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Post by gorgoiler »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #225

All I can say is welcome back to torrenting. This perpetual "same shit deal for consumers, different corporation" problem doesn't end until copyright kicks the media into public domain. Until then, you can play their content reindeer games[1] or you can download a copy of Reindeer Games[2] and watch it without worrying about ownership foofaraw. [1] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/reindeer-games [2] predb.me

I looked for a modern, trending show on predb.me (Pluribus) and the results were unweighted, without any comments or votes, and sorted by upload time. They were also multiplied out by broadcast language (at least for German, “iTalian” and “MULTI”.) I know it’s not meant to be perfect but it was kind of a backed up toilet of results.

It would be a lot nicer if I could see a social network of torrenters and locate the market leader — the most popular with the best rips or most friends or something like that.

It feels like Altavista when I really wanted Google.

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Post by jimbokun »

dylan604 wrote: post #101
jimbokun wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So far all the Champions League games have been available on the app. Serie A is a nice bonus, with a few other competitions as well. EPL requiring both Peacock and a cable subscription to watch all of the games is extremely annoying. But I do it anyway. All of those combined let me watch all the Arsenal games except FA and Carabao Cup.

I believe a combined Hulu+Disney+ESPN gets those, maybe. I know I've seen something via ESPN, but those would be the last 2 I pay attention

They do not. ESPN has La Liga and very little else for soccer.

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Post by tombert »

postexitus wrote: post #45
ngcazz wrote: post #41

No matter who wins, we lose.

Alien vs. Predator Whoever wins... We lose...

Very tangential, but that tagline was pretty misleading and it kind of pissed me off, because it was very clearly "if the Predator wins, we win".

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Post by tombert »

kgwxd wrote: post #24
magicalhippo wrote: post #2

I brought popcorn, who are we rooting for?

I'm never paying any of them, anything, ever again, but I'm sure we'll all get a little fucked somehow. I do hope it triggers more in-fighting amongst the scum of the earth.

Don't worry, no matter which way it goes, each executive will still figure out a way to give themselves hundreds of millions of dollars for their hard work.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

sharts wrote: post #238
TSiege wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem here isn’t as simple as torrenting. It’s the narrowing of what culture is created and promoted and what isn’t. Paramount is overtly a right wing organization now under the Ellison’s. Part of their bid to WB is “it’d be a shame if trump killed this deal of yours”. Netflix’s groveling or Paramounts success might mean we see less art critical of the government and more that panders to its interest

Has WB or Netflix ever been critical of the government?

HBO Max still airs “Last Week with John Oliver”.

Even Paramount still has “South Park” and the creators are basically daring Paramount to cancel them.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

pylotlight wrote: post #211
ls-a wrote: post #188

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Doesn't that imply that Netflix was planning to do the same (for their party)? Or are you saying Netflix is innocent here

Didn't you know? It's only bad when the people I don't like are doing it.

Well Netflix hasn’t given Trump a $15 million bribe or any other politician yet.

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Post by bdangubic »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #256
pylotlight wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't you know? It's only bad when the people I don't like are doing it.

Well Netflix hasn’t given Trump a $15 million bribe or any other politician yet.

his son-in-law is outbidding netflix so $15bn maybe would do it :)

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Post by ternus »

hinkley wrote: post #180
ternus wrote: post #171

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The BBC Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell miniseries is excellent . One of those times (others might include the original LOTR films and early Game of Thrones) where a genre adaptation wildly exceeded my expectations.

Yeah I'm pretty glad Newline biffed that one since we got this instead. Also Clarke has a chronic illness, which is preventing her from trying for another book of that caliber. That mountain of cash is probably keeping her very comfortable.

I'm grateful we got Piranesi, which is one of my favorite books of the last few years. The audiobook is splendid.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

ngcazz wrote: post #41

No matter who wins, we lose.

Right now I pay $38 for ad free Disney + Hulu + HBO max bundle. How would it be different if Netflix raised the price of Netflix + Warner brothers content?

I doubt that Netflix is going to take all of its content out of the video on demand/pay once markets like iTunes. Disney hasn’t.

Disney and WB are part of the MovieAnywhere consortium where you can buy content from iTunes, Amazon Prime, Google, Vudu etc and it automatically shows up in the other libraries

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Post by ribosometronome »

bhelkey wrote: post #170
afavour wrote: post #37

I'm curious how often tactics like this work. It is essentially asking the Warner stockholders to act against the wishes of their elected board. It seems the main thrust of the pitch is "we're friends with Trump therefore more likely to win approval" which is so deeply gross but also probably persuasive to many. Jared Kushner is involved in the Paramount bid so you know they're greasing the right wheels.

>> We are offering shareholders $17.6 billion more cash than the deal they currently have signed up with Netflix > It seems the main thrust of the pitch is "we're friends with Trump therefore more likely to win approval" It seems to me that the main thrust of the pitch is more money.

Sure, if you think that the portion that would be spun off and stay public under Netflix's deal would have a stock value of like $2.
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