Color me shocked.
"Please get this free vaccine for the sake of public good": :frothingfash: Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
"Give us $10 a month for this infinitely reproduceable commodity that we are holding hostage, sharing is forbidden": :so-true: Well, that's only fair
I remember during the height of the pandemic someone said the best way to get Americans to vaccinate themselves would have been to charge a premium for it.
amerikkkans' inability to understand bittorrent is what will make me a third-worldist
every person who i've ever taught to torrent kept coming up with the weirdest reasons to not do it. "oh the ads scare me."
install an ad blocker."oh i don't know which button to click."don't click the download button, copy the hash code."i forgot how to copy paste."wtf you're not even 30 yet."it only has 5 seeders."become the 6th.one seeder is enough wtf are you talking about :stalin-stressed:
I got a few nasty-grams from my cable provider for piracy before springing for a $2/mo VPN.
But Streaming really is just easier, especially if you have a Smart TV. And the cost for these services simply isn't that high. What's annoying, more than anything, is that nobody has a full library.
So I tend to run a mix. Stream what I have. Pirate the rest
I cancelled months ago cause they kept cutting shows I liked. But when my extended family got hit with the password sharing apocalypse they all just coughed up the money without question.
It’s pretty depressing honestly.
they all just coughed up the money without question.
I really hate to say it but I think that's the norm.
My parents said "fuck it" and got an antenna to watch local channels. Maybe it's an ethnic thing because the numbers never went back up in Spain and other Latin American countries. Personally I would cancel it but it's the only streaming service my daughter watches so I downgraded to a one screen account.
I gave my account to my parents and downgraded it. I had been paying for a more expensive account for the whole family to use, but only my parents use it really. So Netflix lost money from us but it seems like that's not the norm, which is disappointing but shouldn't be surprising I guess.
I was using a family member's but now I just stopped all together. HBO has better content anyway. Beef was the last thing we watched and that was good though.
My parents definitely cancelled all their streaming services and decided they'd resub to some afterwards only if they still really wanted it
Netflix received nearly 100,000 daily sign-ups on both May 26 and May 27, according to Antenna. The company started notifying U.S. users about the password sharing crackdown via email notification just days earlier on May 23. This spike is an overall 102 percent increase in sign-ups over the past 60-days.
Antenna also found an increase in account cancellations during the same period last month. However, new sign-ups outpaced those canceling. "The ratio of Sign-ups to Cancels since May 23rd is up +25.6% compared to the previous 60-day period," the report found.
Shitty clickbait tittle.
1-Counting a whole... 2 day period. Literally 2 days. Not a week, not a month, no just 2 days. Of course it could be random, most likely some people did say fuck it.
2-They got a whole 25% net increase, do you call that massive?
3- People were not wrong, as the article clearly stated cancellations also increased.
4- Do we expect these new subs to actualy last? How confortable are people going to be in the long term when they have to get accustomed with the extra spending? Remember a single month purchase can be reasoned away as an impulse decision, likely many people did not really think about this until the last moment. But you still have to factor in remorse etc. In the future you'll also have to consider people will be more likely to cancel due to lack/bad content when before they could still share a password.
Is it good enough for them? Maybe, but its not really that simple, I don't know if this is within expectations or not, but the only thing that I would admit here is that the doomers were proven wrong, no subpocalypse in the short term. But no big business just fails overnight so that was always a meme.
My overall conclusion is don't swing way too far in the other direction claiming this is a huge success, Netflix will have many quarters to prove or disprove this was the correct decision.
Are these signups the add-on ones? I thought it was just an extra charge rather than a whole new account.
Edit: per the Netflix memo it costs 7.99 for each extra household. So all these articles about “massive subscription increase” feel like paid Netflix propaganda. It’s purely about monetizing more users which has occurred but not at the same ARPA.
I’d expect this subscription trend to decrease over time but also I’d expect other streaming services to follow suit and begin charging for extra users.
feel like paid Netflix propaganda.
Honestly? Its content farming exactly to get the same reaction from people here. Always farm those expectations then play both sides.
Next month headline:"Despite initial surge Netflix subscriptions are down 15%" or something and on and on it goes.
I can't.
