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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by kroltan on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:56PM (#24500354)
> Maybe Netflix loses the rights and it disappears.

That is interesting because it happened to me in the most annoying way possible:

I was watching Donnie Darko, a rather obscure movie that requires (or at least for me required) a bit of brainpower to watch. So I watched the first half of it and planned to watch the remainder the next day. Come the next day, and where is the movie? Nowhere to be found.

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by the_af on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:23PM (#24500504)
Hah. I had bookmarked Donnie Darko because, while I had already watched it (good movie, even better soundtrack!) I wanted to watch it again with my wife. I swear it was available the week before I finally decided to rewatch it, then of course it was gone when I wanted it.

(By the way, I know this doesn't actually happen, but I swear Netflix sticks in my bookmarks movies and shows I never bookmarked!)

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by cableshaft on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:22PM (#24500502)
That happened to me with Stargate SG-1. Was going through it on Netflix and suddenly it disappeared. Eventually resurfaced on Amazon Prime but the video quality is garbage on it for some reason.
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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by Causality1 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:08PM (#24500768)
Prime Video quality seems breathtakingly bad to me as well. Even their "high quality, 8GB per hour" setting looks remarkably worse than a 4GB h264 rip, to say nothing of HEVC.
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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by cableshaft on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:41AM (#24503001)
I actually didn't mean video quality on Amazon Prime in general. For example, we just got done watching Mr. Robot on Amazon Prime and I had no issues with the video, personally. But Stargate SG-1 was particularly bad, for some reason. Worse than SD, lots of artifacts.
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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by donpott on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:34AM (#24502958)
I was mid-way through watching the newly released (on Netflix) S2 of "Derry Girls" and they deleted it mere days after making it available. I was annoyed. Turns out they had messed up the rights.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-07-14/derry-g...

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