Piracy.
Your public library.
Consume less media in general.
Buy stuff once (eg: DVDs, drm free music)
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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Just steal everything. The powers that be rob you blind every day in a death by a thousand cuts kinda way.
They don't give a fuck about you, don't pay them any courtesies in return.
Take what you can. Give nothing back!
But all jokes aside, do give back by seeding your torrents. Some stuff is hard to get complete copies because of leechers.
I never stopped. Welcome back, the waters fine.
👉 Your local public library. You can borrow movies and books. Return them so someone else can use them too. Not run afoul of the law. Libraries are great!
Your library probably even has digital access to thousands of movies, books, and songs, so you don’t even have to leave the house!
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Here I was giving them training wheels, and you said, "Nah, here's how you take a hairpin turn with a stick shift." 😅
Don't make me tell them about them about the *arrs, usenet and jellyfin. Minds will be blown :)
The *arrs + JF + sabnzdb + torrents = complete and total replacement.
That exact stack has been the ruin of many a poor boy.
Just a hop, step and a leap from there to Proxmox and complete ungovernablity (host ALL your own replacements - Immich, Syncthing, Lemmy instance, Pi Hole, Paperless, Calibre, Navidrome...all the black magics)
DANGER. HERE THERE BE DRAGONS. (Expensive ones)
Jump aboard, matey! The seas are always open and full of joyous plunder.
And piracy is still free, just as it has been my whole life.
yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high
heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die
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How is this a surprise to anyone? They came to replace cable.
No, you still don't get it.
THEY CAME TO REPLACE CABLE.
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I know this isn't the point, but has Spotify ever been good, as in a well designed UI? I feel like every time I've used it, there's been some bizarre design choice.
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This. This has always been the better alternative and this always will be the better alternative!
Download it. If caught just say you are training AGI (Actual Genuine Intelligence) of your own.
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For streaming, Debrid and Stremio!
Your local public library!
Buying physical media.
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Spotify specific:
Use the free service to listen to new stuff in order to find groups you like. For the sub cost you can buy an album per month and have it forever. I work in areas that don't have great data connections, so having a local copy keeps the jams going without interruption or ads.
Soma.fm and radio.garden are two streaming music service replacers. I have not used Soma, but Radio Garden is interesting because it gives you a map of every single participating radio station on the planet and lets you just scroll around the entire globe and pick a radio station.
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Theoretically speaking...if someone wanted to search for torrents, where would one visit? Afaik, piratebay is long gone.
Pirate bay is alive and well, it's unkillable, never really has been gone, even if they manage to knock it down occasionally. Get VPN.
thepiratebay.org
There's also 1337.to
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The sea awaits you.
Streaming is not frugal by definition since you don't own anything.
- Buy from Bandcamp, own and stream forever for a cheap price
- Torrent movies
- Torrent or Soulseek music
- Listen to podcasts, there are billions of those, it will last forever
- Free music on SomaFM, ByteFM, Radio Paradise, Shoutcast, etc.
- YouTube client like NewPipe if you have Android to listen to music
Buy from Bandcamp, own and stream forever for a cheap price
It's also important to emphasize that artists make more from a Bandcamp purchase than if you had just streamed a few times on Shitify.
You would need to listen to a song 400+ times on Spotify to earn the artist $1. Or you could throw them a buck on Bandcamp Friday and get to download it forever. Plus the artist gets paid immediately from the Bandcamp purchase instead of quarterly streaming royalties.
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I'm on Android and using ArchiveTunes to stream free music. No more Spotify.
My VPN is as cheap as ever.
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If buying isn't owning piracy isn't stealing
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