And the only time I ever see a tv ad is when a release group screws up an edit on a MMA rip because I assume they're rushing to upload it as fast as possible. Ads feel so weird to me. It's like I'm getting poked in the face with a sharp stick. How did I ever put up with that shit? "Are ya hungry? You're gonna be hung—" Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. But maybe I'm in the mood for a snack?
Another fun weird thing is when a website changes its layout to show more ads (youtube does this every year or so I think), and I suddenly notice all the extra white space where ads would be. Ads are the devil.
meanwhile there's a web rip of Across the Spider-Verse online alreadyI got duped
But that's what a web rip is right it's ripped from a streaming version and not some dude with a camcorder
Correct, it is not a camcorder, it is the digital release in 1080p with subtitles for many languages.I got duped
I don't believe you. The movie hasn't been released digitally and won't be for some time. But DM me a link or tell me what site you found it on because I am curious.
turns out I got duped. went to start watching it and its just the first movie, I should have checked more of it
:rage-cry:
Netflix's password crackdown leads to
:sicko-yes:
massive subscription spike
:sicko-no:
Duh, the "piracy/technology will defeat them!" stuff about corporations in the consumer space is idealism and cringe.
I only cancelled because they can't seem to make shows that end anymore, instead just mediocre shows that get cancelled and at best written like its cancellable 2 seasons in.
Duh, the “piracy/technology will defeat them!” stuff about corporations in the consumer space is idealism and cringe.
Basically the reason I don't bother with piracy, also don't have time watch everything
The great thing about piracy is you can just do like a weekend project and then have a year's worth of slop to watch whenever you feel like it
Depends on how many of those are long term customers and not just people on the free trial or people who forget to cancel for a month or two.
VPN services are cheaper than Netflix and Torrenting software is free. :sicko-yes:
I’m genuinely surprised. My family and at least 3 of my friends cancelled
Yeah, especially considering Netflix is now pretty expensive and has less quality content than before. I would have figured it'd drive Disney+ or max subscriptions lol. Curious if they timed the change with some seasonality subscriptions in mind to cook the numbers.
Can't see this lasting with the economic crisis and when the strike starts to affect the quality of stuff Netflix shovels out
during the great depression radios were expensive as shit, but people still saved up for them because entertainment is genuinely good for your sanity
netflix sucks ass for a lot of reasons but at the end of the day it's still cheap and easy TV
Sad thing is how many people are open and willing to say fuck em and pirate but too lazy to Google "how to torrent" and read the 3 sentences needed to know how.
Can't you get huge fines for torrenting? I guess there's VPNs and stuff but that's another step and who knows it it's full proof. Also is it easy to still find 4k versions of things and get it from your computer to TV?
Gonna be country dependent possibly but honestly no. In the early 2000s they tried the whole making an example out of pirates things but these days every single movie and music studio knows that piracy increases their profits through word of mouth. They can never endorse it but they're never going to kill it either as it makes them bank.
VPN is something good to have and at this point take my advice with salt cause others disagree but at least in the US the VPN is prolly overkill. I have an inbox filled with at least 1-2000 dcma warnings from Comcast, att, Verizon. Etc spanning over 15 years. That's all they do though. They have to send out the warnings but that's it. But all this is pretty irrelevant as a vpn is more than enough and not hard to find a reliable one.
Ya plenty of 4k content. Honestly 4k tv would be a waste without piracy. Pretty much any movie or tv show made or rereleased in 4k you'll be able to find.
Huh interesting. Yeah maybe it's because my last experience with it was early 2000s. What's the best way to find good quality 4k torrents?
Rarbg closed down last week unfortunately and it was possibly the greatest public tracker of all time.
1337x, torrentgalaxy, and rutracker are probably the best public sources now.
TorrentLeech is one of the easier private trackers to get into but just finished its round of welcoming former RARBG users. Just keep an eye out for when they open registrations again and be sure to read the rules of any private tracker you become a member of.
Prefer hevc (h.265) encodes for the best tradeoff between file size and device compatibility imo.
In terms of file-size at comparable quality: AV1 > h.265 > h.264 In terms of compatibility: h.264 > h.265 > h.265
Most devices at this point should have no issue playing h.265 video and if you're just playing it on a computer use VLC.
There is lots of 4k stuff in torrents but can you even stream 4k at high frame rates? This is just one more way in wich torrents offer better quality. Also streaming is awful you shhould not do it. Even for free stuff use a download manager. Dont clog the internet tubes.
