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Ultimately, we are paying more for less content with more ads than cable. AND they are selling our data on top of everything.
Piracy will gain enough momentum to warrant government intervention that will further degrade and rob us of internet freedom. Mark my words.
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How long until popular YouTube content ends up torrent sites, as the war on ad-blockers escalates?
already there, as there is no guarantee that a video will exist forever on Youtube. many people hoard youtube videos just because they fear that those video will disappear when they need them.
Luckily I downloaded it, but that means in time it'll cease to exist. I could re-upload it, but that feels like an invitation to have my account terminated with prejudice.
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No, they didn't.
This is just what I could find with a quick, cursory Google search... >In a March 10, 2017, Twitter thread that was promoting its original series Love, Netflix wrote, "Love is sharing a password." The single tweet in the thread garnered more than 15,000 likes and more than 4,600 retweets.[0] >Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK[1] [0] https://www.newsweek.com/netflix-encouraged-subscribers-shar... [1] https://tech…
I always felt blocking such sites meant even worse for the users. If you google a pirate or ahem porn right now, it will just send you even more shady sites because all legit ones are blocked. Even searching "websitename bla bla" will send you to a copy of websitename that looks like it but it is with more adware and possible malware
On a recent trip to Canada i was surprised how many torrent/download sites blocked in the UK were accessible on a residential ISP. I assumed the block list would be about the same.
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When did I do that?
Your initial comment had such suggestive phrasing when taken in turn with the comment that person replied to before you edited the first one.
However I edited since whether or not it’s on the rise is actually irrelevant to my point.
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I've always been really happy with Netflix. I was still happy with Disney+. But now I'm also paying for Amazon Prime. And then some of the things I want to see are on something called Paramount+, and I don't even know where to get that. A single, cheap streaming platform is awesome. Fragmented streaming platforms that raise their prices while offering less content, is significantly less awesome. Maybe I should cancel…
I just cancelled Amazon Prime completely. Just found out you dont even need it for Amazon Video anymore, and most of the good stuff you had to pay for there anyway. For deliveries it was always barely worth it for me with prime same/one/two day free shipping being novel 10 years ago, but always hard to quantify how much I used it and the speed has gotten worse and worse, with Amazon Video being the extra thing to kee…
I'll try cancelling it and see what happens.
One ironic thing is that one of the easiest ways to find good 'pirate' sites is to simply search for the takedowns. One indirect way to do this search Google for some term like [movie_name torrent] and then go to the links in the inevitable "In response to multiple complaints that we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 results from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA co…
Instead of not consuming, pirates use all sort of mental gymnastics to justify their consumption without paying or following the terms involved. I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?
Calm down satan. Until you manage to manufacture physical products for free (one time cost then get inf copies, as digital content) retail theft !== digital pirating
So, your assertion in practice is to say that you believe items below a certain reproduction cost should be free. This is just the sort of mental gymnastics I’m talking about.