Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? by hbn on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:06AM (#34259683)

Is that why Netflix killed video stores? I don't know anyone who used it when it had DVD rentals (I don't even know if we had that option in Canada).

Myself and most people I know stopped renting videos when we could stream stuff easily.

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? by 100011_100001 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:36AM (#34260091)

I'm sure it depended on your social circle/age group.

My age group, mid 20s during Netflix creation, everyone I knew have a Netflix DVD subscription. We were raised with VHS rentals, so DVD rentals were the natural next step when DVD players got cheap.

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? by Arrath on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:35AM (#34261111)

Same. It was a chore to churn through the discs and watch whole seasons of shows like the X-files, but by god we did it.

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? by vehemenz on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:10AM (#34259739)

I think you might be an outlier. Netflix DVD rental was huge in the US—can't speak for Canada though. Everyone I know had it.

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? by ghaff on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:27AM (#34259957)

Yeah, it was big although it worked better for film than TV. I wish it were still bigger. The fact that so many people seem to think that just renting a physical disk is something weird means that they're really not investing in restocking older films any longer.

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