Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Levitating on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:17AM (#39260904)

Netflix doesn't allow 1080p streaming to Linux users. The DRM also doesn't allow you to take any screen captures while Netflix is visible. You can't download any content and even on Windows you'd have to watch it within 48 hours.

All these antipiracy measures only invite us to pirate.

Pirating allows us to choose a media player of our children, possibly with 4K upscaling, better compression standards and the ability to download our content.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by kevincox on Monday February 05, 2024 @04:08PM (#39267206)

> The DRM also doesn't allow you to take any screen captures while Netflix is visible.

I remember when I first hit this and was shocked. I was going to send a funny still to my friend and tell them that they should watch the show. But Netflix apparently doesn't want free advertising.

DRM really does seem to harm the customers and the content owners far more than any pirate.

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