It’s not even surprising anymore platforms do this & act all Pikachu face why piracy is spiking

Netflix & all these streaming platforms have completely lost touch & they will lose more customers in the long run

To quote Gabe Newell on Piracy

“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”

they first succeeded in curbing piracy before the moved to ruining the value of their offerings.

I despise ads. I can’t even bring myself to watch Netflix or Amazon Prime. If there is advertising, it ain’t worth it, no matter how cheap.

There’s not enough of us, but I still don’t care. I refuse to pay to watch ads. Also, I had Prime and they wouldn’t let me watch high def with firefox on Linux, so even though I paid for it, I had to hit the high seas to watch content in high def.

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There’s not enough of us, but I still don’t care. I refuse to pay to watch ads.

i had this conversation with my dad recently about how shitty everything is now with ads etc, and his response boiled down to “i don’t care enough”. sucks to see people being complacent in being subject to greedy corporate whims. as much as i want people with that mindset to care, i have no idea how to effectively argue against “i don’t care”.

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Idk what age your dad is, but I’m 53 (gen-x) and my generation are notorious for being difficult to market to. Maybe he just blanks it out, like an automatic mute button. I used to do that but ads are far too mentally disruptive for me these days. I’ve had enough.

Relate it to something that they do care about and show how it negatively affects that.

Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

@Tregetour@lemdro.id
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Mass market subscription services won’t offer ad-free precisely because of the mass market exposure available to advertisers. You need to look to niche services instead, where a critical proportion of subscribers (say 30%) won’t tolerate ads as opposed to 1%. Maintaining an ad-free option in such a case is basic business sense. Not only that, you’ll find the ads-on tiers are more respectful of people’s attention and intellect when it comes to ad content and presentation.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Dear Netflix, I’ve been a loyal customer since 2013. I’ve been perfectly happy with our arrangement. YOU are the one terminating our contract, not me. It seems you’d prefer to get rid of a happy, paying customer in the hopes you can somehow persuade them to embrace a higher cost or shittier experience (ads). That’s a bold move Cotton. Buh-bye dons pirate hat

YARR MATEYS

AOL still has 1.5 million active monthly subscribers. People forget to cancel subscriptions all the time.

Subscriptions are a great way to sell a service to someone who isn’t using it, and when they want to cancel it getting the spent money on something never used is generally impossible.

IMO for something like a streaming service… if you don’t stream a minute of video in a month you shouldn’t have to pay anything.

@cerement@slrpnk.net
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thing is, most of us should of known, they pulled this same crap back when they tried forcing everyone to drop the physical discs and switch to streaming only …

@jaschen@lemm.ee
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I get Netflix for free from tmobile. But I use real-debrid and streamio to watch Netflix shows because the UI is better.

Can you give me a tldr or a source for a tldr of setting up real-debrid with stremio?

@jaschen@lemm.ee
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I highly recommend doing to on a PC or Mac. Doing this initially on a phone is buggy. Essentially Streamio is just a player like VLC, but has the ability to have add-ons. These add-on doesn’t need to be resetup on each device you install it on. Just sign in and it’s working.

As for real debrid, I would pay the 180 days one because they give you points that you can redeem for another month or so of days.

Good luck.


Stremio Setup Guide Part 1: Stremio

For Windows/Mac users - Go to https://www.stremio.com/ and download the relevant client for your platform

For Android users - Install Stremio through the Google Play Store: Stremio - Apps on Google Play

Open Stremio and sign up with email or Facebook

Part 2: Real Debrid

Go to https://real-debrid.com/

Sign up

Go to Premium Offers

Choose a package and subscribe. I found that using Amazon Pay as the payment method is the most convenient (if you have an Amazon account)

Part 3: Torrentio

Go to Torrentio Lite - Stremio Addon

Towards the bottom of the page, select the “Debrid Provider” option and select “Real Debrid” from the drop-down menu. This will cause a new text box to appear underneath.

Copy the API key from this link https://real-debrid.com/apitoken and paste it into the “RealDebrid API Key**”** box

In the Debrid Options menu: Check the box “Don’t show download to debrid links” and leave the other boxes unchecked.

