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How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.::Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

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[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (13 children)

I setup a Plex server with all the Arr's and it took me maybe 1 hour and about $1500 in hardware such as a desktop PC and 4 x 10TB drives. Then I had to pay for a News Servers service ($100 for 15 months) and I opted to purchase a domain for like $7/year. Quite the upfront cost but easy to setup and maintain and I can watch anything I want with the best possible experience possible. If my internet goes down? I can still watch everything. When my News Servers subscription runs out, I still keep everything I have and can watch it as many times as I want. It's so simple to use, my wife who LOVES TV now prefers 'on demand'.

All thanks to the greedy fuckers running literally every streaming service.

[–] EddyBot@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (10 children)

for anyone afraid of the upfront cost: you don't need to buy so many expensive hard disk drives to self host a media server like Jellyfin/Plex
RAID arrays add complexity and get expensive very fast while not being a proper backup solution at all, it's nice to have but not required

on a budget buying a large hard disk drive (12~16 TB is a good sweet spot right now) and later down the road another one as periodic backup solution might be the wiser choice while accumulating your collection of media

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Raid is exactly as much or as little of a proper backup solution as you configure it to be isnt it?

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It basically only protects against hardware failure. It's not going to protect you from ransomware or even just accidentally clicking delete.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks. I was misunderstanding concepts here in a big way

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