The end goal was always to deprive us of alternatives
Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ha fuck… that was my last personal sub… any alternative beside the high seas? I’m seasick…
kiagam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s always torrents but it was very convenient to just go to crunchy and start something… torrenting and putting it in plex and all… it’s just less convenient
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
They took our comments and reviews, now they’re ruining subtitles, are delayed, etc. The arr stack is starting to be just as convenient if not more.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re right about comments and reviews… I miss some of that. You’re also right quoting the old Gaben. But still… it seems we can’t keep any nice things for long :-/
aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Look into setting up an -arr stack. Overseer with radar/sonaar plus your torrent client of choice and a VPN. The setup takes a weekend at most and the final product is honestly easier to use then navigating shitty streaming services now. It actually is more convenient after just a little bit of setup.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Usenet is great also downloads very quickly. Just automate the whole process.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was doing usenet more than 10yrs ago… not that straightforward, needs a subscription anyway… and the whole NAS + plex or something similar is still needed. I get the idea but there’s a point in life where 10€ per month for the ease of use is very appealing.
Toes@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Hidive is probably the last good one, unless something changed in recent times.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
HiDive. Until they get the fuckaround bug.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Honestly, piracy is easier than it ever has been. You can automate torrents or usenet downloads with the *arr suite. There’s a bit of a learning curve to get it set up… But once it’s running, it’s basically just “add show to your watchlist” and ~15 minutes later it shows up on your media list with full metadata, subtitles, etc ready to go.
Plenty of people will suggest stremio, which is… Contentious. It works for streaming by downloading a torrent to cache. After you watch it, stremio automatically deletes the cache. So in day to day operation, it uses very little hard drive space and primarily relies on your internet speed and properly seeded torrents. But that latter part is the problem… Since it deletes the cache, it isn’t actually seeding anything in return. If everyone used stremio, nobody would actually be able to use it, because none of the torrents would be seeded. It’s a sort of mass prisoner’s dilemma.
Technically, you can set stremio to keep a rolling cache of {x} size, and it will hold onto the torrents until you start to download something new and it needs that space. But very few people will expect to hit a 1.0 ratio, even with a decently sized cache.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The whole point is not to do any setup and maintenance just to watch anime… I already have a job where I have to do that and I was hoping that it would pay for the convenience. My passion is watching anime, not setup downloading pipeline for them.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
There are plain old anime piracy sites, for both downloading and streaming, if you don't want the headache.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The point of the setup is you only need to do it once, you don’t set up everything every time you want to download something…
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Got any guides for that stuff? Sounds pretty neat
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lol I can just add it to my phone’s torrent client when I plan on watching something, then later begin download when I have wifi (or if you have unlimited high speed data, that also works… sort of…), usually like before bed when the phone is plugged in, then wake up and its done downloading.
You can pre-download the next thing you plan to watch before you finish your current thing. Same for TV Shows and movies.
If you don’t use your phone for work, you can also just leave it charging and use their wifi (with VPN obviously) to torrent then come come and have it ready to watch, usually unless it has low seeders.
Watch using VLC.
(Afaik, there’s no torrent client on iOS, so this is Android only… we’ll see what happens with Android torrent clients after 2027… it works for now)
(That’s the simplist thing to do. You can also remote into a computer,but that’s a bit more complicated.)
whereyaaat@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
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It is easier to watch anime for free than it is to pay for it.
dil@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Then you pay for it? Plain and simple. You pay for that convenience.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am paying for it… it becomes tricky when the disagreement isn’t on price but on replacing fellow human with AI from a country with genocidal tendencies. That’s where I draw my line I guess.
dil@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No one reccomends stremio without real debrid, makes it instant like netflix