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Comment by chewmieser | Hacker News Reader

I pirated a lot when I was younger and couldn't afford it. It's a headache I don't need anymore - worrying about VPNs or seedboxes, torrent sites moving to different domains or being shut down, maintaining ratios, letters from your ISP...

Nowadays entertainment is quite accessible through subscriptions and I just wait for decent sales on the games I want to play.

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Usenet is the answer :)

Also, media piracy is much more convenient these days thanks to the excellent media server options (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin) and the *arr suite of apps.

You simply add movies and shows to your library and have them “magically” appear in your media server app on release - like a personal streaming service.

What’s the hot one now days? I used to sub to Giganews.

The Usenet subreddit is a good reference. They have an excellent wiki as well - e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providerdeals/

This. I just got back into it a couple weeks ago.

Usenet is definitely the answer. Old school but it works and its inaccessibility relative to torrents keeps it out of "easy-ish target" territory for IP enforcers.

Found this comment when I did a ctrl-F to see who was breaking the first rule of Usenet LOL

You don't need seebox / ratios, trackers don't know how much you really uploaded, as a matter of fact it's your client that send that information, so you can send anything you want.

I think trackers eventually can find out that bad actors and bad them out. If you claimed to have sent 100 kb but nobody reported to have received them then you are flagged.

In 2008, sure. Any worthwhile monkeying of seeding statistics in a largely compliant user base will obviously stick out like a sore thumb.

This is terrible advice. Any tracker worth participating on is monitoring ratio cheating like a hawk.

That’s one of the reasons I kind of gave up on, but it is 2023. I wonder how streamlined piracy has gotten.

Popcorn time was quite slick when I tried it maybe in 2015 or so.

Chill.institute (manual) and showrss.info (scheduled TV) + put.io + cronjob running `rclone move` into your Plex media directory is one I've seen that seemed pretty neat.

Entire process is probably faster than finding which service the thing you want to watch is streaming on.

Incredibly streamlined. plexshare subreddit.

https://wiki.servarr.com/

while I agree that despite fragmentation, it is more accessible, this can be a US-centric view. Even if you're aware of the service that can provide a series, you might need a VPN to subscribe and use.

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