Greed kills
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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I would very much like a streaming service that makes it transparent what it actually spends its income on.
Like - a streaming service where i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the studios/artists that actually produce the anime? I would take that.
But right now i'm worried that i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the shareholders of the streaming provider as "profit" while the studio gets almost nothing.
Funnily enough, i was considering just today whether i should re-open my old Crunchyroll account. But i guess i won't do it now after all. IIRC there's been a streak of bad press about crunchyroll; like, this today isn't the only issue.
why not just pirate shit without a noble cause for once? You know - the old fashioned way
Impossible.
Piracy is always noble.
what are the good sources nowadays...been out of the game for awhile and it's to trust any sites promoted on any mainstreamish social networks.
like freemediaheckyeah, old reddit hub...is that still good?
ime every pirate source had 50/50 shot of turning into some virus/scam honeypot shortly after reaching high enough popularity
Fmhy ✅
Bro why is everything from israel now bad??
Israeli companies have fuck all to do with the government's decisions
By definition of their country they're supporting their government, through taxes if nothing else.
All the streaming services are unethical now, both in pricing and operation. Netflix is maybe the least bad, but I can’t justify the cost for that, either.
Stremio + Torrentio is the way to go.
What happens next is like what happened in the 2000s. People will turn to piracy as legitimate content is no longer feasible, affordable, or ethical. Then the corporate oligarchs will crack down violently to make examples of the people they’ve given no other choice or recourse.
It’s time to eat the rich.
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These mutherfuckers forgot where they came from! Time to remind them
Oh they do remember. They fondly remember those early years piggybacking on strangers goodwill before laughing all the way to the bank.
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Ha fuck… that was my last personal sub… any alternative beside the high seas? I’m seasick…
Honestly, piracy is easier than it ever has been. You can automate torrents or usenet downloads with the *arr suite. There’s a bit of a learning curve to get it set up… But once it’s running, it’s basically just “add show to your watchlist” and ~15 minutes later it shows up on your media list with full metadata, subtitles, etc ready to go.
Plenty of people will suggest stremio, which is… Contentious. It works for streaming by downloading a torrent to cache. After you watch it, stremio automatically deletes the cache. So in day to day operation, it uses very little hard drive space and primarily relies on your internet speed and properly seeded torrents. But that latter part is the problem… Since it deletes the cache, it isn’t actually seeding anything in return. If everyone used stremio, nobody would actually be able to use it, because none of the torrents would be seeded. It’s a sort of mass prisoner’s dilemma.
Technically, you can set stremio to keep a rolling cache of {x} size, and it will hold onto the torrents until you start to download something new and it needs that space. But very few people will expect to hit a 1.0 ratio, even with a decently sized cache.
No one reccomends stremio without real debrid, makes it instant like netflix
The whole point is not to do any setup and maintenance just to watch anime… I already have a job where I have to do that and I was hoping that it would pay for the convenience. My passion is watching anime, not setup downloading pipeline for them.
Lol I can just add it to my phone's torrent client when I have a plan to watch something, then later begin download when I have wifi (or if you have unlimited high speed data, that also works... sort of...), usually like before bed when the phone is plugged in, then wake up and its done downloading.
You can pre-download the next thing you plan to watch before you finish your current thing. Same for TV Shows and movies.
If you don't use your phone for work, you can also just leave it charging and use their wifi (with VPN obviously) to torrent then come come and have it ready to watch, usually unless it has low seeders.
Watch using VLC.
(Afaik, there's no torrent client on iOS, so this is Android only... we'll see what happens with Android torrent clients after 2027... it works for now)
(That's the simplist thing to do. You can also remote into a computer,but that's a bit more complicated.)
There are plain old anime piracy sites, for both downloading and streaming, if you don't want the headache.
The point of the setup is you only need to do it once, you don't set up everything every time you want to download something...
Got any guides for that stuff? Sounds pretty neat
Google stremio + realdebrid, it's all spelled out step by step on many guides, you basically download the app (on pc, android, tvs) add community repos, add torrentio, click customize, paste your real debrid api key and you're done. Past that you can pick extensions like marvels or other torrent addons to add categories and other sources.
Real debrid you pay like 6$ a month for, it automatically dloads the torrent when you click it or grabs from its cache (almost always cached/downloaded by others)Makes stremio run as fast/smooth as netflix/hulu/etc.
Stremio auto tracks what is watched, keeps history/playback time accurately. It's basically how kodi addons used to be as it's own smoother app.
Never heard of stremio, sounds like it plays the role of a media server, in which case it doesn't have to be streamio? Plex or Jellyfin could work too
Stremio is the "downloader" and the "streamer", so it's both. Plex and Jellyfin require you to download beforehand.
Then you pay for it? Plain and simple. You pay for that convenience.
I am paying for it… it becomes tricky when the disagreement isn’t on price but on replacing fellow human with AI from a country with genocidal tendencies. That’s where I draw my line I guess.
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Just canceled. Thanks.
I'm doing my part!
My renewal was literally tomorrow too. As these streaming services get worse, I keep on cancelling. Been two years for Prime (literally smashed cancel the day ads were announced) and all i've got left at this point is netflix and spotify.
Netflix pricing almost has me there.
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