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Re:Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sha... by awad on Friday November 08, 2019 @10:20PM (#21489348)
Not quite relevant to OP but apropos of the concept introduced above...apparently, quite a few people do pay for such a service as VidAngel (https://www.vidangel.com) is still running.

I have not kept up with their developments but it was created by Mormons to help families stream movies while filtering out content deemed not appropriate. IIRC at one point and possibly to this day the tech included a massive farm of physical disks being spun and streamed to end consumers with skip points programmed in.

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Re:Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sha... by sp332 on Friday November 08, 2019 @10:27PM (#21489375)
They used to stream DVDs kinda like my description, but there were several kinds of copyright complaints which is why they stopped doing DVD-based content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VidAngel
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Re:Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sha... by beatgammit on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:56PM (#21495913)
Yup, and now they only support filtering as an add-on to other streaming services, which is a completely different business.

I was interested because they had a way to rent movies for $1, which I think is a fair price for older titles (I'd actually pay $2 for older titles). I feel like their business was essentially Redbox, but with a more efficient way of transferring product from one person to another, with a layer of customizable filtering on top. That seemed completely legit to me, but apparently copyright law doesn't agree.

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