ive had issues finding some things.
And then fast forward another 30 years. Will good movies from today still be there and will we be able to get them as easily?
I just store it so I dont have to worry. :)
If you mainly watch modern movies, then this is a not a problem. But I think a lot of modern movies are really stupid. :)
I watched the new running man and couldnt believe how dumb he acted.
The only thing you need to be careful of is falling out of touch with modern life because you’re still watching 90s films in the 2050s. Part of my enjoyment of the niche entertainment I consumed in the 90s came from seeking out new people to enjoy it with, searching for it on the proto-internet, and forming communities around the experience of watching it. I find that nowadays I can watch the film again but it just doesn’t bring the same kind of enjoyment that it did when I watched it 30 years ago. I hope I live long so I can see more new entertainment options come out and try those too, and my dvd collection gets lost and broken and water damaged from being left in the closet where it belongs.
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.
Prime sucks like that.
Yea, they pulled this shit on me with the “Shogun” series. Two or three episodes in and BANG! rugpull.
Prime are bastards about this.
And for everything else there is jellyfin, arr yes there is
Kelsey Grammer was mayor of Chicago in Boss.
Ted Danson is mayor of LA here.
Comming soon ?
Woody Harrelson gets a series being mayor of Vegas?
John Ratzenberger as mayor of NYC?
I would pay good money to see Cliff Clavin as mayor of NYC.
Argh matey!
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
You need to set yourself up with radarr and sonarr. Get into torrents or usenet. And finally pick either plex, emby, or jellyfin. The movie one didnt exactly change my world since I had to pick the stuff, but shows one was crazy! Add the show and gets all existing stuff and will download the news ones when released. Its especially great the following year when you didnt even know it was coming back and boom you already have it. Bonus points, I use android app nzb360 on local network to connect to all those apps and it shows whats new so I can easily add stuff. I can even connect to my download app so it shows everything in 1 spot.
this thread just reminded me i needed to go and download season 2 of mr mayor
There’s a season 2?! I thought it got cancelled after the first season.
two seasons and a holiday special between 1 and 2 :)
weird… never seen that in the high seas!
join us you sea dog!
Arrrrrr
