The fact Netflix used to actually use sharing accounts as PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL is wild to me. They leaned healily into it.

None of that is a good trade off when you're giving money to those shit companies.

I don't know about torrent downloads, but for "obviously illegal" streaming and IPTV offerings, customers also will get bonked.
For example [German]: https://www.bms-rechtsanwaelte.de/wirtschaftsrecht-blog/illegales-iptv-streaming-strafbarkeit-nutzer

I pretty much have every major streaming service and cable. I’m a sucker for tv content

Stranger Things finally ended and the price for no ads went over $20 per month. That's what made me finally quit.

The debrid goes without saying.

I should've mentioned that, but any of the guides for the 5-10 min setup include them.

Prob the only real effort in it is checking which one works best in your region. They all do, but some have better bandwidth than others.

Keep in mind too, my solution is the "your grandma can cancel her subs and do this right now in a few minutes" deal for the loungeroom telly. Set it up recently for my Aunt, catching up for lunch, along with SmartTube. A few months before, installed an adblocker extention. Life changers.

It's ok if you want to pay and share with others. Some people here are just a bit too extreme.

I pay only for Canadian services, the rest is from the sea, it's MY way to do it.

One of the reasons I stopped watching Netflix shows was because all the ones I got invested those were cancelled just after one season.

Same here. I barely used Netflix and was only paying the bill because I shared the password with family members and didn't want to cut them off.

Once they started being weird about account sharing, there was no reason to keep paying the bill. I was on the top tier too, because they said you could play on 4 screens at once, and I figured it was fair to pay extra since I was sharing the account.

Nobody in my family complained so it's likely they weren't really using it either. So instead of a top-tier account being shared among a bunch of people that didn't really use it, they get nothing.

And people always are confused when I tell them I don't watch shows and movies anymore.

Can you love me an invite? :)

What's the point of debrid of you have torrentio? It seems to have basically everything.

I've never fully saw the value of debred, maybe I'm missing something.

An easy way to get somebody a good Stremio setup is to make them an account and do the addons up front. With AIOStreams it's even easier because it's just a single addon and you can manage it remotely.

Instead of torrenting on my ISP network or paying for a VPN, I pay for a debrid and they give me a high quality fast link to download without torrenting.

The point is the almost guaranteed speed. With a debrid service I can stream and watch a 4K BluRay remux immediately with Stremio + Torrentio, no waiting, no buffering, no hitches. Sure a new or popular movie will work well without debrid but a lot of times older movies don’t stream well without a debrid especially high bit rate files.

Netflix is American. So yeah: Garbage IS Garbage.

Nice one! America Bad! Clever, edgy, sexy!

Or usenet indexer.

You can still do that without streaming services? Like you don't need to stop enjoying art cuz of capitalism

yes, but this is outlined in the contract and you should know this.

Sadly their profits increased overall after they cracked down on password sharing https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68850766

Netflix is still garbage.

That would be the ideal for Netflix. Everyone subscribes and pays, but no one uses it.

Gee, maybe that's why it's so hard to find anything good to watch on Netflix now.

This is me when they finally take down piracy and I just can't get the media anymore, since I refuse to give them a cent. I know I'll adapt, and probably be better off for it.

I pay for a number of concurrent streams, so "too many at one time" is a legitimate thing. What I disagree with completely is that they want them all in one house. If I pay for 4 streams, they ought to be able to be anywhere. Because I paid for 4.

This is why I collect blu rays. They can’t take them bitches from me.

Been a Netflix subscriber since the early days. Talking getting DVDs in the mail, 3 at a time, watching all sorts of crazy shit, back when they let you have a profile where you could personally 5-star rate and even leave a review for movies you'd watched. Me and a friend got competitive about it, would watch movies all the time, rate and review them, we easily had lists into the 800-1000 range.

Then they deleted all of it with no warning.

But I kept with it, because although I pirate a lot, I still like the convenience of not having to download all the stuff on there, and there's still some decent releases. And I share my account with my ex-wife, so she doesn't have to pay for it. And then when I'm on vacation, usually there's a smart TV or whatever and I can log on to keep watching whatever series I happen to be on at the moment (right now it's Stargate SG1).

