[rhino369]

I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on—not that Netflix cares. If an unpaid user falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound?

But I can’t help but feel that 90% of the “back to the high seas” comments on Reddit or social media discussions of streaming is just pirates justifying the piracy they were already committing.

Pirates love having some moral justification. Shit, they should just admit they prefer getting something without paying for it.

[wkat4242]

Netflix used to advertise sharing your account with family and friends even those outside of the family. At least here in Holland they did. Clearly that made it ok and not piracy.

But since they clamped down I'm pirating again. Until then there was no need.

[harry_ord]

I think those tweets may still be up on a few of their twitter accounts

[Mindwipe]

No, they didn't.

[chiggsy]

>Pirates love having some moral justification.

Quellism is fictional, but that does not make it invalid.

>the personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

--Quellcrist Falconer.

NOTE: "Make it personal" but this is business not war. Kinda feel I need to clarify that last line.

[mcv]

I've always been really happy with Netflix. I was still happy with Disney+. But now I'm also paying for Amazon Prime. And then some of the things I want to see are on something called Paramount+, and I don't even know where to get that.

A single, cheap streaming platform is awesome. Fragmented streaming platforms that raise their prices while offering less content, is significantly less awesome.

Maybe I should cancel every subscription every time I'm done watching a show and only subscribe to a single streamer whose show I'm actually watching right now. They'd get a lot less money out of me that way.

[yieldcrv]

I just cancelled Amazon Prime completely.

Just found out you dont even need it for Amazon Video anymore, and most of the good stuff you had to pay for there anyway.

For deliveries it was always barely worth it for me with prime same/one/two day free shipping being novel 10 years ago, but always hard to quantify how much I used it and the speed has gotten worse and worse, with Amazon Video being the extra thing to keep it just interesting enough.

For the low volume I order I’m often on a retailer’s website. Same day delivery is just gone in my area, and actually Uber and Doordash will just go straight to retail stores for you and its actually 20 minute delivery. They have subscriptions too that reduce some fees.

And if I’m not saving money while using something more convenient, then Amazon Prime time to go! Thanks for the last decade, obsolete this decade.

[godzillabrennus]

I think with price hikes and tools like Plex / Jellyfin making it easier to create your own streaming service for content you want the social media posts are accurately representing a shift of consumers back to piracy.

[yieldcrv]

Moral justification: it’s never been on the consumer to know if a distributor has a license. We dont know if Walmart has a license to every media we bought there, we dont know if Netflix really has a license to every media we watched there, we dont know if the seeder on a torrent site has a license either. There is nothing preventing Walmart or Netflix from distributing via bittorrent as seeders either.

Not our problem, never was.

Turn off upload if you don’t have a license, enjoy.

[rhino369]

You do know the seeders on BitTorrent don’t have a license though.

Just admit you don’t care about pirating from a major company. You don’t have to lie to yourself to concoct a moral justification.

[yard2010]

Justifications or not, when I can't easily pay for something and get it, I will torrent it. The ball is in their court like ever. The tao of piracy

[dfxm12]

How easy is easily? It seems like you would either be able to buy something or not...

[WarOnPrivacy]

> I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on

I pay for Netflix and Prime but typically stream their content on pirate sites - because pirate sites at least try to deliver a good experience.

[Yeul]

This is not entirely true. There are services that provide pirated TV and streaming for a subscription.

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/150656/europese-politiekorpsen-r...

Remember there was a time when criminals made lots of money selling bootleg DVDs and CDs. Obviously those buyers had money.

[namlem]

Pirating was annoying and I was happy to sign up for streaming services, but I just canceled my Hulu due to the price increases. Fortunately I haven't been kicked off my parents' Netflix yet haha. Not that there are any good shows on there anymore.

[worthless-trash]

This nails the streaming value proposition, it has to be cheap enough and less annoying than pirating.

Since your parents are paying for your netflix you have a tilted/unbalanced view of the 'cost' to you of piracy.

[jncfhnb]

Why is pirating annoying?