The era of cheap streaming is officially over

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Streaming has become cable with micro transactions.

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And the irony is that people switched to cable for the exact same reason. They got tired of the nonsense that broadcast TV pulled with subscriptions for different channels and all the ads and everything, and went to cable because you paid one bill for every channel. Then, everyone moved to streaming because you had to buy 50 different cable packages for the one channel on each you actually cared about, and there were just too many ads to deal with, etc.

Something something, those who don't listen to history are doomed to lose profit margins or whatever.

TorrentFreak occassionally posts a list of sites, just use a good no logging VPN.

That and movies just suck nowadays. This is partially old man yelling at cloud stuff but also true since the death of DVD's means studios won't take risks anymore since they can't recoup funds after a poor box office.

On the usenet side of the house, I think the only big change was NZB Matrix going away.

Galaxy torrents is a newer, solid option friend

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Oh, so they defederated and y'all complaining about that now. I see how it is 😋

I'm on Windows and it's never hindered me when I needed to go download something that would make a studio exec cry. Granted, I use Firefox, but I'm not sure what Chrome would do differently - it's just a matter of clicking links that get sent off to qBittorrent to handle. What "big brothering" do they do?

But so far google and microsoft are incompetent big brothers, to the point that most people will find free streaming sites just by searching "free streaming epx of show". Now we are not talking good streaming, or even safe but if you want an example just look at any place with poor users (like a school or library).

What exactly are you talking about? Google and Microsoft have literally nothing to do with any of this.

Time will tell...

True as long as they keep an ad-free tier.

I've found a DVD rental place close to me with quite a collection. Honestly thinking about just unsubscribing from all streaming and going all in on DVD rental. I watched one recently for the first time ... you forget how consistently good the qualilty is compared to streaming (YMMV). But, in true hipster fashion, being more deliberate about what I watch, more openly exploratory, making more of an event of it, all seems attractive. If streaming were actually convenient, fine, but with the way things are now ... they can go to hell.

If you can go to a source of older content it often comes pre-filtered for the better stuff too, so you don't have to wade through a ton of rubbish to find the occasional gem like you do with the new stuff.

We all knew that even before the strike too. Musicians get paid pennies on a dollar, and it's the same with writers. Actors are probably treated the same way, if you're not one of the hall of fame elites who get insane cash for garbage roles, after they've been in a Marvel movie once

They get paid, they just don’t get residuals for life from every job they were paid to do.

Disney is an absolute must if you have a kid, and a great value besides.

Otherwise it makes 0 sense except for maybe star wars sometimes.

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Didn’t 1337x just get caught injecting bit coin mining software into their stuff?

Same, the only streaming services I have now are paid for by my phone provider for free. Besides that, I sail the high seas proudly

People used to do it with cable TV. It cost a fortune and was full of ads.

No one pays to watch ads. They pay to watch movies and shows, which are (optionally) supplemented in cost by ads.

It certainly feels like we're on the precipice of something breaking what with computers rapidly getting more locked down, these secure enclaves and/or TPM chips verifying that you're watching on an approved OS and web browser before allowing you to stream, and then the video is encrypted until it gets to your actual TV. Crazy what they're getting away with.

In the near future I foresee pirates pointing cameras at TV screens then using AI to clean up the video, then media companies responding by creating randomized slightly different versions of videos so they can trace them back to the account holder who shared it (move some tree branches around, slightly different colored hat on background actors, etc) and perhaps getting legislation passed to stop cameras from being allowed to record IP protected material, and so on.

VPN has been necessary for pirating for a long time. And fortunately a VPN is cheaper then any streaming service, and has other benefits besides.

If you’re torrenting without a VPN you’re doing it wrong. Also you should look at Usenet instead.

You just need a VPN. Public trackers are generally fine.

Big advertising budgets that are funded from the value alienated from exploited workers and consumers. Information asymmetry in the marketplace means that even if you make a superior product at a lower price, you could still be outcompeted by an expensive inferior product if more people know about that worse product and don't know about your product.

That's for most basic products anyway. Luxury products like bags and clothes are almost all marketing since the cost to create them is so low compared to their sales price. People buy them because of perceptions created by marketing and not any inherent value in the product itself.

As far as I know internet advertising is an economy destroying sunk cost fallacy. No one makes money off of it, but if they stop basically everything collapses catastrophically, so they just keep pouring more money in to it in hopes that someone will find a way to make it profitable before the bill comes due.

Is it really unclear? If you had never heard of a product, you would much less likely purchase it. If Coke stopped advertising today, they'd start a very slow but real loss of market to it's competiton, be it Pepsi or whatever. Note that a LOT of advertising is not for you. It's for the corporate buyer at name your favorite restaurant so that they think that they'll get more consumers in the door because they have Coke products, as opposed to some other brand.

You know it's coming. Why would a streaming company want a consumer buying one month, binging a single show they're interested in, then immediately cancelling the subscription after, when you could guarantee a 6- or 12-month revenue stream for them?

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'd just wait until the second part is out, sub one month.

Well I'll subscribe for the second month.

Or they could release one per week, two batches isn't really "starting to get wise to that" imho. Either way, being patient is the best and only paying for one month

Does proton's VPN free tier not block p2p file sharing usage?

Hell, I dunno. I just plug my laptop into a regular old tv via hdmi.

To be fair this is also not good though. It's convenient, sure, but it creates a monopoly that can dictate what they pay to the artists - which is often close to nothing.

I would definitely love to set up a server for something like Plex if I had enough content to justify it. To me it seems excessive to have a server for just a very small handful of shows, in my case.

I did not do a deep dive but it looks like it might be a way to access usenet.

It's basically a Torrent tracker as a service with a web interface to directly stream your torrents in your browser or to a Chromecast, Apple TV and whatever.

Do you have any stats/resources that show that these streaming services are inherently unprofitable?

OTA TV is shit quality and chock full of ads. No thank you. You enjoy, though.

Even then, you can just wait around 10-40 minutes in most cases for a 3-5 GB movie to download.

I usually just start a download and search for a torrent on my phone that's connected to Radarr/Sonarr on my PC.

But as part of my revenge against The Mouse.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Discovery too. It's an empire built off the spectacle of sociopathic greedy assholes (both on the shows and in the boardroom).

it's got some weird bugs but I generally haven't noticed audio issues. casting doesn't work perfectly, though.