Everything is set up for the expectation of endless growth. > The problem is there's no end game for these companies I still want to participate in the collective modern culture of tv, movies, etc, so somethings got to give. It's "amoral" to pirate in my worldview, but these companies are equally amoral. On top of that, even if I yield to them completely, I still have to run their DRM blobs on my computing devices for the priviledge. There's no way to manage you're own library, you're subject to whatever the shareholders think they can keep squeezing out of you. If you buy the subscription, they'll chuck ads in front of the subscribed service, and then periodically cut off access to certain content in an effort to maximize their own profit. The problem is there's no end game for these companies, if you agree to buy something, they'll stop selling it and sell you a subscription instead. My attention is not for sale, I'll buy content if it is sold in a manner that is attractive to me in a consumer friendly model, Louis CK selling his standup specials on his own website come to mind, otherwise I won't bother. Netflix, Amazon, Disney et al, aren't interested in showing me what I want to watch for a purchase price, they are after my attention, and to divert me to their most profitable revenue stream (Netflix in house creations etc). mkv file usually "just works" without problems in your favorite media player. Piracy, much to the chagrin of all of these services, usually fixes this: an H.265. It's also that each provider reinvents the wheel and each version is slightly jagged in different ways and doesn't work like a wheel.
It isn't enough that there are like 10 subscriptions to get all of the content you might want. Compound that with The Streaming Wars, I can't help but feel like a lot of people will turn to piracy out of necessity.
Juststream the incredibles Offline#
There have been many times where I've found DRM encumbered products inferior: trying to stream anime on Crunchyroll during primetime only to experience slowdowns trying to screenshot something for a wallpaper only to get it blacked out trying to download offline shows with subtitles, only to find subtitles didn't get downloaded with the video.
“If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.” - Gabe Newell Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,” he said. > “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. But I'm not going to pay money to subject myself to abusive practices and terrible experiences. Concretely, I'd gladly pay $200/month for a good streaming service that avoids the pitfalls mentioned. I'm happy to pay for things that deliver usable experiences. Throw all that on top of not being forced to watch the same ad for Rings of Power the thousandth time in a row, a much broader library of content, a better library of subtitles, and no performance issues. If I had a NAS and Jellyfin setup, I'd have a catalog of basically everything available to stream I wouldn't have to look a dozen different places to see if anyone has it available I'd not have to worry about the streaming rights switching to another service in the middle of a show I'm watching I'd not have to search through a bunch of different services to find where exactly I purchased it I wouldn't have to learn a bunch of different inconsistent crappy, buggy interfaces previous purchases wouldn't mysteriously disappear. It's the fragmentation and lack of ease of use that does it.
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