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Sagifurius ,

What a mystery this is

HurlingDurling , (edited )
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

Most of this sits squarely on Netflix’s fault. I had stopped torrenting when I started with netflix, but their sheer stupidity between the password sharing and constantly taking down titles, not to mention the fact the rest of the industry is going copying them has pushed me to setup a plex server and share between my friends. Yarr… Ye gang be back me maytees!

EDIT: Fucking LOL, Hulu just emailed me this… https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/96101d5d-e4dc-45b0-969f-8a23d95c848e.png

fosstulate ,
@fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Funny definition of ‘agreement’

EmperorHenry , (edited )
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Wow! It’s almost as if greed and hubris caused all the media companies to split everything up so they wouldn’t have to share with netflix and now no one can keep track of which services are hosting what shows in which countries.

So learning how to pirate things and paying for a VPN that won’t snitch is easier than paying for a dozen different streaming services in addition to your internet connection.

MULLVAD! ProtonVPN! QBITTORRENT! POPCORN-TIME! KASPERSKY!

Sorry…I have Tourette’s syndrome. FUCKING QUANTUM RESISTANT ENCRYPTION WITH MULLVAD! PORT FORWARDING OFF WITH PROTON! Sorry…I meant to say that piracy is immoral and wrong! How are billionaires supposed to afford their diamond studded, solid gold toilets or their giant mansions on huge plots of land if we pirate things?!

Cwilliams ,

Cracking up laughing. This post literally just made my day

DestroyMegacorps ,

Just saw a billionare in a mall asking for spare change cause i pirated his movies

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

OH MY GOD! THE HORROR! WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES!? They worked hard to stomp on people to get to where they are!

JackSkellington ,

Netflix is getting worse month after month. Same for the streaming market as a whole. Much worse service than before, no accountability for failures on their part. I would gladly pay >15€ every month if I had at least FHD, no ads, all series / animes (excluding very nice ones ). Some months ago I did an experiment: subscribe to Netflix + Disney + hbo. I still had to torrent in order to get some content (not niche stuff) and good quality. If piracy is increasing, the culpability is also on streaming services. People are fed up of being stomped on

olafurp ,

The thing is that we need an class action Anti-Competitive lawsuit that says that streaming providers are not allowed to only host shows on their own platform and need to “sell themselves” their shows at the same price as they sell to others in pay-per-view terms. That way all streaming providers can host all shows and everyone gets theirs.

It’ll also bring out other streaming services that specialise in low-volume purchases with an a-la-carte payment model.

All shows on every platform should be the standard and subscriptions should focus on packaging it into “100/200/1000” views per month, SD/HD/4K model just like Internet service providers do.

Rip not going to see that before I die so that’s the pirates life for me. 🦜🏴‍☠️

Blackmist ,

Or split them so show/movie makers and streaming platforms are completely separate entities.

I can accept that movies need the cinema to survive with their bloated budgets and wage bills. And once it’s done there, go to physical/buying, and then streaming maybe.

But otherwise yeah, if it’s streaming somewhere it should be streaming everywhere and not disappear.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

“sell themselves” their shows at the same price as they sell to others in pay-per-view terms.

Pay-per-view is terrible. Flat rate is better. Flat rate for unlimited everything.

olafurp ,

That depends on how much you watch. People with 2 under 3 year old kids sometimes only watch 3 hours a week TV and would definitely benefit from it.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

flat rate for unlimited everything is the only correct way to go.

jabathekek ,
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

I wouldn’t mind paying for netflix if I didn’t have to pay extra to not get ads, and if I didn’t have to use a “smart” tv to actually get uhd, and if I trusted them with the data that they would get from that tv, and if I could share my account with my family in different cities, and if they had shows I actually wanted to watch and probably some other stuff too, but i stopped caring.

TimewornTraveler , (edited )

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yamanii ,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

CuriosityStream: “In light of the compelling consumer proposition, piracy services are subject to rapid global growth”

They really are just copying this statement lmao, I actually did try to find their content elsewhere since there’s no way I’m paying for a streaming in USD, but couldn’t, don’t remember which documentary it was.

Grimpen ,

Just finished the James Burke “Connections” reboot on Curiousity. It will probably be the last thing I watch as a subscriber.

