Did the very same thing already and never look back! More free time and money. Besides, there are not too much to watch at the first place to pay such an amount to some streaming company. Shitty content mostly or old that you watched few times. What’s the reason?! And they ruined old good movie/series (45m, 22 per season) concept demand and just copy/paste shitty series with the story repeating like for imbeciles.
Other thing is, people will stay for a series they like, but unless you watch a ton of TV, you can purchase a full series from your provider of choice and rent a couple of movies a month for less than you are paying for streaming.
I mean you don’t even need to pirate anymore. There’s 100s of really good streaming sites out there and many with better UIs than the billion dollar companies are capable of making.
The only downside to most of those sites is they load them up with annoying ass popups and porn ads. So it’s absolutely necessary to use Adblock which means unless you have a solid network ad block via a pi or something, then you’re limited to just streaming on your PC or phone. Which for me I use my game console to stream on my TV and consoles have absolute garbage built in Adblock.. only option is an Adblock DNS but even then it doesn’t get them all and you still need to deal with popups.. just popups of empty pages since for whatever reason browsers will not actually add solid popup blocking.
Dear Disney, As someone who enjoys "general entertainment " (as Disney put it) iforced for years to pay for ESPN, as part of my cable and satellite subscriptions! That kept going up because you (Disney) kept jacking up the price for said channel(s). So, many of us left those platforms, only to be met by the same greed! We will no longer be playing or paying for these games will and enjoy the SAME entertainment by other means (search YouTube, you'll find plenty of pirate apps)! Going forward, we will no longer have to worry about these outrageous markups every few months! Sincerely everyone
I personally have a plex server that has around 25tb of data on it...movies, TV shows, concerts....I also use keepstreams that allows me to rip/download stuff off of all of the streaming sites, and then I torrent whatever I cant find there. All my friends use it and because I have so much content on there they've all canceled their streaming services in favor of my free stuff.
I just love helping people save money.
"If buying isnt owning, then pirating isnt stealing."
For noobs like myself, do you have some sort of self starter guide you would recommend for setting something like this up? I have cancelled everything except Netflix (that's next if they introduce ads where I am) and torrent some things but would like to set up my own library. I was thinking of going back to burning CDs but I don't even think my laptop supports those anymore.
I recently upgraded from a 35m2 living space and pretty excited to finally have space to build a physical media collection. But I've forgot the basics and literally know less than an amateur about basic hygiene with torrenting.
Fun fact. If you have a library card there is an excellent chance your local library is part of the Kanopy streaming platform. This will allow you to "check out" thirty or more movies, TV series, etc a month via your library card
The only bad news there is that some libraries are going to start charging for that service if you don't actually live in the area. Cincinnati public library is ending free reciprocity next year with Northern Kentucky Counties. I feel like this could spread across the country.
I finally discovered DVD's from the library. It's like taking a trip back in time to Blockbuster.
It is a whole different experience when you plan your viewing ahead. No more endless doom scrolling trying to find something to watch. We watch what we check out and that's the end of it.
Same. My husband and I are closing in on 50 so we have a ton of DVDs from back in the day when that was the way you watched new movies outside of going to the theater. Streaming was cool af when it first came around ngl and we got rid of cable to move to streaming. But, like with anything in this capitalistic hellscape, media companies wanting to extract every $ they can from us, ruined it. Now it's like buying a la carte cable. $30 for this platform, $25 for this other one... it's now more expensive to have all of the streaming platforms than it is to have cable again. I have to sit down and figure out which ones I pay for, which ones my husband pays for, and which my daughter pays for and either cancel them all or keep only the ones we use regularly. I don't think our Disney+ subscription is being used much anymore. My daughter watched all she wanted to watch and now I think I'm just paying for a platform no one watches. I'm so sick of this shit... the people with the most are trying to extract every cent they can from people with the least. In every aspect of our lives.
Yeah, I’m with you about the physical media thing. A few years ago the last video store in my town went out of business and I scored big time on new and used videos for cheap. I had a lot even before that.
Our library has a ton of passes for museums/gardens around us (probably more but that’s what I’ve looked for) and a whole catalogue of random tools, party stuff, house stuff you can reserve to check out.
Yes. Going to the library is fun. My gf gets her book and I get the movies. I got a bluray player for a good deal. They also rent bluray players for free. They have a lot of games and they allow you to rent it for a full month at our place.
You can stream through your library too. My library offers Binge Passes through Hoopla and you get free access to certain subscription services for, I think a week. My partner watches Hallmark+ that way 😂
Our library has a ton of passes for museums/gardens around us (probably more but that’s what I’ve looked for) and a whole catalogue of random tools, party stuff, house stuff you can reserve to check out.
I wish there was a library closer to where I live and easier to get to. D;
I just find the not-legal sites hosting or torrent things I really want to watch.
I cancelled all my streaming accounts too. Back to physical media and sailing the high seas. 15 years ago I stopped sailing because the deals were reasonable and it didn't make sense anymore. Now we're back to cable levels of greed and every streaming service is 99% unwatchable garbage anyway to pad up their content numbers.
I subscribe to Criterion Channel and Apple TV (because it’s in a bundle I use) but nothing else. I planned to subscribe to channels one month at a time here and there and never bother.
The challenge for me is living in a dense city that would supersede the number of copies of any given movie, so it would result in me being on a waiting list for X amount of weeks sometimes to get a movie, physical or digital.
Introduced my mum to the show Resident Alien a few months ago and got all 4 seasons on DVD through our local library system.
Them having movies and TV series available to borrow was nothing new to me, but when I went to a different branch to pick up one of the box sets, saw that there was a whole section dedicated to PS5 and XBOne games. What thewhaaaaa?! Blew my mind!
This. Disney DVDs are a dime a dozen at your local thrift store or goodwill. Onetime spend of $30 will get 10 of your kids favorite movies and then you’re no longer a slave to streaming.
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I canceled last year.
I'm done with streaming. I'm back to physical media.
Go to your library. They have more than books to check out.