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Hello https://jellyfin.org, transmission, radarr and sickbeard
I think this is why net neutrality is so important. Back in the days the electromagnetic spectrum was not as heavily regulated as it is now. Technically anyone with the technical know how could set up a broadcasting station. Then CBS, ABC, NBC all got together and did exactly what these companies are doing. They banded together to make it harder for the average person to get access to technology. This is their primariy goal. To give their companies priority at the network level (seconds matter) and also, most likely what they want is to 1. Find ways for their content to be regulated differently and be sold as network packages 2. Probably allow their content to be delivered through means that require people pay THEIR ISPs. Now, i will be honest. I have not read the article but i knlw this has been the intended goal for many years.
Yea, the logical next step is sadly for the streaming services to just buy the ISPs with the amount of money they have and lobby so they can block Torrent, Usenet and VPN traffic to stop piracy. Most people will keep paying for the services whilst there’s signs of this happening because they actually believe all the “you wouldn’t steal a car, so why would you steal the 9th shitty Star Wars spin off series” propaganda. Then they’ll block porn tube sites too, for the children of course. The first one to do it will get all of the Christians on-side immediately who will accuse the others of being evil and allowing such awful filth so the others will quickly follow suit. After time passes I’m sure they’ll bring out their own almost porn type content that will prove very popular. I could be wrong, but it’ll be interesting to see how things turn out.
Spooky shit!
This is honestly what Google should’ve done with Fiber.
Big tech’s lobbyist dollars would have beaten Comcast’s with ease.
That’s called a cartel
This can only be a bad thing.
They will win and like live nation, will merge with more well placed companies until they are printing their own money.
streamers are currently being forced to reckon with their profitability — or lack thereof.
Netflix’s 2023 2nd quarter revenue: 8.1 billion dollars BTW
Brace yourself for a tidal wave of corporate apologists rushing to point out that “revenue isn’t profit!,!”
Anybody can look these numbers up. I’m not sitting on some secret Bloomberg terminal LOL
Then why only mention revenue?
I didn’t realize people can’t do a 10 second google search on their own. 🙄
Net income isn’t the whole story anyways, especially when this article points out that one of their costs is lobbying for a cause that isn’t necessary. They’re raking in billions of dollars every year.
“just Google it, bro” is never a source.
Not my fault you aren’t capable of typing 4 words into a search engine.
It’s not a ‘source’, bud.
🙄
This does not spark joy.
every pirate related theme song getting increasingly louder in the background
It sounds terrible but I still love it
ALESTORM INTENSIFIES
I have a feeling part of their plan is to sink all the pirate ships.
The only way to do that, is to kill humanity.
good luck with that, they’ve been trying for 20 years
If watching One Piece has taught me anything, it’s that if you try and kill a pirate all that happens is you make better pirates.
They’re like spiders
I was going to say a Hydra or bacteria, but sure, spiders.
Nintendo has been putting anti-piracy protection in all of their consoles since the NES in the 80’s. Every single one was cracked eventually. Oh, but surely they must be getting better? Nope, the Switch was cracked less than a year from release.
And Nintendo controls the hardware in this situation. Streaming services do not.
I just bought 16 TB to expand my media server :)
You must have a lot of Linux ISO backups. Doing your part to preserve open source software history.
Yar har, fiddle de dee Being a pirate is alright to be Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free You are a pirate!
Yo-ho, all together, hoist the colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!
It felt inevitable at some point this was going to happen after they got caught off guard by the strikes to make sure that it never happens again, but the fight is not over yet.
It’s more important than ever then for you guys to support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, fight for workers, and fight for unions.
Otherwise, they’ll just keep squeezing and squeezing, until there is nothing left.
Can’t support the WGA strike as it’s over.
Corporations: hey guys, let’s unionize so the government doesn’t exploit us.
Employees: hey, can we als…
Corporations: NO.
Can’t wait for this bullshit to get denied because writers/actors are already striking.
Well it’s not employees want the corporations to have unionized, but they just have less power to do anything about it
I didn’t say the employees wanted corporations to unionize or not. The joke was corporations interrupting employees asking if they can also unionize.
I didn’t imply you wanted it
Collective action for we, not for thee.
Arrr matey, it be lookin like time to raid an pillage
Ha hoy capt’n!
Checkout streamio
You’ll definitely stop paying these streaming giants.
Thanks, going to check this out.
Dude everything on that site was pay for or made you go different apps and pay subscription. Streamio is BS.
Streamio is not for regulars.
I’ll give you a hint- torrentio
Is it legal? I don’t want to go getting into illegal stuff
You probably unknowingly break multiple laws a day settle down
Let’s call it “Grey area”. If you know what you’re doing.
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Its still illegal. Don’t pretend your actions hold some sort of moral high ground. If you disagree with the law go change it.
I’m fine being on the low end of the moral scale “stealing” from the rich lol.
But why respect a stupid law that isn’t really enforced anyway?
You don’t have to respect any laws. That’s your progitive. However, don’t claim a moral high ground
I see what you’re getting at, but I think ‘moral high ground’ might not be the phrase you’re looking for.
Laws and morals are explicitly different. That’s why juries exist, so that a law may be put against the morals of a situation and the morals may prevail if need be.
Breaking the law isn’t necessarily immoral. It’s just illegal. So it isn’t like someone breaking the law is seeking to take the moral high ground in the first place, nor does that mean that someone who only ever follows the law always has the moral high ground. Lawful-evil does exist.
I mean, what kind of immoral bastard would let their donkey sit in a bathtub anyway?? https://americanbathfactory.com/blogs/news/crazy-bathtub-laws
Your argument falls though when you start personally benefiting from you pirated media. If you don’t want to support companies don’t watch or use there products and don’t give them your money
I don’t care about the moral high ground. Large corporations can go fuck themselves, seeing as they fuck us every day.
“Guillotine sales soar as citizens band together for lobbying power”
One can dream
Kind of lobbying I can get behind.
What’s the famous quote? Something about how a capitalist will sell you the rope from which you plan to hang them? Something like that?
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Is good to see the US us finally embracing unions ❤️
Laws like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which features overly broad definitions of the platforms it targets and has troubling privacy implications thanks to surveillance requirements, could sweep companies like Netflix or Disney up into its dragnet.
Streaming companies are usually pro-net neutrality, and that’s been a difficult concept for lawmakers and regulators in DC to fully grasp.
For those that read just the headline. Not everything is black and white.
It doesn’t matter; they’re controlling media and entertainment and that makes them always bad regardless of any extenuating circumstances.
All of those problems can be solved by breaking apart all of those corporations, putting all modern franchises in the public domain and legalizing pirating. Change the law solely for our benefit and not theirs. If they don’t make content anymore, great; we’ll shut off their shitty AIs and make shit ourselves like we were supposed to be doing the whole time.
Every now and again, their interests align with the average person.
But make no mistake, the companies forming a coalition like this for one or two good causes won’t make up for the long term damage it will no doubt cause.
