Well, can't cancel something that you never had, aye?
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2025
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Helping others cancel is still canceling. Sharing is caring. π
π«‘ aye! I'm honestly more comfortable with torrenting everything.
I feel like I'm ahead of the curve on this one, as I never left the high seas.
Wow. You just made me realize that I started using Plex 11 years ago.
What is Plex?
A software to organize and stream your own media file. Basically do-it-yourself Netflix.
I just use a discord bot to grab the link of the movie i want to watch. So I don't need to download anything.
That's certainly one way to pirate. However that still leaves you at the whims of whoever is hosting that content. The content might be removed or the entire service could shut down at any time and you'd had to scramble for a new source (which isn't THAT bad, I did that for many years ... but the move to self-hosting really felt like "growing up").
Now downloading is really one of the most important aspects of my setup these days as it ensures that nothing is ever removed from my service (unless I do so myself). Plex also provides a pretty interface and features like playlists, keeping track of progress and watch history, intro/credit skipping, automatic audio/subtitle selection and other "premium" streaming service features that most random pirate sites (or discord) won't have.
They also make you sign in to account on their servers to watch media on your own hardware for some reason, which is why I went with Jellyfin
You can just turn it off.
I keep trying to get my girlfriend to cancel these subscriptions but her entire family is completely computer illiterate and refuses to learn T-T
You can't honestly expect everyone to understand how to do these things.
If you really wanted to "promote the cause" then you would just host a JellyFin/Plex/Kodi/Whatever.
If you can get them to pitch in for a drive for your birthday its worth it. If not, hopefully they watch it before the array starts filling up
What has Australia have to do with this?
Ohhh it is piracy
Wait, do Australians greet each other by saying "Aye, Matey!"?
Idk, I just know mate is common in Australia but idk at least according to internet memes
No it's a different fun-talking water adjacent constantly in mortal danger type of person
I haven't even bothered pirating the MCU movies or Star Wars TV shows (Andor excepted) in the last few years.
Andor was fantastic. Everything Gilroy has done is my favorite Star Wars.
Jokes on you I never had a subscription and hated Disney since the beginning.
Incredible, that's really great.
Never subbed since I saw streaming as a ripoff from the beginning. What's happened to wake everyone else up?
In the beginning streaming was the best media access we have ever had. Golden era Netflix was amazing in my opinion. What made you feel it was a rip off?
It was too good to be true. Pay a pittance for access to everything forever? There was no way it would stay good, and when it stopped being good the people who had paid for it would own nothing. That was my thinking.
You were right that it was never going to stay good but for a while there Netflix was pretty damn good and had enough content to keep me from needing to pirate stuff. Yeah you don't own the content but it's the same as watching TV or going to a movie. You're paying for the service and as long as you have sufficient content to keep you entertained I wouldn't really call it a rip off.
This is no longer true of course since they all got greedy and split everything to a bunch of different services so now I'm back to torrenting everything for less than Netflix costs and I get to keep it. There is a bit more time investment required though.
DVD Netflix was an amazing deal for movie enthusiasts. Weekly movie nights without having to go to Blockbuster was so cool.
I'm a pirate and have been pretty much always, but I also realise that if literally everyone pirates, then where's the funding for these things gonna come from?
Because when streaming began, it sort of deflated the DVD-market, and a lot of smaller but not exactly small projects have complained this. Because it's made the investment riskier, but also more profitable. So now all we get is reruns and remakes and huge new shows for one season which then get cancelled.
I think public funding would be rhe answer, honestly. BBC studios are expanding, and I think that's actually pretty smart of the UK. Hell, I'd donate some money to the BBC now for all the great shit I've watched for free over the years from YouTube. Peep Show, Quite Interesting, etc etc. And aI love Doctor Who, so it's great Disney dropped them, BBC will want it back.
If there was like a straight up donation page for every movie / show etc and you knew the donation would count towards "ticketsales" but it was completely voluntary... idk. Something I've dreamt of.
So that the creative choices wouldn't be in the hands of studio executives who don't give a fuck about the art they're making, just profits.
For instance Stargate has the fandom, people want it back, the creators want to bring it back, a lot of the old cast would be willing, it's just the studios which are kinda the problem. Apparently they almost got into pre-production, had a script even, but then something something SAG-strike or covid or both.
I'm at the point where I pay for Amazon Prime, but torrent Amazon content to avoid the ads after I PAID for prime...
They really push people.
typical corpo shit, you know, collaborating with fascists etc
I have to admit, the struggle might be parents. Kids probably donβt like being wrapped into parental decisions that βbecause of politics, we canβt watch Paw Patrol anymoreβ.
Time to sail the high seas. Paw Patrol, Bluey, Spongebob, what have you. They are all floating out there.
When kids watch the same 4 shows on repeat, they go on emby/Plex/jellyfin.
No need for a sub to watch the same thing over and over. Kind of like buying DVDs still lol
I have been out of the game for so long that I couldn't find the first ~10 seasons of the simpsons anywhere, with many of my old caches now defunct. So I ponied up the cash.
Fun fact (US), Amex has a $8 cash back offer right now (up to 12x) for Disney subs, and if you go to cancel your sub disney will offer you $10/mo instead of $17/mo for D+ for 3 months, so I'm getting my simpsons fix for $2 a month. Will cancel when the new year hits since it'll jump back up.
Though at the speed I'm going, I'll only be in season 6 or 7 by that time. Ah well.
Getting a good deal while supporting the suppression of free speech.. huh.. weird flex but okay.
You're welcome to suggest other locations to get my entertainment, instead of spinning it like you're taking the high-ground. I'll be waiting~
That's a really tone deaf pitch
How would you explain your complicity to future generations? "Yeah, I know freedom of speech was under attack and I was complicit in that, but only because it was a really good deal. I saved $15 a month!"
I know that I can't ever keep my mouth shut about a good deal. Liberty be damned! π
/s
"Well you see some people on the internet felt like $2 a month to watch content was betrayal, and expected everyone else on the planet to possess all of their knowledge automatically. So when I came in with my suggestion that I found a month prior, all these assholes just had to have their 10 seconds in the internet spotlight that I'm an awful person for watching to watch a show that I didn't have a local copy of."
Something like that. But you keep thinking about how you're better than me.
Oh, by the way, while I'm not sure how much money you make or possess, I struggle to make ends meet at just over 10k a year. So figuring out ways to save is kinda my thing. Sorry for trying to help others while also tongue-in-cheek asking where to get a magnet link from. I'm sure you understood that before you were an ass, right? Surely.
Pretty easily since future conversation will never occur. π€£
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Ahh. Tpb isn't blocked for me, but this is useful into for others.
Sometimes it goes down. I just go here by default and click a random mirror.