After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians ready to return to piracy

Post by CaptSpify » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 9:50 PM UTC

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Regardless of whatever moral card you want to play here, the fact of the matter boils down to Gabe Newell's famous insight on the matter: Piracy is almost always a service problem[0]. People value their time. Make the experience easy for them, and people will pay. Make the experience shitty for them, and people will find the path of least resistance. People pay taxes because they have to. When it comes to entertainme…

It might be true of first world. I do not think that in poor countries like India where 100s of millions live on less that ~2 dollar a day any service could be cheaper than piracy. And I have seen people in India jump through hoops to pirate content rather than paying even a little for convenience. Gabe Newell's observation seems to me a very limited view of the world by a spectacularly successful first world entrepr…

Post by atemerev » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

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You keep confusing "being entitled to content" and "being entitled to equal and non-discriminatory treatment". Do you understand the difference?

No, thats not at all what it is. There are regulatory and legal reasons why netflix content (even specific content) isnt available everywhere. Its not discriminatory. Its simple entitlement. Don't try to confuse the issue by making it about some kind of discriminatory issue. A business has to have licences to operate in a country, there are many stipulations and there is a cost involved with those stipulations, netfl…

Post by atemerev » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 10:14 PM UTC

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No, thats not at all what it is. There are regulatory and legal reasons why netflix content (even specific content) isnt available everywhere. Its not discriminatory. Its simple entitlement. Don't try to confuse the issue by making it about some kind of discriminatory issue. A business has to have licences to operate in a country, there are many stipulations and there is a cost involved with those stipulations, netfl…

"have to copy them for free" Man, i didnt realize they HAD to copy them... i swear they have the option to just not watch. Oh, but again, they feel entitled to watch.

Post by atemerev » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 11:07 PM UTC

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Yes, and African Americans had the option of not visiting "white only" restaurants. Do you see any difference here? Because I don't.

Yes, there is a huge difference. I bet people like Rosa Parks, MLK, etc... people who paid dearly for Equal rights would be so upset that you've lowered the meaning of that word to simple movies... Being treated differently, being cast aside and being held back from success because of your race, that you cant change, that you had no control of aquiring - is nowhere near not being able to watch a movie because of lega…

Post by Grishnakh » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 12:38 AM UTC

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No, she doesn't understand why. Maybe you can enlighten us. She used to pay hard cash for access to Netflix (the US version), and watched US content legally. Now she's being prevented from that. If the content creator doesn't want to sell access to the content for you, then you have every right to access it through other means. They never had to cut off access to these non-US customers: they were paying good money fo…

She used to pay hard cash for access to Netflix (the US version), and watched US content legally. The article says "For about a year, Lorenz subscribed to Netflix Canada, but her family freely accessed the streaming service's shows from across the globe." The change discussed is that a subscriber in one country is no longer allowed access to the catalog of another country when accessing from a proxy IP in that countr…