Background: photography is a hobby. I abandoned Adobe Lightroom after 10 years because they’re slime and went to Capture One. But that was dumb, they’re owned by private equity and jacked the price even higher. Now all my edits are in there and I’m stuck.
I found a site with a crack for my specific Mac version. But, I long ago stopped pirating software due to not wanting to install a frigging keylogger. That is not the same as downloading media. I can’t know what a crack is doing.
If you want to send me good sites for recent Mac versions of Capture One, lol hey great. But really, my question is if I’m right that it’s kinda risky to crack software here in 2025.
I hate to pay this scum company again so they can extract rent for another year just to see my own photos.
I have a friend who went with this after reading your post. Hypothetically. He says it was a bit more than he wanted to spend, but was also better than what he had.
Where do I go to find resellers/providers who won’t rip me off? I had one that was fine for a year plus, but it’s gone under. I found it in a random forum.
American sports and general shows/movies. Adult wouldn’t be bad either. lol.
Don’t give me direct links to any actual providers, unless I misread the rules. DM is fine though ;)
Since last I checked, every IPTV sub on Reddit was banned. The ones that are left are mostly bots.
Very much on my mind too is where we can talk about this shit now if it’s not Reddit or Lemmy.
Hey all, please don’t even think of replying here with suggestions for actual IPTV providers, just DM me if you’re willing to make a suggestion. Otherwise, let me know if the below situation is normal.
Long story short, I’m new to IPTV and looking for one that does US sports. I just got semi-scammed (at least, misrepresented) by a provider I found on one of the forums.
I spent most of my trial period struggling to get a VPN to work (and thought I did). Then I paid for six months, which was dumb as shit.
I picked up PIA to replace Mullvad, since that one has an Apple TV client and I’m Mac/iOS/tvOS. That broke IPTV on all devices. And why? Because these guys block VPNs due to “other IPTV provider want to steal our streams from their servers” broken English BS excuse that I can’t even make sense of. What does one thing have to do with the other?
They want me to use their VPN, which is based on either Outline or Surfboard (the second doesn’t even have a website). On Mac, that would mean using Tunnelblick to run their custom config file. The best part is:
In the chat, I asked what I should do on Apple TV. That’s when they ghosted, since they have my money now. And then came back to say “Oh, actually we DO allow VPNs, it’s your ISP that’s blocking them.”
So how come I can go anywhere and do anything on PIA, except use IPTV?
I’d love to know if that situation is abnormal. Am I right that streaming a bunch of IPTV using some rando’s config file (or in the clear) is batshit? This is all on the high seas so I gotta use a VPN, right? Am I just misunderstanding the technical issue due to the language barrier?
Amazing article, just super cool. Somehow I never knew that site.
Thanks for that.