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how to watch all TV-shows and movies for free? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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[–] greentreerainfire@kbin.social 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Since this is in nostupidquesrions and not a piracy community I’ll offer a different take:

Try your local library for physical copies. Depending on your library system, it may be free (or low cost) to have copies sent from other branches. Again depending on your system it may be possible to get copies from libraries outside of the system through Inter Library Loans (ILL) if your library participates.

Also library systems may have access to some streaming content, depends on your system. Some large cities, like NYC, offer library cards to everyone in t the state.

Tangentially related, the Internet Archive also hosts tons of material you might not find anywhere else. Probably not what you’re looking for, but I’ve found things like Mister Rogers episodes there that aren’t available on Amazon or DVDs. Quality of content may vary and you’re more likely to find older content there.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The logical conclusion of libraries is piracy anyway. Like that's their entire point, the dissemination of information freely.

[–] greentreerainfire@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like that’s their entire point, the dissemination of information freely.

Yes.

The logical conclusion of libraries is piracy anyway.

Not really. Libraries function within the constraints of licensing. They buy physical copies of materials and license digital copies.

With libraries the content creators (and yes distributors) are still being paid for their works AND information gets to sprees freely.

I’d argue that libraries are superior piracy.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Libraries existed before any licensing or copyright even existed lol. The entire point is to 'copy' information, which is exactly what happens when you let many people look at the same clay tablet or whatever. Peer to peer.

You could literally sit there and copy from someone else's scroll on to your own scroll.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Adding on, in what might seem like an inane answer, but also worth checking out the local free to air television. Some of them may have apps or other means of watching on demand, if you don't feel like taking the traditional route of watching whatever it is is on the television at a given time.

For example, if you have a TV licence, you can just stream stuff from the BBC through their Web player.

[–] UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 months ago

find friends, like a lot of them.

hang out at one persons place watching tv till they turn it off, then move onto the next house. might take a bit, but youll get there

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Qbittorrent + sonarr + radarr + prowlarr + plex

Then you're pretty much set.

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Qbittorrent + sonarr + radarr + prowlarr + jellyfin

Then you're pretty much set.

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I think Plex is better for newbies, less setup and most will want to watch outside of their network easily with little setup. That said, Plex is getting a bit enshittified so I've been eyeing the switch to jellyfin just in case (I'm not a newbie, k simply was when I started using Plex and don't want to deal with the change if I don't have to)

[–] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

You forgot the VPN part.

[–] weLookAbove@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

https://movie-web.app/

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

+ it's open source

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Says address not found for me

[–] weLookAbove@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I just learned today that they got taken down. 😔

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

Use a VPN that doesn't keep logs, make sure you have a good adblocker, then go to these sites.

[–] NotMelon@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

https://www.stremio.com that's what I'm using, no ads

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bit-torrent... but not all TV shows and movies. Some have been lost to time... good luck with the Dr Who marathon.

[–] Chickenslippers@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I read recently that an old collector had a few more of the old dr who tapes but doesn't want to hand them over to the bbc

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

I use cloudstream

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You can gray stream on sites. Check out the megathread:

https://fmhy.pages.dev/

Or you can pirate using torrent galaxy and 1337x.to and qbittorrent with vpn network binded interface.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Not familiar with qbittorrent

What are the advantages over uTorrent? Been using it for over a decade and haven't seen a reason to look at alternatives thus far.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what is "gray stream"? Is it like the boundary between legal and illegal? Or a way to share streams with other people?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah sites like 123 movies or fmovies are gray streaming sites. It's not illegal for you to do so (at least in the U.S) but the site owners are downloading and sharing those copyrighted goods for you to stream.