Need to change "May" for "Will"
Or 'has driven'.
Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
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#282I will always pirate shows. I cut the cord 11 years ago due to my objection of cable company billing practices. The entire industry is greedy. I was a netflix subscriber for awhile but I burned thru all the good stuff and left.
YOU are greedy. You're not entitled to free things. Do you skip out on restaurant bills, too?
Yeah, no, I don't buy this facile argument. Closest I can come up with is either an all-you-can-eat buffet you have a membership to, or Costco, and turning up one day and there's no pasta or burgers. And they say "sorry, Olive Garden/McDonalds bought the rights to that food and we can no longer serve it". It's absurd.
Rights-holders absolutely deserve to get paid. But weaponizing that? Sorry, they lost me.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
This makes me wonder if there's a luxury service somewhere providing the kind of access people want at an expensive, but reasonable price. So I don't have to go about building and maintaining a public resource.
r/plexshares on reddit is a sort of open secret.
Delete this.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Everyone wanted to get rid of both the cable bundle and channels. People just want on-demand access to whatever shows.
For cheap ^ If someone finds themselves chasing whatever streaming service has The Office, maybe it's worth dropping the $300 or whatever for everything on iTunes.
They're still DRM'd. I can't use them in VLC.
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#285"May" drive them back? This has already happened in my circles.. People who had cut the cord but all but walked away from casual piracy and signed up for Netflix and HBO (and probably Prime Video because they had Amazon Prime already) are openly talking about the fact they're definitely not signing up for more streaming services, and are seeking out torrenting again for the stuff that's being pulled from Netflix (esp…
This is why in my circle we set up the town pump plex server. Originally it was for streaming older movies (pre 1970) which you can't stream from any major service but the new era of fragmentation has drastically expanded it. We bought a retired datacenter rack and everyone contributes a few bucks a month to cover running costs. Then we have scripts scraping the top x movies/shows from torrent sites once a week and a…
what are you using to run this code-wise? I was thinking of making something similar.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which again doesn’t help when so much video streaming is done on mobile devices....
Ever heard of Kodi? That's a set-top box OS but that also is an Android App.. Then watch some youtube videos on how to install the magic box addons and you have access to millions of movies for streaming. As hendersoon noted, nowadays, piracy is extremely low-friction.
So, just pay for a good VPN provider and get all content for free?
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#287"May" drive them back? This has already happened in my circles.. People who had cut the cord but all but walked away from casual piracy and signed up for Netflix and HBO (and probably Prime Video because they had Amazon Prime already) are openly talking about the fact they're definitely not signing up for more streaming services, and are seeking out torrenting again for the stuff that's being pulled from Netflix (esp…
It has already happened to me as well. Look, I want a convenient way to watch movies. I would even be ready to pay more than I do right now to Netflix to have a library of ALL the movies I want to watch. 1 library, not 10, especially if they may or may not contain the movie I want to see. My honeymoon period with Netflix and co is over. - I feel that their original content has dried out : there is even more of it, bu…
This is why my local video store is still the better option.
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#288"May" drive them back? This has already happened in my circles.. People who had cut the cord but all but walked away from casual piracy and signed up for Netflix and HBO (and probably Prime Video because they had Amazon Prime already) are openly talking about the fact they're definitely not signing up for more streaming services, and are seeking out torrenting again for the stuff that's being pulled from Netflix (esp…
We have a quality inversion at the moment. The amateurs on Youtube and other services are often 1000X better than the "original" (is it really original?) series by Netflix. Media companies are churning out pure shit and we, the public are supposed to open our mouths like babies ready to take the next "airplane" full.
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#289No shit. Valve worked out the key to combating piracy in the early 2000s. To quote Gaben himself: "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to y…
there's a cliff though. I pay for prime and Netflix, and once or twice a month I'll rent a movie from Google Play if it's something I really want to see. however, in my mind paying any more than that approximate monthly total is unreasonable, and not an option. And to the article's credit, I think about booting my Plex setup back up pretty frequently now.
There absolutely is a cliff. Every general rule of thumb has a limit.
However, what you're describing is not the financial limit. We once paid quite a bit more for cable tv than streaming services. Paying for the big streaming services combined comes to about the same or less than previous cable subscriptions. In this case it's not about cost but convenience.
These companies need to provide an api that allows for services like plex (or similar) to pipe all of the streaming services into one platform, with one auto buy if you watch and stop paying if you haven't watched anything from that network within x months.
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#290There should be an open standard for streaming/accessing videos I have purchased that is independent of the platform. I should have a single pane of glass to view netflix/amazon/etc w/o having to use a specific application.