Since this is in nostupidquesrions and not a piracy community I’ll offer a different take:
Try your local library for physical copies. Depending on your library system, it may be free (or low cost) to have copies sent from other branches. Again depending on your system it may be possible to get copies from libraries outside of the system through Inter Library Loans (ILL) if your library participates.
Also library systems may have access to some streaming content, depends on your system. Some large cities, like NYC, offer library cards to everyone in t the state.
Tangentially related, the Internet Archive also hosts tons of material you might not find anywhere else. Probably not what you’re looking for, but I’ve found things like Mister Rogers episodes there that aren’t available on Amazon or DVDs. Quality of content may vary and you’re more likely to find older content there.
The logical conclusion of libraries is piracy anyway. Like that’s their entire point, the dissemination of information freely.
Like that’s their entire point, the dissemination of information freely.
Yes.
The logical conclusion of libraries is piracy anyway.
Not really. Libraries function within the constraints of licensing. They buy physical copies of materials and license digital copies.
With libraries the content creators (and yes distributors) are still being paid for their works AND information gets to sprees freely.
I’d argue that libraries are superior piracy.
Libraries existed before any licensing or copyright even existed lol. The entire point is to ‘copy’ information, which is exactly what happens when you let many people look at the same clay tablet or whatever. Peer to peer.
You could literally sit there and copy from someone else’s scroll on to your own scroll.
Adding on, in what might seem like an inane answer, but also worth checking out the local free to air television. Some of them may have apps or other means of watching on demand, if you don’t feel like taking the traditional route of watching whatever it is is on the television at a given time.
For example, if you have a TV licence, you can just stream stuff from the BBC through their Web player.
find friends, like a lot of them.
hang out at one persons place watching tv till they turn it off, then move onto the next house. might take a bit, but youll get there
Qbittorrent + sonarr + radarr + prowlarr + plex
Then you’re pretty much set.
Qbittorrent + sonarr + radarr + prowlarr + jellyfin
Then you’re pretty much set.
I think Plex is better for newbies, less setup and most will want to watch outside of their network easily with little setup. That said, Plex is getting a bit enshittified so I’ve been eyeing the switch to jellyfin just in case (I’m not a newbie, k simply was when I started using Plex and don’t want to deal with the change if I don’t have to)
Bit-torrent… but not all TV shows and movies. Some have been lost to time… good luck with the Dr Who marathon.
