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RIP fmovies. Long live sudo (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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fmovies has been gone almost a month. I should have added "FBI" up there but really they used FBI to shoot down the service, not be like them.

I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

I started using sudo-lol and seems okay. Streaming can be hinky at times but it works for most of the things I want to watch.

I know that torrenting can be a thing but sometimes I just want to watch and not deal with a whole finding a torrent, download, and then watch workflow.

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[-] Blackout@kbin.run 46 points 1 month ago

Losing fmovies wasn't the bad thing as there are dozens of clones. It's the hosting services that really took a hit. The reliable ones have been down for a while. The ones left buffer much slower and can't handle peak times as well. Those years with fmovies really felt like the golden age of piracy.

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 month ago

Dude, there is the golden age I've waited 20yrs for.

Check sonarr/radarr/prowlarr/lidarr etc. A lil work, some mere bucks a month for extra comfyness and you're set. Never worry again.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 40 points 1 month ago

Pay for piracy? That'll get ya the plank!

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 month ago

Generally I agree. But I'd be willing to pay what I would pay a streaming company if they had all the content I wanted.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 14 points 1 month ago

The automated services are quite nice. Ive enjoyed not managing a seed box for a while but it is the only guaranteed way these days.

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

Dude, for that sum you could pay people pirating and servicing it for you 😁

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

That's what I do

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Pay for a vpn, which is good for more than just piracy (mostly piracy though)

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Must be nice having one or those free computers running on free electricity with free internet.

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

I was lucky enough to get a free m1. That thing uses 10w or so when you remove the stupidity and install Linux on it. But even if you have to buy a Pi - it'll pay for itself in a few months of not paying for streaming service.

Let's go crazy and say $. 20/kWh. 10÷1000×8760×.2=$17.5/year. Not free, but pretty damn close.

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Silly argument, as i pay for internet too. Also 5 bucks are not even a fucking coffee. For that i get what i dreamt of when i was selling pirate-cds for hundreds of bucks.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

MegaVideo was the golden age

[-] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

there's fboxz it's an exact clone of fmovies.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 33 points 1 month ago

sudo-flix, piracy app hosted on github. Probably will be taken down like popcorn time, that nintendo emulator, and a bunch of other things. Wouldn't surprise me if they ended up on radicle, or codeberg, or I2P or something...

Anti Commercial-AI license

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[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 28 points 1 month ago

has-been-taken-down-v0-32si8y97cled1

Just found this lol. They killed one and 2 sprung in its place.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

"The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it."

[-] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Love this

[-] halvar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This just reminded me of movie-web which looked very similar to this... Anyone know something?

[-] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Sudo-flix is a fork of Movie-web

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[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just use Sonarr, Prowlarr, Transmission, and Jellyfin to get this stuff

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

I just pirate whole seasons and then burn them to blu- ray for long term storage/old time's sake. I love having my media compartmentalized on discs.

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 19 points 1 month ago

I prefer having them instantly accessible from my truenas server. Plex is a godsend.

[-] gears@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

Use jellyfin

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 22 points 1 month ago

I will if Plex ever stops doing what I need it to. As it stands, it works perfectly fine so I see no reason to switch.

[-] Policeshootout@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I use an android device and my NAS is a Synology ds923. Jellyfin wasn't nearly as smooth an experience for me as Plex was. I'm willing to switch to FOSS but it doesn't seem as good yet..

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I just use my PC for movies + a projector that's plugged in, so I like keeping it really simple and avoiding stuff like Plex.

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I like being able to access it anywhere, on (most) any device of my choosing.

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

I just use ani-cli.

[-] 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

And lobster for regular movies and tv shows

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[-] tarius@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#streaming-sites

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

This as well: https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Does sudo flix work like stremio with torrentio? I.e. I just type what I want and get a list of pirate sources to watch directly?

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but not as good. RealDebrid basically acts as a CDN for torrents, they're serving you the files they've already downloaded directly to you.

From what I can tell, sudo flix is streaming torrents from the seeders, so you are reliant on there being enough seeders with decent upload speeds.

Somebody feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

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[-] xiao@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

fmovies dot llc seems to work fine.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Oh nice! I didn't know they had more urls. I was using fmovies24.to

[-] Eldritch@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

123movies, hdtoday are still working if you want alternatives ✌️

[-] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

vidbinge.com is the sudo-flix succsesor

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[-] Tregetour@lemdro.id 8 points 1 month ago

I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

The risk equation makes sense. The potential gain from outlasting your competition and absorbing their subscriber bases to become a near-monopoly is higher than participating in a royalty scheme, and the downside is borne by shareholders and to a lesser extent creditors (the Other People's Money principle).

[-] wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Disney, Hulu & Max have a decent bundle although I don't enjoy the $30 a month price tag for no ads. Paramount has some good content but I don't think it's worth the upfront cost. Apple TV & peacock aren't worth the price especially since apple requires proprietary hardware.

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

I am confused. Sudoflix is down since a week or two already. How is it still working for you? They had a successor that they named on their page, maybe you mean that one.