I saw an Instagram post that showed how much it would cost for an American to be able to watch every NFL game this season. It was something like $1100/month.
Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
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#732Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one is conflating piracy with raid boats, killing people and physically stealing items. Ignoring the nuance is just ignorance and pedantic. As a matter of fact, most people likely don't even associate piracy with pirates or boats. It's almost universally used to describe obtaining digital content for free.
I think this is the more nuances understanding of the conversation. Using a word associated with violence and theft to describe something like copyright infringement is just over-the-top and ridiculous.
Sometimes words have multiple meanings, and that’s ok.
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Max has an anime and we stopped watching because even though English subtitles and English dubbed audio was available the original Japanese audio was always strangely delayed by days or weeks and the only way to tell it had been added was to check manually.
Lazarus?
Yes. We figured it was a mistake and watched a single dubbed episode and it was terrible. IIRC when I googled it I found out it was an intentional decision and of course people were talking about just pirating the original.
Edit: It has been some months, but I also vaguely recall the episodes getting the Japanese audio out of order, which is why we thought it was just a mistake for that episode until we 'caught up' to the newest episodes.
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#734Piracy is when your digital assets disappear from providers' locations available to use.
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#735Earlier quoted context omitted.
Offline watching is a thing with streaming services, too. Also, there is no reason for a paid streaming service not to implement 1 (but not 1.2), 2, 3 and 4. It's not like these features will affect their bottom line. They just don't see value in implementing and supporting them.
> these features will affect their bottom line. They just don't see value That's the problem. These are useful features. Look around you, people are... using them. I got a ton of upvotes for my comment. I'm not saying that to brag, I'm saying that because it is evidence that these things are in demand. The issue is that most of this "what has value" is just as made up as anything else. Most people don't even know wha…
Sorry, I meant that "implementing them wouldn't affect their bottom line in a negative way". I agree with you that they are useful features.
That's what separates these bullet points from the others: Others will never be implemented because they won't help them make more money.
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#736Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a case study in why competitive markets are important in general. Copyright is a government-granted monopoly but the monopoly is hard to enforce. It works because most people actually want to support the creators, not because DRM is effective or anything like that. So you have the uncommon situation in which a monopoly (the copyright holder) is operating in parallel to a competitive black market for content d…
The black market is only more competitive because it doesn’t bear the costs of actually creating the content.
Alfred Hitchcock's movies aren't missing from Netflix because Netflix couldn't afford to pay for their production.
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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…
> Normalization increases gain of all frequencies at any given point-in-time while reducing gain of all frequencies at other points in time. When you do that then the difference between the loudest and the quietest part of the audio gets reduced. That's dynamic range reduction.
True. But.
While normalization is usually one-way, if you're doing DSP normalization & have a record of the level offsets you've applied, it's reversible. This is never the case for compression - you can't increase dynamic range of a compressed file (short of AI-generating something that never was)
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Sure, someone can upload a new edited version. But the unedited one doesn't get removed. That's not really censorship.
If you don't notice the removal and therefore don't have a reason to look elsewhere, it has the same effect
But that's unrelated to why tech. People advertising one version instead of another does not have a technical solution. The only thing tech can provide is the ability to keep copying the old version, regardless of what the original creator/distributor thinks.
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I think you're describing a multi-band compressor. "Normal" compressors do indeed do gain adjustment. They usually do this without regard for the frequencies present. Only the amplitude matters for normal compressors.
Not specifically talking about multiband. Normal compressors do effectively do gain adjustment - it's not really the same as a typical amp since their core function only reduces gain, then makeup is applied to the entirety to compensate - but yes the result is effectively gain adjustment. As for doing it "without regard for the frequencies present", if you compress a mix with a base guitar & high vocals, the impact o…
Are you referring to psychoacoustic effects? Something like perceived loudness is only determined by waveform amplitude, but also affected by frequencies present? Or maybe the vocal and bass parts have transients at different times causing the other to be attenuated when it was already relatively quiet?
Other than that I'm not sure what else you could mean. Maybe we've been using different compressors. I've used a small handful of hardware and software compressors and haven't found them to sensitive to spectral content when used "normally". Meaning no extra filters or side chain configuration.
Re: Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
#740Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a case study in why competitive markets are important in general. Copyright is a government-granted monopoly but the monopoly is hard to enforce. It works because most people actually want to support the creators, not because DRM is effective or anything like that. So you have the uncommon situation in which a monopoly (the copyright holder) is operating in parallel to a competitive black market for content d…
The black market is only more competitive because it doesn’t bear the costs of actually creating the content.
The non-black market produces an intentionally inferior product so they can maximize their rent-seeking behaviors.