Piracy General

[el bandito loco]

Interesting! And how so? Also do you have any recommendations for turing an Android tv box (the Walmart one) into an ultimate piracy box for retards (and free ideally).

Actually yes I just did this for my whole family for Christmas. i use a shield myself for my living room but have a Walmart $30 box in my bedroom and it isn't totally free but stremio and a debrid service was a million times easier than all the fly by night bullshit apps ive used over the last decade.

I also use jellyfin with my computer and harddrives as a nas for them but since ive had stremio set up I dont use it as much, and I bought those Walmart boxes for my siblings and parents and told set them up debrid accounts for like $30 for 6 months or whatever it is and told them to call me when it stops working and ill tell them how to pay their bill.

Surprisingly those walmart ONN boxes will stream 4k blu ray remuxes like it's nothing.

 

[Susanna]

Interesting! And how so?

Film production was nationalised, so it was felt that the films belonged to the people rather than to one company. Mosfilm own many of these rights today, and I guess they felt like sharing their library with the world, because they've been uploading classics to their YouTube channel for many years now. They're high-quality recordings, with subtitles in several languages.

Also do you have any recommendations for turing an Android tv box (the Walmart one) into an ultimate piracy box for retards (and free ideally).

I use Apple TV, I couldn't tell you how Android works. My setup is I do all my pirating on my home server, which also runs a Jellyfin instance. I simply use the Jellyfin app on the AppleTV to watch things (and connect to the Jellyfin over VPN to watch on my phone/tablet/laptop when I'm away from home). I don't see why this setup wouldn't be possible on an Android also.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

Actually yes I just did this for my whole family for Christmas. i use a shield myself for my living room but have a Walmart $30 box in my bedroom and it isn't totally free but stremio and a debrid service was a million times easier than all the fly by night bullshit apps ive used over the last decade.

I also use jellyfin with my computer and harddrives as a nas for them but since ive had stremio set up I dont use it as much, and I bought those Walmart boxes for my siblings and parents and told set them up debrid accounts for like $30 for 6 months or whatever it is and told them to call me when it stops working and ill tell them how to pay their bill.

Surprisingly those walmart ONN boxes will stream 4k blu ray remuxes like it's nothing.

Any non server non jellyfin ideas or is that the way to go?

 

[theanimecompletionist]

Oh also you can use a jailbroken Apple TV HD or 4K 1st gen with palera1n to install Kodi on those. I split it as Nvidia Shield TV 2017 (China model) in one room, Nvidia Shield TV Pro 2019 as my server, Apple TV HD for the downstairs TV and Apple TV 4K for the upstairs.

You will need special cables to jailbreak the ATV 4K.

 

[el bandito loco]

Any non server non jellyfin ideas or is that the way to go?

Id say for a nonserver uses, your best bet is the stremio app and then just paying for a cheap debrid service. Ive used various apps on various android devices since the first firestick and I really can't stress enough how much easier that set up is than anything else I ever tried or did. It always has had everything no matter how weird or obscure ive looked up on it, (even a couple silent Harry Houdini movies id been trying to find my whole life), ive got live TV channels on it (although there's no TV guide so I basically only use it for sports or to see whats on Turner Classic Movies in case it looks interesting and I want to look up and watch whatever it is from the beginning)

The downside is you're probably paying $5 a month (or less if you buy longer term access to whatever debrid service) but its cheaper than Netflix or any of it's alternatives and you can find pretty much anything.

I still think KODI is probably better and I use it a lot myself, but for retard proofing Stremio has saved my life from phone calls from my dad, or my woman waking me up in the middle of the night because she fucked something up or can't get anything to work, I havent dealt with any of that since I started using it.

 

[theanimecompletionist]

I'll sell you my seedbox that I never use lol

 

[Imam Shamil]

Everyones talking about seedboxes and servers for their family while im sitting here with a single drive and VLC Media Player like:

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

Id say for a nonserver uses, your best bet is the stremio app and then just paying for a cheap debrid service. Ive used various apps on various android devices since the first firestick and I really can't stress enough how much easier that set up is than anything else I ever tried or did. It always has had everything no matter how weird or obscure ive looked up on it, (even a couple silent Harry Houdini movies id been trying to find my whole life), ive got live TV channels on it (although there's no TV guide so I basically only use it for sports or to see whats on Turner Classic Movies in case it looks interesting and I want to look up and watch whatever it is from the beginning)

The downside is you're probably paying $5 a month (or less if you buy longer term access to whatever debrid service) but its cheaper than Netflix or any of it's alternatives and you can find pretty much anything.

I still think KODI is probably better and I use it a lot myself, but for retard proofing Stremio has saved my life from phone calls from my dad, or my woman waking me up in the middle of the night because she fucked something up or can't get anything to work, I havent dealt with any of that since I started using it.

