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Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by rnd0 »

orangepurple wrote: post #342
rnd0 wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"the blue bus travels over denmark" rnd0, April 2022. Also gibberish. I mean, as long as we're going to be spewing content-free sentences I might as well get mine in. "Woke" isn't a useful term because today in 2022 it basically means "anything a conservative doesn't like". "Woke mind virus" is particularly egregious -that's pure hyperbole without even a pretense of meaning. The problem with Netflix in the main isn't…

Since you assert that "woke" isn't a useful term because today in 2022 it basically means "anything a conservative doesn't like" and Elon Musk uses the term liberally, do you agree that Elon is not a conservative?

I don't honestly give enough of a shit about Elon to remember what his politics are.

All I care about is that "woke" is empty rhetoric which is in practice meaningless.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by ashayh »

Stunting wrote: post #291
cercatrova wrote: post #101

It's easier just to pirate than keep up with all these streaming services. - You get the benefit of high quality (true 4k, not stream compressed "4k") and no buffering. - Plex, Radarr, Sonarr automatically downloads and categorizes your content for you, you can just sit back and enjoy your content. - Edit: Plex et al are not the *only* ways to download content, not sure why some replies are thinking so. I too can typ…

You're stealing income, specifically from me and all of my coworkers. Perhaps you think that you're only stealing from Producers and A list actors, but there are entire departments that receive residuals on a production. - On screen performers, stunt performers like myself and actors who grind out a comfortable living. Those residuals also go to qualifying for health insurance through earnings. You are directly steal…

| You're going to end up with shows that are AI generated CGI sponsored by Mt. Dew and Chevy trucks.

As opposed to movies/shows already high on CGI with poor and rehashed storylines, and whitewashed to cater to CCP censorship?

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by delusional »

aaronax wrote: post #327
e40 wrote: post #231

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There were a few years were I literally stopped all torrenting. Netflix and Amazon had everything I wanted. Sure, there were a few things that didn't exist, but I was too lazy to go after that minor amount of content. I was fully legal and paying for everything. I was fine with it. Then, the great splintering happened. I currently pay for 5 services, but that doesn't cover even 1/2 of what I want to watch. All the co…

Why don't you just not partake in the content? You really don't need to spend all that time watching shows. If you don't like the terms under which it is offered, just find something else to do.

Who cares. What difference does it make to you if he pirates it or doesn't watch it?

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by Stunting »

ProAm wrote: post #336
Stunting wrote: post #291

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You're stealing income, specifically from me and all of my coworkers. Perhaps you think that you're only stealing from Producers and A list actors, but there are entire departments that receive residuals on a production. - On screen performers, stunt performers like myself and actors who grind out a comfortable living. Those residuals also go to qualifying for health insurance through earnings. You are directly steal…

> Stop stealing our shit. While I agree with your sentiment, you can also make a better product. This is an easy fix with some of the smartest minds in the industry. People showed Netflix early on they were willing to PAY for ease of use.

100 percent agree. Voting with dollars is the fastest and best way to make better products.

The big studios know how many people are watching their stuff via theft. They are going to keep producting low end crap with studio friendly sponsorships, because piracy will have taught them that is a better business model.

Pay of the things you want to see and you'll see more of them.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by dv_dt »

danans wrote: post #322

I doubt most of the subscription loss is attributable to reasons that most HN types go on about (the rants about wokeness, not enough scifi, carousel UI, pirating etc...). What's probably going on is after after a few years of pandemic isolation and Netflix binging, the arrival of pandemic triggered inflation, and overall higher employment rates, people just have less interest, time, and money to binge watch longer f…

Especially if the streaming service tells you it's going to raise prices and crack down on password sharing. It's bringing the customer's attention to the subscription service at exactly the wrong time.

Edit: missed a "the"

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by delusional »

Stunting wrote: post #301
CuriouslyC wrote: post #269

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It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement, and it's an act of protest. I paid for Netflix for years when the streaming catalog was good, but now the streaming video market feels like an anti-consumer predatory cash grab.

It's stealing, specifically from myself and others in my industry that you haven't heard of that. Making movies would be impossible to be without your - Lesser Known actors - Assistant Directors - Stunt Coordinators - 2nd Unit Directors - Stunt Performers and I'm sure there are others. Residuals factor into our income, allow us to qualify for health insurance, empower our unions, and provide a stable income to contin…

Well when you spend your money you are literally stealing it out of the hands of my and my friends in banking.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by [deleted] »

cercatrova wrote: post #101

It's easier just to pirate than keep up with all these streaming services. - You get the benefit of high quality (true 4k, not stream compressed "4k") and no buffering. - Plex, Radarr, Sonarr automatically downloads and categorizes your content for you, you can just sit back and enjoy your content. - Edit: Plex et al are not the *only* ways to download content, not sure why some replies are thinking so. I too can typ…

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Post by chucksmash »

ryandrake wrote: post #281
yosito wrote: post #109

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Absolutely, Netflix would be 1000 times better if they just let me sort, filter and find content based on concrete metadata. Instead, I'm forced to rely on their recommendation algorithms that purport to know what I want to watch, but for some reason keep recommending low quality content in languages I'm just not interested in. I'd be happy if I could just filter Netflix to only show me content with original audio in…

Yes! I recently went on a little trip and the AirBnB host had Netflix. This is the first time I’ve ever used Netflix. And oh my god how do people find anything with it?? I didn’t realize that you could scroll horizontally for about a day. And the categories are… useless. +1 for traditional “action” categories. And the content was mostly straight to DVD B-movies with a few “80s oldies.” I did manage to watch the new B…

> I couldn’t even find Seinfeld reruns

Guess it depends on what you mean by "recently" and maybe it depends on region as well, but Seinfeld is on Netflix!

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by jeffbee »

breakfastduck wrote: post #287
hardwaregeek wrote: post #268

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I don't know how to phrase this nicely, but this is precisely the type of Hacker News nerd-blindness that I find amazing. It's "easier"? Is it? For young children who want to watch their kids shows and don't know what 4k means? For grandparents who want to see some k-dramas and have no clue about DRM or geo-locked? Sure, Netflix has issues and it's made some bad decisions, but let's not delude ourselves here. The gro…

Using a pirate streaming service such as stremio is literally no more difficult than netflix. I think you underestimate how many people pirated things before netflix existed.

Wow, there's a "stremio" button on my TV's remote control? I can't find it. I have a feeling that the definitions of "difficult" and "literally" are unknown to you.
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