BitTorrent
I believe that an ideal platform would resemble stashdb.org (NSFW), but with a broader focus on all types of media, rather than just adult content. This platform would allow users to upload media directly, as opposed to solely sharing metadata. By incorporating these features, the platform could provide a comprehensive and user-friendly experience for individuals seeking a wide range of media. I’d pay for this kind of service since the alternative is using multiple platforms that specialize in each kind of media, which I don’t really care about since I can consume the media locally in the software of my choice.
The linked site only shows a login form in a completely otherwise blank site.
I don’t even get a login screen.
On mobile. Accessing via ‘show desktop verison’
Still nothing.
How does one acquire an invite key? Asking for a friend.
Github repo -> Discord chat -> #stashdb-invites room
Firefox.
You go to a website and click “save as.”
A distributed filesystem with all the content that mankind has ever created. Nothing gets taken down, everything is encoded in HEVC or AV1, 3D and mega-superduper-sound. Streaming clients for every platform and TV. And monetization built in so the content creators have some motivation to upload their content themselves and get payed directly, without labels and other companies in the middle who take the largest cut.
Nothing gets taken down, everything is encoded in HEVC or AV1, 3D and mega-superduper-sound.
I’m not sure if I’d want the filesystem, browsing, transmission and decoding costs from having to store Ally McBeal (1997) on 3D mega superduper surround. 480p video 64kbps audio is fine.
Haha, yeah I didn’t think it through properly. There are a lot of 90s TV series that got filmed on magnetic tape in 480. Guess you can’t re-master Ally McBeal and redo the CGI / spaceship scenes in full HD. They could do it for Captain Kirk but the era after that is just SD television with stereo(?) sound and that’s it, you’re right. Sometimes people re-encode old stuff with more modern codecs and I’ve deleted old, blocky and very compressed DivX versions I had on my old computer.
so… netflix with extra storage?
Basically yes, Like Netflix, just without Netflix increasing subscription prices every one to two years while removing content I like. And being a for-profit company that makes me pay more and creators earn less. I mean I can afford $30 a month if it gives me all the TV series I like, movies and audiobooks and all the music out there. For all I care it could bill me per view if that gets close to that amount of money… I’m not opposed to paying in the first place… It’s just that too much content has become unavailable on Netflix. And I like Spotify, but they’re paying artists next to nothing. I don’t see any benefit there, If they’re ripping off the artists anyways… Why not do it myself, cut out the middle-man and save the bucks?
And all of the services make everything difficult to use, Netflix crapped out after I connected via another internet connection, Disney doesn’t work on my old TV. And Star Trek isn’t available on either of them. All the data-collecting and DRM shit on top that doesn’t allow me to watch full-HD on Linux… Yeah and I want to use a Kodi-Box, not a Fire-TV-Stick.
Netflix is just S3 with a fancy UI.
are you lost?
Freenet is a distributed file system. Imagine a useful front end to that where you could upload your content and also subscribe to other people or content. Could be awesome. Too bad I can’t code for shit.
Yeah, there are lots of distributed filesystems and platforms… the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), Freenet, GNUnet, Osiris, ZeroNet, Dat, I2P, Tahoe-LAFS…
Maybe the Web 3.0 gets us there.
As far as I know i2p doesn’t have a distributed file system. I think you can run Tahoe-LAFS over it, but it looks complex. Never tried it.
But if netflix is just a nice gui over S3, then a nice gui over freenet should be simple. Right? Not that I could do it, but I like the idea.
I personally love torrents, their decentralized nature will make them last forever.
I would love to see a client that shows you a full catalog of movies and shows and downloads right from the client. If I choose a movie it will just start downloading it right there and can let me watch it in a few minutes. Basically similar to popcorn time but actually maintained, and also supports a vpn.
My family still likes to use streaming services because they choose something off of Netflix and watch. It would be nice to have the same experience with torrents.
I get almost this experience with Jellyseerr and jellyfin. I do have to wait ~10 min for it to download and import to my library, though.
Looks like Stremio ! OK, it streams the file from torrents but it can also download it if you have a debrid (like realdebrid) linked to it.
I have to check that. Safe using it?
If you use a VPN or Debrid service, yes. Otherwise, your ISP probably won’t like you openly torrenting :)
I openly torrent without a VPN, buy my ISP doesn’t care. It’s a closed tracker, could that be the reason?
Yeah Private Trackers are typically protected from copyright notices.
My biggest complaint is
Only 1 user page.
No ‘kid friendly’ version.
Recommendations are missed.
Sometimes torrents are not named right. I just watched an entire series backwards (it wasn’t good in either direction)
A combination of Sickchill, Jackett, Deluge and Plex with one custom script run by Deluge does exactly this for me, on a VPN connection. I search in Jackett, click the upload to blackhole button, Deluge automatically downloads it, then calls a script for Sickchill to rename, categorize and move to my videos folder, and the same script calls a Plex API to rescan the library.
