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But ramping up Plex with what content? Netflix has the content…

You pay $90 a year to a Usenet provider, $15 a year to a Usenet indexer, and get gigabit+ download speeds of any TV show or Movie you want and they automatically get fetched via https://Sonarr.tv or https://Radarr.video

Plus it's all done over TLS and your ISP won't send you notices because you're not uploading/sharing anything.

please note in some cases you need 2 backbones and 2 indexers to find some content

Do you have recommendation for good indexers?

When you strip away all the N-marked pulp, very little remains. Of these, very few titles merit being seen. I'm so weary of these I actually consider going back to buying movies as an alternative to renting (i.e. streaming).

Meaning DVD/blueray?

If I'm going to buy, I might as well have the physical media. It's usually not much (if any) more--and I own the media.

But can you even buy most content anymore? Everything has gone digital to the point where I wouldn’t even know where to get said dvds outside of a few rental stores that somehow still exist in SF. Amazon? Somewhere else?

For recent movies you can often rent from RedBox. To buy DVDs, I usually go to Amazon. Sometimes something will catch my eye in the remainder pile at Walmart. Except for some straight to streaming content maybe, my experience is that most films that aren't really obscure are still available for physical purchase.

Also, I may or may not rip the Blu-Ray media to my external HDD, since

- the BR-enabled player software ("Cyberlink something " Windows-only) is a POS[1],

- playing BR directly on Linux is not a fun experience to get working (fucking DRM)

- not having to search through a cupboard of boxes for the disk I want to watch (convenience)

- not being arbitrarily restricted to 720p or less on streaming platforms ( because I have the audacity run Linux ) even for movies/series I would "buy in HD"

- etc. pp.

[1] From what I remember from using that software years ago: extremely laggy interface, audio volume slider does basically nothing above the "2%" setting where the sound will just be so loud it nearly blows your eardrums (even with Windows audio setting for that program at ~10%), basically no useful keybindings apart from <SPACE>, putting the popout menu on the screen to get more controls almost always locked the program up for >20 seconds, the software had giant ad banners for the other garbage made by that company, etc. pp.

Netflix has a subset of the content, and the subset differs on where they think you currently live.

There is no way to legally obtain all the content by paying.

> Netflix has a subset of the content, and the subset differs on where they think you currently live

and what deal netflix had with the various content providers that expires, see e.g.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-leaving-netflix

They have the content... that you can obtain and host (or pay someone to host via a Plex Share). Piracy is back, and getting more convenient by the day.

Bittorrent has the most content.

Agreed. Outside of the US a lot of content is just not available at all.

Even in the US.

I haven't looked in a long time, but it has high quality 4k rips with Atmos sound tracks like a Blu-ray would?

there are entire communities dedicated to hd rips. so yes.

keep in mind, they won't be small.

Private trackers have Blu Ray 4K remuxes before the disks hit the shelves.

Plex is a media server mainly used for serving downloaded content, so I'll let you make of that what you will. Piracy has not gotten harder in the past 20 years. In many countries it is de facto legal.

At least some 'Netflix originals' are released on Bluray.

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