Aussie here. They have the right to go through all your devices if they suspect you of smuggling or working or wanting to work illegally in Australia. They will read through all your private messages and have them translated if not in English. Even then I’ve never heard of airport security giving a rat’s ass about pirated stuff.
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Gotcha. It’s not compulsory anyway.
Which VPN were you using if you don’t mind me asking? A free one or one that throttles or blocks torrenting may explain the horrible speed.
They won’t be able to bribe every instance without making it known to the world but another mass migration even if within the same federation would discourage a lot of new users from joining/staying though.
This makes me so fucking angry that these fuckers wouldn’t even let us have a small corner of the internet to ourselves.
If everyone does that and defed still isn’t happening then we can sure by then that admins are already in the lizard king’s pocket.
I was mainly torrenting before Netflix but ever since NF has gone to hell I’ve been on the lookout for a more family-friendly way to stream. After trying out a few options (Kodi, fmovies, Stremio etc) I’ve found that nothing beats the Stremio+Torrentio+Real Debrid method. You do have to pay subscription for Real Debrid but it’s really cheap and not compulsory.
I find people in general are much more willing to part with their money than the big corps think. I’ll even go to the extent to say that we enjoy doing so. Just look at Twitch – tonnes of money are thrown at streamers because it’s fun and convenient, or at TikTok vendors selling useless stuff on live streaming. We just don’t like to be lied to and treated like cash cows.
Have to get her to stop whinging about Kodi haha. Ditched the shitty Android box and setup my spare laptop as a dedicated streaming machine. It’s now much faster and smoother.
Yep all done and it’s kicking ass! She’s really happy with the setup.
Just did what you suggested and jeez… Stremio’s UI is way better than Kodi. Addons are so much easier to install too. Torrentia+RD definitely appears to have all bases covered too. Thank you so much for that.
they don’t miss Netflix anymore.
That’s the experience I’m trying to create for my partner. I’m very comfortable with torrenting but she wouldn’t have a clue on how to do it (safely). As long it streams and doesn’t require her to actually go through the torrent client it’ll be fine.
Thank you all for the suggestions. It’s really starting to feel at home here on Lemmy!
Everything you say makes sense, but a pirate pledges loyalty to no man and always expects to jump ship when the time is upon them. Such is life on the high seas!
Hmmm I’ve never used Fen so I’m not sure if it works without premium services, but it sounds like RD isn’t working. Did you check if the files that are showing are from RD? It’s highly unlikely that the latest John Wick only comes in 4K. I recommend trying Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid, the UI is just so much better and addons a lot easier to install than Kodi. Also I’m using my old laptop instead of Android boxes. It’s a lot faster plus it circumvents the issue of sharing Netflix with someone not from the same household.