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Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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Re: Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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Post by johnebgd »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #110
godzillabrennus wrote: post #45

I started buying Blu-ray discs and ripping them to my computer, where I run Plex. Why? I had a long-time subscription to HBO Max, but a few years ago, I went to watch Westworld, and it was gone from HBO. I ended up buying a season on Apple for the price of a monthly subscription to HBO. I cancelled my HBO subscription. I realized that second-hand Blu-ray discs of shows were selling for dirt cheap. I spent $40 to buy…

> I went to watch Westworld, and it was gone from HBO. Wait, isn't that their own IP? I get shows not running on 3rd party streaming services due to IP rights and stuff, but how/why would they be in a position to not stream their own IP?! That's like going to Netflix and not being able to see Stranger Things. It's insane!

Insane is the understatement of the year. I appreciate their idiocy though. It pushed me to make the switch to ripping discs so I have my own drm free offline library of content now.

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themafia wrote: post #75
godzillabrennus wrote: post #45

I started buying Blu-ray discs and ripping them to my computer, where I run Plex. Why? I had a long-time subscription to HBO Max, but a few years ago, I went to watch Westworld, and it was gone from HBO. I ended up buying a season on Apple for the price of a monthly subscription to HBO. I cancelled my HBO subscription. I realized that second-hand Blu-ray discs of shows were selling for dirt cheap. I spent $40 to buy…

Are you over 40? I ask because I'm over 40 and I've had enough of this too. Also check out cafedvd.com.

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Re: Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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Post by defrost »

throwawayxcmz wrote: post #483
bsimpson wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stealing is when you take something from him, and he no longer has the thing you took. Piracy is when you see something for free that everyone else paid money for. You watching doesn't prevent anyone else from watching. Piracy isn't stealing: piracy only deals in intangibles. Stealing is for finite goods. There's a whole "how do we pay to make stuff if people can watch for free" problem around piracy, but it's fundam…

Do you consider fair evasion theft?

Not a great analogy given fixed space on a bus or a train; in rush hours a fare evader occupies a seat that would otherwise be occupied by a a fare payer (presumably).

Media piracy is largely associated with either people that were never going to pay for a cinema seat or DVD, OR (and this is key) people that would likely pay for something were it available ...

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Post by beambot »

throwawayxcmz wrote: post #483
bsimpson wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stealing is when you take something from him, and he no longer has the thing you took. Piracy is when you see something for free that everyone else paid money for. You watching doesn't prevent anyone else from watching. Piracy isn't stealing: piracy only deals in intangibles. Stealing is for finite goods. There's a whole "how do we pay to make stuff if people can watch for free" problem around piracy, but it's fundam…

Do you consider fair evasion theft?

I assume you mean "fare" evasion -- like riding a train or bus?

Yes, it fits. There are a finite number of seats on the train, and your gratis use of a seat (ostensibly) denies another paying customer. Even if there's excess capacity at the time of your ridership, the train operator is designing their capacity with buffer, so you're essentially stealing the capacity.

You could just as easily peg the theft to the incremental cost (electricity, gasoline, etc) it takes the train operator requires to move your incremental mass from A to B.

This is distinctly different from infinite, free copying & distribution.

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Post by dotancohen »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #391
throwawaylaptop wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you really not know the answer or were you asking just to force the answer?

I can't think of any answer that makes sense in this context (widespread tv show editing).

Not TV show editing, rather a satire magazine, but a now-deleted reply mentioned that Charlie Hebdo was pressured to censor and would not. They had staff members murdered because they would not censor.

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Post by thret »

maest wrote: post #434
hbn wrote: post #177

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Don't forget censorship-free I swore off streaming services when they started pulling episodes of comedy shows and editing out scenes because they were worried someone might be offended

The DnD episode from Community (S2E14) can't be seen on any streaming services because one Asian character wears black makeup while cosplaying as a drow.

One of the best episodes in my opinion, and an excellent introduction to DnD for people who don't know what they are getting into.

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Post by throwaway290 »

lucideer wrote: post #477
jack1243star wrote: post #445

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In audio processing, the more precise term for it is compression (dynamically adjust gain). Normalization usually means that the gain is adjusted so that the highest volume meets a certain level. (Like what YouTube does)

Compression is an entirely different thing. Compression isn't just gain adjustment - it's a specific type of audio processing that increases perceived "gain" (loudness) of the entire source audio by "compressing" the levels of loud frequencies & increasing the levels of quiet frequencies. Normalization increases gain of all frequencies at any given point-in-time while reducing gain of all frequencies at other points…

Sorry but you really misunderstand what normalization and compression means. "quiet frequencies" :D

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Post by Dylan16807 »

dotancohen wrote: post #546
Dylan16807 wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't think of any answer that makes sense in this context (widespread tv show editing).

Not TV show editing, rather a satire magazine, but a now-deleted reply mentioned that Charlie Hebdo was pressured to censor and would not. They had staff members murdered because they would not censor.

That is a thing that happened.

But if it's what socalgal2 was talking about, then their comment was a non-sequitur. They saw the word censorship and rambled something almost entirely unrelated to the topic at hand.

That's why it's worth asking what they're talking about.

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