Netflix loses almost a million subscribers
bbc.com
bbc.com
OK, so this isn't nothing, but I would think the story is actually "Netflix loses ONLY 1 million subscribers"
They definitely should be boiling-the-frog-slowly with the $ for sharing thing. They really should. even 50c per month per household would help them stabilise revenue and return some normalcy to what's going on.
Lets all be clear: sharing your Netflix account is probably a breach of contract. Is it "good" that we normalise contract breach? "it depends" is the strongest I've got right now. The same scofflaw view that normalises contract breach in Netflix is normalising contract breach to us, as consumers by Uber, by the food chain, by airlines.
As we give, we get. This is not good, in the law-space.
I expect them to return to growth some time in 2023 because of a low cost tier and a crackdown on password sharing.
It’s not the same. Businesses are not people. Laws which protect businesses are either a proxy to protect the people affected by businesses, or they’re illegitimate. To the extent arbitrarily taking resources from Netflix for free is in any way immoral, that moral factor is because it affects humans. Otherwise taking from Netflix is at worst neutral, because it’s an entity which exists in our imagination for purposes which are supposed to be for our benefit.
I might add that I dislike IPR, and Patent law intensely.
Sometimes is accurate, but a lot of the time is just convenient to buy time and prevent panic selling
(shoutouts to the Netflix employees in the chat)
Sounds like my media archive is going to get some new friends.
Things like Chrome have L3 access. There have been tools to dump Chrome’s key and decrypt stuff like Netflix’s content. However, I believe Netflix only serves up to 480p to L3 devices.
For HD and UHD content, you’d need higher access levels, which means you’d need to get the key from some sort of L2-L1 device, like a phone, Smart TV, etc.
There are no public methods to obtain those higher-access keys as far as I am aware; the piracy groups tend not to publicize that kind of thing because that’ll just get the device’s key revoked pretty much immediately and whatever exploit they’ve found will get patched.
Chrome has access to 720p because it only has Widevine Level 3 on MacOS or Windows.
I use Netflix via Chrome on Linux.
As such I don't watch too many movies. Was I paying all that money for nothing?
While on the subject — I use Chrome exclusively for Netflix. My privacy settings on Firefox — my default browser — doesn't work well with Netflix, and so I installed Chrome for the sole purpose of using Netflix.
Video quality always seemed worse than on my smartphone.
DRM sucks.
(Somebody will point out that HDCP support was added to the Linux Kernel here, but it was added for the use of the kernel on closed hardware where you can have a hardware root of trust and signed drivers, not a general purpose Linux machine.)
That is literally what Widevine Level 1 is.
You can screen record with OBS Studio or something similar, or if you want to capture the output you can run the output into a cheap Chinese HDMI splitter that only implements HDCP between your PC and the box, but not between the box and the monitor, and then capture that output with a hardware recorder.
If it can, then it's not a Widevine Level 1 setup.
And yes, a HDMI splitter could, but that is completely irrelevant to what I said, which was about the inability to do screen recording before the HDMI output.