But the other day I got a warning about how I'm using a different device, and I had to double authenticate and reenter passwords to "allow" me to watch from my personal computer... and it made my blood boil. Shut the FUCK UP netflix, you dumb mother fucker. I'll watch the service I fucking PAY FOR, on my OWN FUCKING DEVICE, WHENEVER I FUCKING WANT TO.

One more blood boiling moment and I'll just cancel their bullshit all together. I have a gig internet connection, I can just download shit crazy fast, I don't fucking need you anymore netflix. you forget that the slight convenience of not downloading things is the ONLY reason you exist. Stop being convenient, stop being used.

yes, but for max devices using the service they make it very clear.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that, I used to hit the high seas heavily

No one is braver than our 16 yo internet warriors bravely spreading the gospel of bad the US(sheitan)A is in obscure internet forums!

I just use torrents or Soulseek. That's the easiest way. A lot of stuff can still be found on disk, too.

After more than a decade with them, with the little use we hadand they just kept increasing prices every year, so I decided to give them the flick, and we are not missing it.

Cancelled last week when I realized that I watch it almost never, the content I did consume was essentially filler, and the price was double what I originally subscribed for. I haven't picked anything else to replace it yet but I think it's finally reached the point that they are worse than the competition by a significant enough margin to matter. They really burned a lot of innate advantages. Thank you Mr. Doctorow for the correct terminology to address the situation!

I cancelled for similar reasons years ago. My wife noticed immediately and reinstated the account under her credit card. I guess she likes their brainrot.

They've been trying to take piracy down since the birth of the internet. It's not going to happen.

blood of zeus, sandman(eventhough its mostly finished, it felt like it wash rushed and cheaply made.) castlevania is one of the ones they kept around longer, who knows when nocturne will get renewed? the show isnt as good as the first series, albeit they have some foreshadowing for season 3.

I've switched to Emby. It's a lot easier to set up than Jellyfin, and has an okay interface. Not the greatest, but whatever.

Emby: "17 people in 5 countries are watching your media. Nice."

Exactly this. I had Netflix for a while and didn't pirate for like, 5 years. Then they started cranking up the price, dramatically reducing available movies including old movies that I wanna rewatch, and telling me my family is not allowed to use the product I purchased. So fI just stopped and went back to the high seas with a renewed passion for making my own media library as extensive as possible, and giving access to friends, family, anyone remotely trustworthy.

Didn't they announce they were going to enforce this years ago? That's around the time I stopped giving them money

yes, but they probably do it in steps, at first you can have only a handful, and not unlimited, and now its 1 person/account/device.

the main reasons are: cancelling seasons of good shows after 1,2, or 3 seasons, just to boost subscription numbers.

limiting how much people can watch it on different devices, and increasing prices, with decreasing quality.

sad, AMAZON cancelled the new series for stargate, maybe they thought it only reach a small audience, and not a "Wide enough audience as they claim"

To the high seas, me hearties!!

This one was always in place, the one they started enforcing a few years ago was the multiple households rule, which was slightly more draconian. I.e I paid for 4 screens, but then they decided the 4 screens all have to be in one physical household. Share it with your mum who lives 100 km away? You crazy?

Incidentally, that's when I cancelled it. I was ok being limited to 4 viewers at a time (which also cost extra), I usually had 2-3 at the same time, rarely 4. But being limited to one physical location? Fuck that.

Which problems? The only one I know of requires the attacker to know the exact media path on the local server, even if they figure that out all they gain is the ability to view that file.

Seriously though, if there is a bigger vulnerability out there, I'd love to know about it (the only one I found would allow unauthorized viewing).

Same here, I've had a lifetime pass for a bit over a decade but now I just keep it for coworkers and some family members. Jellyfin just runs better 99% of the time.

You do not subscribe ,you should use pirate and do not feed these imperialist oligarchs

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