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Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

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Re: Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

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Post by shafyy »

worksonmine wrote: post #698
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Cool! Is Popcorn time still recommended? Or what's a good client?

Not a client but check out the *arr[1] family if you're into self-hosting. What client you choose depends on your usage, I like Deluge. There's some initial work to setup and a little bit of maintenance but it's worth it, throw a Jellyfin instance into the mix and have all your media in one convenient place. Linuxserver[2] has containers for all of them. [1]: https://wiki.servarr.com/ [2]: https://fleet.linuxserver.i…

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

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Post by nerdix »

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Also, H265 encoded 1080p is hitting the sweet spot between quality and file size. About 500-ish MB per hour of content for decent quality. Its sort of like when VBR encoded MP3s became the standard in the privacy scene in the early 00s. The quality is good enough for most folks plus the reduced file size means that it downloads really fast on average connections and isn't prohibitively expensive to store so you can c…

Sorry to focus on such a detail but VBR nevern been the standard in the Piracy scene. Back in the days it was 192kbps

That's not how I remember it but it was a long time ago and memory is unreliable so I won't claim that my statement is a fact.

But I remember a period of time where basically every rip was VBR. 192kbps then took over when bandwidth and disk space were no long were no longer concerns.

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Post by jpc0 »

michaelt wrote: post #757
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> Other side of the equation is - Production of Content has become cheap I spend a lot of time in both production and post production. The price for good content has certianly decreased but it most certianly hasn't become any definition of cheap. Consumers want very hogh quality content these days and that only comes with experienced staff, you can use cheaper gear. > Distribution has become free with global reach Ev…

> The price for good content has certianly decreased but it most certianly hasn't become any definition of cheap. Big-budget entertainment certainly remains extremely relevant for things like star wars and marvel movies, I agree. Not to mention sports! But the rise of Youtube and Twitch and suchlike have shown there is a great appetite for cheaply produced niche content. Linear TV would never have considered it econo…

I completely agree with you on this.

We can do phenomenal things for cheao these days. But cheap still isn't that cheap. Just a few 0s disappeared from the end.

Let me put it this way, it's unlikely even a large YouTube channel is creating The Mandalorian or The Witcher or The Boys anytime soon with a budget that only advertising will be covering.

YouTube is an amazing niche and is the only subscription I will happily pay for monthly. But when I want to see creativity who are truly inspiring it's unlikely YouTube is funding it and I will need to have one of the big providers do that.

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Post by maccard »

mi_z wrote: post #693
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> Being honest as long as something like this is available I don't really see what a site like netflix could offer that would convince me to pay Most people are honest, and will do the the legal thing when faced with two equal options. If the choice is between that UI but it's illegal, and a reskin of that UI but it's £30/mo, I'd pay. But it's not, as the other comments here said. It's a choice between that for free…

You wanting everything for £30 is just not a sustainable cost though. They would lose money like that.

Replace 30 with 60/80, whatever. The entire rest of the post is my point, not the specific number.

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Post by p0w3n3d »

Netcob wrote: post #560

I stopped pirating games when Steam made buying games safer and more convenient than pirating them, while being affordable and having lots of sales. It didn't get worse despite being a monopoly for a long time, and now we have that plus another service that throws free games at you every week for attention. I stopped pirating TV shows and movies when for a small monthly fee I could watch most of what I wanted to watc…

The legal system can be challenging - your local Netflix provider probably bought rights only to the dubbed version because it was cheaper...

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Post by jpsouth »

matwood wrote: post #731
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You hope they go out of business because they bought the rights to some podcasts?

The OP was annoyed they bought a podcast they liked and then put it behind a UI/UX which is hard to use. Presumably if Spotify went out of business Rogan would end up back on the open market. Turns out the new deal lets Rogan put shows back on YouTube so it doesn't matter. BTW, I agree about the Spotify UI. I never liked it and was a GPM user until they destroyed it by pushing me to YTM. Now I use AM, since if I'm go…

Out of curiosity I tried to find the podcast in question on the Spotify iPhone app. Literally 3 taps and I’ve found a full list of episodes.

I’ve also tried on my Mac, slightly more presses (four, to be exact) as I had to press ‘podcasts & shows’ to refine the search slightly more.

I don’t see how that’s hard to use. Each to their own though I guess, I’ve not seen how difficult it is your side so can’t really comment.

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Post by jpsouth »

rightbyte wrote: post #726
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You hope they go out of business because they bought the rights to some podcasts?

I have no clue who this Reagan guy is. But sometimes you don't want to support people. Music is usually considered art and you are a boring downer of you complain about artists political or personal controversies. That is another thing. And the artist always have the benefit of doubt of the protagonist in the song not being the artist himself.

He’s a podcaster, not musician. Basically a talk show I suppose?

My point was more the GP wanted to see Spotify go out of business because they bought a podcast. I just thought it was a bit of a wild statement to make.

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