Sometimes I’m just too lazy for torrenting because downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off. Whenever I give chance to streaming it’s always low quality and sucks. I checked streaming links on reddit’s r/piracy, you know the wiki, year is 2025 and it’s still slow and sucks. Maybe I don’t know good sites. Can you link me up, and what do you think about streaming vs torrent way in general? Thanks guys.
After 20 years of pirating the slow way (manual searching and torrenting), I invested the time to setup a proper *arrr flow into Plex, Ombi for auto adding plex watchlist to the dl queue, and Usenet indexes and access + nzbget.
Now I can search for a movie in the plex app, if I don’t have it I add it to my watchlist, and it sends me a notification 5 mins later that it’s available.
I did all that about 6 years ago and it’s been so nice. Well worth the time to setup. I forgot how painful the manual way is.
You forgot the number one rule about the usenet: you don't talk about the usenet.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26287096
Gotchu fam'
A user in this community wrote a guide. If you need any help feel free to ask here or dm me - I set up the full stack on a home server and would love to help share the knowledge.
oh you mean how I pirate? download qbittorrent (best torrent client), get yourself some VPN if you are in 1st country (not a problem if you are in 3rd), go 1337x.to or rutracker.org (these are best I mainly use 1337x tho), search something find what you want to pirate, copy magnet link from there and paste to qbittorent add magnet link thing, it will downloaded.
They weren’t asking you. They replied to my comment about a proper setup
I exclusively stream torrents. It's almost flawless for me. The trick is you need a paid service like real debrid to get access to the good links. If you are only searching free ones, it's going to be low quality, and selection sucks. I use RD and Kodi personally, it also allows you to torrent traditionally, too, and without the need of a VPN if your isp is nosey.
Yep, this is my setup. I did the whole *arr apps, Plex and Usenet setup for years, but hated dealing with storing the files. It also didn’t help when my 8TB drive decided to act up and make files inaccessible.
Now I stream everything through Stremio with RD+. Works on every device flawlessly.
downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off
You can untick every episode except the first few when you download.
You can also download a torrent sequentially and play it while it's downlading but it's fiddly.
Yeah I've tried it a couple times and don't see the appeal. It's like watching nothing but cam copies except half the time the files won't load. I don't understand how streaming became so popular.
Also set up radarr and sonarr because it makes everything easy.
It’s like watching nothing but cam copies except half the time the files won’t load.
I dunno what sites you tried but this hasn't been my experience, especially if I'm just going through whatever current season of show XYZ is running. Even recent movies don't generally have cam quality unless you're trying to watch them very close to the release date.
Sometimes you get broken links or stop and start with load times and in those cases I'll take the time to fire up TPB, but mostly it's been no problem finding decent quality streams that load right away, and that's been true for me for at least 15 years since using shit like icefilms back then.
This has been working for me for a whilst however if one of the links in the chain goes down at some point then you have nothing to watch. I might even have to talk to my family!
I’m gonna start considering local server. I remember the good old days of getting up in the middle of the night to check limewire.
I used to run a Plex server locally, with content provided by Usenet. It was by far the most stable/robust experience I've had, but I like being able to watch whatever I want on a whim.
Probs my next move. Waiting to move house and will likely do this…maybe with jellyfish. I am trying to degoogle and amazon and currently stremio is on firestick. Stremio has been great but as I said it’s not totally immune to outside factors. Thanks for the note. It helps that others have success and share so, it makes the leap seem smaller.
what’s the advantage of debird vs just watching the torrentio links on streamio?
In addition to what @kek@discuss.tchncs.de said;
You don't need to worry about a VPN, and I find the connection much more stable and less prone to flakiness due to seeders being on shitty ISPs.
It isn't as robust as Usenet, or a Plex/Jellyfin server, but it's a lot more convenient in my experience.
if you use streamio then you can choose whatever quality you want
I'm old but i still think popcorn time was the best solution. P2P streaming.
Put first episode on max priority + download sequentially. Go make a cup of tea. First episode is ready to stream. Do same to second episode before you start watching the first and Robert is your father's brother (Bob's your uncle).
I hate streaming anything unless it's coming from my server.
Bandwidth and storage is expensive, so free streams will usually be heavily compressed and look terrible.
