Therein lies the issue I have with modern streaming. When Netflix was the only game in town, things were mostly fine. Then I saw content I was actively watching disappear from the service, and research showed that this was due to licensing issues.
I saw the writing on the wall. Copyright holders were gearing up to make their own Netflix competitor streaming service. Which is exactly what they did.
When it all started, I dusted off my tri-point hat and got to work building “my own Netflix” and honestly, it’s been amazing. A royal pain in my arse sometimes, but mostly amazing.
I have had the (dis)pleasure of dealing with some of the more recent streaming services, shortly before everyone started cracking down on “asking sharing” bullshit. I live in the same house as one subscriber, but I run my own network, and have my own Internet IP address, so I’m not in their “home” and can no longer use the service because of account sharing restrictions and related bullshit. Anyways…
One thing that always grabbed me is that my own service puts all my recently watched shows that have new episodes front and center as soon as I open it up… New streaming services either have that info halfway down the page, with the top of the page dominated by ads for new shows to watch, or whatever popular… Meanwhile, I mainly just care about the show I’ve been watching and I want to watch what’s new… What a pain in the ass.
On top of that, I would have to memorize what service has what shows/movies, and if it’s anything pre-streaming that’s not part of a large franchise, like Star wars or Star Trek, or whatever, I usually have to look it up, or bounce between different services frantically searching for what I want.
No thanks.
The MPAA needs to take notes from the RIAA… I subscribe to one music service and I never have any trouble finding what I want to listen to. … Key takeaway: I subscribe to a music service.
I do not subscribe to any video streaming services.
Pretty much every film with the smallest amount of popularity can be easily, freely torrented in high definition. Netflix has good OG anime, not worth the price of subscription but still, whilst other platforms don’t even offer that. Why give them money? Learn to use the interwebs!
Reminder that your local library likely has many great DVDs. Not just the classics either. I was surprised to see my library had Dune part 1&2 and many others.
Arrr, me hearty! Batten down the hatches and prepare to set sail, ye scallywags!
No, you can’t. It’s $14.99 and in a few years you’re going to lose access to it. Fuck you. Give us money.
…fuck you.
Or the youtube route. You van buy the movie in sd or hd, but also, if you don’t watch it on our cancer app on your phone, it’s like 480p, sorry not sorry
Arr matey. Easier now than ever.
I pirate everything, but i don’t know how to pirate things in german for my nephew and niece.
There was a time when almost everything was on Netflix. As a consumer, having all my content in one place for $10/mo is awesome, but according to capitalism, it is a problem that needed to be fixed.
The crazy thing is loads of people stopped pirating and paid for a streaming service that was affordable, worked, met thier needs.
Now it’s all splintered with corporations wanting a piece of the pie.
Back to piracy, it is, then. Yarrr! ☠️
It won’t stop until the system reaches its ultimate form and each movie has its own subscription service.
So, buying physical media again lol
except that you don’t have any sort of long terms rights to it and it costs more.
And they know when we watch, pause, fast forward…
…and all your IDSo, renting physical media again.
That last remaining blockbuster is playing the long game.
Now also show ads when you pause!
“Piracy is a service problem” - gaben, the OKish billionaire
I’m about to cancel everything and buy a good vpn service.
And a good NAS. It’s worth every penny.
Isn’t Synology having issues because they expect you to use specifically their drives?
Na. It just shows a warning, but it doesn’t have any effect. Annoying, but not enough to change my mind about them. I’ve got two units and both have been rock solid.
Care to fill me in on what that’s about?
I could Google it, and I’ll do that if you tell me I’m a moron and that’s what I should do. I don’t want to be an imposition, I’d just rather hear from someone who know what they’re doing firsthand.
No worries. NAS is “network attached storage”. It’s just a small computer that with a handful of hard drives that are exposed to your network.
In the current context, it’s a suggestion to host your own media and access it via Plex or Jellyfin.
But it can do far more than that. It’s a great place to backup photos and your other computers. Synology also comes with a lot of pretty great software out of the box, including a full replacement for Google’s “office” suite.
I started with the 5-bay model and it’s been serving me great for years.
It really did hurt my ressources for pirating though. After not downloading anything for years, finding the right sites and proxies again was hard.
Except that the technology has improved and now Sonarr and radarr take all effort out of the equation.
The part that’s wildest to me is that nowadays with all the ways services are trying extract more value from their users (ads, increasing rates, reducing library size, restricting access to features, etc ) plus the DRM, the media consumption experience of just having the media files is so much better than the experience one can have through most of the streaming services or even DVDs with all of the unstoppable prerolls
Whether you rip your own DVDs (legally murky) or you’re just watching a bunch of public domain silent films, or pirating, it’s really hard to beat just having the .mkv and opening it in your player of choice.
About the only way to compete with that is one decent service with good quality, no ads, an extremely wide collection and minimally invasive DRM
Every time I head to the second-hand store I pick up a couple new CDs and DVDs. It’s great! I’m paying max $3.99 apiece and I’ll own them forever.
Movies were on Netflix, TV shows were on Hulu. It was great.
Once Netflix started on their whole “half of all our offerings are going to be original content” is when it began to go downhill. Literally no one (aside from executives) was sitting around going “man, I can’t wait until Netflix starts making shows and movies!” They were a service. That’s all they ever needed to be.
I think they were forced into it when the other companies decided they could make some of that sweet netflix money, so they stopped licensing to netflix and built their own services. Netflix had no choice but to build their own content.
