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RIP fmovies. Long live sudo (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago by CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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fmovies has been gone almost a month. I should have added "FBI" up there but really they used FBI to shoot down the service, not be like them.

I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

I started using sudo-lol and seems okay. Streaming can be hinky at times but it works for most of the things I want to watch.

I know that torrenting can be a thing but sometimes I just want to watch and not deal with a whole finding a torrent, download, and then watch workflow.

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[–] Blackout@kbin.run 47 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Losing fmovies wasn't the bad thing as there are dozens of clones. It's the hosting services that really took a hit. The reliable ones have been down for a while. The ones left buffer much slower and can't handle peak times as well. Those years with fmovies really felt like the golden age of piracy.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 60 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Dude, there is the golden age I've waited 20yrs for.

Check sonarr/radarr/prowlarr/lidarr etc. A lil work, some mere bucks a month for extra comfyness and you're set. Never worry again.

[–] Blackout@kbin.run 42 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Pay for piracy? That'll get ya the plank!

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Generally I agree. But I'd be willing to pay what I would pay a streaming company if they had all the content I wanted.

[–] Blackout@kbin.run 14 points 4 months ago

The automated services are quite nice. Ive enjoyed not managing a seed box for a while but it is the only guaranteed way these days.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dude, for that sum you could pay people pirating and servicing it for you 😁

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

That's what I do

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Pay for a vpn, which is good for more than just piracy (mostly piracy though)

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Must be nice having one or those free computers running on free electricity with free internet.

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago

I was lucky enough to get a free m1. That thing uses 10w or so when you remove the stupidity and install Linux on it. But even if you have to buy a Pi - it'll pay for itself in a few months of not paying for streaming service.

Let's go crazy and say $. 20/kWh. 10÷1000×8760×.2=$17.5/year. Not free, but pretty damn close.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

Silly argument, as i pay for internet too. Also 5 bucks are not even a fucking coffee. For that i get what i dreamt of when i was selling pirate-cds for hundreds of bucks.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I'd never pirate myself, obviously, but a friend in a restrictive country is interested in this. Is there an "easy to get started" guide for him?

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'd recommend TraSH-Guides

There also is the Servarr Wiki

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 4 months ago

Thank you! I'll have a look! I mean my friend will 😂

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

MegaVideo was the golden age

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

sudo-flix, piracy app hosted on github. Probably will be taken down like popcorn time, that nintendo emulator, and a bunch of other things. Wouldn't surprise me if they ended up on radicle, or codeberg, or I2P or something...

Anti Commercial-AI license

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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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Just found this lol. They killed one and 2 sprung in its place.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it."

[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Love this

[–] halvar@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

This just reminded me of movie-web which looked very similar to this... Anyone know something?

[–] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Sudo-flix is a fork of Movie-web

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[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I just use Sonarr, Prowlarr, Transmission, and Jellyfin to get this stuff

[–] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just pirate whole seasons and then burn them to blu- ray for long term storage/old time's sake. I love having my media compartmentalized on discs.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I prefer having them instantly accessible from my truenas server. Plex is a godsend.

[–] gears@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Use jellyfin

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 22 points 4 months ago

I will if Plex ever stops doing what I need it to. As it stands, it works perfectly fine so I see no reason to switch.

[–] Policeshootout@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

I use an android device and my NAS is a Synology ds923. Jellyfin wasn't nearly as smooth an experience for me as Plex was. I'm willing to switch to FOSS but it doesn't seem as good yet..

[–] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just use my PC for movies + a projector that's plugged in, so I like keeping it really simple and avoiding stuff like Plex.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I like being able to access it anywhere, on (most) any device of my choosing.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I just use ani-cli.

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[–] tarius@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#streaming-sites

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

This as well: https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Does sudo flix work like stremio with torrentio? I.e. I just type what I want and get a list of pirate sources to watch directly?

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, but not as good. RealDebrid basically acts as a CDN for torrents, they're serving you the files they've already downloaded directly to you.

From what I can tell, sudo flix is streaming torrents from the seeders, so you are reliant on there being enough seeders with decent upload speeds.

Somebody feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

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[–] wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Disney, Hulu & Max have a decent bundle although I don't enjoy the $30 a month price tag for no ads. Paramount has some good content but I don't think it's worth the upfront cost. Apple TV & peacock aren't worth the price especially since apple requires proprietary hardware.

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

fmovies dot llc seems to work fine.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Oh nice! I didn't know they had more urls. I was using fmovies24.to

[–] Eldritch@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

123movies, hdtoday are still working if you want alternatives ✌️

[–] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

vidbinge.com is the sudo-flix succsesor

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[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 8 points 4 months ago

I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

The risk equation makes sense. The potential gain from outlasting your competition and absorbing their subscriber bases to become a near-monopoly is higher than participating in a royalty scheme, and the downside is borne by shareholders and to a lesser extent creditors (the Other People's Money principle).

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I am confused. Sudoflix is down since a week or two already. How is it still working for you? They had a successor that they named on their page, maybe you mean that one.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The main sudo site now redirects here: https://docs.undi.rest/instances

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

Huh, thanks for sharing, I didn't get this one so far. I saw a link to one of the sites on it and that's it.

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[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Use stremio instead with a vpn active

I still prefer to download movies and TV shows but I currently stream anime from torrents with it and its better quality than the streaming sites

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