Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly * TorrentFreak
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Netflix believes that it's difficult to compete against the free entertainment piracy offers. Not only that, it's growing rapidly too.
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Piracy isn’t even free! People pay thousands of dollars for hardware, and hundreds per year for electricity and various service providers.

But they actually get what they want for that money: Being able to watch whatever you want, anytime, on any device, in high quality and without ads. It must be really hard for streaming services to compete with features as futuristic as that!

I think many people may view those sort of costs differently than the monthly subscription costs of Netflix, etc. Hardware is generally seen as a “one time” cost, and the added electricity costs are difficult to tease out from all the other variable electricity costs.
My personal argument is that I pay a monthly subscription ($15/mo) for a seed box, which is roughly the same cost as subscribing to a single streaming service.
Back before the password sharing crackdown, I had access to my parents’ Netflix account, and every once in a while, I’d try it out, but I’d always quickly get annoyed and would finish watching whatever I was watching via my Plex server.

@Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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The difference is that we own the hardware. We can treat it as bad/good as we wants and we only have ourselves to blame if things go wrong. It also costs exactly the same whether we use it for 1 month or 100 years.

Opex vs capex

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Seriously. I’m running a Synology with 12x16TB. That’d buy a bunch of months of streaming services…but this way actually gives me content to watch that I want to watch.

@jecht360@lemmy.world
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Just out of curiosity, what drive configuration are you running?

quirzle
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RAID6, one big storage pool. On that one, the bulk of it’s usage in a single shared folder for video, though I do have another carved out for a VMware datastore for the homelab, though it’s mostly just there for somewhere to stick VMs when I’m updating DSM on the smaller DS9220+ (4x8TB in RAID 5).

@evulhotdog@lemmy.world
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And offline. And in the quality you define. And on any device.

@jasep@lemmy.world
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You’ve made my DS220+ blush

quirzle
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I’ve got a DS920+ on a shelf, and she’s super jealous of the Rackstation.

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