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I actually think pirating encourages a healthier approach to watching TV/movies. I've fully made the switch to pirating instead of subscribing to any streaming services, and it's led to me thinking more critically about what I want to spend time downloading and watching rather than just flipping mindlessly through endless amounts of readily available garbage on a streaming service.

I do still have Kanopy though, which is great for me but obviously depends on your library.

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For me, I only seek out media I plan to actually watch. Rather than flipping through what is available and choosing from there. Currently it is stargate sg1/atlantis what I am watching.

Also, a lot of movies/series are only available dubbed here. (I really effing hate "Sie" in dubbed media. So much so, that it's one of the major reasons I go for subbed in english, at most)

When i first used netflix at my friends house, I immediately used the search bar and looked for Jurassic Park... what kind of movie service doesn't have JP, i thought. It must be around 10 years ago, and I never used it once afterwards.

They've had Jurassic Park repeatedly over the years since then, and I've watched it a couple of those times.

But when Netflix was new to streaming they had so much more content; it was great. Then all the rights-holders decided they didn't want just a cut of Netflix's rates, they'd rather have all of it. Since then, the services have seemingly reluctantly agreed to license some of their stuff, some of the time, to other services, often with temporary exclusivity. If Netflix wanted it all back, they'd need a friendly blue genie and a monkey to defeat a multitudinous Jafars.

Not always. Now I just flip mindlessly through endless amounts of readily available garbage on my jellyfin server instead.

Then don’t be a hoarder and only get what you want to watch

I have my watchlist hooked up to *arr so it pulls that stuff automatically. Once I watched it and it’s not something I want to show to others, I delete it.

> Then don’t be a hoarder

Of course. Why didn't I think of that?

> led to me thinking more critically about what I want to spend time downloading and watching rather than just flipping mindlessly through endless amounts of readily available garbage

For me it's a bit different. I have the *arr stack fully automated (with 22Tb of storage for now maaaaybe it's overkill), for friends and family too.

And the experience is nice because it makes content "crowd sourced". If something is on the server it means someone else purposefully added it, so you can still browse, but it's curated based on your friend/family circle.

But also the automation part can be a bit "mindlessly click download on everything even stuff I probably won't watch", but disk space constraints force you to delete it if nobody's watching.

Radarr and Sonarr are my two favourite pieces of software ever. Together with Plex I get an experience FAR superior to any streaming service. For the record I would be happy to pay for such a service, but they're so greedy they'll never offer such a unified service. Instead they keep making the direct to Netflix content worse. Removing content without any notice. Making the app UX worse, including removing useful reviews from the platform, and making content auto play when browsing. The best example of this clusterfuck is the Pokemon where to watch guide: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-...

Why not purchase the discs and copy them yourself? At least artists can get paid that way.

Most shows don't get a dvd release anymore.

And then sometimes you have to deal with a bunch of bullshit changes because of music licensing or something.

Or current streaming doesn't have the license for the original music or soundtracks. Thus it really is a different product.

I haven’t bought a lot of DVDs lately, but the ones I have all were from used DVD stores. I think the artists were paid once.

I prefer physical media. However, it can sometimes be a chore to start the movie! Each disc is different. Some discs use non-standard methods to access the home menu. Some require that you at least skip past all the previews at the beginning. The worst discs require several minutes of fiddling in addition to finding and inserting the disc before you can watch it. Compare this with double-clicking an mkv and having it just...start.

Nobody said you couldn't do this too.

Why not buy them used or better yet check them out at the library and save myself some money in the process? Piracy is more convenient.

Ehh sounds like an automation issue. Buy another hard-drive and just have everything new auto download.

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