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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 1 day 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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[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 8 points 1 day 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 12 points 1 day 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 1 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 1 points 1 day ago

That's fair

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

Yeah... This is self explanatory...

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 4 points 1 day 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 2 points 13 hours 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 20 hours ago

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