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[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 53 points 2 years ago

Pirating is easier than ever too

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 years ago

And they will never stop piracy. If it can be displayed and shown to your eyes, it can be recorded.

It's certainly a good thing to keep businesses in check. It's very much a "or else.." to them trying to screw people over as much as possible.

[-] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And they will never stop piracy. If it can be displayed and shown to your eyes, it can be recorded.

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

How exactly? I find it more difficult than before. Granted I don't download movies anymore, I just search for free streams. And I'm pretty sure that at some point Google will stop showing them in searches.

[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago
[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do you know any streaming etc sites that are more focused on documentaries? I've been looking for a certain national geographic doc for a while and it's not on any of the mainstream trackers (and not on that website either)

[-] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Install sonarr, radarr, get a usenet indexer and server account, and maybe set up a few torrent trackers that you have access to. Add Plex or Jellyfin (YMMV) and bam, happy times.

[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

That all seems great, but why do any of that when you can just use a pirate streaming site like hdtoday.cc ?

[-] Bread@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Sites go down and if I have a copy, it will always be there when I want it.

[-] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

You keep your shit and it’s also generally better quality (if you pick the right stuff to dl)

[-] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 47 points 2 years ago

Piracy is the greatest middle finger to the big corpos dream of "you will own nothing and be happy"

[-] Oxnvat@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

"The free version" How I long for those days

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Hulu was great when it first started. An option for one long ad at the beginning and often it wouldn't interrupt you between episodes either.

[-] zovits@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Don't forget them immense selection of languages for both audio tracks and subtitles!

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 14 points 2 years ago

It was great while it lasted, but company greed killed yet another revenue stream.

Well maybe not for the majority, they will probably pay more since they "don't care" as usual.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago
[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

every fucking company wanted to dip their toes into the streaming service cash pool and now they pay the price, unpopular opinion but a tripoly like system that exists with music is the way to go.

Spotify, Apple music are big ones with YouTube Music lagging 5 behind due to the 50th rebranding and there is TIDAL for those who want better quality audio.

similarly Movie/tv show streaming should be limited to a few companies competing with basically the same catalog.

but it won't happen, so whatever, I also don't much care, I have my own plex server

[-] sentinelthesalty@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I think advocating for more big tech monopolies is a bad idea, period.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

There's already zero competition because most shows are tied to a specific service. Real competition comes when you can get The Office on your platform of choice.

[-] DannyMac@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I agree. If they ran themselves more like the music streaming apps, by maintaining similar content libraries, all this competition would be great.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I said tripoly, not monopoly.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

Disagree. I'd argue that the companies releasing the movies shouldn't be the same ones running the streaming services. It would mean they can't double-dip, and they're encouraged to be on as many services as possible

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I think that would come as a natural result, or rather could be enforced by law, younkinda have to remove these exclusivity bullshit deals for the sake of the customer.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's actually a relatively common idea! A great example is many countries forcefully separate the Internet providers and the companies that own the lines themselves. It means the ISPs share lines and are in competition with every other ISP, and the companies that own the lines are incentivizes to build as many, bigger cables as possible and onboard as many ISPs as possible. It's honestly a great system

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bad take. Spotify shafts artists very hard and rips off users frequently. The only reason they haven't enshittified yet is because they are free from the interest rate mania going on in the US (they are a EU based company) and their actual customers are the music labels, not the final listener. So the final power is in the hands of the music executives not Spotify themselves, unlike with US tech giants that hold all the power against regular citizens. Look at what they want to do with podcasts for a glimpse of their future potential for enshittification.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

how are users ripped off?

[-] aracebo@unilem.org 2 points 2 years ago

It could work. Say the steaming platform takes a 10-15% cut for servers, staff etc. The rest of the user's $10/month flat fee get divided up to the artists based on listening time.

[-] sentinelthesalty@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Arr, welcome back ye salty seadog. Me myself had never abandoned the plunderinn the 7 seas in the first place.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Breaking away from Netflix is what killed this golden goose

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