Re:Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers
by qes on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:56PM
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all of the simple player boxes like roku et al have terrible support for playing plain old media files whether via USB storage or over a network (which is often not a feature at all, and forget the smart tv built-in players altogether).
I've wondered if that is intentional, to discourage casual piracy.
(Spotify on the other hand is in a different league because there is almost no such thing as exclusive music. It's still way more convenient and time-efficient than torrenting. In my experience you can't even find music torrents anymore unless you go down the private tracker rabbit hole (which definitely doesn't scale)).