With the current trends in streaming piracy must be on the rise again. Are there any numbers on that? Ideally plotted against streaming subscriber numbers
But I can’t help but feel that 90% of the “back to the high seas” comments on Reddit or social media discussions of streaming is just pirates justifying the piracy they were already committing.
Pirates love having some moral justification. Shit, they should just admit they prefer getting something without paying for it.
I pay for Netflix and Prime but typically stream their content on pirate sites - because pirate sites at least try to deliver a good experience.
But since they clamped down I'm pirating again. Until then there was no need.
>In a March 10, 2017, Twitter thread that was promoting its original series Love, Netflix wrote, "Love is sharing a password." The single tweet in the thread garnered more than 15,000 likes and more than 4,600 retweets.[0]
>Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK[1]
[0] https://www.newsweek.com/netflix-encouraged-subscribers-shar...
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/netflix-ceo-says-account-s...
> To illustrate this example, he spoke of how a parent may share their login with their child. And when that child grows up, they will usually subscribe to Netflix, too.
> “As kids move on in their life, they like to have control of their life, and as they have an income, we see them separately subscribe,” Hastings told reporters at CES. “It really hasn’t been a problem.”
> While Hastings didn’t directly address how he feels about non-family members sharing their credentials – such as in the case where friends or roommates may split an account
From [1], at least, it doesn't appear that he ever intended password-sharing among multiple households to be a thing?
Even in [0] (which I would consider a poor reference since it's about the crackdown and therefore starts out trying to prove a point...), I think there is a fairly reasonable interpretation of "Love is sharing a password" that doesn't include 3+ households sharing an account.
Since your parents are paying for your netflix you have a tilted/unbalanced view of the 'cost' to you of piracy.
A single, cheap streaming platform is awesome. Fragmented streaming platforms that raise their prices while offering less content, is significantly less awesome.
Maybe I should cancel every subscription every time I'm done watching a show and only subscribe to a single streamer whose show I'm actually watching right now. They'd get a lot less money out of me that way.
Just found out you dont even need it for Amazon Video anymore, and most of the good stuff you had to pay for there anyway.
For deliveries it was always barely worth it for me with prime same/one/two day free shipping being novel 10 years ago, but always hard to quantify how much I used it and the speed has gotten worse and worse, with Amazon Video being the extra thing to keep it just interesting enough.
For the low volume I order I’m often on a retailer’s website. Same day delivery is just gone in my area, and actually Uber and Doordash will just go straight to retail stores for you and its actually 20 minute delivery. They have subscriptions too that reduce some fees.
And if I’m not saving money while using something more convenient, then Amazon Prime time to go! Thanks for the last decade, obsolete this decade.
I'll try cancelling it and see what happens.
Not our problem, never was.
Turn off upload if you don’t have a license, enjoy.
Just admit you don’t care about pirating from a major company. You don’t have to lie to yourself to concoct a moral justification.
When you bought a DVD in the past it was incredibly easy for you to take that DVD and as long as you have a DVD player you can rewatch that movie over and over again without having to pay another dime for the privilege to do so. Now you have to contend with licenses expiring and a show you wanted to watch on Netflix (for example) is now no longer available because people at the C-level can't stop being greedy and pushing for more and more money.
Edit: Not to say the subscription model is completely wrong. It's actually a very compelling model, pay once each month for access to an entire catalogue of movies and TV shows is amazing. It's just really frustrating to watch streaming platforms hemorrhage content as the original media owners look towards higher licensing fees or even consider standing up their own streaming service, making yet another streaming service you have to pay for to access content.
You're not suggesting that the small hurdle required to clear before you can watch a DVD specifically your phone or tablet justifies piracy beyond you just not wanting to pay for it, are you? If so, you're making OP's point...
Also, using handbrake is not "way more difficult/time consuming than a torrent", come on.
No, that comment was saying morality is just an excuse. This thread is about convenience being the main reason for piracy.
>If so, you're making OP's point...
Yeah, that's why I responded to you instead of them.
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/150656/europese-politiekorpsen-r...
Remember there was a time when criminals made lots of money selling bootleg DVDs and CDs. Obviously those buyers had money.
Quellism is fictional, but that does not make it invalid.
>the personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
--Quellcrist Falconer.
NOTE: "Make it personal" but this is business not war. Kinda feel I need to clarify that last line.
And people who don't feel like paying 7EUR/month can choose to either:
A) Just watch the ads, or
B) Build up a backlog and then binge it all in a month.
many people hoard youtube videos just because they fear that those video will disappear when they need them.
Luckily I downloaded it, but that means in time it'll cease to exist. I could re-upload it, but that feels like an invitation to have my account terminated with prejudice.