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Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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With cable you didn’t get this fragmentation cause you also didn’t get many options. Watch at 8am or at 6pm, whatever episode airs that day, probably a rerun or a skipped.

Different cable providers each had their own bundles and individual paid channels, so you kinda got a choice, with a lot of fragmentation.

I mean you didn't get to watch as many Pokemon show options as those linked in the parent comment, you got choices for channels as you said, but not seasons/shows.

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How do I find it?

if you're LOOKing for a MOVIE or a tv show 2 download and you don't want to mess with DOT TOrrent files then there are plenty of options but it's generally considered uncouth to link to them publicly and directly

I LOOKed at the MOVIE, and so did my friend DOT, and we came TO the same conclusion that it's not working as specified.

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Almost every digital movie provider has a rental option. Moana on Prime Video is 3.99 to rent.

So, I would have to subscribe to amazon prime to rent the movie. Or another digital movie provider. Now we recalculate the price...

I don't think you have to subscribe to Amazon Prime in order to rent movies. Same thing with Apple TV (formerly the iTunes store). For whatever reason though this distinction is not well made.

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Hey everyone, The last 6 months I’ve been building what I believe is one of the best high-quality streaming platforms out there. My inspiration was exactly the reasons listed here in the comments. I’d love to get your honest feedback on the design, features, and overall user experience. https://bingebeast.com Thanks! GIzmo

For the love of God, or cake, or whatever - PLEASE remove the "smooth scrolling" code from your site. It completely fucks up all pre-existing expectations on how a mouse wheel or trackpad is to operate.

Re: Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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Hey everyone, The last 6 months I’ve been building what I believe is one of the best high-quality streaming platforms out there. My inspiration was exactly the reasons listed here in the comments. I’d love to get your honest feedback on the design, features, and overall user experience. https://bingebeast.com Thanks! GIzmo

For the love of God, or cake, or whatever - PLEASE remove the "smooth scrolling" code from your site. It completely fucks up all pre-existing expectations on how a mouse wheel or trackpad is to operate.

Will do in the next update. It has been problematic for a long time.

Thank you for your feedback!

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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.

The list of Sunny's removed episodes from Hulu is insane to me: - Season 4 Episode 3: America's Next Top Paddy's Billboard Model Contest - Season 6 Episode 9: Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth - Season 8 Episode 2: The Gang Recycles Their Trash - Season 9 Episode 9: The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6 - Season 14 Episode 3: Dee Day They're all in my home server, though :)

Disney+ doesn’t have The Simpsons S3E1 because of Michael Jackson’s UNCREDITED appearance.

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> someone’s work We don't recognize ownership of ideas as a legitimate concept. Intellectual property is logically reducible to ownership of numbers . All information is a sequence of bits, and all sequences of bits are numbers. All numbers already exist. Humans performing intellectual work are merely discovering those numbers. The entire set of laws supporting intellectual property boils down to making knowledge and…

> The entire set of laws supporting intellectual property boils down to making knowledge and transmission of certain numbers illegal. It's illegal for me to write certain numbers on a piece of paper and give the paper to you. That's just absurd and unacceptable. Your bank account credentials are a bunch of numbers, would you be willing to share those? Surely you wouldn't bother changing them after the fact, I mean, l…

That argument is completely unpersuasive. These are not the same things at all. In multiple ways.

First, there is no way do duplicate bank account contents. Bank transfers are transactions: adding to your account subtracts from mine. The bitcoin ledger is infinitely copyable but doing that gives no one extra bitcoins.

Contrast that with intellectual property which is the complete opposite: information can be losslessly duplicated infinitely at no cost whatsoever to either party.

Second, bank credentials are secrets. The information is not actually meant to be widely distributed, it's meant to be known by as few people as possible, ideally one person.

The secrecy exists precisely because once information is out there there is no way to control what will be done with it. Contrast that with copyright: the monopolists want to distribute the information world wide and simultaneously fully control what people do with it. The tyranny necessary to enforce such corporate control is utterly unacceptable.

So your bank account argument in fact supports my world view by exposing how utterly schizophrenic the copyright monopolists are. They actually think they can control public information that has been disseminated far and wide. It's so out of touch with the reality of things they might as well be put out of their misery. Just abolish copyright straight up.

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The marketing of a resolution really won out. People will fight you if you suggest a high bitrate 1080p encode can look better than a low bitrate 4k.

Bitrate aside, the marketing stopped making sense long ago: - 720p/1080p is counting vertical pixel resolution - 4k/8k is counting horizontal pixel resolution - "4k/8k" is not actually 4,000/8,000 horizontal pixels - Suddenly the "p" becomes irrelevant (Not that most people even knew what it meant to begin with) - 720/1080/4k/8k totally disregards aspect ratio - Consumers already have a way to compare, and they're ca…

That's not even including HDR and the fake 4k upscales.

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That's a really awkward analogy. A better one would be: Would you buy an album with all the curse words bleeped out? A lot of people would, but others would prefer the uncensored version.

That’s a worse analogy. The other guy doesn’t want to use a service because they don’t offer content he wants because people are offended by it. There’s a bunch of clothes not sold at most retailers because it is offensive but you can buy them online directly from the manufacturer. The analogy you gave would be better if they edited the content to be semantically equivalent but they aren’t. The content just isn’t ava…

The biggest problem IMO is that they are picking and choosing what is offensive. I can watch over 100 episodes of very offensive (to someone) episodes of Always Sunny episodes on Hulu. However, they decided 1 concept from 1 scene of a handful of episodes is more offensive than everything else and removed those. I think an analogy could be Home Depot sells a dimming light with 10 settings. Some group of people can’t deal with 2 of those settings so the manufacturer removed 2 of the settings and now everyone gets a lower quality product because of this decision.

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> We already had this debate decades ago, and your side of the debate lost. It's not "theft" by any reasonable interpretation of the word. That's only true when you ignore many, many common usages of the word "theft". I would hazard a guess that your interpretations are along the dictionary lines of "depriving a person of their property." However, here are some commonly used forms of the word (supported by wikipedia…

As I said, we already had this conversation ages ago and your side lost. Shout until you're blue in the face, and you'll be just as wrong. I've already stated my position, and "because you can get away with it" is no part of it. You must be confusing me with someone else in this conversation. Half your examples fail to make the point you intend, and are not at all analogous to watching a pirated TV show. A lot of the…

>As I said, we already had this conversation ages ago and your side lost.

I had a conversation too. Several conversations. And I won those conversations so YOU lost. In fact, just imagine every single stance you've ever had on any topic and just know I had a conversation about it in the past, and you lost.

My point is. Nobody cares about your conversation especially when ALL of those conversations you're referencing are utterly wrong.

>It's exhausting to keep repeating this. Please read what's been said (hint: these are decades old arguments, we're not going to rehash them here for your benefit).

Who the hell is "we?" How about this. Whoever you're referring to, however many decades you guys spent talking about it... you're all wrong. You wasted decades and came up with a wrong outcome.

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