I have been pirating games for about a year now, and with the recent Netflix changes want to get into pirating TV and Movies as well. I have Kodi on my fire sticks, but streaming links are so unreliable.
I see on the Mega Thread there are plenty of sites to direct download shows and movies from, what sites from the mega thread do you all prefer?
Also, I get that I download them to my computer, but what service do you all use to get them on your TV? I have fire sticks on every TV, I think Plex is a free one that people used to use (and may still) but I don’t really know how any of it works. Would love some experienced advice.
I have an Arr setup with Plex and it’s great. Basically I add a TV series or movie to Sonarr/Radarr, they will then use Prowlarr to find torrent, then it will get sent to my torrent client, and then Plex will eventually show the content. It’s one of my favorite things that I have setup.
I started pirating 30 years ago, sharing floppies. Since then I’ve gone through every method imaginable, from IRC to eMule, from Mega to Usenet, and the Arr setup is the very first time I can delegate downloads to another family member sitting on the couch: that’s how smooth it is.
The only difference to your setup is that I use Jackett instead of Prowlarr, configure NZBGeek directly on Sonarr/Radarr, and use Kodi instead of Plex.
Ah, and nzb360 (or LunaSea) on people’s phones. That’s what makes it so any normie can use it. So long, streaming service salad!
Sonarr
Radarr
qBittorrent
Jellyfin
Sonarr lets you ‘subscribe’ to TV shows. Radarr lets you ‘subscribe’ to movies. They grab the movie/TV Show as soon as they’re available and match the quality profile you choose. They find the torrent (searching on sites that you’ve configured) and send it to qBittorrent. Once the torrent is finished it downloads metadata, formats everything and puts it into a media folder structure that Jellyfin can read. They then poke Jellyfin to tell it to update it’s library with the newly downloaded content.
Jellyfin is a media player, it can be accessed by a web interface or you can install Jellyfin apps which exist on basically every platform.
You can host all of this at your house or you can host it on a seedbox (I’m currently using Ultra.cc). The Seedbox provides you with a very fast connection for accessing bittorrent (50+ Gb) and 20TB of upload bandwidth per month. The seedbox I’m using doesn’t count your Jellyfin usage (or downloading via the FTP/SFTP server) towards your bandwidth so you can stream as much as you’d like or download the files to your home media storage or both. They have different levels of storage (my ~$35/mo plan has 8TB of storage)
A seedbox also lets you join private trackers easily (as you can maintain ratio thanks to your massive upload speed and excess bandwidth). Private trackers will generally have torrents on faster hosts so you can download them quickly and the quality/selection can be better.
It’s a little bit to get everything setup but once it is setup it basically takes care of itself. I have Ombi installed also, it provides a simple user interface for my non-technical users so that they can add things to Sonarr/Radarr without having to much around with their interfaces.
Thank you for this. I’ve been using Kodi for years but have been considering something different, and this is the first time using sonarr and a seedbox has made sense to me.
There’s a plugin for Kodi to access Jellyfin content so you could get it all setup and it’ll just plug into your existing front-end Kodi system.
