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Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue

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Re: Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue

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Roku does the same. At this point I would be surprised if any box or TV isn't taking 30%.

One of the reasons the state of smart home TV really disappoints me. Logical conclusion is we'll all end up with Netflix HDMI sticks, Hulu sticks etc etc etc. DRM means we're never going to end up with a fully open TV player.

The dumb thing though is that DRM... kinda works?

I know that we techies can bypass it fairly easily, regardless of type... but I do understand the argument that 95%+ of people can't bypass DRM even if they tried their hardest, it's just too complicated for them. Which in a sense makes it effective and purposeful?

Ugh.

Re: Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue

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I have 7 HDMI slots on my TV, ready for Peacock Stick, Hulu Disney Plus stick, Netflix Stick, Paramount Plus stick, Max Hub etc etc Not more than seven though mmmkay?

That's not how it works...

Those services get hidden discounts.

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I have 7 HDMI slots on my TV, ready for Peacock Stick, Hulu Disney Plus stick, Netflix Stick, Paramount Plus stick, Max Hub etc etc Not more than seven though mmmkay?

Did you know that you could just grab an old computer slap Ubuntu on it, and get all of those services through only 1 HDMI slot?

Re: Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue

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This is going to end well.

I'm waiting for the day when Microsoft starts asking 30% of revenue on Windows 12...

I'm waiting for the day when TSMC starts asking 30% of revenue for using their FabStore. Or ASML, for that matter.

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Hey people. Did we forget that everyone has access to the internet? It's not like a physical store!!

Turns out we would in fact download a car.

Mandatory reminder of the Piracy Warning from The IT Crowd:

https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg

Re: Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue

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I have 7 HDMI slots on my TV, ready for Peacock Stick, Hulu Disney Plus stick, Netflix Stick, Paramount Plus stick, Max Hub etc etc Not more than seven though mmmkay?

Did you know that you could just grab an old computer slap Ubuntu on it, and get all of those services through only 1 HDMI slot?

If you want an inferior experience due to DRM you could absolutely do that. [1]

Please don't grease the wheels of the attestation hype train.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/n8ilcz/4kuhd_on_li...

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