Netflix execs needs a new jet.
That’s OK. I’ve already removed Netflix
I personally buy the shows I want and rip them to my media server. It seems to be about $10/season, $10-15/movie, which I think is cheaper in the long run than paying for no-ads on these streaming services.
On top of that you get to keep the blu ray artworks and extras so pretty worth it i might say
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Hmm voyager shows me no posts in there (although i see them via browser). How come?
Piracy. Lemmy.world blocked piracy related subs since they are babies. Leave Lemmy world man. Come to the dark side
Its just a link to the community !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Lemmy.world is hosted by real people, not corporations with tons of money to spend. Getting sued could potentially ruin the admin’s life, so it’s perfectly understandable.
Ugh. I do like the idea of defederating in theory, but this is the third time I’m going to have move instances because something I want access to is blocked.
Is this just a ‘me’ problem or something everyone has to deal with from time to time?
I would be pretty annoyed to let lemmy.world decide what I should read on the Lemmyverse :)
And that’s why I have a VPN, so I can yo-ho-ho with a bottle of fuck you!
I can’t take credit, it’s a joke I stole from Civvie11 (Amazing game review show, I highly recommend it, especially if you like Boomer Shooters)
The show has the attitude of “If you fail to provide a way to legally obtain your product, you have no right to gain angry when someone pirates it.” and constantly brings this up when it reviews games like Nintendo’s Geist or Activision’s Wolfenstein remake (Which since Activision and ID Software are owned by the same company now could be re-released without issue, but for some reason they’re just not)
Piracy is always a service issue
I haven’t pirated stuff in years but started again this year. It sucks that my favorite torrent site was shut down though.
therarbg.com is a good mirror/clone
I’m gonna look into this, thanks! 😄
I have a few go-tos foe different types of content but it’s always scary they might just stop existing one day.
…I mean…piracy’s bad m’kay 👀
Every time I hear something about Netflix I always wonder how it is even still running. Still wild to me that they had the entire monopoly on streaming and fucked it up anyways.
Netflix didn’t fuck their monopoly up. They just didn’t have an eternal technological moat. Their monopoly had an expiration date which is why they shifted to content generation.
Nowadays the problem they face is that there isn’t enough people on the planet to grow forever, so in order to keep growing they have to squeeze harder.
Their content is terrible tough, there they did drop the ball.
Seems like everything they made that was good was cancelled after one season. I dumped them for that, then they went all greed and now I hit the high seas if there’s something I really want to watch.
All good shows that don’t blow up to Stranger Things levels get cancelled and the recommendation algorithm prioritizes mediocre over great. Why would I pay for that 🤷♂️
There are over 8 billion people on the planet and Netflix is an international company. If they decided to not fuck around and find out they could have had the majority of that market for pennies and held it well past today.
They had the monopoly on a golden platter and fucked it up. If they were smart they would have cemented that position.
In their defense, they didn’t fuck it up (at first), media publishers saw there was money in streaming and decided that they wanted a bigger slice of the pie. When everyone is trying to take the whole pie for themselves, no one ends up with any pie.
However pretty much every move they have done in the past 5 ish years has been fucking it up.
No they screwed the pooch hard in the beginning. They could have bought up rights to basically everything for pennies compared to what it is worth now because of the leverage they had before any of those media publishers had options elsewhere.
Netflix was literally in the position to tell them what the price was back then and now they have nothing to bargain with because the market is saturated.
But wouldn’t them buying all the rights to “basically everything” incentivise them more to jack up prices and include ads since the user base has no legal alternatives ?
Seriously. I was subscribed from the time they first started streaming… And then years later they remove the entire rating system, and replace it with a system clearly intended to confuse and manipulate their users into thinking they have better and more plentiful content.
I dropped Netflix then and there, and never looked back. They stopped being a great service at that specific moment.
