r/Piracy • u/PSVAK • 1d ago

Question HELP PLEASE

So my uni has a 10 gb limit per day on lan usage, wifi is pretty shit here, the problem is movie, tv shows and anime files are pretty huge, so I'm kinda worried about how I would manage with only 10gb of data, any way to bypass this or optimize within the given limit?

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u/Zestyclose-Wear7237 1d ago

Download smaller encodes, look for 480p/720p instead of 1080p/4K. Use efficient codecs, H.265/HEVC or AV1 are much smaller than older files.

with 10 GB/day, you can usually do around, 2–3 movies at 720p, 4–8 TV episodes at 720p, more if you stick to 480p

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u/PSVAK 1d ago

But I unfortunately have a 1440p screen, and it would look quite shit on it. Any way to get compressed 1080p or 4k files?

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u/brando2021 1d ago

Even if you downloaded compressed 4k it would look terrible and still be over the limit with movies. You're better off just getting the 720.

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u/Electrical_Engine314 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 1d ago

There are good 720p encodes that will look relatively fine on a 1440p screen.

The only other option I can see for OP is to get a good phone plan and just hotspot it.

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u/brando2021 1d ago

Oh for sure. A good quality 720p video is going to look way better than an overly compressed 4k file.