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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by StopTheTechies on Sunday February 04, 2024 @05:14PM (#39255080)
The common supposition about video is that convenience makes the price worth it versus piracy. It'll be very interesting to see this unfold. Not only are streaming services in direct competition with a free option, but they'll have actual, real, not-market-inevitable competition for their "exclusively-negotiated" tv.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by znkynz on Sunday February 04, 2024 @05:25PM (#39255157)
Piracy has evolved too; You only need to look at how automated piracy can become; whether its the end of the people buying access to plex, or the automation offered by users of the Servarr stacks /Sonarr/Radarr etc

Netflix invgestment in UX has lead to theUX being valued around piracy, rather than just downloading files from some website.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by StopTheTechies on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:34PM (#39256041)
Yes, this is exactly what I mean—media distribution is inherently a losing war against the internet.
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