Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate
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What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?

Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        1 year ago

        I was always 100% on board with paying 50-100 bucks a month for being able to watch anything I wanted, whenever I wanted, in perpetuity — for the rest of my life.

        Instead, capitalism chose to fracture all content behind multiple paywalls that don’t even host the content I want to watch, or censor/change it so that I can never watch the OG versions I want to watch, so I’ve instead been spending 50-100 bucks a month on computing hardware to download it and host it myself for over a decade.

        I’ll continue to fucking do it too, because these soulless sociopath leeches don’t deserve a cent from me. They don’t even fucking pay their content creators or staff a decent wage, and will spend 10x more just to screw their workers. At this point I’d prefer them to fail and collapse, so I’ll continue not giving them money — I’m doing my part!

    • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      Use your local library! Thousands of Blu-ray/DVD titles for free you can check out and rip freely. And then you don’t have to worry about any nasty letters from your ISP.

      • Confused_Emus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I honestly didn’t even include a DVD/BluRay drive in my PC build, so can’t really use those. And I tunnel all that traffic through Proton VPN, so ISP isn’t an issue.

      • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Love this! Supporting your community library and building your trove of booty at the same time lol.

        I also like to collect physical media from my favorite artists, so I also rip from those disks and get the best of all worlds :)

      • return2ozma@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Most libraries always give you access to Kanopy to steam movies/documentaries. Just need your library card and the app.

      • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Plex - in the way users here are describing (important context since Plex’s management has recently shifted heavily to trying to be like Pluto.TV with less emphasis on its original purpose) works as an application that acts like a library for your own media collection.

        There are 2 required parts to it :

        1. A “server” or “host” which acts as your library.
        2. A client - like an NVIDIA Shield, your phone, PlayStation, Roku, or eve your Fire Stick.

        Without your own server with content stored on it, or at least a friend’s server credentials you can connect to, you are limited to the “Pluto.TV” type ad-driven media collection.

        So the answer is “yes it works on a fire stick,” but you will need #1 also for it to be the single source library for your content and not just another ad-riddled garbage service.

      • CaptainFortissimo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yes. There is a legit plex app on fire stick and roku. It comes with free live TV and on Demand content, but you can also run your own server on your network with your own downloaded content. If you have an IPTV service you can stream that through plex as well.

        Note that Jellyfin is a similar app/server that works the same way and is totally free. Plex is also free, but there are additional features behind the pay wall like GPU decoding, PVR service for IPTV, and others.