Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers.
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I too am out of the loop but why not use tor? The VPN companies can still trace it back to you if what you did turned out to be illegal.
Because streaming over tor is 1) painfully slow and 2) a dick move for the whole network that is very important to others.
VPN don't give a crap about people pirating, and governments probably don't as much as people think (I guess that depends heavily on your country), but if you really want to be safe, go for one of the logless vpn, like mullvad or ivpn.
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Streaming services are crap. For new years I wanted to give myself streaming for a month and nothing looked good. I didn’t get anything.
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I can't remember if it was The Goodies or Monty Python that did this exact skit in the 1970s.
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I love your recommendation. Unfortunately I am very out of the loop with that sort of thing these days. And I’m without resources if I accidentally break something. I need my desktop for work as well. I’d be happy to read up on the topic if you could suggest some reputable sources that someone without a tech background could break down. It’s why I save it all up until summer. So I pay them as little as possible.
I have all the skill and info needed to pirate anything I want safely and easily. I still use your method.
#1 stats are recorded and they can see what those of us who only buy one month a year watch.
#2 it's easy and $18 a year isn't a bad price for the shows and movies I am interesting IMO.
#3 there is a certain joy in binging and cancelling after one month that pirating cannot provide.PS: I kinda like checking in on the Netflix interface once a year just to see what people are dealing with.
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I hate these subscriptions everybody and their mom has, but it's insanely expensive to buy blueray discs these days, it's easily 30-40 euro per movie f.e.
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I can't remember if it was The Goodies or Monty Python that did this exact skit in the 1970s.
I don't know the Goodies or Python one, but Stewart Lee did it in Comedy Vehicle as well, I think in Series 1?
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I too am out of the loop but why not use tor? The VPN companies can still trace it back to you if what you did turned out to be illegal.
I'm not an expert by any means here, but my impression is that it at some point comes down to a tradeoff between security/anonymity and having a fast enough connection. TOR slows you down much more than an ordinary VPN is what I've heard.
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I don't know the Goodies or Python one, but Stewart Lee did it in Comedy Vehicle as well, I think in Series 1?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Maybe that was the one I was thinking of.
Man, that's one of the best series ever. The 'audiences like you killed Robin Williams' bit, I think in series 4, is one of the most amazing 30 minutes of standup ever.
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Finally!
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Not sure I’d call Suits or The Hitlist “septic waste”, but you do you!
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Maybe that was the one I was thinking of.
Man, that's one of the best series ever. The 'audiences like you killed Robin Williams' bit, I think in series 4, is one of the most amazing 30 minutes of standup ever.
Oh shit! I don't think I ever watched series 4! Off to rectify that!
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Because streaming over tor is 1) painfully slow and 2) a dick move for the whole network that is very important to others.
VPN don't give a crap about people pirating, and governments probably don't as much as people think (I guess that depends heavily on your country), but if you really want to be safe, go for one of the logless vpn, like mullvad or ivpn.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]That's fair piracy probably is safer than most people have you believe.
I still wouldn't go for any VPN that clearly logs stuff that can be traced back to me, that would defeat most of the purpose (unless it's one for accessing machines in my home network).
Also if you're downloading it first I don't really see the relevance of speed, just do it the day before.
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Streaming services are crap. For new years I wanted to give myself streaming for a month and nothing looked good. I didn’t get anything.
That fucking alphabet grid where you try to type search terms with the four arrow keys is what always sends me back to reading books. Like, just doing that with a keyboard-type layout would be way better or even T9 - or maybe they could recycle old used Blackberrys for the purpose.
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I hate these subscriptions everybody and their mom has, but it's insanely expensive to buy blueray discs these days, it's easily 30-40 euro per movie f.e.
I mean, you can just buy dvds. They are cheap af. If you know where to look you can also find bluray discs for cheap. My boyfriend and I sometimes go to websites for used dvds and blurays and they don't cost 30 to 40 euros there.
You can also go to the library and borrow dvd and bluray movies. It's free and you can discover some films you would have otherwise never seen. I do that a lot and my boyfriend and I enjoy this setup. It is a lot cheaper and nicer than having subscriptions to two or three shitty streaming services that are filled with trash and none of them have the movies we want to watch. Fuck that shit. Physical media all the way. It is so easy and cheap to go back to physical if you really want it. It is probably cheaper than subscribing to services where you basically pay for air and own nothing.
