Can confirm that I have way more content than Netflix (currently clocking in at around 125TB, I may have a slight problem). I cancelled my Netflix account after all that no-VPN bullshit. I like my privacy, thank you very much. I've to admit I quite enjoy when friends come telling me that tv show XYZ isn't on Netflix any more, asking to be added to my Plex server. Every single person cancelled their account after a few days of having access to my library. I don't even like pirating, I'd like to pay for my content (provided I like it) and often I do buy the DVD/Bluray just for it to sit in it's packaging in my basement collecting dust.
The copyright mafia should not have that kind of power that you're assuming they have. I pirate too. I don't use any legal service to watch content or listen to content. I don't have the money to do so, so I pirate. I wouldn't've paid them if I couldn't pirate, I just wouldn't consume the media. If I like an artist or a movie I'll buy their content but I usually cannot because there's no place to buy it in my small village and it's far away from cities that have DVD stores. Most people in the country pirate. And most online stores don't allow Serbia as a purchase country so... TPB here I come!
If he's in the US and doesn't say what he pirated, no one would have standing to sue him, yarr. Now matey, if he been caught pirating a specific work with otherr evidence, then a statement like this would be walkin' the legal plank.
It is, and honestly I don't even care..
It's not like I'm making any profit by sharing my library and I don't have any moral issues with torrenting. As I've said above if I do like something I buy it afterwards with the only intention of supporting the industry.
I just said this because I know for me, I don't like to publicize any potentially gray things I do, simply for the fact that I don't trust any government, rather be safe than sorry, never confess to pirating, and always use VPN's, etc.
He did also just confess to distribution though, via his Plex Server.
The gleeful attitude many have to pirating makes me sad. I've downloaded shows too, but whenever possible I use legal methods to watch. I believe it is content worth paying for, and if a show disappears from Netflix it's probably available somewhere else. It's at least worth checking before you go to your friend for Plex access.
I always appreciate the occasional poster with a gleeful attitude towards copying. I wish there were more people like him such to change the public's view on pirates.
>"I cancelled my Netflix account after all that no-VPN bullshit."
I guess I missed this story. You can no longer access Netflix via a VPN? I would be curious to know how they are detecting this. Does this mean you can not access your Netflix content when you take a trip abroad?
Heck, they block you if you use Hurricane Electric's Tunnel Broker to get IPv6 connectivity, even if the endpoint is in the same country and even though a) TB clients have unique subsets and b) IPv6 geolocation is unreliable shit.
And that's on top of the pathetic selection when you're trying to be honest with them and not fake your country. Screw that.
Interesting. The US now has ISPs that are allowed to track their customers and so people are forced to use VPNs to have a basic level of privacy and at the same time Netflix(and I imagine others will follow) are mandating you can't use a VPN.
This is a pretty crappy situation and I guess you can vote with your wallet.
I am surprised that Netflix which increasingly relies on their own content would feel the need to placate this Hollywood greed?
I'm also curious what heuristic they are using to decide if I am on a VPN?
>"It is still unclear how Netflix’s IP-blacklisting works. A few providers have noticed that some of their IP-ranges were already banned before they were active, suggesting that Netflix automatically flags IPs from certain organizations"
Then once you have Sonarr and/or Radarr setup for TV/Movies you can use something like Ombi to allow family/friends to request content and have it automatically downloaded and added to Plex.
There are a bunch of people over on /r/DataHoarder who have hundreds of TB's encrypted on ACD, some even hit a PB. As long as you're not downloading too much they don't care how much or what you store there.
Terabytes is nothing. If one movie is a couple of GB, a thousand movies will be a couple of TB. Since 1900, there have been on average 2500 movies released per year (the early years were quiet, recent years are closer to 10,000).
So 2500 movies per year time 100 years time 4 GB per movie is 1 million GB, 1000 TB or 1 Petabyte.
And that's just movies. If you also want TV shows, it's probably going to be several times that (though until recently, they were produced at lower resolution).
2500 movies a year? Who has time for that? Are there seriously people out there trying to download and store every movie released in 2017? I don't think I'd even approach watching 1% of the movies released in a year. I'm often playing catch up, watching ones from a few years back that I haven't gotten around to yet.
I often think our resource usage as a species is insane. In an age when you can download anything in minutes at any time of the day we (well, some of us) fill terabytes of hard drive space with endless duplicates of movies and tv shows we'll probably never watch, albums we'll never listen to and more recently books we'll never read. And that's just digital, don't get me started on raw materials
Oh there's way more than that... My, I mean, my friends server is about the same size and stuffed full of tv. Not even close to having s complete library.
Heh... I've been re-encoding a lot of mine to HEVC, and some things lowering the quality a little at the same time to get back some space... I do with nvenc had a bit higher quality, but the speed over x265 is so colossal I use it anyway. Most TV content as I watch, I'll nuke.. stuff I really like, I'll keep and if not already hevc, I'll re-encode.
Fortunately, I don't get too much from say 1080p over 720p, and hevc at 1080p seems to do very well, even at the lower quality (relatively) settings... so I'm getting 1080p content saved at file sizes sometimes half 720p avc.
In any case, I still pay for netflix/amazon, just got an NVidia Shield TV and love it so far (though had considered DirectTV Now, but they don't support Android TV for no reason). I cut the cord a while ago, and other than the Superbowl (next year just going to a bar), haven't missed it.
May setup Plex eventually as well, for now, kodi over the lan works great.
I tend not to buy stuff I know I'll only use once a year, if I can avoid it. I'm in a relatively small (by american standards) apartment, and would rather have space for a new kitchen gadget, which I also avoid at this point.
h.265 (HEVC) compresses fairly differently, the modes and fallback methods are also better the higher the detail (dimensions)... with x.264 (AVC) you get pixelation, with HEVC you get blurring... for a 1080p or 4K output, this is MUCH more pleasant to watch and allows for some shortcuts that aren't as noisy.
One of the first things I noticed when first seeing DirectTV and DVD quality, for example was the pixelation of things, usually in the background... to this day it sometimes distracts me... that alone is about enough for me.
The way regions are selected for compression is also better, but I'm not into the technical details enough to explain well... all I know is I can get about 5/3 to 5/2 more content in HEVC while at an equivalent or better quality. So yeah, it's a big deal...