The more retard proof the better. What's the cheapest debrid? Do people share logins? Would it be cheaper if I set my vpn to another country and bought it there?

 

[theanimecompletionist]

Switch to MPV. The playback quality is superior to VLC.

 

[el bandito loco]

The more retard proof the better. What's the cheapest debrid? Do people share logins? Would it be cheaper if I set my vpn to another country and bought it there?

I think they're all about the same, changing location won't matter most of them arent in USD anyways, you still just pay with a debit card or whatever. I have real-debrid but ive been considering adding alldebrid. as far as sharing accounts, you can't do that (typically maybe some of them let you) but debrid also will negate the use of a VPN in general because it basically will be taking torrents and turning them to direct downloads on their servers and not your internet so your ISP wont know you're pirating so you wont need to tunnel any of it through a VPN at all unless you wanted to for some reason.

but yeah you'll want to look up like stremio + torrentio debrid guide to get you started and it's all pretty easy. You can do it with just the android tv box and your phone in like 10 minutes

 

[Freezing Blue Gnu]

Fuck I would love some soviet era movies with English subs. How do I get on Cinema Z?

If you have an account on one of the sister sites (AvistaZ, ExoticaZ, CinemaHD, CinemaZ), you can self-invite yourself to one of the other sites as long as you meet the requirements (been a member a few months, have a high enough ratio, etc) every few months. Apart from that its best to wait for open sign ups to one of the sites as they hold you responsible for any fuckwad that you invite.

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

This one was slowly but surely chugging along for a couple days before I closed my laptop for the weekend and it hasn't budged since I got back. Any suggestions or is the torrent just dead?

For context, I do my pirating from my personal laptop at work because I've already pissed my home ISP off once (before I got a VPN) and piracy is heavily frowned upon at home. This particular torrent was going for a few days, I left for the weekend, came back, and the torrent has made no progress since then.

 

[guiltyspark85]

This one was slowly but surely chugging along for a couple days before I closed my laptop for the weekend and it hasn't budged since I got back. Any suggestions or is the torrent just dead?
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For context, I do my pirating from my personal laptop at work because I've already pissed my home ISP off once (before I got a VPN) and piracy is heavily frowned upon at home. This particular torrent was going for a few days, I left for the weekend, came back, and the torrent has made no progress since then.

Searching on knaben.org I can see a better seeded 1080p torrent for the same film from the Pirate Bay.

It's highly preferable to have a 24/7 torrent client going, whether that be a Seedbox or on a home server. There's torrents for something obscure I've had stuck for months or even years, then suddenly one day a seeder has connected and it's downloaded.

 

[The 199]

For the XDCC gang that's still alive and not in the retirement home, https://www.xdcc.eu is a pretty good search tool if you still idle on the irc.

 

[Neodanthril]

Has anyone else noticed that the new dichotomy for torrents is you either get a shitty low quality poorly formatted rip in Hindi but not labeled as such on public trackers and then private trackers have exclusively 20+ gigabyte 1080p or higher versions. Like what happened to the 2 gig 1080p torrent?

 

[Spruce Supremacist]

Any non server non jellyfin ideas or is that the way to go?

If both of your machines (TV and PC/Phone/etc.) have VLC installed and are connected to the same local network, you can cast whatever's playing on one VLC player to the other. It's a bit of a hit and miss with codecs, but it gets the job done.

 

[The ATF Disliked That]

Unlike yanks my Internet access isn't usage capped.

Never in my life have I ever had a data cap imposed on me from any ISP that I've used.

 

[Disguised In Cognito]

Has anyone else noticed that the new dichotomy for torrents is you either get a shitty low quality poorly formatted rip in Hindi but not labeled as such on public trackers and then private trackers have exclusively 20+ gigabyte 1080p or higher versions. Like what happened to the 2 gig 1080p torrent?

RARBG closing a couple years ago, is what happened. That, and storage space being abundant these days.

 

[22 Rimfire]

Has anyone else noticed that the new dichotomy for torrents is you either get a shitty low quality poorly formatted rip in Hindi but not labeled as such on public trackers and then private trackers have exclusively 20+ gigabyte 1080p or higher versions. Like what happened to the 2 gig 1080p torrent?

RARBG closing a couple years ago, is what happened. That, and storage space being abundant these days.

Yeah winner, RARBG was the spot for those magic 2Gb 1080p files with good encode/size tradeoff. Most of my library at one time was their stuff. You can still do some magic in custom formats with Radarr to hone in on that kind of file, but there are fewer of them around now and only a portion of the uploaders seem to have moved off to other sites.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

You can still do some magic in custom formats with Radarr to hone in on that kind of file, but there are fewer of them around now and only a portion of the uploaders seem to have moved off to other sites.

One of the 1080p balanced profiles from Profilarr - https://dictionarry.dev/ - will probably do the trick.