Getting Movies, TV, Music For Free WITHOUT Using Torrents

[jadler]

I noticed that many users on here only suggest torrent sites as a way to obtain movies and music. In the spirit of Anarchy I guess I should point out a few additions to torrents that I find useful. These are sites which only link to the content and actually rely on hosts like Youtube, Megavideo, and Hulu for the real content. They are commonly called video link sites and there are many of them springing up online. For the sake of things I will only include the best ones. These sites feature anything from DVD quality HD to shaky bootlegs of new releases.

A common practice is to try multiple links listed under the entry. If one doesn't work or has been removed just try a second one. I usually like to use the last one on a list because it has the least traffic. Therefore it is most unlikely to be noticed and removed by the host site. Also, links should always show where you will be taken to. If you see odd or unknown sites listed as links just ignore them. Stick to common links and stay safe.

I know absolutely no one that has ever gotten a virus from a link site. Still though keep yourself protected to be smart. Better to be safe than sorry online anyway right?

If you need a tutorial on Torrents see this thread: http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/f50/how-to-get-any-movie-for-free-t21247/

Deathlord888 does a great job of explaining the entire process.

For Movies
Common link sites for movies are as follows...
Watch-Movies: http://www.watch-movies-links.net/
STC: http://www.surfthechannel.com/

Note: Watch Movies underwent a domain name change recently. I included the new domain link. The old name goes to a different site. Google "Watch Movies" if you ever need to find them quickly.

For TV
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/
STC: http://www.surfthechannel.com/

Note: Hulu is 100% legal and is complete with commercials and all. Just like real TV.

For Music
Playlist: http://www.playlist.com/

For Porn
Pornhub: http://www.pornhub.com/
YouPorn: http://www.youporn.com/
MyFreePaySite: http://www.myfreepaysite.com/

Note: Porn is an 18+ kind of content, I am not responsible for your viewing of it. However, these porn sites don't actually check age out. No credit cards are needed or ever asked for. The first two don't even require a user account to view content. Pornhub doesn't even have an "enter here" page, its just straight to the content. So have fun... :cool:

[retlix]

This is good information, and for the pirate on a budget, you don't have a lot of options. But if you can scratch up $30/mo, you can subscribe to a premium new service like giganews.

These guys and their warrior brotherhood are the sacred heirs of all those countless geeks who took their sexual frustration and forged it into the mighty light saber we now hold at the throat of the DRM pigs and power tools.

Usenet was the BBS service that took over from the old dial-up BBS's. It doesn't actually exist anywhere, rather, all of the files and groups in usenet are mirrored all over the planet. However some key players are committed to mirroring all usenet content posted and doing it for obscenely long times.

Giganew for example holds on to stuff for nearly 365 days now. If you knew ANYTHING about usenet, you immediately bow down to their image and offer your first born as an unworthy sacrifice to they awesomeness.

Using usnet isn't hard, but there is a lot of funky shit you have to know in order to get the goods.

As a primer, check out binsearch.info and type in something you want to borrow on a strictly evaluation basis (wink). If it comes up, you then need to get busy because you won't be able dl shit from the search engine.

Another nice feature, although it can cost a few bucks extra, is that virtually all pay to play usenet services will offer high grad encriyption. So while you are dl'ing 'secrets of elvin sex magic', all your ISP sees is 0010-1100-1001- yawwwwnnnnn. They will have no clue.

If anyone is interested and is prepared to shell out the $30-40 it takes to get a premium service, i would consider doing a usenet tutorial. There's also a charge for the software. Newsbin is the hands down standar and if you get a Giganews plan, it will only run you about $25 IIRC.

To be fair, you already have access to some level of usenet through your ISP. But because of the truly mind fucking enormity of the data that is out there and available, these freebie news servers might only retain posts for a couple weeks or even less.

[jadler]

Have you considered putting together a modern guide to Giganews/Usenet? I think you would be qualified to give new users a basic tutorial on how the history is broken down and the best ways to get started. It would be nice if these forums contained a series of modern tutorials. I'm sick of hearing about the old school phreakers and stuff. I mean don't get me wrong, those guys were genius. I think we need to write about modern stuff though.

[retlix]

I'm up for it but I'd need to know that there was some actual interest from at least a few people. Usenet isn't complicated once you get into it and have a good Usenet service. But there are a lot of little things that you have to understand and be able to handle and they can be very annoying.

For example, just setting up Newsbin requires some experience before you can even decide what options you want.

You have to know how to recover lost archive segments using parity files and QuickPar. But the default for Newsbin is to put those in a scratch queue that doesn't automatically get downloaded.

You have to be comfortable with WinRAR. Newsbin will expand archive files but only if they are all there and are not damaged. If they are, you're back to QuickPar.

There's also the issue of cost. Anyone who is interested should check to see what the retention period is for their current ISP. If you call and ask, go to tech support because the clerical people won't even know what you're talking about. It's probably a few weeks and then stuff is deleted. So if you mainly want to dl say newly released DVD's, music, or even tv shows that people have uploaded, all you have to do is check in every week to see what you need to dl. But if you don't know what you want - or at least not everything - then you'll have to pay for a premium service.

