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    8 months ago

    And this is exactly what is pushing people back to piracy. It’s easier to get all your movies from the pirate bay than it is to find it legally and pay for it.

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    Honestly I put up with doing that when the prices were better. After damn near 15 years I had to dust off the hat and sail the seas. It forced me to learn how to set up a home server which I’ve never even entertained the idea of until now.

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      I’m about to be in the same boat (pun intended). I think I’m going to learn to use Linux and set up a home media server at the same time.

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      Yrah, I went land lubber for a few years there too. Now I’m back flying the black flag and teaching friends. I’m starting to learn about plex too.

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    What really annoys me is paying for the biggest Netflix package to get 4K content, then you watch a somewhat recent (non-Netflix) movie like The Equalizer (2014) and it’s 1080p or less with a terrible bit rate.

    That movie is available in 4K HDR. I know because I downloaded it to my Plex server and switched to watching that after 15 minutes of watching macroblocking and pixelation artefacts via the legal method.

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      8 months ago

      Your next step is to stop paying for the shit version. Things only change when you hit their wallet

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      What annoys me ever more is that despite paying for the 4K tier of the streaming platform, and the ‘best tier’ on my Internet plan. If I were to watch a not insignificant amount of 4k movies - I would hit my ‘data cap’ and be unable to use the Internet at all for the rest of the month.

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          That I have a data cap of 100GB and after that I am at 56kbps speeds? Because we treat the internet as a luxury instead of a utility.

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            WTF, Internet providers once tried to impose data caps on home internet here in Germany, but they dropped that real fast.

            And 100GB isnt even a lot of data, its more like a top tier phone plan, not even close to enough for a home.

            I will soon get gigabit fiber for 40€ per month, so yeah.

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      It’s a consequence of only thinking one quarter at a time.

      If all the content creators pooled their content into one platform and split the profit based on viewership, they’d be making far more money on the deal. I’d gladly pay $50/month for access to everything in one place.

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    Just Watch is a great app for finding out where something is.

    Yes. It is fucking ridiculous that we need an app to find this stuff, but at least there’s an app…

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    When pirating becomes easier and more convenient than using the legit services, the industry is doing something very wrong…

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      Genuine games being sold with cracks to remove the DRM instead of recompiling it without the DRM because the DRM doesn’t work on modern machines and they can’t be arsed to recompile and actually fix anything so even they resort to piracy.

      It’s absolutely ridiculous.

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        Yeah I still haven’t forgiven EA for making me waste 15 fucking dollars on a fucking sport demo disc that didn’t fucking work on my computer, and I had to reinstall it uninstall it so many times that I used up all five of my installs, because apparently you don’t get those back when you want install. Fuck you EA

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        Excuse me, what?

        Got any links for that? I’d love to read more about it, that seems really stupid but also believable considering our current market.

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          It’s a bit of a rabbit hole, but Rockstar was caught recently selling a cracked version of their game on steam.

          A lot of the time the person / group doing the cracking leave a digital signature. Here’s a hacker news link to the original Twitter thread that caused a bit of fuss recently:

          https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394665

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            Jesus Christ that’s embarrassing. And it’s not even one of the companies commonly labeled as “lazy” like EA or Ubisoft.

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    Kill the dvd and blu ray.

    Because nobody wants that stuff. It’s old and uncool. Streaming is it.

    Now we own nothing.

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          I have a 4k Blu-ray player because my wife felt the need to spend the money. I think we’ve used it twice in the 3 years we’ve owned it. But my desktop has both a Blu-ray and a DVD drive, they get enough use I’ve already had to replace the Blu-ray once, and the DVD is starting to get wonky.

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        Disc prices are stupid now as well. Streaming seemed to kill off the year old bargain bin discs, so instead of picking something up for £3 or £5, the 4K discs are all like £25 each. They can suck my balls if they think I’m paying that.

        Bring back DVD prices, and I’d cheerfully own some 4K discs again.

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        I type it in Radarr or Sonarr and let my -arr stack work its magic. Depending on how popular a show or movie is, I can watch it in a few minutes on my Kodi TV. Wouldn’t really call it annoying.

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          Check out overseerr. You can search for movies or tv shows from there and it will request to radarr and sonarr for you. But what’s nice is it shows you all the popular shows, gives your recommendations, you can search by streaming service if you want.

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            Overseerr has been a game changer for my Plex/jellyfin which I share with 10+ friends and family. They submit tons of requests and it all automatically shows up on my nas without me needing to be bothered. I used to only download what I wanted and only take special requests and only for movies or completed series because I didn’t want to be harassed every week for the latest episode. Now my recently aired row is a constant stream of new episodes aired that week and I get friends saying “oh I didn’t know you had series x, now I don’t need that streaming service” - it’s not obvious to them still that I can get almost anything if they reauest it and overseer makes it so frictionless.

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    This is by design. It’s the intent of copyright law to make getting copyrighted content a miserable deal for the customer and a great deal for the copyright holder, because the thinking goes that this encourages content creation. No technology is gonna change that, only changing the law will.

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    Try living outside the USA, lots of times stuff is just plain unavailable and if it is available the only way to know is just manually checking every service since googling just tells you where is streaming in the US.

    Stremio has everything tho 😉