I like how piratebay and the many torrenting sites decayed to near extinction when streaming destroyed cable, only to come back 100x stronger because streaming subsequently pulled the same crap as cable.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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Once the proportion of tech people is overwhelmed by business people in a closed system the tech always goes to shit. Tech people know that they have to be more convenient than piracy to stay alive, business people only care about the ROI
I've got an idea - let's get rid of the business people! Put em on a boat in shark infested waters and tell them there are free MBAs in the water.
Cruelty to sharks
Are they in a good place right now? I haven't touched it since the limewire days, lol
yup
Yarr harr fiddle-dee-dee!
There's only one price I'm willing to pay for content with ads, and that's zero.
You really should have replaced "zero" with "free" to make your post rhyme.
Yarr harr fiddle-dee-dee!
There's only one price I'm willing to pay for content with ads, and that's ze
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You will pay for your insolence!
Insolence? We are pirates! We don’t even know what that means!
What do you mean fight them? Half of the streaming services are cable tv providers.
I wouldn't consider Disney, Amazon, HBO etc to be cable tv providers. I don't think at&t has a streaming service do they?
I know bell owns crave but I think the providers are the minority for streaming services
ATT owns HBO (HBOMAX). They're merging with Warner Bros and Discovery (owns Discovery+). Hulu is now majority owned by Disney after Disney purchased 21st Century Fox, but was originally established by News Corporation and NBC Universal (owned by Comcast). Comcast also owns Peacock streaming through NBC.
Basically all of the Netflix competitors had cable companies dive into them to do a quick name change and reclaim their market share. It's also when Netflix lost most of its library, because they pulled all of the licensed content they could to their own platform. Disney+ was one of the few non-cable services, with even Paramount+ being owned by Paramount Global (CBS Entertainment Group), which is the cable arm of Paramount Pictures that owned everything from BET Networks to Comedy Central and Showtime.
At this point, streaming services are literally just cable with a paint job.
Ah I didn't realize that many cable companies bought all the platforms
Yeah, I'd never liked Hulu because Comcast was behind it, and I will forever hate Comcast, but the enshittification of streaming services is essentially an intended return to the structure of cable packages.
doesn't ATT own direct tv? Can't think of a streaming service but they have vested interest in a cable TV provider
guess who has a NAS running jellyfin and a VPN to his home network?
this guy right here
I've wanted to hop ship from Plex, but man it's just too convenient I have not bothered
I use both, jellyfin is great, but plex is miles ahead + wayy cooler
But will you actually leave?
Money is the only language these people talk.
Hello jellyfin my old friend...
Well not that old, the project started only a few years ago but really has matured to the point where I don't need Amazon or Netflix bullshit anymore
thank god for Streamio
Meh, jellyfin
I hate you!
I know
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Just imagine that he's pooping.