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For anyone looking to bail - get a nice VPN and sail the high seas instead! I use protonvpn for $120 per 2 years ($5 per month) they also have free servers you can try out but they're super slow. Another good one is mullvad for €5 per month (doesn't get cheaper with longer plans, but €5 a month isn't bad). Be wary of vpn reviews though because I know a lot are sponsored.
Protonvpn and mullvad are based in Switzerland and Sweden, respectively, and both countries have great privacy laws. Been using protonvpn for a while and haven't had any issues personally.
For getting into torrenting, I definitely recommend the arr suite (radarr for movies, sonarr for tv, some others for other uses) and qbittorrent for actual torrenting. Also very good idea to stick everything in docker containers, you can route them through a gluetun container that uses your VPN so even if you shut your VPN down systemwide those are still protected. The arr suite helps with managing what you get, getting better qualities, automatically getting new releases, etc.
Plex is great for viewing your content and such, can either do one time purchase or a subscription, $120 for lifetime which is the same as paying for 3 years of subscription I think? You can also use Kodi which is free and open source but imo more annoying to setup and has a worse layout.
There's plenty of guides online for setting things up, but make sure to never torrent without a vpn unless it's non-copyrighted
Obligatory Jellyfin > Plex recommendation and TRaSH-Guides plug
Jellyfin is a completely self-hosted Plex alternative that works really well. Plex has been around longer and thus has more dedicated apps, but Jellyfin can't ever disable your account or block the server you pay to run it on .
I've been using Jellyfin for over a year and have no complaints.
Any opinions on the morality of it? We only just got better agreements for writer profit sharing, so while previously we could say "it was never supporting the creators anyway", I'd argue that it's slightly more supportive of the industry than it used to be, especially if the actors' strike yields fruit.
We aren't obligated to pay for the service that is responsible for the writers lack of profits in the first place. We also shouldn't get used to renting everything online and not owning anything.
There's still virtually nothing going to the writers. If you want to support writers, you can send your favorite ones 10% of the amount you save and it will be 100x more than they would have made off you otherwise.