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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by getcrunk on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:41AM (#38623153)
Night agent came out this year and is 10 episodes. I didn’t check but assuming it’s 1hr/ep that’s 80million viewers. Wow

Ps. Checking a popular torrent site and roughly adding up the download count for all the season rips and adding a representative number from some of the individual episodes. Then multiplying that by 10 because there are other public torrent sites and many private ones we get 60k x 10. Even if you do x 20 it’s roughly 1 million. Out out 80 million that’s just 1-2%

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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:40AM (#38624373)
The Night Agent was not good enough that you would want to go through the effort to pirate it, but it was slightly good enough to watch if you had nothing else to do after a hard day of work. I had no idea it was that successful, now I feel sort of bad for contributing to it.
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by kondro on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:38AM (#38624840)
I'm surprised that I wasn't the one who wrote this review!
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @06:32AM (#38625826)
I guess the lesson to take away from all this is there are a lot of people who are tired after a long day at work and are willing to waste their time on something acceptable instead of trying to choose something better.
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by nilsherzig on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:20AM (#38624201)
Basically no one in my age group (gen z) knows what Torrents are let alone is able to use them. Most piracy happens via sites like s dot to.
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by bozhark on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:39AM (#38624359)
Gen Z fallen to the fallacy that you won’t own anything, smh
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by jb1991 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:30AM (#38624781)
Just think of all the amazing content from decades past, even movies from not long ago in the 90s, that many gen z will never see and experience and enjoy in their whole lives because they can’t buy or rent or play dvds any more, don’t use torrents, and streaming providers have very little content from years or decades past. It a loss.
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by purpleflame1257 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:00PM (#38633389)
A legitimate reason to own a current-gen gaming console: unlike most gaming PCs, they still have optical drives.
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by jb1991 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:39PM (#38634522)
But then you still need to get the DVDs from somewhere and most people don't want to buy a movie just to watch it, and renting DVDs is a thing (mostly) of the past.
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by purpleflame1257 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @06:47PM (#38635881)
Your local public library is a great source for these--they even have Blu-Rays! I used to take out disks all the time, until my kids came along
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by jb1991 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:53AM (#38638562)
I think that’s highly regional, and probably limited lifespan. Enjoy it while it lasts. Here in Europe, I haven’t seen a DVD or a CD in a library in many years.
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by getcrunk on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:11AM (#38625142)
God! I just went there. I hope they know how to use ad blockers at least lol
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Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report by Ldorigo on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:17AM (#38625200)
They might not know torrents per se, but I think most at least know that stremio and popcorn time exist - I have no sources, but I'd expect most torrents nowadays to be consumed that way.
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