Sometimes I’m just too lazy for torrenting because downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off. Whenever I give chance to streaming it’s always low quality and sucks. I checked streaming links on reddit’s r/piracy, you know the wiki, year is 2025 and it’s still slow and sucks. Maybe I don’t know good sites. Can you link me up, and what do you think about streaming vs torrent way in general? Thanks guys.
Put first episode on max priority + download sequentially. Go make a cup of tea. First episode is ready to stream. Do same to second episode before you start watching the first and Robert is your father’s brother (Bob’s your uncle).
I hate streaming anything unless it’s coming from my server.
Bandwidth and storage is expensive, so free streams will usually be heavily compressed and look terrible.
You can download a torrent for a full season or full series, and only download like the first three episodes, or the first season. And then if you like it, download more of the torrent.
Nobody is making you download all 8 seasons.
Or if you want to anyway, but don’t want to wait for the whole thing to finish download, most torrent clients let you set priority for individual files, and you can set the first couple episodes to “maximum” and start watching right away while the rest download.
After 20 years of pirating the slow way (manual searching and torrenting), I invested the time to setup a proper *arrr flow into Plex, Ombi for auto adding plex watchlist to the dl queue, and Usenet indexes and access + nzbget.
Now I can search for a movie in the plex app, if I don’t have it I add it to my watchlist, and it sends me a notification 5 mins later that it’s available.
I did all that about 6 years ago and it’s been so nice. Well worth the time to setup. I forgot how painful the manual way is.
You forgot the number one rule about the usenet: you don’t talk about the usenet.
is there a good guide you followed?
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26287096
Gotchu fam’
