Streaming is fricking dead bros.
I wanted to watch harry potter with my cousin and they took it off hbo. I was using by brothers account and he was gonna use the free trial. Turns out it's only on hulu if you pay for live tv (lol) and peawiener which just got rid of their free trial apparently. Hbo got rid of that too and now you can only watch select episodes or movies for free before needing to buy. And with netflix cracking down on account sharing it's just getting stupider. These streamingyids made more money than ever when the funny cough was happeing but now it's over and they're like
>how can we frick over our subscribers?
I'm just gonna go back to illegally streaming again and learn how to pirate. How hard is it to create a good and affordable service for people to watch stuff? I'm not gonna pay 30$ a month to watch 8 movies from 20 years ago.
This shit is moronic. I'm done being their paypig. I'm so sorry piratechads for all the slander I've tossed your way
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Time to learn torrents. No more excuses. You WILL be an efficient pirate.
Start here btw https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy
they WILL bust you if you pirate in the united states since many of the ISP providers are also co owned with the content producers so you're stealing from them personally.
If you're moronic.
>as simple as using a vpn?
Yes.
>Is a free browser vpn enough
They're fricking TORRENTS. Why would a browser VPN do anything?
Besides, if get your torrents from the right places, you won't even need a VPN. Haven't used one in years and I'm torrenting something on a daily basis.
What are the right places? Should I just avoid torrenting stuff that doesn't have alot of traffic or whatever? Idrk the terms, but torrents that have alot more seeds or whatever must be safer than random ones that one one's downloaded i guess
>What are the right places?
Mostly private sites. Many of them are very easy to get in for completely free. In those places everything is safe.
>Idrk the terms, but torrents that have alot more seeds or whatever must be safer than random ones that one one's downloaded i guess
No, not really at all. You can't think like that when most on big normalgay torrent sites use VPNs.
illiterate?
Use a VPN tard
>pay2pirate
Yep. I use private trackers (which I've never donated 1 cent to), and don't use a VPN. Completely free. Been doing it since 2008, never received a single DMCA notice.
>60 bucks every 3 years vs 10+ a month for 4 different streaming services
I've torrented for years without a VPN and never gotten a letter but since I got my NAS I've installed one just to be sure. You never know when they might crack down.
>learn how to pirate.
There's nothing to learn aside from download a torrent client then download torrents.
I dont want yiddrones from comcast sending me letters to stop. Is it really as simple as using a vpn? Is a free browser vpn enough or should I get one of the youtubeshill ones?
You can get private internet access vpn for around $25/year if you get the two or three year subscription.
It's amazing how zoomers think piracy is some complicated process you need to learn.
I never once had a steaming account. PtP and BtN all the way, gays.
This is why I collect my favorite movies on blu-ray and pirate everything else. I started warning homosexuals about this shit like 10 years ago and no one listened.
>I started warning homosexuals about this shit like 10 years ago and no one listened.
saying 2 more weeks?
That's why nobody listen
It's not exclusive to movies and series. The plan is to erase everything at some point so it can be resold, and morons pay for it again.
just google "watch harry potter movie free online"
have ad block
>muh torrent
boomers
A lot of those streaming sites are glitchy as frick and are simply using uber-compressed 720p files. TVs are good as frick nowadays. If a movie isn't 1080p and AT LEAST 2bg per hour of runtime, then I don't bother.
>If a movie isn't 1080p and AT LEAST 2bg per hour of runtime, then I don't bother.
you autistic man
Hey, anything less and you get macroblocking, banding, aliasing, color and exposure blooming, etc... Cameras and digital acquisition/editing keeps getting better, while delivery methods keep getting worse. I'm not having it.
Doesn't matter to me. VHS still looks fine
>If a movie isn't 1080p and AT LEAST 2bg per hour of runtime, then I don't bother.
And even that is usually dogshit quality, but yeah sometimes nothing better is available.
True. The bigger the file size the better. I regularly download and watch like 12-18gb movies. But I used to work as a DP and video editor back in the day, so I have the trained eye. I wish I didn't sometimes. For instance, my mom thinks background banding is supposed to be there in movies and TV shows. I had to explain to her that its from the streaming compression, and no, the background is not supposed to look like a vidya game from 1988.
