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The thing that drives me to piracy is the fact that you can buy something online, and if that platform loses the right, they just take it from you. You paid for it, and they can just take it away with no refund. Fuck that shit
Yeah if i want something forever i buy it physical. I hate it when things only release on dvd though, then you're just making the best way to experience it is through piracy. It's kinda like with heavy drm on single player games. The pirates get to play the best version of the game without the drm and without needing to buy it. It's backwards. If you pay for something you should have the best version.
They keep charging more and more for less and less content.
They keep inflating over promises that never arrive no matter how many people you kill for in "exchange" for selling your sole. If you still think any of that made you busy, your forgot Ness,
Been sailing the seven seas for forever, never suffered a drop in quality, availability, or quantity. Never gonna give it up.
"The average European household now spends close to €700 (£600) a year on three or more VOD subscriptions. People pay more and get less."
Lol, not me.
I'm proudly bellow average.
About to install Pi3 with Tailscale in my homeland to route Deluge traffic though because piracy is normality there
Remember when everyone just put their shit on Netflix? Good times, I knew this was gonna happen the second Disney said "Maybe we make our own service?"
The balkanization of video streaming.
Please, threaten me with more exclusives. Please, put more excerpts for shows to promote your network exclusives, and see what I do.
The constant desire for growth inherent in capitalism fucking ruins everything. You've got near trillion dollar companies still pushing for growth. Everything just turns to shit as they pursue every last dime.
Now they have to remove civil rights to keep going and taking everything. Trump has created marshal law is the US capitol. He is planning the resources to do it in any US city in case of protest, which is a constitutional right.
Okay bit, hear me out: what if we call for reform, and hit you with a stick a cpuple times to see if anything shiny like old fashioned filling or whatever comes out?
See! Ol capitalism still bad a few food tricks up iys sleeve to innovate with!
I just got a mal from Spotify that they increase the prices from €17 to €21 (family) I don’t want to pay 25% more for that AI-slob filled garbage.
The changes apply to existing accounts in 3 months. Then, I will rip all my hearted songs and playlists.
Do they check for your actual region? I currently have Ukrainian IP address, so it shows me $7.99/month for family plan.
They can get your actual region off your billing details for subscription pricing. The content availability might vary by IP, but the pricing is going to go off your billing address. That's why I pay taxes on some of my subscription services is because my state has a tax on that while other states don't. When signing up for a new service, it doesn't show me the total with tax until I enter my address.
They chose to kill the golden goose by jacking up prices over and over and over. I don’t feel bad for greedy corporations who did this to themselves.
But, but think about the children....of the executives, do youbreally want that they have to work? You monster!
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It's not even that. It's the fact that each of them has so little content, any attempt to find what you want leads you skipping between like three apps, only to find that your only way to watch that 10 year old movie is to rent it from Amazon for £11.99.
And then you look up how to set up Jellyfin.
rent it from Amazon for £11.99.
And then you check it, also on Amazon, and there it is, on DVD for £3 and BluRay (not UHD) for like £6.
Just checking an average movie I have in cart on UK Amazon (prices are in EUR because I buy them from Slovakia)
Passengers 2017 - New DVD: €3.40 ; New BluRay: €7.56 ; Used BluRay (Very Good condition): €2.08 ; YouTube High Definition: €8.99 (bruh...)
IMO the biggest thing is in the fracturing they had the ability to do what everyone thought cable should do.
IE cable packages could have been made to work, if say they were actually split by genre or similar. But instead if you want a package for X, you pay for 500 channels you don't want.
IE if the streaming services split up by genre. Like off the top of my head discovery + was the only one that IMO did a cool thing, IE focused on purely giving a solid theme where if you like educational type programs, that's the one to get.
If there were like a sci fi focused streaming, or comedy etc... but rather than going focused, we've got 20 generalists. As a result if say you only like one type of show, you need to buy 6 streaming services, for the 6 good shows in that genre.
unlicensed streaming is the predominant source of TV and film piracy, accounting for 96%
96% from streaming? Wow, really? That's almost nothing being contributed by boring old-fashioned downloaded media from things like bittorrent and that other one that's totally not worth talking about.
You guys might as well just ignore those ancient, decrepit download services. What a total waste of your valuable resources! There are so many people out there with jailbroken Fire Sticks! It would be such a waste of your time going on a wild goose chase after imaginary evil communist nerds who buy mechanical hard drives and download "free" software that's been pre-approved by their communal repository authorities.
impoverished streaming services
won't someone pls think of the poor mega million dollar media companies
I think in this context the impoverishment is implied to be that of content, not liquidity.
I.e. poorer (quality) streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy.
But, yes, fuck them greedy fuckers.
Any CEO that thinks a user should roll over and accept having 12 separate accounts to stream everything they want, is either monumentally fucking stupid, or just a disingenuous, greedy fuck. I’ll stick to Stremio + RD and they can rot while their stock plunges. I do not care.
any ceo who (...) Is wither monumentally fuvking stupid
Almost uniformly, yes. Thats like half of what business school is for.
a disingenuous greedy lying fuck
Also yes. That's the other half.
I think this stems from everyone on the board at these corporations having so much money that they drop hundreds of dollars on a whim basically everyday. They have no conception of a tight budget not accommodating another $20 a month.
I always have to remind myself of how disconnected these people are from our reality.
I never left piracy. Had a friends Netflix for a while but didn't use it because the browser sucks. Got a few free Prime memberships, again piracy is easier.
I have Netflix, Hulu, and D+
Wife watches random stuff on them all, but I still rip the stuff we enjoy to keep a copy.
I don't mind paying the piper, but fuck off I'm gonna let them decide when to pull the rug on shit I'm watching.
No but see not letting them take it from you is bad for the artists
Nah, when they lose the license on it and let it go back It's not like they're putting it some other place where I'm going to jump ship and buy it. They've absolutely ruined the market, No money lost, I'm not chasing TV shows around the internet with my money.
I'm paying for three services and basic cable. They're not getting any more money out of me. And the artist got fucked the second they canceled the contract, that has nothing to do with me.
The last time I borrowed a Netflix account every show or movie would start at 1080p and then negotiate itself down to like 240p over 3-4 minutes. I have a very fast connection that can stream 4K just fine elsewhere and Netflix's settings were set to high quality. They are just cheapskates that throttle based on your account patterns.
It’s fine when there’s one or two high quality. The current setup is to bleed people dry.
Can we talk about the article saying that 96% of TV and film piracy is streaming?? That one blows me away. We all talk here about downloading our own files and then self-hosting, but apparently all of us account for less than 5% of all piracy? Tf?
Consider pirate sport streams which by their nature are usually watched live and not downloaded. I have no idea about numbers, but it wouldn't surprise me if they made up a significant part of that 96%, because sports are freaking huge.
That makes a lot of sense actually.