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Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by Semaphor »

sebastiansm wrote: post #534
Semaphor wrote: post #475

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Depends on your country. In Germany: Extremely. Probably a few seconds of uploading (of a movie or porn, don’t think they care much for other things) will get you a letter (edit: C&D + damages, courts see it as commercial distribution, so the letter blackmails you to pay 300-500 € instead). Or you can use a VPN. As I said in another post, I like to pay when given the option and I don’t have to jump through tons of ho…

Interesting. Here in Chile we can do almost everything with our Intenert connection. I dont know now that we signed the TPP11 how things are going to change.

It's very Germany-specific, the whole "commercial distribution" bullshit is what enables the cottage industry of blackmail lawyers

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by 29083011397778 »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #501
SamuelAdams wrote: post #48

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My household has one streaming service at a time. We have lists (shared reminder lists in iOS) that we make for whenever a friend mentions a good movie - it goes on the Apple TV list, or Disney plus list, etc. then once enough films build up (can take 2-6 months sometimes) we purchase a subscription and watch all those shows for one month.

Are there any products or tools for managing this kind of thing? I generally want my lists of books/films/music playlists whatever that I've seen, reviewed or marked as "to watch" to be managed seperately from any one particular vendor, and owned by me. There seems to be some movement towards this with e.g. smart TVs that will search all your apps for shows, and sites that will tell you where a specific film or show…

Without telling you to pirate: What you're describing is Sonarr / Radarr with Plex / Jellyfin.

The former lets you put in a list of shows / movies you want it to download, and it'll check against public and private trackers periodically until it finds what you're after. The media you want doesn't even have to be released - an IMDB or TVDB link is enough.

The latter makes it easy to stream anywhere, download ahead of flights, and tracks watched status. Plex especially is fantastically easy for family to use.

Setup is "easy" in that it's an afternoon or less for the kind of people browsing HN, and using it is actually easy for anyone else you care to share the service with. Combined, it checks all your requirements of pulling in reviews from you and others, watched status tracking, and owned by you.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by palata »

skrowl wrote: post #317
c1yd3i wrote: post #301

I pirate everything. Haven't subscribed to a service like Spotify, Netflix, etc. in many years. I can listen to my music in CD-quality and bring it anywhere. Same with any movie, TV show, etc. And I know that no one is selling what I find interesting as analytics data. At the same time, I want to support creators, and I'll donate/use services like Bandcamp to directly support folks I appreciate. I have a $100/mo "don…

I channeled the money I was spending on YouTubeTV into a seedbox that has 0 personal information about me, paid for with Monero (XMR). Much better bang for the buck and completely removes all the potential adverse legal effects that you could have by torrenting on your home / work connection. I was happily paying a netflix and spotify sub for over a decade, but once we started getting greedy with Paramount+, AppleTV+…

How do you access the seedbox anonymously? Unless you use Tor (which doesn't seem practical for movies), they surely see where your connections come from, don't they?

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by olalonde »

Only_Spam wrote: post #271
olalonde wrote: post #152

I'm generally against but I had to for the FIFA world cup as I couldn't figure out a way to legally pay for it.

What? I would just delete the cookie and refresh to restart the 1 hour timer of free viewing.

Was it live? On which website?

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Post by luxcem »

twobitshifter wrote: post #505
luxcem wrote: post #380

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I’m now using virtual disposable card for any subscription to a service I'm not sure to use more than one month. If I forget it that means I don't use it and the subscription will end itself. If I somehow still need it after the first month, I usually get a email reminder or a message about payment processing failure and I can fix that with a non-disposable card.

what do you use for the disposable card?

It highly depends on your country, some banks offer that as a service (most do in France where I live) in EU a lot of online banks do too (Revolut, Lydia, N26, etc) I don't know in the US, I think privacy.com does but I have no recommendation.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by Digory »

zug_zug wrote: post #141

I disagree that we're at peak monetization (see what the price of a premium cable package used to be) Since you mention Spotify I'm super happy with it. It's basically everything I ever wanted consistently. Can recommend new music better than any person I know, and I can feed it any song that I and somebody else like as a radio station and get a pretty decent list of songs we both don't mind. Granted I don't listen t…

It will be interesting to see how sports (NFL, especially) shakes out. Sports was always the biggest cost of a cable subscription.

Amazon bought Thursday night NFL rights for $1 billion a year, just to get credibility. That's $12.50 for every active Prime Video user.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by pardon_me »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #458
JeremyNT wrote: post #348

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The challenge with this is actually supporting creators for complex works that are published by these companies. Take a TV show for example - hundreds of people work on these things. There's no real way to support the show when you pirate something. TV shows don't have patreons or kickstarters. Piracy is quite attractive because of how hostile the copyright holders are to end users. Sticking it to the megacorps that…

> TV shows don't have patreons or kickstarters. I wonder why not. If you're already doing payroll for the production of a TV show, it should be trivial to express each payout as a percentage (this particular gaffer gets 0.56%, etc). It would then be easy to encode that in software somewhere (smart contract?) such that when payments come in, they get split up and disbursed accordingly. If you coupled the addresses of…

By the time this could be set up, making digital content by recording real-world action will be niche. It will be mostly computer generated.
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