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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by thehappypm on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:05PM (#29785899)
A show I had one episode left of went off Netflix on 1/1. I tried to find it EVERYWHERE, I even downloaded iTunes on my PC. “Not available in your region” left right and center. I luckily found a torrent and it was legitimately the only way I could find the content beyond buying DVDs on eBay.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by ce4 on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:07PM (#29785939)
Perfectly fits this 10 years old comic classic from Matthew Inman:

https://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by drusepth on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:59PM (#29790207)
I was living in Ireland for a little while and wanted to watch Game of Thrones. At the time, piracy was literally the only possible way to watch it; there was no legal avenue whatsoever (including purchasing cable from HBO, etc) that included it.

I still haven't seen Game of Thrones.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by thehappypm on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:03AM (#29796256)
That’s crazy. Would a VPN work? I think it would have for me, since my show was available in the UK, but I was not really into buying and setting up a VPN when my wife wanted me to just find the damn show.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by ce4 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:09PM (#29798706)
VPNs and cloud services' IP ranges are mostly blocked nowadays (by AS number and so on). You can setup your own wireguard vpn running e.g. on a Raspberry Pi on someones cable Internet, of course.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by PHGamer on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:56PM (#29786754)
that comic is 10 years old? damn im getting old. lol. i remember that one. hilarious then , hilarious now.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by ce4 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:18AM (#29792585)
I wasnt sure either until I looked it up. There's a funny ad on the torrent site in the comic about winning an iPad 3, which was sold in 2012 :-)
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by sct202 on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:11PM (#29785998)
There's probably money in helping these companies realize when they have left large portions of their content unlicensed in entire geographic regions.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by yuchi on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:01PM (#29788315)
It is. They call them VPNs and apparently they tell us it’s for “privacy”.
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