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His older brother, Ron, is also pretty famous for some stuff he did a while back.
Ron the actor?
Yep he was in some great flicks.
Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
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#872Streaming 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…
What is the best way to pirate tv shows these days? Asking for a friend, of course.
Usenet, takes some time to setup and you'll need accounts for an indexer and usenet access itself (with a lookback history).
Private torrent trackers are great as well, if you can keep up a good ratio. Might be good to use a VPN there.
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#873Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I personally find that Spotifys offline content has worked reliably over the years. You just gotta remember that when you get a new device you have to go to library and click download and then leave Spotify open for a few hours. Spotify is also a great example of how to beat piracy. I haven't downloaded an mp3 file since I got a Spotify Premium account in 2007. OK that's probably a slight overstatement, but it's near…
> Spotify is also a great example of how to beat piracy.
I have a friend who’s indeed paying Spotify - but for connecting his account with some “illegal” software, from which he can then download MP3s (or FLACs) to share with his friends.
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Steam really did this for games for me and somehow hasn't stopped working for me yet. Maybe Netflix should ask themselves how Steam competes with bootlegs and what they might do like it.
Steam really works because it remained a private company. Once you go public, it's a slow descent into madness.
No, Steam works because it equally accepts both Valve and non-Valve content. If would not be a success if it only included titles made by Valve.
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Time is your most valuable and scarce resource. You have a finite amount and you can't get more.
Something being the highest value resource I have doesn’t mean that it’s actually valuable. There’s a highest value turd of all the turds in my septic tank but it doesn’t mean that turd is valuable.
> There’s a highest value turd of all the turds in my septic tank but it doesn’t mean that turd is valuable.
If turds are the highest value resources that you have, and you have some scale on which you can value them, then yes, it does mean that particular one is valuable. 'Value' is largely subjective. Maybe you want to make some fertiliser?
Hopefully it's obvious that the contents of your septic tank are not your highest value resource. However if you do feel that way, perhaps you could benefit from speaking to someone about it who can help you to improve your life and your outlook? Things are difficult in the world right now and it's easy to feel down about life.
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>"woke" censorship and revisionism you being the only comment in the whole thread giving this as a reason makes me think this might not really be a reason
Call it what you want, but I'm not gonna pay for content that is revised/censored to fit whatever current trend. I'm old enough that I've seen Darryl Hannah's butt on the silver screen as a youngster from the movie Splash and I won't pay to be lectured either. I wish media corps would consider their content like art works as much as entertainment and distribute them as is, not butchered. That includes "enhancements"…
Yeah, someone elsewhere in the thread notes that Bluey was censored for the US market.
Films and television are artefacts, they are a snapshot of a time, a place, a culture. I don't mind revisions as long as the original remains available.
In short: “Han Solo shot first”.
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They get the same amount of residuals if someone doesn't watch something or if they pirate it. Is it immoral to not watch something that gives someone residuals? Do you owe them residuals just because they made something?
> They get the same amount of residuals if someone doesn't watch something or if they pirate it. Someone dying of natural causes and someone being murdered both end up with the person dying, that does not mean they're the same thing.
If I watch a movie at a friend's house, do I have to somehow compensate the studio for the privilege? Did I rob those poor artists of residuals every time I rented a DVD from Netflix and Blockbuster before it? They after all rented me a physical artifact under the first sale doctrine. They didn't have to pay the studios anything for rentals. Their compensation to the studios ended at their original purchase of the DVD.
If renting DVDs or watching a movie at a friend's house doesn't magically rob artists of residuals, then neither does piracy. In each case I am not purchasing a movie yet I am able to watch it.
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#878Do they still plan to compete by making their service suck more, through higher prices, more ads, and less content? I'm so glad I ripped all my DVDs
>I'm so glad I ripped all my DVDs For anyone interested in doing this for DVD or BD, makemkv[0] is where it's at. 0. https://www.makemkv.com/
No linux version?
Re: Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
#879Re: Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
#880Streaming 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…
We used to have it too.
RIP Boxee.