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Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by ehnto »

What surprised me is how quickly it felt like the consensus went from "DRM is evil" to "Neat, Netflix!". Same thing with privacy and anonymity online.

I have to imagine it's because the internet quickly filled with people not primed to be interested in those concerns and so they became popular in spite of the previous concerns.

Less like the boiling of the frog metaphor and more like they started boiling a mouse and then threw a million frogs in, so the mouse didn't matter anymore.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by matheusmoreira »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #136
dmix wrote: post #10

I for one thank our piracy overlords who endlessly work to make every form of content (optionally) freely available in high quality. I pay for plenty of subscription services that finally figured out how to make content as easy and accessible as piracy but there will forever exist legitimate gaps where “just pay for it” is simply insufficient (geo being #1, silly copyright owners #2, etc etc). The other article menti…

Remember when the Covenant Kodi plugin was thriving and the media companies hadn't waged legal-nuclear war against that sort of thing yet? It finally felt like the future: I could watch anything , in any language it was available in, right now, in my chosen quality, with automatic subtitle downloads if you want that sort of thing. I would pay good money for a service that could do that legitimately, but no, we can't…

Copyright holders will never be able to compete with piracy. It's impossible. Imagine what it'd take for them to actually offer a service that can even begin to compare with what copyright infringement makes possible. They'd have to pool all their intellectual property into a single holding and offer access to all of it at once.

Piracy offers us all the works of humanity, everything ever created. These copyright holders can barely manage to display episodes in the correct order in their little streaming service user interfaces.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by Cyphase »

ddtaylor wrote: post #145
ramraj07 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you really are not their target market. The primary money making target for Disney is people who watch it on their smart tv. Even if the average joe does decide to fire up their mac they won’t care if it’s not 4K.

Then why do they advertise 4K as an important feature?

Because if they didn't Average Bob would feel like they're missing out.

Some people don't care about 4K. Other people think they care about 4K but don't really know the difference.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by lostlogin »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #113
bluedino wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Christmas is a good example. A couple years ago I threw out all of my DVD's. We watch the same ten or so movies every holiday season. Now we scramble to find them on streaming services and pay $3-5 each to watch. At one point I had them all downloaded on a portable HD (along with others) but it failed, and why back up what you can just re-download?

I don't understand why the major streaming services don't have the good Christmas movies. They all have these new "made for TV" quality awful movies they push really hard. It's A Wonderful Life A Christmas Carol Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (old animated version) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (old animated version) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Home Alone Miracle On 34th Street Elf White Christmas There's…

Christmas without a Die Hard?

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by stjohnswarts »

dghughes wrote: post #21
dmix wrote: post #10

I for one thank our piracy overlords who endlessly work to make every form of content (optionally) freely available in high quality. I pay for plenty of subscription services that finally figured out how to make content as easy and accessible as piracy but there will forever exist legitimate gaps where “just pay for it” is simply insufficient (geo being #1, silly copyright owners #2, etc etc). The other article menti…

Amazon and Apple lure you in but many shows it seems need to be rented or bought. How much disposable income do these companies think the average Joe has to spend? the answer seems to be $10 to $20 to rent or "buy" movies. Which you never own a physical copy of. They seem to be out of touch with reality.

they count on you to price it against going to the movies and a lot of people (particularly families) choose to stay home and spend 1/5 to 1/10 what they would have spend going to the theater

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by stjohnswarts »

lostlogin wrote: post #164
Consultant32452 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why the major streaming services don't have the good Christmas movies. They all have these new "made for TV" quality awful movies they push really hard. It's A Wonderful Life A Christmas Carol Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (old animated version) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (old animated version) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Home Alone Miracle On 34th Street Elf White Christmas There's…

Christmas without a Die Hard?

Not a christmas I want any part of.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by DominikPeters »

_august wrote: post #30

Why is it possible to pirate 4k content from these sites but not simply view 4k officially on my mac? (disney+ in particular)

You can get 4k by playing content on your iOS device and then casting it to your Mac using AirPlay. Ridiculous that there's no other way.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by oefnak »

ehnto wrote: post #161

What surprised me is how quickly it felt like the consensus went from "DRM is evil" to "Neat, Netflix!". Same thing with privacy and anonymity online. I have to imagine it's because the internet quickly filled with people not primed to be interested in those concerns and so they became popular in spite of the previous concerns. Less like the boiling of the frog metaphor and more like they started boiling a mouse and…

I think for most people it was the fact that Netflix was the first app that was as convenient as popcorn time.

Re: Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

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Post by agumonkey »

throwawayboise wrote: post #47
agumonkey wrote: post #43

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I'm so fine with 480p

Agreed. I often don't get more than this from streaming services, due to bandwidth congestion.

I'm not the happiest of dudes, that's for context, but I have this feeling that people are hiding something.. binging tv shows all the time, new video games all the time, waiting for the new console. It seems like a neverending chase of new shallow fun they don't even really like. Maybe simpler but deeper moments would improve things.
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