Sometimes I’m just too lazy for torrenting because downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off. Whenever I give chance to streaming it’s always low quality and sucks. I checked streaming links on reddit’s r/piracy, you know the wiki, year is 2025 and it’s still slow and sucks. Maybe I don’t know good sites. Can you link me up, and what do you think about streaming vs torrent way in general? Thanks guys.
The only place I’ll stream from is the archive.
You need something like nova player for android
After 20 years of pirating the slow way (manual searching and torrenting), I invested the time to setup a proper *arrr flow into Plex, Ombi for auto adding plex watchlist to the dl queue, and Usenet indexes and access + nzbget.
Now I can search for a movie in the plex app, if I don’t have it I add it to my watchlist, and it sends me a notification 5 mins later that it’s available.
I did all that about 6 years ago and it’s been so nice. Well worth the time to setup. I forgot how painful the manual way is.
You forgot the number one rule about the usenet: you don’t talk about the usenet.
The most talked about thing on Usenet? That’s right: Usenet.
Streaming sites are great to share the spirit of piracy with your friends that do not want to get into any other piracy option. Literally just sending them a link so they dont buy the movie on amazon is always worth it
I’m old but i still think popcorn time was the best solution. P2P streaming.
Popcorn time and the Torrent plugin for stremio are nice but are leech-central and not sustainable if everyone did that without seeding
I torrent on my media PC and stream from there.
I hate streaming anything unless it’s coming from my server.
Bandwidth and storage is expensive, so free streams will usually be heavily compressed and look terrible.
Nah, torrenting 8 seasons of a show I want to watch is the way to go.
OG Megaupload was end of an era when it came to streaming shit for free
This is the best site I’ve come across, but it’s still not perfect.
My advice is to keep spending time getting experience using free streaming services. Since very few are like kissanime/cartoon (been around forever, haven’t changed layout), if you go awhile without using them then it’s like having to relearn what to do.
This is unfortunate, but the more people we have looking at them the better they should be.
Thanks this is perfect
Sign up for some debrid service -> profit.
Yeah Debrid + Stremio and you’re set.
This has been working for me for a whilst however if one of the links in the chain goes down at some point then you have nothing to watch. I might even have to talk to my family!
I’m gonna start considering local server. I remember the good old days of getting up in the middle of the night to check limewire.
I used to run a Plex server locally, with content provided by Usenet. It was by far the most stable/robust experience I’ve had, but I like being able to watch whatever I want on a whim.
Probs my next move. Waiting to move house and will likely do this…maybe with jellyfish. I am trying to degoogle and amazon and currently stremio is on firestick. Stremio has been great but as I said it’s not totally immune to outside factors. Thanks for the note. It helps that others have success and share so, it makes the leap seem smaller.
Check out stremio
This is what I use. Stremio, Torrentio add-on for Torrent sources, and a bit of tinkering so I don’t see the paid options. Works pretty well for single episodes of some shows (for others I download the box set).
Edit: I mean it works for full shows, but when I really like a show enough I’ll have a hard drive copy.
I exclusively stream torrents. It’s almost flawless for me. The trick is you need a paid service like real debrid to get access to the good links. If you are only searching free ones, it’s going to be low quality, and selection sucks. I use RD and Kodi personally, it also allows you to torrent traditionally, too, and without the need of a VPN if your isp is nosey.
Yep, this is my setup. I did the whole *arr apps, Plex and Usenet setup for years, but hated dealing with storing the files. It also didn’t help when my 8TB drive decided to act up and make files inaccessible.
Now I stream everything through Stremio with RD+. Works on every device flawlessly.
fmhy and trying a couple options always worked out for me
Yeah I’ve tried it a couple times and don’t see the appeal. It’s like watching nothing but cam copies except half the time the files won’t load. I don’t understand how streaming became so popular.
Also set up radarr and sonarr because it makes everything easy.
It’s like watching nothing but cam copies except half the time the files won’t load.
I dunno what sites you tried but this hasn’t been my experience, especially if I’m just going through whatever current season of show XYZ is running. Even recent movies don’t generally have cam quality unless you’re trying to watch them very close to the release date.
Sometimes you get broken links or stop and start with load times and in those cases I’ll take the time to fire up TPB, but mostly it’s been no problem finding decent quality streams that load right away, and that’s been true for me for at least 15 years since using shit like icefilms back then.
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You can download a torrent for a full season or full series, and only download like the first three episodes, or the first season. And then if you like it, download more of the torrent.
Nobody is making you download all 8 seasons.
Or if you want to anyway, but don’t want to wait for the whole thing to finish download, most torrent clients let you set priority for individual files, and you can set the first couple episodes to “maximum” and start watching right away while the rest download.
