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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 shermantanktop »

3abiton wrote: post #195
shermantanktop wrote: post #185

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They could show you, but that's no guarantee of anything. They rotate their content, and presumable the studios pull their content off. If they have movie X today, there's no assurance that it'll be there next week. It's a subscription to a service, not to specific content. I don't see how it could be any other way. Netflix could definitely make it easier to see what is on now , though. Amazon has a much larger catal…

But he's not asking for consistency, but rather transparency.

I read it as "show me what I'm getting" - which is totally reasonable. I'm just pointing out that it is a very perishable answer.

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Post by philipov »

larodi wrote: post #830
izacus wrote: post #495

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Yeah, also pirated content has: - 4K HDR video, not whatever the heck the buggy client delivers. - Atmos/TrueHD audio track that actually works, not whatever the broken app delivers (I'm looking at you Sky and rest of the ilk that still deliver HBO content with stereo). - Subtitles for ALL the languages, not just one or two. And those languages don't disappear when I go on a vacation, leaving me stuck with german aud…

You actually make a very fair point, the only downside of pirated comment is that it comes from a very dubious sources, and sites that are loaded with spyware and whatnot. Then perhaps s.o. would argue that these all are much harder to get done with free tools or by oneself, but I can definitely argue that having a nice personal cloud which allows video streaming is more than enough for most occasions.

> and sites that are loaded with spyware and whatnot

Not actually different from using the streaming services, who sell info on you as a side gig.

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

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Post by valtis »

rekoil wrote: post #720
Robin_Message wrote: post #588

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My three biggest pet peeves are: - You can't turn your queue into a playlist (and you can't see previous queue as part of the queue, only as limited history.) - Clicking a song or album sometimes clears your queue and starts playing that instead (I know there is a logic to it, but a mistake or mis-click is easy). - There is no shortcut to add to queue, just long press then find the menu item. It's possible everyone e…

Yeah I really wish there was a global history of my plays that I could look at.

You could link Spotify to last.fm, it saves all your plays.

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

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Post by mixmastamyk »

SirMaster wrote: post #457
mixmastamyk wrote: post #278

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Music downloads became viable a lot earlier, and so the companies are a decade+ ahead on the dealing with sharing angle.

This is why I asked the question. So if the case is simply that music downloads and streaming were earlier then there is hope for video downloads and streaming to eventually catch up? It feels like right now though that video access is becoming more fragmented still, rather than more consolidated.

Probably, but there are other variables. Different sets of folks, and the fact that video consumption is not repeated as often.

We've seen a bit of progress recently—they stated in the news that Netflix won this round of the "streaming wars." Disney is thinking of allowing a some things back over there due to being heavily in the red.

Perhaps a sign that selfish-destructive behavior of the cartel has peaked.

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Post by monster2control »

PlutoIsAPlanet wrote: post #9

Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy and better than TV (watch anywhere, on demand, pickup where you left off etc). Streaming is no longer easier than piracy, why pay for 8 different services and have to waste your time figuring out whats on what when you can just have one service for free, even if its illegal, and have it all under one roof. The services have taken the piss and now they'll get…

And now they are all adding ADs on top of it

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

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Post by coryfklein »

One underutilized strategy for media consumption is literally just buying what you want on eBay. You can get Blu-Rays for nearly any film >7-8 years old for just a few dollars! Any time I think of a film I want to add to my "watch list" I pull it up on eBay and if the price is right I buy it then and there. Now I have a huge backlog of unwatched film/TV that I can pull up at any time.

This puts the power back into your own hands; Blu-Rays are likely to work for a very long time and your discs won't magically disappear from your personal catalogue. You lock-in on the price at purchase, and it never increases over time. And, in my own subjective opinion, the image quality of Blu-Ray video often exceeds whatever streaming-optimized encoding format is used by the online services.

Finally, 90% of the time I check only eBay instead of shopping multiple platforms. The remaining 10% I go to Amazon and if I don't find the right price there than I just shrug: there's plenty of other cinema to watch and there's rarely any single film that I simply can't do without.

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Post by giancarlostoro »

izacus wrote: post #490
giancarlostoro wrote: post #213

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Honestly if Apple integrated Netflix and all those other services into a unified UI for Apple TV that transparently lets you go between the apps without realizing it (they do own the OS...) it would be exactly what I want to see happen to these streaming services, that or they somehow share their content to the official Apple TV app itself, and let Apple TV query across all those other streaming apps, it would be gre…

Netflix actively fights against these integrations - both on Apple TV and on Google/Android TV they refuse to integrate with the APIs that would give you this exact experience. They also tend to refuse allowing their customers to watch on platforms they don't like - e.g. they actively blocked casting to Google smart displays and blocked Netflix app from working on Macs and Vision Pro so you can't download things.

Then Netflix should not be shown in such an app, and people will wonder why they bother paying for it if they find themselves using it less.

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Post by r2_pilot »

rekoil wrote: post #720
Robin_Message wrote: post #588

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My three biggest pet peeves are: - You can't turn your queue into a playlist (and you can't see previous queue as part of the queue, only as limited history.) - Clicking a song or album sometimes clears your queue and starts playing that instead (I know there is a logic to it, but a mistake or mis-click is easy). - There is no shortcut to add to queue, just long press then find the menu item. It's possible everyone e…

Yeah I really wish there was a global history of my plays that I could look at.

I request my Spotify data (via their gdpr site) annually and put it in a sql database so I can do my own analysis.

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Post by [deleted] »

mkl wrote: post #608
quenix wrote: post #600

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Wow, I thought K stood for thousand (as in 4K=4,000)! Nice piece of trivia if true.

Yes, k stands for thousand. Historically, 4k meant 4096 pixels wide in the context of digitised film or digital visual effects, and 2k meant 2048 pixels wide. TVs ended up 1920 pixels wide, which is "close enough" to use the same term, 2k. I think "4k" is used for marketing TVs as it's easier to remember and say than "2160p", so now we mix the terminology.

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Post by effingwewt »

p0w3n3d wrote: post #767
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...

Self-inflicted wounds. They did it to themselves.

Companies made their beds, now they can lie on them.

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