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The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by ekianjo »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #328
kbenson wrote: post #208

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> Netflix, a Californian company, simply couldn't fathom that some people might understand English and Spanish. Or they just decided the path that serves the most people without complicating matters is to assume you want subtitles for any language not selected as the primary audio language. I think the relevant question here is how would you design a control panel that allowed you to define which of the many language…

Add an English and Spanish audio language. It's really not hard. The real problem is that because it's closed-source software, the user must rely on the creator to think of every edge case.

It would be so much better if the user could just watch the encrypted video feed in just any player they want (provided they interface with a libnetflix library...)

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by kuon »

I have a netflix subscription, but I download all movies from bittorrent, for three reasons:

1. Quality, especially audio, on many netflix movie I just cannot hear the voices. VLC is much better at mixing 5.1 to stereo for my speakers (not mentioning having multichannel when I watch on TV)

2. Being able to apply filters. I don't use many filters, but when I watch movie on my computers, I like to change the gamma of VLC, as my monitor is calibrated for color accuracy. In the browser, the color balance is wrong, I can adjust that in VLC without changing my monitor calibration.

3. Subtitles, I want subtitles on the black borders when possible. What I often do is applying a crop filter to have only one black border at the bottom and I place the subtitles in it.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by ekianjo »

xxs wrote: post #347
Lewton wrote: post #184

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That’s a far far saner interpretation of “off” than the alternative On hbo Nordic, (The Scandinavian hbo go) off means -OFF- and it’s absolutely infuriatingly stupid to expect that I can speak Spanish, or Russian, just because I don’t want Scandinavian subtitles when watching an English movie

To help out: in the most of Hollywood movies spoken Russian is usually beyond unnatural with a heavy accent... to a point computer synthesized voice acting would be an improvement.

Do the same thing happen in Russia when they feature spoken English?

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

jjeaff wrote: post #8
monksy wrote: post #3

Putting Kodi under "Streaming Piracy" is pretty inflamitory. Kodi isn't there to enable streaming piracy. (There are non-offical plugins that do that, but they've made many announcements about Kodi's stance on Piracy)

But let's be honest, 99.99% of Kodi and Plex use is purely for pirated content. Otherwise, I'm not sure where everyone is getting all these non DRM digital downloads. And most aren't using special plugins with Kodi, they just use Kodi to play their content they get from torrents and Usenet.

We're using Emby to play OTA recorded (via HDHomeRun) 2018 Olympics coverage because we don't want to stay up all night to watch it. We do this for all the OTA television shows we'd like to watch. It works out really well for us.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by jcranmer »

bdz wrote: post #16

At least where I live, Hungary, torrenting was decriminalized some years ago as long as someone isn't doing it for profit. It's still illegal but they stopped going after end users. The biggest private tracker has 770k users atm with an exceptional 1452% seed to leech ratio. Basically almost everyone (ie daily internet users) is using it in the country. Also they introduced a "blank media" tax on everything (CD, DVD,…

There's one caveat that's often missed: downloading pirated content is illegal nowhere (at least, nowhere that I'm aware of). The violation of copyright comes in distribution, which is to say uploading. The industry stopped its lawsuit programs against individuals in part because they found it very difficult to actually prove copyright infringement.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by robotresearcher »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #226
microtonal wrote: post #127

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a) Being on time. If you want to take part in the online discussion about tv shows, you have to watch them on time. For a ton of shows I can't even buy episodes on the day they come out. Torrenting is still the far superior choice. I generally found that buying a season pass on iTunes typically gives you episodes as soon as they come out. They often offer shows in the original version and with German subtitles/audio.…

In my case, iTunes doesn’t work in linux.

That’s very similar to its status on MacOS and Windows.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by robotresearcher »

abruzzi wrote: post #262
Semaphor wrote: post #78

The reason why for me, someone with a netflix and amazon prime account in Germany, bittorrent is neither dead nor declining (for movies and TV shows): a) Being on time. If you want to take part in the online discussion about tv shows, you have to watch them on time. For a ton of shows I can't even buy episodes on the day they come out. Torrenting is still the far superior choice. b) Languages. Yes netflix, I know tha…

> b) Languages. Another thing. I buy most movies I like on iTunes, but I have an issue with the films one of my favorite directors; Werner Herzog. The company that distributes his films on iTunes has decided to mostly make his films available with only a dubbed English soundtrack rather than the original German with subtitles. Even though I don't speak German, hearing the original actors voices gives me a better feel…

Maybe you can switch to the German store for German language movies. Does that work or do you need a German address?

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by phil248 »

_Marak_ wrote: post #316
phil248 wrote: post #205

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Torrenting for me has always been about convenience, not money. I recently wanted to watch a new show called A.P. Bio. It's free on NBC's website. But after struggling through one episode with lags and ads with no volume control, I gave up and just torrented the show. Until they master such exotic technologies as "streaming video" and "volume control" they're going to keep driving people to torrenting. Netflix figure…

I also had major issues trying to stream A.P. Bio on NBC's streaming website. I wanted to see the new show with Glenn Howerton. The video was really laggy, skipped dialog due to lag jitters, and served up 15 minutes of ads for 22 minutes of content. Ended up not watching the show because of NBC site not working right.

Yes, lag is one thing, but the NBC website was literally skipping dialogue. After missing three jokes in a row I gave up.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by pentagonpapers »

adrusi wrote: post #367
icebraining wrote: post #277

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https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1j7hce/lpt_whi...

This works on the old silverlight player, not on the modern HTML5 EME-based player. I've been able to find some hidden keybindings that work, but those only display information. Let me know if you know how it can be done.

Route through jackd and an audio delay should work

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by mindcrime »

cm2187 wrote: post #320
phil248 wrote: post #205

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Torrenting for me has always been about convenience, not money. I recently wanted to watch a new show called A.P. Bio. It's free on NBC's website. But after struggling through one episode with lags and ads with no volume control, I gave up and just torrented the show. Until they master such exotic technologies as "streaming video" and "volume control" they're going to keep driving people to torrenting. Netflix figure…

Same. I have the budget for it, just there is no legit service that will give me the movies I want to watch. I have zero interest in the latest fast & furry or marvel movie. I'm rather: pull the filmography of Robert Duvall and let's watch the movies I haven't seen already. Easy to do on bittorrent, impossible on any streaming service. The only alternative is buying DVDs and Blurays on amazon which I also do, but tha…

This might sound like a dumb question, but have you checked Youtube much? Their catalog of "pay to stream" movies is (to me) surprisingly good. Definitely not just the recent blockbusters... they've got all sorts of older and less well know stuff. Just for shits and giggles I pulled up the Robert Duvall filmography just now and check and found even the oldest and lesser known ones on Youtube, most for around $3-4 to watch.

Strangely enough, since discovering this aspect of Youtube, that has become my goto site for most movies, and definitely helped cut down on my pirating activity.

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