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If content owners want to stop piracy, knocking out this kind of stuff should be step #1
by brotoss 11y ago
If content owners want to stop piracy, knocking out this kind of stuff should be step #1
- joshstrange 11y agoYou know... Or provide a better way to pay for and access their content... Ripping DVDs is 1000X a better experience than watching a buffering icon spin during primetime. Offer me a way to legally download an mkv/mp4 and play it through whatever player I want and/or transcode it if I want and I'll be falling over myself to give you my money.
- oaktowner 11y agoiTunes proved that. People were stealing music prior to its release not because they were thieves at heart but because it was the only way most of them could find most of the music they wanted. iTunes put the entire music industry to shame by simply showing that if, instead of fearing downloading, they had given a good, legal venue to sell music, people would in fact be willing to pay.
- Karunamon 11y agoWhat kind of stuff? Media players? Are you seriously implying the only people that use media players are pirates?
- peteretep 11y agoCertainly the only stuff I watch through a media player is stuff I couldn't find on iTunes, Netflix, or Amazon. I'm sure there are legit use cases, although none spring straight to mind, except for people who encoded a bunch of their DVDs a decade ago.
- nirvdrum 11y agoI record TV with Windows Media Center. While I can use an XBox 360 as a Media Center Extender, buying a bunch of them is a bit ridiculous. We use Plex to stream that content throughout the house. It's not as nice as having a native extender, but it works quite well.
- brotoss 11y agoThe vast majority, yes. Plex is built for pirates.
- Karunamon 11y agoGood luck ever substantiating that accusation...