I’m one of the stats. Each time I did try to legitimately download the material but it was too much hassle.
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#172It's not surprising at all.
To begin with, most streaming services don't have sufficient content to justify its existence. We've been paying for Netflix non-stop probably since 2015 but the rest are a joke. Outside of Netflix, in the last 5 years at home we've enjoyed maybe 5 shows/movies per year in all the other services combined.
Then they all do crap like not streaming 4K HDR movies when the movie is available in that format. All new movies for close to a decade have been released in that format since day one.
But even outside of streaming subscriptions they fuck with enthusiasts that want to pay for movies.
Stuff like iTunes not allowing you to watch the content you've paid for when moving to another country.
Physical media is also not free of guilt. I have probably over a hundred 4K Blurays and I stopped buying those because Amazon US won't ship them to my country anymore. Local Amazon sells the same discs sometimes at 2x the price. Also plenty of manufacturers have stopped producing 4K HDR players.
It's extremely frustrating.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are also some weird decisions made by content owners. For example: Star Trek Strange New Worlds is available in my country on SkyShowtime, but only in 1080p SDR. This is a relatively new streaming service that only launched last year, yet they do not support 4k or HDR. The same series is available through 'alternative sources' in 4k HDR. I have no idea why they would not offer it in 4k, it's not a licensing iss…
I know people who programmed an app for controlling this kind of thing- licensing agreements for video content on streaming platforms. The “period” entity was a huge monster with many fields. Resolution amongst them. > why they would not offer it in 4k That’s because the other license was either too pricey, or simply unavailable (another platform might have purchased exclusivity for that show in 4k in your area)
It’s their own show, and there is no other platform that offers it.
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#174What a judgmental piece of garbage of a writing.
I pay a tax on all my hard drives for piracy. I try paying for official services when it’s doable (I haven’t pirated a song or a video game in years!). But the movie/tv industry do everything they can to make themselves inconvenient and frustrating. Screw ethics.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
there are other apps that are more fair than spotify but less convenient
Which ones? And why are they less convenient? I like Spotify and use it a lot, but I think their UI is somewhat okay at best.
I think tidal is a little bit better, but I was referring more to the apps where you buy music/songs and revenue goes directly to the author.
Less convenient in the AI/recommendation sense, for me Spoty was the best. I use yt music to save some bucks but spoti was superior
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, these numbers are always very dishonest. There's no accounting for * People who were never planning to buy, including people who just plain could not afford to buy if they wanted to. * People who bought after pirating * People who pirated something that was not available anywhere to purchase in their region It's basically impossible to account for all of these different reasons, but arguably none of those were…
* People who just hoard media. There are many people who will download anything within a given set of parameters and only ever watch a fraction of it. It's a form of local digital library building.
Yeah, that's true too. Basically mass data archiving, which is actually a super valuable service to society if we want to have any hope of keeping less popular digital information alive for the future.
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#178> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable, but it is convenient. Intellectual property isn't ethically justifiable, but it is convenient for some. > Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth. In many (most?) jurisdictions downloading material is not illegal. Have these been subtracted from this figure, or is this yet another lie? Given the history of this propaganda, I'm qu…
Probably better wording is “downloading of illegally obtained content”? Even if in a specific jurisdiction it is not illegal - someone in a jurisdiction where it is illegal bought or rented and _ripped_ that DVD (figuratively speaking).
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#179Is this really surprising? When it was just Netflix charging a few dollars a month for loads of content, it was great. It was easier than safer than pirating, and people turned to it in droves. Now content is spread over dozens of streaming services, with price rises happening annually and cost of living biting hard for the average person. Most of the time, you only want a handful of shows from a given service anyway…
> and cost of living biting hard for the average person This is a meme that won't die. This is simply false. Real wages, real per capita GDP, real median income et. al. are all higher now than before covid. There was a 13 month burst of inflation (which correlated almost perfectly with wage growth, FWIW), and it seems like everyone lost their minds.
Ah yes, I forgot the US is the only country. Silly mem
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
I literally did? That's what "real" means: having more real wages means you can buy more stuff. It's already adjusted for price rises. Check out FRED if you don't believe me: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N You and the upthread commenter are just citing a meme. It is not true. Period.
Your first graph for Median usual weekly real earnings shows a fall from 393 in Q2 2020 to 365 in Q2 2023. Your third graph for Real Median Household Income shows a fall from 76,660 in 2020 to 74,580 today. Even though I find it hard to take the reported inflation numbers seriously because they aren't calculated off a fixed basket of goods any more [1], those graphs don't seem to say we have more "real" wages now com…
You're cherry picking the peak (literally the peak) of the covid relief though! People got huge checks in the first half of 2020, do you not remember? Why would you do that? You can see it's an outlier, growing rapidly then shrinking. Look at Q4 2019 to get pre-covid numbers and you'll see (1) there's a clear trend across the disruption and (2) it's clearly going up.