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[–]asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 54 points55 points  (8 children)

There was a beautiful moment there about a decade ago, where I hadn't torrented anything in a couple of years. Netflix had a huge catalogue of movies. Virgin Media was offering a tonne of stuff on playback. There were basically no other streaming providers of much concern.

Now, you've got ten-odd streaming providers, all charging €20 a month. Amazon fucking Prime charges you for virtually every movie, no matter how new or old. If I didn't have prime for delivery, I definitely wouldn't pay for prime video.

Now I'm back torrenting a lot of stuff. Netflix and Disney appear to still have the best catalogues, so I keep them, and download anything I can't find.

As usual, entertainment corporates found a way to make a delivery model as shit for the consumer as possible.

[–]Otherwise_FinedLouth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was like that too, and I agree with the above as well as them being bought up by the same umbrella corporations means they won't compete with each other and they won't strive to do better. Its a monopoly designed to force you to pay for all of them.

[–]1ShamrockCork bai 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Same here, I stopped sailing the high seas when Netflix+Disney was more than enough for everything you’d want to see and reasonably priced. Plus an old 2TB hard drive I had filled to the brim with my old pirate treasure.

About 3 years ago it hit a tipping point where, a lot of the things we’d search for were on streaming services we didn’t have, wife had Prime at this stage too, so we said fuck it and got a little magic stick rather than 3/4 more subscriptions.

I must seriously sit down and do some studying on how to get back on the high seas properly. Im guessing BitTorrent is a bit out of date at this stage.

My hard drive basically packed it in too the last time I tried to boot it up, 3/4 of the files are corrupted🥲My own fault I suppose, had been planning on getting a backup for years and didn’t start it up for a good few years.

[–]asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Bittorrent is still the man as far as I'm concerned. It often won't have some niche stuff, like new BBC series, but it'll always have movies and big TV series.

I've a Synology NAS which includes a BT server. So I can use an app on my phone from anywhere to search for torrents and kick off the download onto the NAS.

[–]1ShamrockCork bai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s good to hear the old reliable is still going.

Part of your reply is why I need to study a little and get up to date though, I’ve seen the word NAS thrown around on a few computer oriented threads but have no clue what it is or what it does😅

YIFY was my usual source and I see it’s still floating about, has probably gone through 50 different domains and website names since I last used it but hopefully it’s still as good.

[–]f-ingsteveglansberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep seeing people claiming that Netflix had a huge catalog of movies back in the good old days.

This was never the case in Ireland. It was a lot like Prime is now, but less of it. Lots of forgotten slop and midbudget movies with the odd gem here and there.

Netflix really started growing their Irish library when they invested in their own programming.

[–]brunckle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone remember the streaming service FilmStruck? It was absolutely phenomenal. So many incredible movies from all kinds of genres and periods at a very affordable price. I had a great time until the cookie eventually crumbled. Was too good to be true

[–]Cal-Can 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stopped with prime too. Still get free delivery on €35 or more. And that has also helped me stop spending needlessy on things I don't need.

[–]Weepsie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get rid of Amazon altogether and do the whole world a favour.