The real winner of the streaming wars.

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    6 days ago

    I have Amazon prime, so I get access to Prime Video.

    My family phone plan comes with a Free™ Netflix account per line.

    As a student, my Spotify account gives me access to Hulu.

    I can use all of these services at zero additional cost to myself and I still steal acquire it through different legal avenues. It takes an extra 2 minutes to make sure that I have it forever and that it’ll be easily accessible.

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    This, plus self hosting jellyfin and *arr and I basically have a better service, with no ads, nice UI, access from all my devices, offline access, 4K resolution, music streaming. Basically the all-inclusive premium plan, not exactly for free, but for a very reasonable cost.

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      I dump Blu-rays to my NAS with zero re-encoding. Even for older shows the quality is leaps and bounds superior to any streaming service with plenty of bandwidth.

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    The bottom right one should be tor-rent, not torr-ent. It’s a peer-to-peer media rental service running over the illicit TOR network. TOR is yet another project the notorious criminal hacker Linuxos Torvaldos made and named after himself.

    People always told Linuxos to keep his legal name and his illegal software separate but he wouldn’t listen. He got caught in a San Francisco public library reading with his wife Stella Richman. What a git.

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      Usenet really is miles better. It blew my mind how quick and hassle free downloading was.

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    I use Stremio that plays and streams torrents using sequential downloading. It’s like Popcorn time.