Torrents are pretty much perfect, but are held back by peoples slow internet connections. If ISPs provided symmetrical connections (e.g. 100MBit/s down and up) P2P file sharing would be everywhere.
Sadly most providers in Germany heavily favor download speed. E.g. a friend of mine has fiber optics 250MBit/s down and 50MBit/s up. That’s a 5:1 ratio!
PS: Symmetrical connections would also be great for other use cases. E.g. simple, e2e encrypted P2P video conferences.
Currently in video calls with more than a few people, a device sends it’s video stream to a server which then sends it to all other participants. This increases cost for Zoom/Teams which then get passed to it’s users.
The better solution would be for each device to send it’s video stream to all other participants directly (p2p). This would result in video stream bandwidth times the amount of participants (e.g. 5mbit x 10 participants = 50mbit/s up).
With regard to ebooks, a clean Kindle-friendly website that immediately downloads the .azw3 file for any book selected.
Anna’s archive
I want this but the audiobook equivalent. Ive had such bad luck getting them.
Getting onto MyAnonaMouse was the best thing for me for audiobooks. They have open applications once every week I think, and they have most of the audiobooks I ever need, and many that I didn’t know I needed.
https://github.com/evan-buss/openbooks
I run that as part of my Calibre docker compose, and when it downloads a book, you don’t even save it locally because it’ll go into Calibre if you set the folder watcher in Calibre to a shared bind mount where the temp file gets dropped.
Combined with FBreader and Calibre OPDS service, and baby, you got a stack.
.azw3
didn’t they switch to epub last year?
The ideal piracy software doesn’t exist. It would be great if information was freed, that would be ideal.
I really really liked Limewire and Shareaza. That coupled with collection search would be awesome.
Netflix, with everything and with an option to download an .mp4 if desired.
I think there’s a typo, didn’t you mean to write Stremio-torrentio-realdebrid? ;)
So essentially Stremio with Torrentio and Real-debrid!
Yeah but you just named three things you’ve got to setup to work together, where RD is actually paid.
Netflix you open and it works, that’s my point.
“works” is a strong statement given how they’re scamming people.
So that’s interesting, how exactly are they scamming people?
Not OP but I’d think he means about increasing their prices, locking down the account sharing and reducing the content (not made by themselves) at the same time.
Yeah that’s very far from the definition of a scam. A bad product isn’t a scam, you know exactly what you’re getting, it’s on you if you “fall” for it.
Since the conversation moved down a little, I respond to this comment instead of your original question. For clarity, I’m not referring to them providing a terrible service as kratoz presumed. They’re right but as you said, that’s not a scam. What is a scam is their shady practice of selling people 4k plans while hiding the fact the paying customer will likely never receive that quality because they don’t make it clear on the sign-up page that they’ve locked that particular functionality behind arbitrary hardware requirements that make no sense and has zero relation to whether or not your internet service package has the bandwidth to provide 4k quality. See here for more details if you’d like.
The setup is super easy though. And you’re paying way less than for Netflix, but you get way better quality, can download the videos, and you have everything in one place. You can also get an add-on that gives you the suggestions from all of the streaming services.
Still more complicated than Netflix.
Also, none of the money you pay goes to the original creators. If I’m already paying, I want at least of the cash to go to them.
But this is a Piracy community. RD costs money. Not good enough. We’re talking about the “ideal” solution.
Fair enough!
Guess I’m just a bit excited, since I’ve finally gone back to pirating after more than a decade. And Stremio is just really nice. Only thing I’m missing is the possibility of creating profiles. Can’t let my 8 year old daughter use it like this.
Do you need to have a VPN running for that?
Nope, since real-debrid is doing the torrenting, you’re only downloading the cached content. You can use a VPN if it makes you feel safer, but it’s not really necessary.
Edit: just make sure to connect a Real-debrid account to Torrentio! They do the illegal stuff, while you just download without uploading, which is in a legal grey zone (in Germany).
Thanks! Aye if it’s ok in DE, it’s probably okayer elsewhere
One that plays shanties, but not just any shanties, pirated shanties.
Just gimme a button on every store page for Steam next to Purchase that says “Pirate.”
Going back to buying software that comes in a CD, installed on a PC, and does not require internet connection to run.
Pretty much any software pre 2000.
It’s just rtorrent in a detached tmux window.
A library where you dn bring your USB-Drives, or DVD-Rs (or the bluray equivalentr and download the catalogue.
Basically: a sneakernet portal for torrent/usenet/whatever.
But I really like emphasizing the overlap of libraries and piracy communities.
Something that incorporates all the “Arr” softwares into one, with a proper setup process to begin with, and lots of customizations for the more advanced users
A sorta… “package” deal.
managing them all individually is annoying and i keep hearing about new “arr” softwares… its annoying and tedious…
of course, also with web interface, so it can be done remotely
For beginners, It’s also not really obvious how to set them all up so that it works together.
