I dumped streaming services years ago when all the networks started to make their own services. I ditched cable for a reason.
100% this. I started pirating when I cut cable in the late 00’s, and I stopped when you could find literally everything on Netflix for $7 a month. Then I started back up again when they started multiplying, raising their prices, and making content inaccessible. Like video game companies pivoting towards courting* whales rather than the majority of gamers, they know the solution to piracy, but they’d still rather charge less people more than build a system that mitigates piracy.
Paramount plus isn’t any better. Their site just will not fucking work on Firefox with an adblocker for me.
It’s not worth the effort to fight it to get it to work. Yarr harr.
My wife insists on Paramount plus, and fair enough because they have a LOT of stupid shows I’d rather not download, but anyway… I literally had to let their BS through the PI-Hole for their Roku app to work properly.
I actually use the Paramount app. I still have to pirate episodes because the app keeps hanging on ads and gets into a loop where it won’t play the episode. It’s such trash.
I watch it on Firefox with ublock. No issues.
I’m using the webos built in app. LG tv.
The android TV app is shit too
I have the physical disks (for the original series) and im currently in the process of ripping the files :3
All the cool kids watch Star Trek in the neutral zone.
I feel like I’m extra neutral then. I pay for P+ and Netflix but still “y’arr!” the shows I want to watch simply for the convenience. Would much rather use my own Emby server than have to switch through and navigate their clunky apps.
I pay for 4 streaming services AND Cable and still pull everything down to Jellyfin/Plex.
We also pay for Apple Music, and I keep a copy of all the music we listen to and have playlists.
I am completely down for paying for content because I want it made, but I’ll be damned if I’m letting them take it away from me because an executive needs another yacht or two multi-millionaires are squabbling over rights.
Same here. Haven’t used Emby but the Plex interface is just so much better than any streaming service.
Plex is getting worse and worse for me. All the new “services” they keep trying to push with content I don’t want and now I can’t remove from my home pages…
Laughs in Jellyfin… But seriously, as soon as Plex went mandatory login for local content, i noped out…
I also use jellyfin but for personal content. I’ll have to look into moving everything for the whole family over - and get them used to a new app/website. The situation is becoming untenable.
Yeah I’ll have to make the jump soon
I do exactly the same. The convenience of Emby is just too nice.
“The neutral zone” is a great euphemism for “The Pirate Bay”
If you value having a computer free of malware, there are much better indexes than The Pirate Bay.
Such as The Orion Bay
How do you get malware from downloading a media file?
You’re right; I should’ve been more specific. Even though a malicious payload can be embedded in media files given the right vulnerability to make use of it, I’m referring to malvertising, which is still a problem on piracy sites. This happened not too long ago on The Pirate Bay’s many clones, and TPB itself notoriously served its users ransomware in 2016.
This is why ad-blockers are an essential security tool for everyone, whether they care about ads or not.
Or install a search plugin for your client and avoid the site altogether.
E.g. https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficial-search-plugins
Jesus Christ, at this point people that pay to stream are like the renters that pay to rent a couch for years rather than just buy one. You’re paying far more than if you just bought outright. Not even accounting for natasha yar har har
I’m glad physical media is starting to make a comeback. I know people who kept Netflix for well over 5 years just for friends “so they could watch it whenever they wanted”. Never thought about buying the discs. “They’re so expensive”.
120 for all the seasons forever, or (at the time) 14 a month for 5 years, which is $840. I’m sure there were other things to watch time to time, but shit adds up folks. Just go buy the blurays of TNG
I’ll do you one better, my local library has plenty of disc sets for series. They have a lot of the ones usually locked behind additional subscriptions too.
If you’re gonna be a pirate be a cool blue Orion and not one of those lame normal green Orion.
It’s pronounced “Orion”, not “Orion”
I’ll be deep in the Goddes’s embrace before I pronounce it “oRiOn”, you blue-skinned bastard!
Netflix is the last service anyone should be giving money to. They are insanely hostile towards their own users.
The same can be said of paramount
I hate Paramount with every fiber of my being. I bought a year for the Daily Show, and every effing morning it fails over and over again to play episodes. Their rating is like 1-2 stars, with almost every review mentioning issues like that. They just don’t give a shit, and I can’t watch the Daily Show anywhere else without buying an expensive cable package.
Towards their employees, too.
Our Star Trek, no scarcity
Paramount+ never actually working and also the destruction of having every episode of every series online freely available at StarTrek.com is why I pirate Star Trek.
the destruction of having every episode of every series online freely available at StarTrek.com
Are you saying there was once a time when you could watch all of Star Trek for free on their official website?
It’s how Hulu started too, it was a magical time. Watch 1 30 second ad before each episode.
Yes. It’s originally how I saw all 3 seasons of TOS from start to finish back in high school.
I thought all star trek was on Paramount+?
Not Prodigy
I wish someone would just start an all Star Trek and Star Trek related streaming service … it would probably be the only thing I would watch
the streaming services are just losing alot of money, or the stream is too expensive to sustain. guessing why they dumped nutrek as well, which is are not good series anyways.
StarTrek+ had a nice ring to it
I remember reading a long time ago in the 90s how Roddenberry had hoped to develop their own network or entire studio just dedicated to developing the Star Trek universe with endless series, shows and movies. There’s so much content there and so much more possible through actual productions and even fan content, books and writing that they could develop something like it.
I’m pretty sure I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching Trek over and over again. I’ve watched several series now and it’s been years since I saw some that when I go to watch them again, it’s like seeing them again for the first time. By the time I get Alzheimers or some degenerative brain disease, it will all be completely new to me anyway.
Isn’t that Paramount+? Does that have any other shows?
They apparently have Showtime and Nickelodeon’s catalog, along with CBS and MTV. Their originals aren’t anything I’ve seen before. Some are spinoffs of popular shows.
I think it has a lot of stuff that airs on CBS. So like Survivor or Amazing Race. Maybe Colbert?
Maybe for the US but up here in Canada it’s hit and miss … they’ll have a lot of Star Trek shows but then skip some (including Prodigy)
All this complication just makes it all feel like the early 2000s all over again … everyone is just going to drift towards pirating because it won’t be worth it for everyone to buy this service, that service and managed four or five services to watch their favourite shows. It’s much easier to just pay for a VPN and torrent all the stuff you want for one price.
I’m going to guess that in about five years, streaming companies will collapse into a few providers selling majority of content for a more manageable price … either that or they’ll find ways to severely lock down the internet for everyone.
Or it will be like the DS9 alternate timeline of 2025 and we’ll need to have an internet pass in order to get online to do anything.
Stop being concerned about what edicts crazy people proclaim.
AKA Taking a trip to Free Cloud.