>can't tell difference between aspect ratio if not pointed out
>can't tell difference between 720p and anything beyond
>think my screen exploding into artefacted black squares every time there's a big scene is normal
>feel uncomfortable if I don't see silhouettes of people passing in front of the camera from time to time
This is what growing up watching bootleg cams printed on a VCD does to you. I'm just happy the film is in the right language and has English subtitles.
>>feel uncomfortable if I don't see silhouettes of people passing in front of the camera from time to time
lol
I too enjoy VHS equivalent quality
frick are you talking about
the websites have HD settings and the movies and shows are all fine
you guys are just..leaving me speechless idk
>what is compression
Turbomoron detected.
I did that but couldn't find a site that wasn't aids. I eventually found one by just doing "watch movies online free" and found sflix which seems stable and in good quality
>sflix
>good quality
>he doesn't have an array of multiple 8tb drives to store uncompressed 4K and 1080p Blu-Ray rips of hundreds upon hundreds of films
ngmi
If that's you, then you suffer from data hoarding obsession.
man whatever enjoy ur torrenting since ya'll like it/know all about it so much
Just torrent then setup your own plex/jellyfin server.
This guy gets it. Even configured my plex server so i can access my library from everywhere. I have a mega account for downloading though
>get torrent client
>download torrents
>avoid normalgay sites so no need for vpn
all you need
This and all other tards talking about torrenting and dodgy streaming sites with bad quality...
Ever heard of automating everything?
Usenet is all well and good, but I'm not keen on paying monthly for a newsgroup subscription.
Get a yearly subscription on Black Friday or something, then it's like €20 for a year, every year.
Reasonable enough, but I'm happy with my torrenting. It works. I can find everything I look for. Not keen on fricking around learning something new.
Imagine streaming. Imagine not knowing how to torrent and DDL since you were a kid. Imagine paying for what can be downloaded. Lol, lmao even.
You get what you deserve.
Fellow pirates, just to let you know most 4K releases are not necessary, since movies with special effects are downscaled to 2K and then upscaled to 4K. It's mostly movies made before 2000 that are worth it.
>since movies with special effects are downscaled to 2K and then upscaled to 4K.
It's not 2016 anymore. Shitloads of special effects films are mastered in 4K.
You'd be surprised how many films are shot on Arri Alexa cameras @ 2.8K. I GUARANTEE you anons have watched rips from 4K BluRay releases of these movies, and did not have a clue the source material wasn't 4K.
...unless it's the Alexa LF, Alexa Mini LF, or the new Alexa 35, all of which are true 4K. Also good thing all the major cameras from Red and Sony are true 4K so with all those and Arri's native 4K cameras you're far more likely to watch something shot in 4K or higher if you're watching new movies.
The vast majority of mainstream CGI-heavy blockbusters (think Marvel and the like) are still processed in 2K. The 4K blockbusters are typically from le auteur directors who autistically care enough about these things, like Nolan and such.
I don't have a screenshot at hand at the moment, but I grabbed a 4K remux of Baywatch (to cut some Daddario webms from the best source possible) and it's blatantly obvious how it is upscaled. There's even shots with poor green screen removal where you can see the pixelised cutout around The Rock's head and it's visibly upscaled ~2x (that is, the blocky pixels of the cutout are all in groups of 2x2, if that makes sense). Obviously it's usually not a 100% perfect 2:1 upscale in each shot because the "true" DCI 4K at 4096 is a little more than 2x wider than the home video release at 1920 width, but still.
>The vast majority of mainstream CGI-heavy blockbusters (think Marvel and the like) are still processed in 2K.
False.
Dune, The Batman, Top Gun Maverick, The Way of Water, and almost any blockbuster nowadays has had a 4K intermediate and a 4K capture process.
>Baywatch
Yes, shit came out in 2017. 6 years ago. Hardly reperesentative of what's going on now.
All of your examples are not mass-produced blockbusters, but rather huge, standalone productions driven by perfectionist people who care, like Cameron and Cruise and such. They are not examples of movies that I'm talking about.
I'm having trouble finding anything with a real budget from the last few years that didn't have a full 4K pipeline. Everything Everywhere All All Once was an upscale since it was shot with older cameras, but outside of that the vast majority is true 4K.
So what movies are you talking about? We're talking about modern stuff so let's go with films from the last couple of years.
