Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites

mctoasterson , 12 minutes ago

Private Trackers are the way forward.

OutlierBlue , 36 minutes ago

Ah yes, I’m sure this crackdown will have the result of ending piracy forever.

moepoi , 58 minutes ago

It’s time for me to self host a jellyfin server.

einlander , 1 hour ago

All this means to me is someone is going to make a peer to peer darkweb version of these sites sooner rather than later.

emax_gomax , 2 hours ago

Nevermind the decades of these sites compensating for studios just not giving a sh*t about making their content accessible to the rest of the world.

xylogx , 2 hours ago

Fmovie is a new one I never heard of before. Good thing they mentioned it so I know to avoid it in the future.

db2 , 2 hours ago

All this does is make me more interested in “pirating” their infinitely copyable material. More to the point it’s making my interest in financially supporting them drop to zero if not lower.

cm0002 , 1 hour ago

With Usenet, Plex* (Streaming Server), Radarr (automated movie downloading) and Sonarr (automated TV downloading and management) it’s never been easier!

*Plex is currently on a slow path of enshittification and the only other good alternative, Jellyfin, still has some ways to go before it can pass “The Spouse Test”. I myself have only had Jellyfin in testing and not yet replaced Plex with it. But that day is coming. Jellyfin is well under active development and I have no doubt it will get to feature and stability parity with Plex

Darkassassin07 , 1 hour ago

You can always use the older, well established, actively developed, and stable project that Jellyfin is built from; Emby. (Jellyfin is literally Embys code from 10+ years ago)

cm0002 , 35 minutes ago

Yea no. FUCK Emby and their bullshit, Emby is the next Plex and not in a good way. I was there 10 years ago when Jellyfin split off, so AFAIC there are only 2 viable streaming software, Plex and Jellyfin. Emby is dead to me.

SirDerpy , 1 hour ago

Where’s Jellyfin failing the spouse test? My spouse preferred it to Plex because she could turn off all the crap on the home screen.

cm0002 , 31 minutes ago

Just general glitchiness, odd UI design choices etc. Def needs more polish

When I say Spouse Test I mean from the context of a spouse who just “doesn’t do computers”, if your spouse is technically inclined at all, say as a PC gamer or something and has dealt with sometimes-kinda-annoying software and has some patience, then they’ll probably be fine with it

SirDerpy , 12 minutes ago

This makes sense. I had to poke around the UI to figure it out. And, the client occasionally needs rebooted or the cache cleared. I can see how some users would have trouble.

I’d suggest that teaching those users is probably easier than setting up Plex today and then setting up Jellyfin as an emergency service when Plex inevitably begins ad injection or introduces a paywall for local streaming.

linearchaos , 12 minutes ago

After looking at this list I’d like to pre-qualify what I’m about to say: I have jellyfin and like it, I use jellyfin regularly. I have it pointed to the same catalog as Plex and if Plex ever gets thoroughly enshitified I will leave it for jellyfin

The biggest things I’ve seen (in decreasing order of pain):

transcoding can fail on media that Plex has no problems with

Jellyfin is significantly worse at detecting names and properly assigning metadata. Jellyfin does not have the same ease of fixing that when it happens that Plex has.

I’m not going to go through all the work to reverse proxy it. Nor do I trust opening it to the internet. So for her to access it outside the house she’s going to be using tailscale. Kind of just extra steps for the sake of extra steps.

Finamp is a poor replacement for Plexamp, Don’t get me wrong I love the fan project but it’s not anywhere near as good, and it becomes quite painful to use on large audio catalogs.

The Roku client doesn’t have any method to mark things as watched or unwatched or modified playlisted items.

I dislike the sections being static one row high and then having to rotate left and right through multiple things when they could just wrap.

I am super amazed that the project runs as well as it does. It’s a monumental piece of open source work, but there’s a lot of polish problems and I’m not qualified to help them fix them.

linearchaos , 23 minutes ago

Jellyfin pased my spouse test for local network.

I put her on tailscale for remote access but she’s not a big fan of that.

originalucifer , 2 hours ago

oh is it that time of year again? feels like they just published the 2023 version!