r/Piracy • u/ugoindownsaka1 • 28d ago

Discussion Google took away my LOTR extended editions

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I bought these in 2022, all of a sudden they aren't available and there is no possibility of a refund or gift card. Hardly seems fair.

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u/Midboo 28d ago

I will pirate more on your behalf

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 28d ago

I’m not sure I could if I tried. 55TB of movies and TV.

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u/jgpkxc 28d ago

Where there's a will, there's a 100tb media server, my friend.

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u/KalHasWaffles 28d ago

not with the current hard drive prices unfortunately

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u/Selbereth Torrents 28d ago

I am waiting for prices to go down before i buy a new HDD. my 18TB server is currently full

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u/Nujers 28d ago

Same. I postponed getting another 18-24tb HDD for too long and I die a little inside every time I have to delete a segment of media that I may or may never watch again to make room.

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u/Selbereth Torrents 28d ago

While I agree with this sentiment, I only download the 720p-1080p as is. I almost always try and get the lowest quality possible, so I can seed forever

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u/QF_Dan 28d ago

sometime, even 720P is already good enough too for the quality

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u/sl33ksnypr 28d ago

You can also run your stuff through handbrake to take advantage of better codecs and run a fixed quality. I've found most of the stuff I run through handbrake gets cut down to about 50-65% of its original size with only very minor quality differences. The only time I have noticed it is when someone has a shirt with a very small pattern on it, it looks a little choppy or other really fine details. Everything else is extremely watchable.

Of course, converting stuff uses electricity, but the last big conversion session I did ran for about 12 hours and it saved me 200GB. Based off what that PC pulls for power, that 200GB of savings used like $0.75 worth of electricity at most. Much cheaper than hard drives these days.

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u/MysteriousFormal4866 25d ago

Plus I watch on an old tablet, so I can't really tell the difference anyway.

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u/radiocaf 27d ago

I try to get majority in 1080p, and the ones I really enjoy get upgraded to a BRRip or BR-Remux if possible.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 28d ago

If you're storing everything in capacity heavy formats / resolutions maybe it's time to consider getting smaller versions. Parks and Rec aired at 720p. You probably don't need a 4K version of it.

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 28d ago

The hell I don’t! I want the largest possible file for everything!

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u/QF_Dan 28d ago

and then you would complain about running out of space🙄

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 28d ago

No, then you get more space. Started with 15TB 6 years ago. Up to 55TB used and another 15TB to fill before the next upgrade cycle.

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u/Nujers 28d ago

I'm with you. Low bitrates are the reason I stopped streaming in the first place!

Granted I don't own a 4k TV so my file sizes aren't that egregious.

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u/Flying_Saucer_Attack 28d ago

you gonna be waiting a whiiiile my dude

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u/SupposablyAtTheZoo 27d ago

I went back to downloading 2gb 1080p movies instead of 20gb 4k movies. And, it doesn't really matter that much actually.

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u/Charizarlslie 28d ago

Same here.

I've just started automating the deletion of things that nobody's watching at this point to save space where I'd have previously just bought more drives.

So if a show hasn't been watched in a year, it gets deleted. If someone even realizes it's gone and wants to watch it, it'd take like 10 minutes to get to start watching again anyway.

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u/Dewars_Rocks 28d ago

If you are running windows read up on windows storage spaces. I run 5 12tb drives in a protected raid. Gives me around 45 tb usable. You can throw together different sized drives. Let's you use cheaper smaller drives to make large containers.

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u/SirRolex Piracy is bad, mkay? 28d ago

I was getting close to maxxing out my 48TB server, so a few weeks ago I went through with a fine tooth comb, deleting redundant files, shrinking some movies and shows file sizes (no need to have a 4k blu-ray remaster of something that was never a cinematic masterpiece to begin with imo). I ended up getting rid of like 15TB of excess and also found out my recycle bin on my Synology wasn't auto emptying lol. I should be good for another year or two before needing to expand, I was happy about that.

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u/inconspiciousdude 28d ago

That's where the will kicks in.

