No offense. But if it’s truly a money problem, the studios have nothing to loose by you pirating.
No offense. But if it’s truly a money problem, the studios have nothing to loose by you pirating.
It’s always fascinated me that companies who understand their core value proposition of their business can be so fucked up in so many other ways and still succeed.
Piracy is a service problem.
I’ve never actually used unraid.
You want raid plus a filesystem that can detect and correct for bitrot like xfs, btrfs or zfs. If you’re looking to get started try getting a used PC off eBay and try using TrueNAS or something similar to mirror your data too.
Do you need it to stream simultaneously or are you okay with it streaming async? If the second, any common media server software should do you well, take a look at things DLNA compatible. That should stream to VLC easy for any workstation/phone and it supported by most smart tvs/media boxes.
If simultaneous, maybe something like obs studio could work?
In theory that’s what we had in the VHS days. But I hear you. Piracy today is a superior product in almost any scenario.