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Am I the only one that remembers the “cut the cord” and “stop feeding the cable pig” nonsense? What happened to all that? Thankfully, none of this has affected me, then or now. I don’t usually bother with “programming” of any kind but, when I do, “arr mateys.”
I mean it was nonsense to think it would solve your costs, but streaming is superior to cable TV from a tech standpoint for sure.
People should expect that yeah, new software is cheap when it’s rolled out, but it’s gonna get more expensive as time goes on, but I can understand why that wasn’t quite as apparent to people 10 years ago as it will be 10 years from now
That’s literally the opposite of how it’s supposed to be, new tech is expensive and only early adopters can buy in, then when the EA’s money comes in, it is spent to improve and make the tech cheaper, which allows it to be adopted by the masses. With streaming, all of the fat cats decided to start it cheap to get everyone hooked and moved over, then jacked up the prices because the shareholders aren’t satisfied with their draconic gold hoards.
I think the model that you’re referring to is generally more applicable to hardware, but since you can make free copies of an app, Uber for instance can keep things low cost till they eat the competition
The cable pigs moved into the streaming game, and used licensing to enshitify streaming
I never left the 7 seas matey
Indeed. The era of cheap pirated content… continues much as it always had.
Music is next.
The shitshow will continue. I think it has just begun.
It’s a little different as Spotify/apple/etc don’t produce music and are not trying to out license each other. Really good thing you don’t have to sub to half a dozen music services.
Isn’t that interesting? Maybe if the studios weren’t allowed to own the TV channels, we’d have more competition and the prices would go down.
Same shit definitley happens with record labels on streaming, thank goodnes for indie, kinda killed that a bit
Spotify/apple/etc don’t produce music and are not trying to out license each other.
Tidal seemed to try going down this road with exclusives but thankfully none of the others followed.
Does anyone even use Tidal?
Moded why not
I believe they have a high quality streaming option that some audiophiles prefer.
Ah fair
Grateful that they don’t. But they have tried to do it with podcasts.
Spotify “pulled an Apple”, bought Gimlet and moved all their podcasts onto Spotify exclusively. I don’t use Spotify and chose to find alternatives. I’m happy I did.
Thank God I listen to DIY punk subgenres
DIY? That must not mean what I think it does.
ETA: It does mean do it yourself. Interesting.
Look into The Mountain Goats; all their early stuff was recorded on a boombox cassette deck.
It is inevitable, every industry grows to destroy itself through contradictions. It is just annoying how fast this business model took to do it.
Have to keep the profits increasing every quarter, otherwise shareholders will sell and buy your competitors and line go down. The article talks a little about how a lot of the streaming platforms have raised prices this year since right now shareholders want to see more profit instead of growth with interest rates up.
We have the best system, folks. Truly the greatest.
and thus began the second golden age of piracy
There’s no way the model is sustainable once everyone starts their streaming platform.
My use of Kodi and debrid says otherwise.
No, thanks… As long as I can download whatever I want whenever I want (add it to nas and watch through Kodi having like Netflix experience), there is no way that those people will get my money. Most of it is just bullshit anyway. And if I like or want to support some quality release I’ll go to cinema.
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Get Kodi, and look up instructions to get ‘the crew’ Plug in added to it, and then grab a month subscription to real-debrid and check it out. Bit of an effort to get set up, but once it is, it works arguably better than streaming. 4k, better bit rate, sports and all the TV shows and Movies, language and sub options, the lot.
I have it all set up on my TV box, and while browsing can be a bit wonkier, my watching experience is unmatched.
Watching content without paying is one thing. Actually paying the wrong person is actually quite malicious. You deserve to have all your favourite shows cancelled.
I’ve not done this, and I prefer anyone see as opposed to DMs, but there’s a suite of open source apps https://medium.com/linux-shots/self-host-media-stack-jellyfin-radarr-sonarr-jackett-transmission-3e6a0adf716e
stremio + real-debrid + orion
Basically, orion finds the torrents, a debrid service cache’s torrents and streams them to you, stremio renders the stream.
No need for a VPN, no need to seed, no need for the *arr family, nice UI with high wife-approval-factor to browse content.
What benefits does Orion have over torrentio for Real Debrid?
torrentio
probably none! I’m new to stremio and orion was the only way I could find to link stremio to real debrid. Thanks for mentioning this one I’ll look into it!
orion is non-free btw. I assume torrentio is also paid ?
edit: just installed, I see it’s free. Looks great. I may have been turned off previously by the utorrent logo 😆
Tried the trial and it found higher quality releases more often. I just don’t understand how it works with the credit system.
Well, I’ve canceled everything. Even amazon prime. All I had left was youtube premium and prime. Canceled both this month. Premium stops in a few days and prime will finish out the year. I canceled Netflix something kike 2 years now. I’m back to being a pirate at this point.
Cool, looks like it’s time to revisit my streaming services again. We’re on Disney+ legacy, which is great because we get like $8/month off with my credit card (Amex Everyday), but if they end that deal, I’ll probably leave too.
Netflix is getting to be not worth it, so I’ll probably go order some DVDs of TV shows my kids like, then cancel and see how that goes. We really don’t watch all that much.
Just recently bought a stack of used DVDs. This is the way.
Again? How many times has it ended now?
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Around 2010 there was this “pledge” where a website people basically collected a list of things they’d require in order to stop pirating tv shows and movies and I think it came down to:
Provide easy access to large library Provide multi language support, must offer original language Allow downloads/offline viewing Be reasonably priced
Plus some additional stuff I can’t remember.
When Netflix got big, they basically covered it all. Then everyone wanted a piece of the pie.
Back to piracy then. 15$ for put.io ✨🙏
The era of cheap streaming is over, now begins the era of free streaming
Long live 1337x and Stremio.
Didn’t 1337x just get caught injecting bit coin mining software into their stuff?
You’re gonna get a bitcoin mining infection from a video file? lmao
ah yes! the good old video.mp4.exe
The rumor was it was put in a cracked game not a video lol
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All you need is some popcorn and some time
