I was a happy Netflix user until 2018, before that I haven’t really pirated any movies (with very rare exceptions) for almost a decade but I recently started again. I’m was doing my monthly budgeting and realized I was paying for too many subscription services. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Shudder, Disney+, Hulu and Crunchyroll. My family likes to watch different types of content that is distributed on many different platforms.
I was never subscribed to these many services until a couple years ago. I was thinking which service I should cancel when I realized I had the option to cancel all of them this entire time. I’m torrenting again and I started saving a considerate amount.
The only service I’m paying for is Spotify which I think it’s fairly priced and offers all the music my family listens too (and it’s convenient). All the competitors pretty much offer the same content and that’s how streaming services should be.
I remember back in the day using eMule and BitChe (to look for torrents). Now I’m using Deluge as my torrent client and I I get my torrents from 1337x. What sites are you guys using?
You don’t need to know about bittorrent or set things up as much no VPN either needed and it’s easy to understand. I used it only for a week though personally and thought it was good.
I’m picky though and wanted ZR releases and everything very specific so I opted into a complete starr stack and plex on a dedi server.
Noooice, I was hopeful for an automated setup on my Pi4 but had issues with sonarr or somethin I can’t remember and then I thought about it more and decided to keep things manual and prevent any unnecessary additional risk. The downloads from i2p usually take longer but I just start whatever I might want when I’m making dinner and it’s usually ready for watching that night or next day so its been working pretty well and I don’t have to worry about any malware or anything suddenly creeping in on me or laying low for a long time because something was done automatically without my knowing