Idk I know I was pretty excited for Netflix’s early original content because the proposition was like “HBO, but on the internet and you can watch it any time” and they were doing big budget stuff. Things only went south when they didn’t keep up the HBO level quality and ruined their reputation to the point where I see “Netflix original” and immediately think “garbage TV”
according to capitalism, it is a problem that needed to be fixed.
I mean one service having a monopoly might not be that great. Good thing about capitalism could be that if the service got shit, there’d be competing alternatives. Doesn’t work out that way often.
Somehow that’s kind of how it’s worked out for music streaming, the music industry is fucked in many other ways but you can choose any of the services and you’ll have more or less access to everything, with some small differences.
Everyone wants to run a subscription service, until they have everyone on a subscription. Then instead of celebrating that they won capitalism, they go and start with the exclusive extra addons and upgrades. Because unfortunately no company in the history of companies has ever said that’s it, we’re making enough money, let’s relax.
actually, plenty of companies say exactly that.
The thing is, they’re small privately owned companies. not giant corporations.
do you have any examples worth checking out?
So definitely no streaming services then, those are all big corpos and they should burn.
imo there have been a plenty of those, they just don’t go on to become (in)famous
The one live action that is amazing is telling us all that it’s good to be a pirate.
What is this from?
The other person is correct, it’s One Piece. The anime is over 1000 episodes and the live action does a great job with most of the characters.
I’m guessing one piece but I don’t know enough to know if that’s correct
yea that’s Luffy and his brother Ace
Avast, me hearties!
Or even better, “even though you pay for the ad free subscription, this video is only available with ads”.
I think we should be able to co-op a digital library… Say, the Internet archive seems to be just that!
Why is it under constant attack? Oh yeah, greed.
Why aren’t we able to digitally host a communal library where each owner can “buy in” access by contributing a library?
Like a digital replication of each piece of physical media owned by a person?
You mean private trackers? Fr those who are against piracy seem to be missing the point. For me it’s about refusing to pay into a corrupt system where the creators get very little of what they make. The agencies get the majority. Which is why I pirate from Ubisoft, buy from Humble Bundle, steal from the corporations, purchase from the independents, donate to charities and exploit the greedy.
You mean as in everyone who owns a book could digitize it and contribute it to the library to be lent out one at a time?
Technically that’s possible, but the real argument being made by rightsholders (such as the publishers suing the Internet Archive) is that they don’t have the right to digitize it and lend it out, because that would be them replicating the work, and thus not just lending out the same copy, even if it’s identical in practice in terms of how many people can access it, and what its content is.
Under current copyright law, you’re going to be sued into oblivion if you try that.
Though to be fair, the main case being made in court that really holds water is that the Internet Archive lent out unlimited copies of digitized copyrighted works during the pandemic when many libraries where physically shut down and unable to offer books. Practically speaking, they did the morally correct thing by providing access to materials that would otherwise have been available, barring the extreme circumstances of the pandemic, but since the publishers thought they deserved to profit from that by selling every student who needed reading material in closed libraries a fresh copy of the book for $20, the Archive is now facing legal consequences, because that’s technically still illegal.
However, if you want a communal library, you kind of get that with things like Little Free Libraries, where you can contribute any book, and books regularly cycle through the neighborhood over time, groups like BuyNothing, where you can very easily have people request and hand off things they no longer want themselves, including books, and you can always technically just start a local group that gets books and lends them like a traditional library would, although some libraries just accept donations of your used books and can lend them out without any additional administrative effort or separate entity set up in your community. That depends on your local library though, if you have one at all.
I’ve been out of school since 2017 so I don’t know for sure, did publisher really drop textbook prices to around $20 during the pandemic? None of the books I needed to buy were under $100.
Sorry, I wasn’t referencing textbooks specifically. I was moreso referencing the reading materials a lot of kids would want for things like ELA classes in middle/high school, many of which are often lent by larger libraries, since many schools can’t afford to maintain 30+ copies of individual books for each class, especially if that class is reading multiple books per semester, and changing books entirely every year.
Most schools now rely on digital interfaces for their local library like Libby, but of course, when physical branches are shutting down, you end up shifting all physical demand to digital demand as well, which exceeded most libraries’ capacities, since they could only afford to buy (on a subscription basis only) some of the ebook licenses that publishers sell in the quantities required.
I believe textbooks may have been implicated, but I don’t believe it was the bulk of the books that the Archive made available.
On your 13 PAID streaming services.
Nah you shouldn’t pay for 13 at once.
You can get it for free in your local public library.
If you have a DVD/BlueRay player that is
I mean that’s not a high bar too entry. I can find them for like $10 at tag sales, craigslut, etc.
One for Linux and LibreDrive gets quickly $70 to 80 tho.
The Last Of Us season 2 being on a different, new subscription service is very much the last straw.
They are both on Max for me. Is this a regional issue?
I thought it was weird when I saw a Disney + billboard with The Last of Us. I just sail the high seas but I remember the HBO intro on that shows season 1. For people of pay for these services its really shitty to have a show they like jump to another provider.
Streaming becoming cable 2.0 is one of the biggest disappointments in the entertainment industry.
Streaming is still better for now. Wait until you can only have bundled services with mandatory ads with a minimum year long commitment.
Agreed. Also, the camera detects when we close our eyes or mute the audio and pauses the ads when we disengage from them.
Well, yeah, we gotta protect shareholder value. Sure, they might be mostly people born into wealth, but anyone can join them. I saw a documentary that showed it costs as little as fifteen million merits.
