First, child services has been called on multiple occasions and has done nothing. The police don’t care either. They’re disabled so they can’t just leave.
They have a laptop that they can use whenever they want but their patent is extremely opposed to piracy and won’t pay for my friend to buy movies or a streaming service. They watch DVDs from the library on their laptop.
They’re also not tech savvy so I need a plug and play solution that will allow them to pirate media without anyone else in the household being aware of it.
Plex is easy. You can self-host, and your friend can watch on a web browser.
Jellyfin is arguably better, and also free
No it isn’t. Not even remotely close. Fuck off.
Whoa, no need to get offended so quickly, have you considered providing anything to the debate instead of being that unconstructive?
You are the one being unconstructive. Jellyfin is a mess and not remotely feature parity with Plex. OP needs something simple that just works out of the box. Plex answers that call. Jellyfin doesn’t. Go away.
It’s really simple to set up and works perfectly. Download the software (optimally docker), add a reverse proxy (if you want SSL with a domain), add folders with movies and you’re good to go. Also Plex’s pricing is pretty steep for something a free and open source program can do perfectly.
I’m reasonably tech savvy and I was lost about thirty seconds into reading Docker documentation. OP asked for a very simple solution, and Docker alone is anything but simple.
(optimally docker), add a reverse proxy (if you want SSL with a domain)
Yeah… This is self explanatory…
Plex. If they set up a free Plex account and you setup a plex server, you can share whatevr pirated goodies you have with them. This requires an old laptop or pc (ideally dedicated to mostly just this purpose) being on all the time on your end. Anytime they visit plex they can tab over to your or whomever’s server and browse movies in a netflix type interface. A Plex server is pretty damn easy to setup, basically just download, install, and point plex to whatever folder has shows or movies. Also, Tubi, Pluto, and Plex have a surprisingly good amount of content that doesn’t require any piracy.
*if you wanna get fancy you can add a couple of apps that automate dling and adding stuff to your plex library, like sonarr for shows and radarr for movies, and then use overseerr so that your friend can request to add or automatically add things to your server without having to do any pirating themselves.
Search for “fmhy” (Free Media, Heck Yeah!) - they keep a regularly updated wiki with all sorts of piracy options, including streaming sites that can be visited in a browser via incognito mode. It’s extremely comprehensive with how-to’s & all that.
In days of yore people would just pass around USB drives. But I guess that’s too low tech for the fancy kids these days
They still do in many parts of the world.
That’s basically cuban internet
JellyFin or Kodi & a couple of raspberry-pi’s
Whatever you do, be careful not to fuck it up.
I once got me a VPN, set up my bittorrent, and started downloading through the VPN.
…Or so I thought.
It wasn’t until I got a warning letter from my ISP that I figured out I’d fucked up my VPN configuration and I had been torrenting over an open internet connection.
Are you set up to pirate content yourself at your own house? If it were me, I’d set up a VPN on your own network (with OpenVPN or something) and have your friend set up a VPN client and connect to your network. From there, you just allow the VPN to access your own Plex (or whatever).
If your friend wants to see anything in particular, either you have your Plex set up to download what they want on request or just have them ask you to download it and make it available in the usual way.
Under those circumstances, if something went wrong, the wrongest it could go is that your friend failed to gain access to the content. The chances their household might receive a warning letter or whatever are about as close to zero as they can possibly get.
This is why you configure your torrent client to only connect on the tunnel adapter. No tunnel, no interface, no ISP flags.
That’s what I’m getting at, though. I thought I had.
