I've been too poor this whole time, so the hat is firmly attached.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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I've been aware long enough of big gaps in the libraries of streaming services that there was never a reason to give it up.
It took until fucking March of this fucking year for Spotify to have any old De La Soul to stream. Good thing I've had a high quality rip of their early discography for fifteen fucking years. Otherwise I would have been shit outta luck on listening to them.
I couldn't stream a killer album from fucking 1989 in 2022. There continue to be massive gaps in their libraries due to licensing issues and people who just don't want to get underpaid by Spotify.
At least the De La Soul situation was understandable. Imagine the amount of time it must have taken to track down and relicense every sample.
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Way too accurate. Netflix, when it was the sole main provider, was super good. Then the other companies realised the big bucks they could get from streaming/peddling their own shit.
Thanks to this meme, I killed my netflix account. Nicotine is fine :D
It sucks when competition spoils a market
The whole idea that competition is good is a total libertarian lie. Cooperation leads to the best results. It's just impossible under capitalism.
It is good, if the competing products/services are interchangeable and they need to compete on factors such as price, convenience, or reliability. For example, competing grocery stores, all of which offer by and large the same products. Or competing mechanics, all of which can perform service on your car.
Streaming services don't do this. They have carved up the market and "compete" by making you choose which products you want more.
Imagine two grocery stores, one of which had all the ice cream, and the other had all the chocolate, and neither could carry things that the other stocked. That is what streaming services are doing.
Modern copyright law is essentially a state sanctioned monopoly.
Rights holders should be forced to license the content to anyone that wishes to distribute it. As it stands now, they can lock it in a vault for generations if they wanted.
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Competition on price sounds nice because it prevents excessive prices, but it’s also a root cause of poverty and environmental abuse. Cooperating is much better.
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Ehh...it's entirely dependent on the product. Music streaming services are actually all comparable to one another and have not suffered the same fragmentation that the TV and movie streaming services have. With music streaming services, you literally just pick whichever works for you and you can get nearly all the same content. It just doesn't work the same for every market I guess.
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I've just finished my setup with Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyfin, qBittorrent and nzb360. I've paid 120€ for proton vpn for 2 years, 200€ for m2 ssd for 4tb and a few bucks for domain to access my setup from anywhere. Also, I have a 1gb internet connection for 65€ pm...
So, I'm willing to pay... I don't want to spend all this time configuring scripts and integrations(though it was fun 😁)... But paying for Netflix, Prime, HBO, Disney+ and not being able to watch everything I want, simply makes me angry and miserable.
Duck them all. Arrrrr
I have outsourced much of the setup you describe to a country with lower law enforcement pressure with regards to torrenting. Costs me 15€.
Worth it for me.
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Are ya ready, kids?!?
aye aye captain!
Oooooooh!
Who pirates shows and hate netflix?
I subscribe to a bunch of services but still pirate all the shows because it's nicer to have them all in one place
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Say the line, Gabe!
Corporations had a good thing going on, they fucked it up.
Corporations had a good thing going on, they fucked it up.
Show me nearly any problem the US has and I will boil it down to Corporate Greed and/or Racism.
I'm usually baffled whenever companies do a long term face-plant for the sake of short term profit. Really goes to show that what academics like to theorize about capitalism isn't reflected in reality. Sure the system might work with people interested in long term gains but it very obviously is run by people that want short term gratification and in general just more of whatever they already have. Mostly that means money, because swimming in money still is not enough for these people.
Loot boxes and streaming are the best examples, the companies could have had a thing where they just print money. All they had to do was to moderate themselves a bit and not extort the customer for the last cent. But no, insane amounts of cash flow/profit are not enough, it needs to be ludicrously insane amounts. And after that some more.
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As we approach every service charging $30 a month, there's going to be a point where the average consumer will just give up.
Meanwhile, your seedbox will still only be $5.
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Yeah, I used to turn to such activities because it was cheaper, now I do it because it's simpler/easier.
It’s Plex’in time!
Plex is getting worse tough just saying...pushing their own services and now they started blocking certain hosting providers.
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Don't forget the price increase and drop in quality.
The price increase I can deal with. The drop in quality and getting rid of password sharing (after they actively endorsed it) is why they lost me.
Ah enshittification, making me not want to pay for your shitty services every god damn time.
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Especially with Netflix increasing their prices again here in a couple months…
As someone who watches a lot of non-English stuff, I could never put the hat down.
Haha I'm poor
Once this happens to the music industry, we need to make sure the kids are all prepared to open Netscape Navigator, go to AltaVista and search for "Napster". They'll thank us later.
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