The last few years have been nothing but price hikes, fragmentation, and reduced offerings among the streaming services.

I’ll pay for a seedbox again before I pay for another streaming service.

sverit ,

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Wisi_eu ,
@Wisi_eu@sh.itjust.works avatar

SURRENDER, Netflix!

NigelFrobisher ,

Netflix already defeated piracy by producing endless mid “content” like The Grey Man that you can’t even be bothered to watch for free.

SparkyTemper ,

I fucking loved Grey Man.

QuesoBlanco ,

Haha, I was wondering about this - I enjoyed it, too. It was worth the time if only to see Chris Evans having so much fun playing a psychopath.

GiveMemes ,

Petition to stop calling things that are ‘trash’ ‘mid’. ‘Mid’ means middle. I would not be upset by watching something that’s mid but I wouldn’t be happy about it either. I take it that if you can’t be bothered to watch it even for free, it’s probably just ‘trash’

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

Man if it’s made well and some people like it, that’s a mid.

Draedron ,

Trash can be fun. It is so trash its fun, like sharknado or human centipede. But mid just means it is neither good enough nor trash enough to be fun.

pimento64 ,

Sharknado isn’t fun. Being a bad movie on purpose is just cringeworthy. Bad movies are fun when they’re a serious (delusional) effort that failed miserably.

dlrht ,

Well, that’s just like, your opinion, bro

roofuskit ,

Middling, which is medium. But I’d say The Grey meets that for its target audience.

bufalo1973 ,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

Solution: create a common platform for all online services (Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Warner, …) and have EVERYTHING there, even old movies and not often seen ones.

venji10 ,

And also remove Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)

Loonesota ,

So basically just cable but for the internet age.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, but they all want to be the one to run it.

In the meantime, there’s Jellyfin.

Kichae ,

I’m always surprised when people propose monopolies as if a) they’re good, and b) that’s not what everyone in the game right now is trying to provide.

Everyone wants to be the one collecting the subscription fee. No one wants to be the one trusting the guy collecting the subscription fee to give them a fair cut.

RippleEffect ,

I’m always surprised too. At least the market is sorta working.

In a lot of ways Netflix won. Many people aren’t going to bother pirating their content and would rather just pay or at least subscription hop. We’re in the greed portion of streaming where everyone wants a bigger and bigger slice. If Netflix did not create original content, I’m not sure they’d still be around.

bufalo1973 ,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t propose a monopoly but a common platform. The platform doesn’t create content. The creators don’t fragment the market.

And I say this as an answer to the problem content creators have. Not from the user POV.

dotMonkey ,

I’ve got a platform like that!

foenkyfjutschah ,

like socialism.

SuperSpruce ,

Can we have a la carte payments back? I don’t pirate movies/tv because I barely watch any movies/tv, but the only time in the past year I paid for one was when I could rent it for 48h for $4. I hate subscriptions and would rather just pay once per every time I watch.

cordlesslamp ,

And you know what would be good? Your subscription money will be divided equally between everything you watched that month.

If they want your money, they better make high quality show that’s actually interesting.

Let them fight each other for our subscription money.

Grimpen ,

It’s the exclusive deals that fuel the fragmentation. If you could watch the same content on any streaming service, you wouldn’t need to subscribe to a half dozen (or turn to piracy).

Of course that’s exactly why Netflix, Prime, Apple, et al started making their own exclusive content that they totally control.

QiuChristine ,

I’ve been using netflix and paying for it every month, but I also subscribe to a netflix downloader because there’s no way for netflix videos to be saved permanently and that bothers me.

figjam ,

I don’t speak dutch(?) But life time license is available? Thats good

Gimpydude ,

There is. Look at Streamfab (same company) as well as AnyStream. Both are great products.

TwanHE ,

It’s Austrian German, so close enough to Dutch at times I guess.

WindowsEnjoyer ,

Piracy is service problem

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

They didn’t seem to have any problems before they started fucking around with their pricing and policies and everyone else also started their own streaming services, splitting everything across multiple subscriptions instead of 1, convenient service.

I could keep up with what’s available where and shuffle my subscriptions around every few months to see what I want when it’s new… But it’s way easier to just use a torrent site now.

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