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Lmao at paying for 2006-youtube quality video.
Still better than using some other OS.
You can use torrent clients under Linux though.
Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
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1080p = 2k; both are 1920x1080p. p is rows in the vertical dimension (p for progressive, as opposed to i for interlaced; e.g. NZ terrestrial TV is 1080i). k is columns in the horizontal direction, and comes from film making and visual effects (1920 rounds up to 2k and 3840 rounds up to 4k).
When looking for a monitor: > 1k = 1920x1080 > 2k = 2560x1440 > 4k = 3840x2160 [even though it's not usually referred to as 1k, but rather 1080p directly]
That makes no sense.
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#893Streaming 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…
As with many problems, the cause is suit-and-tie hand-shaking. The 1% exists because we let it. We should be asking a lot more of our governments/legal systems such that businesses are forced to run in the interests of consumers.
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It is absolutely theft, nobody is falling for that semantics argument - you're depriving a rights holder of revenue that they would otherwise gained.
> you're depriving a rights holder of revenue that they would otherwise gained. There's never been a single proof of a loss of revenue during research. So no, while it's usually a talking point on the anti-piracy ads, it's an urban legend.
The inverse has also been suggested over the years: people who pirated at some point are more likely to pay for content now, whether or not they continue to pirate content
Re: Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
#895Streaming 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…
Yep. Contrast with music, where every major service has “all” music and as a consequence piracy is very low.
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$840 a year just on watching TV is heaps. $4200 over 5 years. That's a fair wack cash.
No it isn't. Compare that to any other activity and the price would be similar for how often you do it. If you eat out once a week you'd be paying a similar amount if not more. Most people watch things more than once a week.
Yeah I get to eat out on date night with my partner maybe twice a year if we are lucky. We get takeout maybe once a month. More likely once a quarter. This is a huge amount of money for entertainment.
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#897> Piracy also threatens to damage our business, as its fundamental proposition to consumers is so compelling and difficult to compete against: virtually all content for free,” Netflix writes. People emphasize the "free" part, but it really is the "all content" part that makes piracy wins. Especially if you are not in the USA, often specific content isn't available at any price. Even if it is, its split across 5 billi…
I find myself paying for an illegal IPTV service, just so I can watch soccer from my home country while living elsewhere. I'd genuinely prefer a legal, reasonably priced option, but the only alternatives are these expensive, big-name services that insist on a set-top box. So, reluctantly, the 'less legal' route ends up being the more practical service for me.
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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…
Heres my anecdote: the app randomly craps out when playing a podcast. Seeking randomly breaks, it is not as "fluid" as Youtube, really struggles when there is a break in data coverage which makes usage while driving a car a massive pain when you need to be focusing on the road. There are other random quibbles but this is the jist of my experience. I am so glad I can finally dump this garbage now that Rogan is coming back to youtube. I can find other sources for my music but Rogan's occasional good podcasts forced me to install this junk in the first place.
Its amazing how so many apps really struggle at the edges. For a company as big as Spotify they should do better. Its probably a side effect of their company's culture.
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They cannot help themselves. Just like buying and watching a DVD/bluray was much worse than a pirated copy, as the DVD/bluray made you sit through an increasing amount of unskippable content. From "do not steal this" to "not for kids" or, worst of all, "did you see this other content?". Btw. Ads in front of streaming content I just selected, to tell me about other streaming content on the same service I did NOT selec…
I worked for a while in the DVD authoring industry and we always left a secret code (always the same) to bypass mandatory clips. I don't know if it carry on to BR but I don't see why it wouldn't (until everyone got on the Internet and then clients hear of it and check for the code themselves).
This is DVD Player dependent and no it didn't carry over to the BR.
My favorite videos for all the problems with DVD and BR: AVGN's You Know Whats BS series: (warning a lot of cussing in the following videos)
[1: DVD]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdzaEVeFEE
[2: BR]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tetXKdi9U3c
My favorites quote at the end when he was comparing DVDs to VCRs: "Its like we are going forward in technology but only making our lives bullshittier"
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I worked for a while in the DVD authoring industry and we always left a secret code (always the same) to bypass mandatory clips. I don't know if it carry on to BR but I don't see why it wouldn't (until everyone got on the Internet and then clients hear of it and check for the code themselves).
This is DVD Player dependent and no it didn't carry over to the BR. My favorite videos for all the problems with DVD and BR: AVGN's You Know Whats BS series: (warning a lot of cussing in the following videos) [1: DVD]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdzaEVeFEE [2: BR]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tetXKdi9U3c My favorites quote at the end when he was comparing DVDs to VCRs: "Its like we are going forward in tech…
> This is DVD Player dependent
If you mean the unskippable content then no, it's not DVD player independent.