I’m just doubting their motives, I’m not judging.

Piracy is great and so is preservation. It’s just very unlikely that OP is doing actual preservation (remember that they talk about top gear and not some underground music album or something)

Yeah, obviously that’s the actual reason.

Of course the streaming service rotate their content. That’s kinda the entire point.

Preservation is important but an amateur that puts a movie on their Plex/jellyfin server isn’t important.

No worries :) I guess you have already found it but for anybody else here is a link for more information: https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay#together

Assuming the media actually wasn’t available (of course top gear is available) on the trackers they use, sonarr wouldn’t help. Sonarr still needs to look through trackers/indexers, it just might do it faster.

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If it’s for preservation they should probably look into tape or optical storage. Realistically your friend is not doing it for preservation considering that there are way better equipped individuals and organisations for that (the BBC for example).

I really don’t get why people have started to say that they only do it for preservation like they run a museum or an archive. Come on man, that movie is available literally everything and your hard drive will fuck up the storage of the files long before humanity losses access to that movie.

I download movies because I like free movies.

That’s nice.

Steam has something like this for split screen games. If one person owns the game the other player can stream their games and play split screen like they were together. Apparently over 13 thousand games support the feature: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category2=44

Weird. It has always worked perfectly fine for me. You must have something interesting going in in your setup.

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If you enable the “remote access” in Plex you are essentially port forwarding you server to the internet using UPnP (by default. You can also port forward manually if you’d like).

It’s indeed a point to point connection but a point to point connection the same way your connection to normal websites are point to point.

If you knew the public IP of anyone that’s using Plex you can likely go to [IP]:[Random PORT] and access their server. You still need to login though.

Source: My own tests and https://support.plex.tv/articles/200931138-troubleshooting-remote-access/

No, that should work straight out of the box. Maybe you have some network configuration that stops that, like a firewall.

The quality was probably bad because you were routed through Plex Relay services which have a bandwidth limit. It is honestly quite a nice free service because it means it will work pretty much regardless how your network is setup but the quality will be bad. If you want to directly connect to your server you need a public IP so CGNAT won’t do you might also have to open some ports.

If all you want is a local media server. It’s very easy.

You pretty much just have to install Plex or Jellyfin, setup a “library” in the software.

You usually set up one library for movies and one for TV shows. You then point these libraries to their respective folders on your hard drive and assuming you have some half decent organized media with proper naming it usually just works.

Plex doesn’t have automatic subtitles per say but mostly Plex players allow you to download new subtitles from the player. I don’t know about Jellyfin.

If you want to have external access it’s a bit harder if you use jellyfin as you will have to setup a reverse proxy but I’m guessing that there are a lot of guides for that online. Plex should work for external access out of the box assuming you have a public IP, and even if you don’t you can use their automatic relay services to get it to work anyway although in very low quality.

Proper naming is honestly the hardest part but that’s very dependent on how much existing media you have and how the naming is today. Luckily Plex and Jellyfin are fairly good at recognizing and finding media with subpar namin (you should still fix the naming to comply with the documentation)

If you want to have automatic torrent downloads, fully automatic subtitles and all that it’s quite some work to set it up properly and have it working without any input from you. If you want to tackle it (or are just curious), I recommend checking out https://trash-guides.info/

Maybe but why should I listen to you? You know considering that your instance is famous for extremist propaganda.

Don’t worry, as long as you don’t use bitlocker or backup the bitlocker key it’s trivial to bypass the login on Windows or Linux.

Because it’s integrated into the GUI similar to how pretty much every other browser does it, of course .

And do that multiple times?

There aren’t any “gotchas” they absolutely lose money us who store more than a few TB but its worth it considering that we are in the minority.

Someone from BB posted a graph showing the distribution of data usage over all users and the VAST majority are under 1-2 TB

Restoring data is free from backblaze.

I use a wildcard domain (with simplelogin which makes it easier to use). All the emails are sent to my normal email and it works great.

I have never heard of spammers spamming an entire domain like that. They are not human operated anyways.