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Daily Discussion Thread: Mon 16 Oct 2023

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  • Annoyed because I want to try actually watching the classic slashers for Halloween, if I’m not too much of a wuss that is. (I know bits because of cultural permutations and am curious but never actually watched them.)

    But a lot of even the older movies and shows have been completely scrubbed from YouTube by DMCA. (It seems the full run of Buffy I watched over lockdown might be gone now.) There’s not much worth watching on Tubi, public TV is just a vehicle for ads even if I still had a telly, I don’t yarr and I am not getting a streaming service. Fuckem.

    I genuinely miss video rentals. I used to get a bundle of 5 weekly videos for $10 and watch them while eating dinner.

    Edit: Has anyone tried Plex? It says it’s free with ads and is legal. But does it make you sign up or download anything, and is it at all shady?

    Kanopy is being discontinued due to the high cost to libraries. I never even did that… couldn’t be stuffed setting it up and my local libraries are difficult for me to get to in person

    • I've been a Plex user for yeeeeeeeears. It's a legit app/service but you can feed it not-legit sources. I used Plex to organise and play downloaded torrented movies/tv shows until very recently. You can also hook up to other people's Plex servers and play their less-than-legit content, usually for a fee, however I've never done that. There is some public domain type content available through Plex itself but I've never used it.

      I now use Real-Debrid (costs moneys, I think it was something like $16 for 3 months) through an app called Streamio instead of downloading torrents. I used this guide to set it up. That's for content which isn't available on the streaming services I pay for, that is.

      • Stremio + Torrentio + real debrid makes it so easy and RD is honestly worth the money, can use it on desktop or on Firestick/Chromecast. The real debrid site might look shady but just use a throwaway email and even a prepaid visa/mastercard to pay for it as a once off - I'm confident it's good enough to go security wise.

        Easy explanation of debrid services here, melbaboutown. Anything you stream is a direct download through the RD servers not the torrent so it's not like you can be nabbed from a list of seeds/peers

      • +1 for real-debrid. I use it in combination with the Seren add-on for Kodi. Works brilliantly.

    • plex user here, it has some good free stuff, you can add your own stuff too. Not shady.

      For some movies I buy cheap dvds from op shops, $1 or 2 each.

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