Re:ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC's Interne...
by namrog84 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @07:49PM
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Screensharing might be more difficult or impossible in some contexts compared to pirated screensharing.
But at the least some providers are helping it with "watch together" offerings. Although at moment its pretty limited and not great experience. But it's not like they aren't making progress toward improving that (though glacier and painfully slow)
- If the industry gets its way, adblockers will become illegal or practically unusable.
- I get the impression you don't shy away from pirating. For those that don't engage in it, for one reason or another, it's a lot harder to e.g., watch any movie they want. What service is it? How much? Is it available in your country? Is something you saw was on there last week still there? Etc. This also generally applies to most other forms of media (games, music, etc)
- Screensharing for movie nights and such is slowly becoming more difficult, as more services implement DRM which disables capturing video (or even screenshots?!) from a stream
Again, I don't agree that the Internet is dying, or it's become a "monoculture," or anything like that - but we do have to be wary of the direction some groups would love to take it.