[platevoltage]

True, although I guess this is sort of understandable. It's the "you're paying us, but here are some ads" that really gets me.

Either way, 5 bucks a month to Emby, a really easy to get membership to a large private torrent site, and a 16TB hard drive solves these problems for me, and will continue to.

[dborzov]

Thanks for the tips! Could you explain how can one get about "getting a membership to a large private torrent site"? Also, why Emby rather than, say, Jellyfin or Plex?

[squigz]

The private trackers tend to be a pain in the butt to remain active enough on to keep your account, as they tend to require a certain amount of upload:download ratio. This can be difficult to achieve since so many members have high-speed seedboxes.

Just use https://1337x.to/ or any other public tracker. You'll be able to find 99% of whatever you want.

[platevoltage]

I was a Plex user, but gave up on it when it started to suck. This was years ago. Emby was the other option at the time and I'm a big fan of it. I've never tried jellyfin. If you want to, email me and I can get you an invite.

[SSLy]

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Private_trackers

[jbirer]

Paying 5 bucks to pirate seems to be missing the point of pirating for me IMO.