P.S. my torrent days are over, thanks. I’m not interested in self-hosting anything either, again, thanks. 10$/month is a reasonable subscription fee for an all-you-can-eat streaming service

The reason you’re not finding this is because everyone else was assuming all the risk by streaming the media to you, and that party is over. You were assuming none of the risk. If you want back in, you’re going to start having to assume some of the risk again, because that $10/month is what makes the operation actually something that the people offering the service can be criminally prosecuted for.

Come on, get outta here with this self entitled attitude. Would love to help, but it sounds like you don’t even want help, really. You just want to pay someone else to commit crimes and risk arrest so you can benefit. Bringing money into it is 100% what has turned it into a crime for the person running the server.

Piracy is a community thing, become part of the community, and maybe someone will just let you on their personal server without a fee, and then nobody is at risk criminally, only civilly. But it means getting involved at least a little bit, and not just expecting others to do it for you.

“obscure Emby”… You don’t get out much, do you.

Emby is a direct competitor to Plex, and its better. It doesn’t require and internet connection to work, doesnt force signup, its completely self hosted if you want. The dev is responsive, bugs are fixed quickly.

It does have subscription options if you want, none are required for full functionality.

Emby is not FOSS, but neither is Plex.