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There's too many damn streaming services these days, and all the good shows are spread out between them.

It used to be mostly just Netflix and Hulu, and you could watch almost anything between the two of them. Now each service has maybe one or two shows I like. I'm sick of having to set up new accounts and pay $15/mo just to kill maybe an hour watching one show.

Bought a 2tb external HHD. Gonna pirate whatever crap I feel like, watch it on shuffle, and HBO max and Peacock and Disney+ and all the other vultures can go cry about it.

There's too many damn streaming services these days, and all the good shows are spread out between them. It used to be mostly just Netflix and Hulu, and you could watch almost anything between the two of them. Now each service has maybe one or two shows I like. I'm sick of having to set up new accounts and pay $15/mo just to kill maybe an hour watching one show. Bought a 2tb external HHD. Gonna pirate whatever crap I feel like, watch it on shuffle, and HBO max and Peacock and Disney+ and all the other vultures can go cry about it.

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[–] ScorpioGlitch 2 points (+2|-0)

Man, just go ahead and drop a little cash on a Synology NAS. It's a hard drive that you plug into your network that everything can see, including TVs. If you have a technical bone somewhere in you, you can set it up to do all kinds of things like be a web server, your own email server, wiki, blog, contact server, authentication server, and a whole bunch of other things.

[–] Polsaker 3 points (+3|-0)

I just spared an old computer, stuffed it with hard drives and plugged it into the network.

Installed some stuff to automatically torrent the series I follow whenever a new episode comes out

[–] ScorpioGlitch 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

Synology has a built in "Download Station" which is a torrent client. Set up a proxy connection in the NAS to a VPN and everything that goes through your NAS is undecipherable to your ISP. Plus if you set the NAS as your computer/phone/whatever proxy, you get the benefits of a VPN connection without installing or setting up a VPN on your computer or phone.That means VPN on your TV.

[–] Polsaker 1 points (+1|-0)

Yeah, I'm using Transmission as a torrent client and I'm plugging in Sonarr to it to auto track and download the series I watch. It's pretty nice stuff

[–] CDanger 1 points (+1|-0)

Installed some stuff to automatically torrent the series I follow whenever a new episode comes out

Automated piracy is a beautiful thing.