On a slightly related note the sad truth about the media https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21489022
Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers
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#372No worries, I'll just use the torrent sharers. I bet those will give me a constant 4K quality on all my devices, no ridiculous DRM, get to keep them once I terminate my "subscription", etc. Oh and it's free, not 10-15$ USD for each service.
I may (or may not) have built my own Netflix competitor. It had more content than all of the major providers combined. Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;) The service was available cross region. Stored videos in multiple resolutions for streamability in low-bandwidth situations. No DRM bs. It cost me under $400/month to run the whole service, and I cou…
Dude ...
This comes off as incredibly self-entitled and arrogant.
That piece of art? It takes years and tremendous amount of people hours to bring these films into existence your enjoyment. I grew up in Hollywood, in family of filmmakers. My friends are actors, producers, and well anybody else who is involved in the business - and we all dedicate unbelievable hours of love and labor into the “non copyrighted cat videos”
Yes. The system isn’t perfect, but ... what you’re doing is quite frankly, stealing. It’s offensive. We’re entitled to our livelihoods as much as you are.
Show some gratitude please.
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#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sharing my Netflix password with my wife and/or child is not stealing You're right, it's not. And Netflix is fine with this. However, should you be able to share your Netflix username and password with everyone on the block?
>However, should you be able to share your Netflix username and password with everyone on the block? Presumably, your Netflix subscription has limitations on how many people can simultaneously watch it. So, yes, you should be able to share it with everyone on the block. Why not? By doing so, you're potentially preventing yourself from using it during that time, for instance if it has a maximum of 4 simultaneous strea…
The terms of service someone posted above says you "may not share with individuals beyond your household". Your neighbor is not within your household.
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#374I consider myself obnoxiously sanctimonious on this matter. I will not steal video. The furthest I will go is to rip dvds to play on my own Plex, and I won't share access to it. I do not and would not share passwords. I pay to stream content I don't buy. This is a matter of personal honor.
That said, there is a maximum inconvenience I will bear. I can live without movies or tv. Honestly, I'd probably live better.
This feels a lot like 20 years ago with Napster and Limewire. I hope the content industry has learned something in the interim.
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#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
Convenience does not justify theft. You don't have an entitlement to consume specific content.
I mean most of this in a devil's-advocate sense: The proper economic arrangement for those who wish to make a living with creative works is patronage. Someone asks you to make something, you make it for them, then you get paid. You then don't get paid until you make another work. Thus content creators shouldn't have an automatic entitlement to get paid each time someone reads/listens to/watches a work. If you work on…
This doesn't make economic sense.
If I create a piece of art that many people can enjoy, why shouldn't I get compensated for adding that value to their lives?
Same is true for software.
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#376I would happily pay per show or movie I watch if I knew the people involved got the cash. As long as there's money men in the middle, wringing their hands over how to extract their middleman tax, I'll work to subvert them.
Delivering content is not a valuable service. Making content is.
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#377No worries, I'll just use the torrent sharers. I bet those will give me a constant 4K quality on all my devices, no ridiculous DRM, get to keep them once I terminate my "subscription", etc. Oh and it's free, not 10-15$ USD for each service.
You're a senior software engineer and yet somehow you can't pay for content?
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#378Presidential candidate Andrew Yang was asked if his platform of $1000 a month Universal Basic Income was passed, how much would be spent locally. He said the majority of it would...but not all, and joked because people would spend it on their own Netflix account.
Based on the comments here, I doubt that'd even get people to buy their own subscription.
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
I may (or may not) have built my own Netflix competitor. It had more content than all of the major providers combined. Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;) The service was available cross region. Stored videos in multiple resolutions for streamability in low-bandwidth situations. No DRM bs. It cost me under $400/month to run the whole service, and I cou…
Dude ... This comes off as incredibly self-entitled and arrogant. That piece of art? It takes years and tremendous amount of people hours to bring these films into existence your enjoyment. I grew up in Hollywood, in family of filmmakers. My friends are actors, producers, and well anybody else who is involved in the business - and we all dedicate unbelievable hours of love and labor into the “non copyrighted cat vide…
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#380Same article gets regurgitated a few times a year ever since Netflix started.