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I have a friend in an abusive situation who uses movies as an escape. How can I set them up to watch pirated movies without anyone in their house knowing? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemm.ee

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First, child services has been called on multiple occasions and has done nothing. The police don't care either. They're disabled so they can't just leave.

They have a laptop that they can use whenever they want but their patent is extremely opposed to piracy and won't pay for my friend to buy movies or a streaming service. They watch DVDs from the library on their laptop.

They're also not tech savvy so I need a plug and play solution that will allow them to pirate media without anyone else in the household being aware of it.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Plex is easy. You can self-host, and your friend can watch on a web browser.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jellyfin is arguably better, and also free

[–] Scary_le_Poo 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No it isn't. Not even remotely close. Fuck off.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whoa, no need to get offended so quickly, have you considered providing anything to the debate instead of being that unconstructive?

[–] Scary_le_Poo 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You are the one being unconstructive. Jellyfin is a mess and not remotely feature parity with Plex. OP needs something simple that just works out of the box. Plex answers that call. Jellyfin doesn't. Go away.

[–] Bienenvolk@feddit.org 23 points 2 months ago

Someone got shitty presents

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's really simple to set up and works perfectly. Download the software (optimally docker), add a reverse proxy (if you want SSL with a domain), add folders with movies and you're good to go. Also Plex's pricing is pretty steep for something a free and open source program can do perfectly.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m reasonably tech savvy and I was lost about thirty seconds into reading Docker documentation. OP asked for a very simple solution, and Docker alone is anything but simple.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I kind of hate how many things have docker involved in their install/use process.

[–] Scary_le_Poo 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly. It's truly trash ASF. I would argue shitty development.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 1 points 2 months ago

That's fair

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

(optimally docker), add a reverse proxy (if you want SSL with a domain)

Yeah... This is self explanatory...

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's really not that hard, and if it is I'm more than willing to help anyone with it ^^

Plex's "simplicity" is not worth 100€ and the risk of enshittification, as it has to connect to their servers for authentication.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

It is harder than Plex though, with it you only need to get the installer and you are done, that if you are not CGNATED ofc...

Plex's "simplicity" is not worth 100€ and the risk of enshittification, as it has to connect to their servers for authentication.

I can't even recall since when I am a Plex Pass user, but it has been some years already that's for sure, I got the lifetime tier in a deal years ago and I have never felt the enshitification for my usage (which now paired with RD + Zurg+ Riven has only improved LMAO).

And if they decided to "enshitify" to a degree that would affect my setup (highly unlikely) Jellyfin and Emby still are there for sure.

Also good luck running Jellyfin in locked systems such as a PS4 or PS5... I was amazed several years ago when I watched a movie with my PSVR in that god awful low resolution in my PS4 through Plex lol.

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

People pay for plex….lol why the free version has been working for me fine for over 3 years.

[–] Scary_le_Poo 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Go away.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 2 points 2 months ago

No >:3

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively to Plex, Stremio + a debrid account, you can set it up for them remotely and it is pretty easy to use, and you immediately get more content than all the streaming services combined lol.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stremio is P2P though so without a vpn the parents are probably gonna hear about their ISP pretty soon. Or would debrid enable OP to host some stuff for their friend to access through stremio or something ?

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or would debrid enable OP to host some stuff for their friend to access through stremio or something ?

The debrid service caches the torrents in their servers and usually have better speeds than what the seeders provide, so you get the best experience while streaming and they deal with the DMCA strikes and such.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see, never heard about them but that sounds pretty useful

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

It is indeed, I effectively ditched watching 1080p films from my Plex server to streaming 4K remuxes files from Stremio Kodi through RD.

In a nutshell I stopped cherry picking which movies to get in 4K for my Plex Server due to storage issues and now I stream every movie that is available in said format, whether it is a "masterpiece" or not.