• Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I feel conflicted about sites like those vs things like torrenting and other p2p. Torrenting is individuals sharing things directly.but aren’t those sites hosting the pirated content and serving their own ads along side? That feels closer to theft for me than piracy.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I’m glad that these pirate streaming sites are taking a lot of heat off us

    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I’ll admit I prefer fmovies and the like when I don’t want to wait for a download and want to watch it now.

      Last Week Tonight is often in that category.

      But shows like Parks and Rec, Lower Decks, that shit gets torrented.

      Besides, I think Fmovies has a much lower barrier to entry than torrenting.

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      1 year ago

      Torrents also will have higher quality, usually noticeable pretty stark in action scenes.

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    Those sites all have ridiculously low bitrates; way lower than I can personally tolerate. I’ve switched to torrenting everything at MUCH higher quality. Takes some effort to get good torrents and sometimes seeds are an issue but the end result is worth it. Thinking of getting a seedbox while I’m at it too.

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      1 year ago

      Everyone I know just uses EgyBest. All I know about it is that it shoves watermarks down your throat, and unnecessary Arabic subtitles that you can’t remove. And of course the low bitrates.

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    1 year ago

    Dont pointlessly share these sites for upvotes. You just speed up take-downs. Who knows how many resources are available to the people risking themselves to host it? Be mindful.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t read the FMovies SpiderVerse comment section

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    1 year ago

    If you want an app, cloudstream is nice. Its open source and app itself is not illegal because you have to use plugins which then download the movies.

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    1 year ago

    Flixify is amazing, the only drawback is you need to invite people. And i am out of invites

  • Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Imagine generating ad revenue for sketchy sites serving stolen content