I'm not the guy you're arguing with, what about movies shot on film and not digitally? Can those be upscaled to 4k and does that count as true 4k? I've heard that stuff shot on film can basically be upscaled infinitely
>I've heard that stuff shot on film can basically be upscaled infinitely
You've misunderstood. Film doesn't need to be upscaled, because the original film negatives can just be scanned at a higher resolution. So if you're watching an older movie shot on film, you're most likely getting real 4K. CGI blockbusters shot on film from the 90s and 00s are an exception, because they're not going to re-render the old effects, which is why such films are upscales. This is why something like Lord of the Rings is an upscale despite being shot on film. But yeah watch something like Jaws, 2001, Lawrence of Arabia, classic Hitchwiener kinos, etc. and it's all real 4K.
This guy kmows. I became aware of this due to a YouTube video.
>uploaded 3 years
Right at the time when more flicks with complete 4K pipelines started popping up.
*3 years ago
Doesn't invalidate what he says. Watch things before parroting.
This is mostly outdated information now that most movies are captured and rendered in 4K. Even indie flicks.
4K intermediates for visual effects have been the standard for some years now. Get with the times, gramps
>pick a modern digital movie
>go to its technical specifications page on IMDB
>if the digital intermediate is 4K, it's real 4K all the way
Besides, almost everything is real 4K nowadays, unless it's some super low budget indie shit.
The Arri Alexa Mini LF is the most popular Arri camera for cinema productions nowadays and it's real 4K.
All true, just saying I've been surprised to find lots of movies, not very many years old, that were shot @ 2.8K. And you can be damn sure that the 4K BluRay's do NOT say anything about the source material not being 4K.
Yeah but most of that shit is starting to be older now. 4K releases definitely are great for almost anything from the last few years.
>>go to its technical specifications page on IMDB
Have to say, digital has made this more interesting. Always fascinating to see what equipment was used. Back in film days it was quite boring... "Lenses and cameras by Panavision". lol
Releases from recent years like Dune, Top Gun Maverick, The Batman, etc. have been shot with 4K cameras and have had 4K intermediates so don't be a moron. Even lower budget stuff like The Whale. Nowadays it's harder to find something that doesn't have a complete 4K pipeline. Standards change fast.
Isn't this guy Greek? Why does everything about this picture look so Russian?
Streaming is here to stay, and everyone know it. Netflix is cracking down on sharing because they know they can. They've surely done plenty of research, focus groups, and such to determine what percentage of people will start paying.
Streaming is here now. Streaming is the future.
Glad I don't pay for it, though. Happy to pirate stuff.
> pay 30$ a month to watch 8 movies from 20 years ago.
>This shit is moronic.
Good goyim you are now primed to be rescued from this nightmare by buying some sort of streaming “package”. We could call it “cable”. 50 bucks a month for all your favourites including espn.
Time is a gay circle
I, for one, am glad normies are ponying up for streaming services. If everyone pirated shit, like we do, it would be a problem.
If everyone pirated they would just shut down the sites like they did when everyone pirated music
>Paying to pirate
>torrent everything I watch and have done so for a decade
>literally never used a vpn
>no problems at all
4K UHD remuxes, direct stream from plex on a fiber line. If there was a service that offered untouched Blu-ray’s to stream with HD audio, I’d sign up. Mobile screens and Tablets are killing tv and movies more than bad writers and woke garbage.
Tech goes forward and services become worse. It has been an ongoing trend for some time now and isn't limited to entertainment.
>and learn how to pirate.
but OP, with your busy schedule how will you find the 5 minutes of time it takes to master this discipline?
You jest but theres not a chance youd get into any of the communities im in, have fun downloading scene copies from various aids ridden websites. Though admittedly, about 5 minutes of searching will get you into a decent private tracker
>I'm better than you because I belong to exclusive private trackers.
Frick off.
Someone uses popcorn time
No. I belong to some very good private trackers. I just don't act like I'm better than people that aren't.
YIFY rips and scene rip sisters get the rope first
debrid is what everyone thought streaming was going to be. $4/mo and watch whatever you want whenever you want. Not on there? Add it! (though kodi shit needs some work still, no clue how to add shit to tmdb)
I’ve started buying physical since netflix lost hobo with a shotgun. The propaganda of “these movies will always be available whenever” is a goddamn lie even with vpns. I save pirating for things that would be expensive to buy like series. Anything that i can find dirt cheap on dvd or vhs i like to get