RIP fmovies. Long live sudo

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 355 points –

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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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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there's fboxz it's an exact clone of fmovies.

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

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

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

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.

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

Use jellyfin

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.

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..

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.

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

I find I just end up watching too much media if it's too accessible like that. With discs + computer + projector, it's easier for me to have dedicated media time without it bleeding into other things I should be doing.

Sounds like we have the same setup.

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?

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.

First time seeing debrid. Looks interesting. Is it a paid service? When looking for an API key I'm seeing multiple places I can get one but they all require a login/subscription. The real debrid link is giving me a 403, though I am connecting from China over a VPN which may explain it.

Yes, it's a paid service. It's about 3 or 4 euro per month. I tried it once because I was annoyed by the lack of seeders and buffering in stremio and I've never looked back since. It requires a bit of setup, but when that's done you're good to go.

With stremio I can copy the strem link to potplayer and potplayer will buffer a good chunk of strem more than stremio's default player does

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).

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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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.

I'm not sure what OP's talking about, because fmovies is working for me just fine.

What URL are you using? I didn't realize they had multiple. Another user posted their .lcc domain.

I've had this open in a tab for several weeks now. Just refreshed, checked new episodes of stuff that's come out in the last few days, no issues. I wasn't even aware there were mirrors/clones.

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

looks awesome. gonna have to search for a URL

VPN recommended or?

You shouldn't need a VPN to access sudo lol instances since the connection is encrypted. Your ISP has no way of telling what you're watching so long as your browser always accesses https vs http.

That said, I've heard wonderful things about Mullivad.

Awesome. Thank you for the response. 💜

Without a VPN, your ISP will have some level of meta data. It may be as little as you did a DNS lookup of a pirate site and downloaded 2.14GB of data from that site.

Is that illegal? Depends on what country/state you are in.