Every time I think “hey I wanna watch that one movie again” it’s never on any of the streaming services I pay for. Even old ass movies like the godfather are missing and I’m asked to instead rent them. Fuck you, where’s my pirate flag??
I’ll be pirating that
Now I have a bunch more for others to take too 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
And since they move services so damn often it’s almost impossible to find an up-to-date list telling you where you can go to watch something!
It took me 5 minutes to finally track down The Perfect Host. And it’s “available to rent” on Amazon? Fuck that entirely!
I recommend the app “Just Watch”. Pump in whatever you wanna watch and it’ll tell you what services it’s available to stream on. If none, hoist the flag, amigo!
Personally speaking: Fuck adding another app to my phone. Go visit justwatch.com
Just want to mention that this issue is even worse for content from non-US markets.
There’s a huge list of classics from where I live that are completely impossible to find and we depend on one privately owned platform to decide to buy the rights and make it available even if these productions received public financing and that’s just when it’s clear who owns the rights.
Even piracy isn’t an option.
This photo reminds me of the story of Jeanne Calment. At 90 years old, she signed a contract with a lawyer which stated he would inherit her apartment upon her death, but he would pay her 2,500 francs per month until the time came.
Her lawyer died 30 years later, when Jeanne was 120. His family continued making payments to Jeanne until she finally died at 122 years old, by which time she had been paid more than double what her place was worth.
I think her daughter may have started impersonating her at some point but there was no way to prove it so they had to keep paying.
Wow that was a fascinating rabbit hole. I think she was probably legit, but the fact that nobody else has broken 120 years is somewhat perplexing. The big gap between her and second place is statistically very unlikely, but there is also a lot of positive evidence mentioned in that article that’s hard to refute.
Movies on your own jellyfin server getting streamed to your devices
Is something like this difficult to set up?
I grabbed a Linux Mint install, and followed this guide to install Plex on it
It is a “desktop” install, really I know you don’t NEED a GUI yadayada, but it was very easy and got my foot in the door of Linux. It’s worked well for me, faster than the older Windows install
Nah, just run the installer, go to the config page and point it at your media folders. You get a Netflix type UI in the browser.
There’s even an Android TV app to access it remotely.
Depends on your current skill level and what equipment you have.
If you run Linux already it is dead easy, especially if you have a server.
I know you can host Plex on a Windows laptop so I’m sure you can probably host jellyfin as well.
It also depends on how you want to set it up. At its most basic, it’s pretty easy. Download Plex or jellyfin then point it to the files you want to host and you are flying.
Old dude should be titled “piracy” instead.
Not really as in the current meme at least it compares two ways to legally watch the content
Yeah but physical copies of movies are not really on a comeback, but piracy on the other hand is.
Would you have predicted a resurgence of vinyls 20 years ago?
People are coming to the same realization with visual media that they came to with music, enthusiasts kept physical copies alive in the meantime.
Don’t forget - storage drives are physical storage.