Click “Install” at the bottom. It should open the Stremio app and prompt you with an “Install Addon” window. Click the green install button at the bottom.

Optional but highly Recommended - In Stremio, click the puzzle piece in the top right to view your addons. Click “My Addons” and uninstall the “WatchHub” addon. It’s an eyesore and it clutters your streams list.

Now that you have completed the setup, you may install Stremio on any device of your choice (excluding IOS) and log in to your account to start streaming Movies/TV. Refer to the section below for Stremio installation on FireOS devices (Fire Stick, FireTV).

Howdy
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Exactly what I do… I keep thinking it’s too good to last. I still download things if I know I’m going to rewatch them a lot.

@jaschen@lemm.ee
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Me too. But make sure to log into real debrid and just download it from there.

Howdy
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I’m gonna be honest. I never have done that till today. Wow… So much easier. Incredible.

@jaschen@lemm.ee
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Sometimes I find the movie with the best subtitles and then play it in streamio. Pause and then go to real debrid to download it for when I’m going on a flight.

@dumblederp@aussie.zone
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I was given a netflix login by a friend, I don’t use it.

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Because i aint spending 3 figures a month on 5+ different sports streaming services to follow one team. Simple.

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The only thing that keeps me with subscriptions is the cartoons my daughter watches, because they are hard to find dubbed in my language (Portuguese). It’s still more convenient to subscribe than try to find the dubbed cartoons online. For everything I watch I use my arr stack.

Sounds like your daughter is at just the right age to start learning a new language? (Half joking) pirate-jammin

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I bet watching them in English with Portuguese subtitles would prob be a great way for a kid to learn English on the sly

@jonne@infosec.pub
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Definitely worked for me.

prole
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It seems very common among millennials and Gen Z.

@BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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It’s been common for decades - I firs learned of it in the 80’s.

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That’s the best approach IMO but till she can watch a cartoon and understand it may be take a while…so in the mean time I’m kinda tied to streaming.

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@BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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The language of Arrrrrr? 😁

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Depending on her age of course… But you can find SRT (subtitle) files for literally almost everything, often in dozens of languages. They’re super tiny too since it’s basically just a txt file

There are still plenty of good deals in streaming if you have shifted to on-demand. If you want live TV or sports, they’re out to gouge the fuck out of you. Luckily my Wife came around to on-demand only and an antenna. Of course, they’re trying hard to take away the antenna option from everyone with ATSC 3.0.

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they get everything they deserve.

beaxingu
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invest in a nas instead of subscriptions.

@Blackmist@feddit.uk
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Gee, we’ve tried taking content away, raising prices, injecting adverts and forcing them to use our crappy clients.

Why are people turning to piracy?

Advertising and lobbying are the only thing these people know how to do.

@Shyfer@ttrpg.network
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Not to mention removing features, like Netflix removing the ability to download media.

@Blackmist@feddit.uk
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If only there was a way for media to exist as a file.

Alas, it’s just not possible.

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I feel like what I used to be back in 2006-2010, mr. family pirate, although most of my family is glad to pay for one or two services, mostly Amazon prime, which is one of the cheapest. I let my Netflix account cancel from lack of pay some 6 months ago, nobody called me yet.

Earning money in BRL and lots of stuff having a base price in dollars doesn’t help us much either.

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Case in point

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Not available in Australia

yea that’s the majority reason why people do it /s

The pikachu face is capitalism working as intended, instead of the corrupt capitalism they’re used to with regions of the world carved up/tariffs/government buying the product if you’re having a bad year.

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Infamous implies somebody is famous in a negative way. If anything, Gabe is a shining example that should be upheld.

I think in this example it could go either way, depending on who is viewing it.

Regular people would say he’s famous.

People running streaming platforms and other big corpos (especially Tim Sweeny) might say he’s infamous.

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It’s infamous among big business execs. It’s famous for everyone else.

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“Infamous” - that means more than famous!

@Slappula@lemmy.zip
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Found the El Guapo fan.

Reed Hastings: “But our stock price shows customers love enshittification?”

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Now I remember why I don’t pay attention to 7 news. This article is an ad in itself.

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