You're viewing a single thread.
There was a time when almost everything was on Netflix. As a consumer, having all my content in one place for $10/mo is awesome, but according to capitalism, it is a problem that needed to be fixed.
The crazy thing is loads of people stopped pirating and paid for a streaming service that was affordable, worked, met thier needs.
Now it's all splintered with corporations wanting a piece of the pie.
"Piracy is a service problem" - gaben, the OKish billionaire
Back to piracy, it is, then. Yarrr! ☠️
It won't stop until the system reaches its ultimate form and each movie has its own subscription service.
So, buying physical media again lol
except that you don't have any sort of long terms rights to it and it costs more.
Now also show ads when you pause!
And they know when we watch, pause, fast forward..
..and all your IDSo, renting physical media again.
That last remaining blockbuster is playing the long game.
I’m about to cancel everything and buy a good vpn service.
And a good NAS. It’s worth every penny.
Isn't Synology having issues because they expect you to use specifically their drives?
Na. It just shows a warning, but it doesn’t have any effect. Annoying, but not enough to change my mind about them. I’ve got two units and both have been rock solid.
Yes, apparently they remove features if you don't use synology-branded drives.
Care to fill me in on what that’s about?
I could Google it, and I’ll do that if you tell me I’m a moron and that’s what I should do. I don’t want to be an imposition, I’d just rather hear from someone who know what they’re doing firsthand.
No worries. NAS is “network attached storage”. It’s just a small computer that with a handful of hard drives that are exposed to your network.
In the current context, it’s a suggestion to host your own media and access it via Plex or Jellyfin.
But it can do far more than that. It’s a great place to backup photos and your other computers. Synology also comes with a lot of pretty great software out of the box, including a full replacement for Google’s “office” suite.
I started with the 5-bay model and it’s been serving me great for years.
It really did hurt my ressources for pirating though. After not downloading anything for years, finding the right sites and proxies again was hard.
Except that the technology has improved and now Sonarr and radarr take all effort out of the equation.
The part that's wildest to me is that nowadays with all the ways services are trying extract more value from their users (ads, increasing rates, reducing library size, restricting access to features, etc ) plus the DRM, the media consumption experience of just having the media files is so much better than the experience one can have through most of the streaming services or even DVDs with all of the unstoppable prerolls
Whether you rip your own DVDs (legally murky) or you're just watching a bunch of public domain silent films, or pirating, it's really hard to beat just having the .mkv and opening it in your player of choice.
About the only way to compete with that is one decent service with good quality, no ads, an extremely wide collection and minimally invasive DRM
Every time I head to the second-hand store I pick up a couple new CDs and DVDs. It's great! I'm paying max $3.99 apiece and I'll own them forever.
Movies were on Netflix, TV shows were on Hulu. It was great.
Once Netflix started on their whole “half of all our offerings are going to be original content” is when it began to go downhill. Literally no one (aside from executives) was sitting around going “man, I can’t wait until Netflix starts making shows and movies!” They were a service. That’s all they ever needed to be.
I think they were forced into it when the other companies decided they could make some of that sweet netflix money, so they stopped licensing to netflix and built their own services. Netflix had no choice but to build their own content.
Idk I know I was pretty excited for Netflix's early original content because the proposition was like "HBO, but on the internet and you can watch it any time" and they were doing big budget stuff. Things only went south when they didn't keep up the HBO level quality and ruined their reputation to the point where I see "Netflix original" and immediately think "garbage TV"