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do you think this is a thing? ...or was? that i recall, peak pandemic, i torrented... westworld, first season. altered carbon. star trek discovery. then i get the first crabby copyright threat automated warning since, like, 2005 [that warning said, "we've detected you sharing illegal files via Direct Connect on your campus ethernet connection and please disconnect such activities immediately," and i very honestly wrote back that it was summer break now and such materials had not been connected to their network for over two months now] younger, i would have been all NEENER and just gone VPN. like, it's a clown breeze to get around that. instead, i thought: you know what, i actually don't care that much so i stopped watching all these shows. i've noticed they've not been doing so well recently. westworld gone. who the fuck subscribes to CBS... whatever their streaming shit is called that the people in sales, the product managers, they're going to just subscribe to your show. it's not that they couldn't torrent; it's simply not natural as breathing like it is for some. and part of what makes shows popular is people talking about them, what happened, oh my god did you see. i'm wondering how many others are out there like me who are more... you know, if i can't torrent it, well, i don't give a shit. i was never going to pay for this either way. so just a thot -- with all the streaming competition these days, maybe they're actually killing a lot of their own momentum when they go after torrents. that despite all the claims of piracy causing direct financial damage, maybe it actually made them money through the buzz thots? |
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especially as netflix about to crack down on account sharing: are they going to wind up shooting themselves in the foot; exponential buzz decay |
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are "shows" as important to you now as they used to be? i guess. |
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can't remember the last time i paid for just tv or film content. probably the breaking bad dvd set. slsk rules over all, tho torrenting entire series collections i understand if yr a compulsive data hoarder |
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yes, that's kind of it. i literally used to have an alarm set for the simpsons in the late 90s. i haven't been able to stand recent episode of the show in a decade then we get to, "i like this series and i'd be up for buying it" and fuck DVDs, i could rip them all myself and after all that... it would be better quality than torrenting, actually. there is still a punch they can swing there but it's barely worth the effort and i'm still entirely happy with the entire Star Trek TNG torrent i got, well, perhaps also a decade ago TNG, it's made for standard def. All the early crappy CG, they don't even have it rendered in blu-ray scale and the fuck do you have to offer? But maybe a little still From there I say: If you offered pristine, unfucked with quality, in, like... hell, ProRes or something, subtitles official, maybe some extras -- i would bin my pirated copy and pay you $100 for this. but only for full quality files with no DRM. and can you imagine the day? but i say $100 is the right price; they'd sell more of this than they expect. if they ever were to now all the streaming services are spamming TV shows every six seconds and they're gone before anyone has a chance to miss them. game of thrones was the last hurrah. and about where they flipped a shit on streaming piracy |
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Netflix has a small army of incredibly cut-throat people who have been selected for their talent for getting some netflix series injected into the news this way or that. They have deliberately leaned into this; hurriedly cranking out a series on this or that microcosm before it falls out of the news cycle. If they make it fast enough, "netflix series drfgdfg" makes it out with the rounds of the story. This not only promotes the netflix series, but gives the illusion that people actually give a fuck. The prominence of netflix series in news stories itself promotes the illusion that people give a fuck about netflix series in general. my hunch is, they actually don't, but not everyone thinks terribly much and "oh this seems big i'll just have a watch" and this seems fragile. it'll implode as soon as people question it |
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are "shows" over? as we knew them, anyways |
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Money Is Stupid |
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~ then does having less money make one less stupid? |
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so the disney bizney plan is: price the ad-free tier unattractively because they can make more money off of the ad-supported tier of Disney+ why not just have a streaming service that shows nothing but ads for $12/mo? meanwhile ~ has decided to start licensing their content, because it's dawned on them that pretty much no one uses prime video and shit we dumped all this money into content publicly-traded companies are stupid. |
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