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I mean, you can just buy dvds. They are cheap af. If you know where to look you can also find bluray discs for cheap. My boyfriend and I sometimes go to websites for used dvds and blurays and they don't cost 30 to 40 euros there.
You can also go to the library and borrow dvd and bluray movies. It's free and you can discover some films you would have otherwise never seen. I do that a lot and my boyfriend and I enjoy this setup. It is a lot cheaper and nicer than having subscriptions to two or three shitty streaming services that are filled with trash and none of them have the movies we want to watch. Fuck that shit. Physical media all the way. It is so easy and cheap to go back to physical if you really want it. It is probably cheaper than subscribing to services where you basically pay for air and own nothing.
Well DVD's are yes, but Blu-rays are rare second hand. Heck, they are rare online and in stores, at least in NL and the parts of Europe I can order from.
As far as I know, the libraries here don't really store a lot of movies and games any more.
These days I just use the arr stack .... Doesn't work for most of my music though.
I hate subscriptions with a passion and only pay for a couple that are needed (domain, website, bitwarden, Proton, etc), but for things like music, physical is way more expensive than Spotify (especially now with the family discount and I get it for free), buying the album of every band I listen to at least one song of. Finding a Green Day CD for a couple euro is possible, but even for things like Kensington it is already quickly 10 euro per album. Heck Discogs even has issues realising that Europe is not a country ...
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That's fair piracy probably is safer than most people have you believe.
I still wouldn't go for any VPN that clearly logs stuff that can be traced back to me, that would defeat most of the purpose (unless it's one for accessing machines in my home network).
Also if you're downloading it first I don't really see the relevance of speed, just do it the day before.
Technically a vpn is a private company while ISPs I guess have less freedom over government request compliance. So a vpn would be slightly better but yes, very little added value if it's one of the mainstream ones like nord or tunnelbear
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I have all the skill and info needed to pirate anything I want safely and easily. I still use your method.
#1 stats are recorded and they can see what those of us who only buy one month a year watch.
#2 it's easy and $18 a year isn't a bad price for the shows and movies I am interesting IMO.
#3 there is a certain joy in binging and cancelling after one month that pirating cannot provide.PS: I kinda like checking in on the Netflix interface once a year just to see what people are dealing with.
That makes me feel a little better. I know I should do a better job keeping up. By the time I’m done for the day, most of the time my brain is jello. Nice username, btw. I agree it isn’t bad for a short amount of time.
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I hate these subscriptions everybody and their mom has, but it's insanely expensive to buy blueray discs these days, it's easily 30-40 euro per movie f.e.
Is it? I usually see them priced around similar to DVDs, that is like €3 - 15. Though I don't recall if new. Certainly so for the upper part, I only want to spend like €5 for used ones.
I like Momox for used and Rarewaves for new discs.Well, unless... the price you mentioned seems right for UHD BluRay.
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Well DVD's are yes, but Blu-rays are rare second hand. Heck, they are rare online and in stores, at least in NL and the parts of Europe I can order from.
As far as I know, the libraries here don't really store a lot of movies and games any more.
These days I just use the arr stack .... Doesn't work for most of my music though.
I hate subscriptions with a passion and only pay for a couple that are needed (domain, website, bitwarden, Proton, etc), but for things like music, physical is way more expensive than Spotify (especially now with the family discount and I get it for free), buying the album of every band I listen to at least one song of. Finding a Green Day CD for a couple euro is possible, but even for things like Kensington it is already quickly 10 euro per album. Heck Discogs even has issues realising that Europe is not a country ...
And without Discogs I am screwed. They're PayPal only now, and PayPal shadow-banned me. I used to be able to pay on like 10th attempt with a different virtual debit card tried each time over 2 days, but now it doesn't even decline me. It just straight sends me to "We're sorry..." page.
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Is it? I usually see them priced around similar to DVDs, that is like €3 - 15. Though I don't recall if new. Certainly so for the upper part, I only want to spend like €5 for used ones.
I like Momox for used and Rarewaves for new discs.Well, unless... the price you mentioned seems right for UHD BluRay.
Well yeah I am probably talking about UHD BlueRay, it has been a bit since I looked that closely to it. I just remember the Back to the future trilogy for 140 euro
