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Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by sneak »

I know the guideline about complaining about site display and rendering, but there’s more to this one, I promise.

This gives a CloudFront 403 error when loaded from a Mullvad VPN endpoint in the US.

How can I vote with my wallet for privacy support from a vendor when there are only a few vendors and they all block VPNs? This is bigger than Netflix, bigger even than streaming media.

I fear that we are very rapidly advancing to a point where you can’t use any of the “normal internet” and the mass-appeal normie services without doing full identification with some unique identifier. For most apps, it’s your phone number (which is 1:1 with a person and these days never changes). For websites, it’s going to be your residential home (IP) address.

I’m glad I downloaded all the movies I’ve ever cared about and have local copies of 100% of them. I doubt I’ll be permitted to use any of these services that stream them now, even if I wanted to.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by BatFastard »

afavour wrote: post #182

Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers. But at least it wasn’t bought by Larry Ellison, as was considered very likely (assuming this merger gets approved, in the current administration you never know). From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix…

Honestly the HBO streaming engineers should be promptly shot (or possibly their managers). HBO has the worst streaming interface of any service. Netflix on the other hand is quite good.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by ddtaylor »

The streaming platforms suffer from fragmentation right now: People don't like hopping between a dozen different streaming platforms to consume entertainment - regardless of price or ads. If you give them an option for a single place where all their media is, they will use it, regardless of what is happening behind the scenes.

They will never all merge into one because of regulatory pressure and because they are competitors.

It seems nice to have one less streaming platform in some ways, but it's not a pathway forward.

I'll continue to use Jellyfin with a few hard drives.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by spiralcoaster »

issafram wrote: post #814
somehnguy wrote: post #742

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usenet + the *arr stack + Plex or Jellyfin make it completely effortless to watch any movie or TV show I can think of. And I don't have to play the 'which service has this?' game.

If only there was an easy setup/tutorial for Usenet. I have no idea what I am supposed to pay for and what client program to use for acquiring files.

Sounds like a feature, not a bug

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by venturecruelty »

issafram wrote: post #814
somehnguy wrote: post #742

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usenet + the *arr stack + Plex or Jellyfin make it completely effortless to watch any movie or TV show I can think of. And I don't have to play the 'which service has this?' game.

If only there was an easy setup/tutorial for Usenet. I have no idea what I am supposed to pay for and what client program to use for acquiring files.

I bet if you Google "how to get started with Usenet", someone has written about this.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by venturecruelty »

wombat-man wrote: post #433
jasonvorhe wrote: post #341

I cancelled all my content subscriptions and I'm back to torrenting. I barely watch anything made my Netflix regardless. I think either Dark or the 3rd season of Stranger Things was the last time. Snyder's SciFi movie wasn't much good either. By now the streaming services are en route to become as terrible as whatever they were set out to replace. Once one of them started heavily advertising their own productions eve…

I torrent too, but I think it makes sense to buy/rent or sub to a service in many cases. Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make. So, especially for ongoing series that I'm enjoying I want them to keep renewing it. I subscribe to ad-free versions of services so I don't really run into ads a lot unless I'm trying to watch something live on TV.

How did good movies and TV shows get made before the panopticon? How did we get Casa Blanca when there were no Nielsen ratings?

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by venturecruelty »

Retz4o4 wrote: post #735
emsign wrote: post #644

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also collect discarded physical media, there's still lots of people who want to get rid of their collections for nothing because of "Dude, there's streaming now, duh."

Best sources to start accumulating? Just ebay?

eBay, yard sales, Goodwill, local thrift stores, Facebook Marketplace, etc.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by lukebechtel »

spiralcoaster wrote: post #834
issafram wrote: post #814

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only there was an easy setup/tutorial for Usenet. I have no idea what I am supposed to pay for and what client program to use for acquiring files.

Sounds like a feature, not a bug

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