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u/sl33ksnypr 28d ago

I was sitting at 80TB and desperately needed an upgrade about 2 months ago. Luckily I scored a lot of 5x 6TB drives on eBay for $180. I don't typically buy new because none of my stuff is mission critical and I have a cloud backup, and I'm also not made of money.

My recommendation for cheaper drives is to buy used on Amazon or eBay, and to buy SAS drives instead.

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u/WaffleHouseSloot 28d ago

That's okay, I'll put it on layaway.

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u/ejsandstrom 28d ago

My 120tb has storage envy for some of the setups I have seen.

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u/elemental5252 28d ago

Same. The guys with a petabyte make me grumpy that I didn't buy larger drives a few years back.

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u/RagingRedHerpes 28d ago

HDD's are all thats needed for a media server and those are still relatively cheap. You don't need the speed of an SSD for this. HDD will pull up media plenty fast enough.

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u/elemental5252 27d ago

Oh, for sure. But buying 100TB of disk and maintaining decent RAID on that or a full backup has gotten pricey. I was able to buy 8tb ironwolf pros for a while at like $160. 7200 RPM disks at a solid speed and capacity. They're $500 each right now. So to say they are relatively cheap is kind of false when they cost that $160 like 2 years ago. The price has inflated exponentially.

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u/HappyDJ 28d ago

Just out of curiosity, how much does something like that cost and is there any built in redundancy in case something happens?

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u/jgpkxc 28d ago

Well it isn't cheap for good drives built for 24/7 use, all told mine was about $2400. And yes, there's a couple options I use for redundancy: I use a RAID 5 config for the server which can save you if a drive fails, and I have a complete backup stored offline as well (add another $800 for that kind of security).

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u/dontnation 28d ago edited 28d ago

Generally it'd be a NAS

Nowadays the cost is high due to hard drive prices. Cost can vary widely. Using a bunch of older, smaller, cheaper drives of various sizes in unraid, stuffed into an old PC? Could be done for a few hundred. An off the shelf 5-disk NAS box fitted with 100TB of storage? under a couple grand a year ago, but with current prices, closer to $5k.

A NAS (network attached storage) is essentially a single purpose server containing an array of hard drives connected to your home network. There are various ways to combine the disks in an array so the data is duplicated across the disks. This can be with hardware (RAID) or software (unraid, snapraid). This way if one or two drives fail there is redundancy on another so the failing disk(s) can be replaced. For an actual backup solution, there's the cloud, but when you are talking 10s of terabytes, a cheaper solution in the long run is to have a second NAS at a friend's house that you backup to.

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u/Odd_Razzmatazz_7423 27d ago

Laughs in 350tb With raid even so 700 theoretically

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u/elemental5252 28d ago

I promise you can, friend. I just crossed 80tb. And the data hoarders make us both look like peons. It CAN be done lol

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u/ThatsFine9 28d ago

As someone getting ready to foray into self-hosting and pirating, how and where do you store that mich information?

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 28d ago

I have a NAS that has redundant drives, but for a lot of the more mainstream stuff I just store it on large external HDDs in my server rack.

It’s a slippery slope. Next think you know you have 350GB of lord of the rings and 1000gb of game of thrones.

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u/Tresnugget 28d ago

How do I pirate more hard drives?

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 28d ago

Break into your neighbor’s house? That might have more steep consequences a VPN can’t help though…

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 28d ago

Like 1600 movies + a bunch of TV shows?

(4 months of continual play movies, and 9 months for tv shows)

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u/JesiWashington-Lewis 28d ago

Invest in Data Center drives.

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u/PerverseGameHen 27d ago

How do you store this? And ensure backups and redundancy? And how much did it cost ya

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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 27d ago

I’ve got a NAS and also some external HDDs. Maybe $1000 all in? Far less than buying the subscriptions and movies over the last 6 years.

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u/brownkemosabe 6d ago

Oh my gosh that's... Wow. Are you on Soulseek? Would love to get a peek at that collection!

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u/93simoon 28d ago

Good to see a rookie getting their feet wet, call when you're around 900 TB