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Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by fluoridation »

Slash65 wrote: post #396
fluoridation wrote: post #357

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Yes, and those people are not part of the group who will not pay no matter what.

Jumping in with one persons anecdotal evidence but I loved when I can pay $10 a month for Netflix when it had everything or almost everything I could watch and I quit pirating. When the content from other networks got pulled and the prices starting getting jacked up I went back to the seven seas. A good service with good quality at a decent price is awesome but 10 different services all trying to gouge me for $15-$20…

I'm almost in the same boat, except I never stopped pirating. By the time I decided to consider Netflix to see if the added convenience was worth it, the enshittification had already begun, so I just continued as I was. I'm definitely not in the "won't pay no matter what" camp, but I am pretty price-sensitive and I have a fairly high bar of satisfaction, which Steam and GOG meet but music and video streaming do not. I definitely think Gaben is mistaken, and that for most people it's both service and price. Steam would not have been as successful in reducing piracy in the PC market without all the discounts, all else being equal.

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Post by ratrace »

cedws wrote: post #302
quantummagic wrote: post #248

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And replace them with other idiots, who also support this rubbish? There isn't anyone who has sanity and decency, as their platform.

It seems the fundamental problem with democracy is that all the wrong people seek power, and the most qualified shy away from it.

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Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by lostlogin »

xienze wrote: post #231
lostlogin wrote: post #154

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Browse r/homelab and your view might change. Wondering which of the 8 providers has your show is lame.

> Wondering which of the 8 providers has your show is lame. Yep, but there is a solution. Buy physical media and rip it. You get basically the best quality available _and_ a backup at the same time. You don't have to resort to piracy to avoid streaming services.

> Buy physical media and rip it.

Last time I tried to watch a dvd I rented it. I tried to watch it on a projector from my laptop. DRM prevented me. So I tried to watch in a standalone dvd player. It was region locked to a different region.

I’ve pirated ever since.

I subscribe to a fair few services but don’t watch stuff there. My *ars provide a better experience. It’s more expensive with the various services and hardware but it works.

My conscience is clear, I tried the ‘correct’ approach.

Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by amarant »

otterley wrote: post #67
amarant wrote: post #6

Wtf? Just the other day I had chat about how stupid this is: they're blocking cloudflare to stop pirates! So half the internet goes down, but pirates just.. Don't use cloudflare anymore.. Or use a proxy... Or use tor... These policies cause nothing but collateral damage, and now apparently they've decided to cause some more of it! Good job Spain.

CloudFlare loves pirates so much that they disclose loss of DMCA safe harbor protections as a material business risk on all their SEC filings. Piracy friendliness is key to their business model. It’s a risky position that no other large-scale CDN is willing to take. Forcing piracy consumers to use Tor or other proxies is unlikely to be popular. They’ll still be used, for sure, but so long as CF makes pirated content…

There's still just bit torrent though. No need for cloudflare, no need for proxies, no tor. And it's like, easier than Netflix!

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Post by rapnie »

Paratoner wrote: post #60
rapnie wrote: post #51

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Once you dub, you can't stop. I'm glad Netherlands doesn't do dubbing. Helps general foreign language profiency, I suppose, and near every Dutch person speaks English quite reasonably.

I never understood this attitude from native speakers towards their own language. I am a fresh NL citizen, and have struggled SO MUCH to assimilate into society largely due to this prevalent mentality of "dutch sux actually, we can all speak english amirite guys??" its so bafflingly self-destructive to your own culture. But go off I guess.

It is 'destructive' to Dutch culture if you don't dub a movie in a foreign language? I claim the opposite. Doesn't pretend everything happens in your own culture, feels more like a kind cultural erasure of sorts. There's still more than enough TV content in native language. What I also noticed often in dubbed material is that the dubbed voice has inaccurate translation, subtle reformulations, or skips spoken words entirely, which in more autoritarian countries gives wriggle room to subtle media manipulation. The Dutch get it straight from the horse's mouth at least.

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Post by rapnie »

mihaelm wrote: post #80
Paratoner wrote: post #60

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I never understood this attitude from native speakers towards their own language. I am a fresh NL citizen, and have struggled SO MUCH to assimilate into society largely due to this prevalent mentality of "dutch sux actually, we can all speak english amirite guys??" its so bafflingly self-destructive to your own culture. But go off I guess.

I didn't understand him that way. It's more that it helps if people can more easily pick up a foreign language, or solidify their skills, along the way through media. Doubly so when it's a lingua franca like English. Though for you, I understand you might have been peeved if people kept switching to English when you just wanted to practice Dutch.

Yes, I meant it that way. And yes, Dutch people too easily switch to English when someone they encountered is not very proficient in Dutch. It is a kind of 'helpfulness' which is not so helpful for foreigners who want to learn Dutch, and I agree that more Dutch people should make the effort and not the easy language switch.

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Post by IAmGraydon »

tossandthrow wrote: post #300
IAmGraydon wrote: post #229

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>This is how greed works. The players want as much money as they can get. The owners want to charge as much as they can for everything while paying the least possible amount. The networks that buy the broadcasting and other rights want to most they can charge for them. And the buyer wants to pay as little as they possibly can. That's not greed. That's called a market and it's functioning as it should.

There is only a market if there is a commodity. La Liga is not a commodity as I can not equally make a La Liga. This is the basis for antitrust regulations. So no, there is not market. And as such there is no markets that functions as it should.

Absolutely incorrect. A market is just any structure, place, or mechanism that allows buyers and sellers to exchange goods, services, information, or assets. There can be one seller and many buyers, one buyer and many sellers, or anything in between.

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Post by IAmGraydon »

giantg2 wrote: post #402
IAmGraydon wrote: post #229

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>This is how greed works. The players want as much money as they can get. The owners want to charge as much as they can for everything while paying the least possible amount. The networks that buy the broadcasting and other rights want to most they can charge for them. And the buyer wants to pay as little as they possibly can. That's not greed. That's called a market and it's functioning as it should.

If it were a true market, the price would be much lower because it wouldn't be a monopoly.

A market is not defined by how many sellers there are.

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Post by akramachamarei »

squigz wrote: post #260
akramachamarei wrote: post #251

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> I'd certainly pirate less if I could afford it

What's your point?

Try substituting some other verbs in there to see if it comes to you:

"I'd certainly wrestle less if I could afford it."

"I'd certainly eat less ice cream if I could afford it."

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Post by dzhiurgis »

amarant wrote: post #364
croemer wrote: post #358

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That's pretty much Switzerland. Indirect democracy for most things, but if enough people disagree with what the government does or they feel strongly about something the government isn't doing they can call a referendum.

Huh...I guess that means it does work: From the outside at least Switzerland appears to work pretty well!

Chicken or egg?

Let's have a referendum to decide.

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