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Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by mwint on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:59AM (#30711230)
I wonder if there’s an opportunity here, for someone to put a frontend on torrents, charge $0.xx per show, and pass it along to the rights owner after taking y%.

With all the people saying they pirate for convenience, not for cost, maybe enough of them would pay to be “legal” to make it worthwhile for rights owners to collect that money.

You could be Netflix minus the distribution issues.

Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by krageon on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:04AM (#30711274)
This is legally quite simply not an option. You must make deals with every publisher separately and those deals will involve geofencing and folks saying "no".
Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by jsiepkes on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:26AM (#30711533)
> and folks saying "no".

It's going to be a cold day in hell when any of Apple, Netflix, HBO, Disney, Amazon, etc. license their own produced content for anything else then their own streaming service.

Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by ydlr on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:03PM (#30714113)
Maybe we need a compulsory license for all kinds of streaming just like we have for radio in US.
Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by 2u28y5m1rs1x on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:27AM (#30711557)
I use put.io.

It works amazingly. They download everything for you, you can stream directly and even on your tv via their app or chrome cast or you download on your computer or phone. Seriously, the experience is as good as Netflix. It’s 10USD a month and you have access to everything you can think of.

Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by adwi on Thursday March 17, 2022 @12:32PM (#30713007)
Put is the best. Their secret sauce is they cache all popular torrents so they appear in your locker instantly.

It is especially good combined with Chill Institute. I can get nearly anything on my television from idea to streaming in < 15 seconds. I can’t program, but I’d like to figure out how to turn this into a Siri shortcut…

Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by bennysomething on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:01PM (#30716342)
I went on the website and I seriously can't figure out what they do? I'm not joking, if people on here are recommended I'm genuinely interested, what does it do?
Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by webmobdev on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:33PM (#30714409)
Online torrent services like seedr.cc and sonicseedbox / sonicbit.net are great too.
Re:Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and... by s09dfhks on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:12AM (#30711364)
This used to exist! It was called joker.tk I think.

It would allow you to paste a magnet / torrent link and it would start streaming the file to you. Ironically I found it cause it was posted on hacker news. As you can guess it was shut down immediately