Shopping for a service is not something I would be doing though. I pay top dollar for Giganews with 128-bit encryption so until someone comes along who is better, I'm not wasting my time. But if you don't want to spend $40-50 for the top level Giganews account, then you'll need to do some research.

So if it looks like there are a few people who are interested, and not just yankin' my chain, I'll think about it - but no promises.

[Xon]

Why usenet over torrents?

[retlix]

No one normally wants to hear anything I have to say about usenet, so I've gotten sloppy in my explanations it would seem. I didn't mean to cause any confusion.

There's a good entry in wikipedia about usenet but I can hit the highlights here.

Torrents are a peer-to-peer arrangement - at least as I understand it. I've only done the torrents thing a couple times and the stuff I dl'ed was from someone's personal PC - at least judging by the fact that glaciers were whizzing past faster than my data.

So, if I understand how they work, Alice will put a few warez files and maybe some mp3's in a folder that is exposed to the network. Whoever provides the torrent software Alice is using will index whatever she has in that directory. Let's say that one of the CD's is the Sisters of Mercy 'Vision Thing' album (old, but awesome). Bob loves SoM and is looking for that very album and queries the torrent software that says Alice has it and is willing to share.

After a little foreplay, the exchange of bodily fluids ensues - and the mp3's are dl'ed to Bob's machine.

Usenet is similar in some ways but quite different in others.

First a very little history. Soon after TCP/IP was being implemented on various college networks, someone had the idea to use these networked machines as a new and improved form of bulletin board or BBS. Before that, individual enthusiasts would host their own BBS's. It became the digital equivalent of a group of Ham radio operators, except this was better because if when you logged on, no one else was around, you could post what you had to say and then come back later to see if anyone had responded.

Putting the BBS's on a vast network of mainframes was an additional improvement because every server that agreed to host a particular BBS, would keep all the posts for a specific length of time. Some kept them longer than others, but you could make your post on any server hosting a particular BBS and it would be mirrored to every other server that was hosting it.

It wasn't long before people figured out that this was a great way to share data. Rather than try to email x megs of data to a singe recipient, you would instead post it to a BBS dealing with the particular topic to which the data related. Everyone could have access to it without it being email thousands of times and often to people who weren't interested.

The correct terminology for a usenet BBS's is a usenet group or more accurately, a newsgroup. A group that encourages people to post cracked software might be called alt.binaries.warez.

When you log into a usenet "news server", you can download a list of all the groups hosted by that server. When you find one that you're interested in, you then request all of the headers for that group. These look very much like an email with a subject, author, list of attachments, etc.

Today, if you are looking for something in particular, you don't need to search every news group that might have it. You just go to a usenet search engine like binsearch.info and do a query.

It will tell you what is out there that matches your search strings (i.e., based on a post's subject line and/or name of the attached file(s)). If you find something you want, the web site will create an .nzb file for you.

This is proprietary file format used by the Newsbin news reader. Once you dl the nzb file, you load it up in Newsbin and it will start downloading - assuming that those files still exist on the news (nntp) server that you have access to.

There's a lot more to it and I've glossed over a lot of stuff that isn't really relevant these days, but that should give you a better idea of what it is about.

[Xon]

Sounds like a lot of work rather than download a torrent file that is catalogged by a search engine and start it with a simple program that does it automatically.

[retlix]

Sounds like a lot of work rather than download a torrent file that is catalogged by a search engine and start it with a simple program that does it automatically.

Once you get used to it it's not that bad. Newsbin handles almost all of the grunt work for you. Back in the bad old days, it was a lot more work.

I don't use torrents mainly because it's too easy to trace what you're doing. You leave an audit trail that screams PIRATE!!!

I use 128-bit encryption so my ISP don't know jack - fo' shizzle my nizzle.

I also have the impression that there isn't nearly as much content on torrents but I don't really know. You have to understand that there are at least 50,000 usenet news groups and a huge chunk of those ONLY deal with binaries - i.e., warez, multimedia, etc. Some of the bigger groups can EACH have 10's of terabytes of data.

If you can find what you want on torrents and you're not worried about the po-po, then it's definitely not worth the trouble.

Usenet is strictly hard-core. You can find stuff on there that is incredibly obscure and incredibly expensive. A mundane example is AutoCAD. Several years ago I wanted to get a copy but it was a few grand IIRC. I found the then current version on usenet - pre-cracked and ready to go.

[Xon]

Nice. Well, I use a seedbox, then download to an obscure computer at school, then to my flash drive, so usually, never to my actual computer. And always a public computer. And I only download movies/music/programs/games. All of which happen to be easily accessible on torrents. Oh, I have found both Pro E and Solidworks cracked and everything with torrents. These are both harder to find that AutoCAD, trust me. Anyway, I like torrents so I don't think I will change, but It is nice to understand more about Usenet.

[jadler]

I like the Usenet idea, it seems like a wider range of hardcore programs. I use torrents right now because I don't do much downloading. I would like to get some things that are rather obscure though. Maya for starters, which is a highly expensive 30 modeling software.

Post a tutorial and I'm sure people will be inclined to get involved. Just keep the explanations simple. Torrents are just dummy programs, point and click type of things. To promote interest in newsgroups we should form a very "For Dummies" style post.

Thanks for getting me thinking about this. I will check into it more.