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My username is netflixr. I was a big advocate of Netflix and believed in them as a company for many years. For many years they dominated the industry. For many years they appeared as though no competitor could possibly touch them.

Wow, how times do change.

Netflix is still number one by a long shot and they will likely remain that was, for a time.

HBO Max, Paramount, Disney, and all the other minor players scrap at one another for their piece of the pie but in the end it really doesn't matter because the people like me, that we there at the early adoption eras of piracy are heading back that way.

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For many years I encouraged and even dragged people into torrents and piracy but then Netflix came along and kind of converted me. It was easy, it was cheap, it was fun. I suppose I shouldn't be all that surprised that the greed of the entertainment industry turned it into something that was none of those things just a few years later.

I legally was riding someone else's account for year and then one day Netflix changed the terms of their own offerings and made it really difficult for me (somewhat tech savvy) and impossible for others (not tech savvy) to be an additional user on an account.

I could have circumvented this via VPN and other creative means but in the end I was already so frustrated with Netflix's terrible programming that I just let them have their way.

It was the same afternoon that I was complaining about this upcoming image that a friend of mine proposed a solution

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The system is called Plex and honestly, I don't know how it is legal. I would imagine that it remains that way in the same way that Pirate Bay is "legal" in that no one actually knows where it is.

When I joined Plex it was through and insider and now my library of films and TV shows are not just what Netflix would offer, but everything that is worth watching from everyone else as well including HBO and Paramount.

I'm not going to give you a walkthrough on how to do this because I feel like doing so would denigrate and perhaps criminalize the entire Plex network. But as it stands now there is no one to sue because no one is actually hosting any of the files. It is kind of TPB, Bearshare, Limewire, and the file sharing resource that started it all, Napster. These files are not hosted by anyone and therefore there is no one to prosecute or even if there is (in some instances) it's just some house in the Netherlands (or somewhere else) that had no idea what they were storing.

Plex is incredible if you can sort it out because all movies, TV shows, series, reality-shows, etc can all be accessible by you and your friends if you work as a team. Once they are uploaded they are there for everyone and my Plex server right now is absolutely dripping with the latest content.

Netflix had it right at the beginning but then, as is easily predictable, the industry got too greedy. Now, if you wanted to subscribe to everyone it would cost you as much as the overpriced cable subscriptions that got us interested in Netflix in the first place. Eventually I am sure the industry will shut down Plex. But the effect of that is going to be the same as "shutting down" The Pirate Bay. There are tons of mirrors out there and even with the might of MGM, Paramount, and Sony riding on their shoulders, they can't possibly fight this.

The funny thing about it all is that they are the ones that made it happen. If they had just been cool with us all paying $10 a month for a subscription I am sure we would have been fine with that. But they always want more and more and more and more...

This is why Plex exists and if you aren't using it, you should at least look into it.

I was willing and was in fact, giving, you $10 a month. Now I am going to give you nothing. Are you happy now?