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If Netflix is useful for discovery for you[1] then use them to find stuff, and torrent and playback with a decent player. You know, one that can fix audio level

If Netflix is useful for discovery for you[1] then use them to find stuff, and torrent and playback with a decent player. You know, one that can fix audio levels, do proper subtitles, brightness, and move position of the video. But hey, this is a big win for Mozilla/Firefox for the general population that likes putting up with Netflix. 1: Netflix is now basically telling me my taste sucks. 9/10 items it recommends or shows it says I'll rate 1/5. My theory is they're trynna burn user time on crap, as their 4-or-5-star catalog is too small.

shmerl 11y ago
Personally I'm not interested in supporting Netflix with my money, since they proliferate DRM (it were them who pushed it into HTML standard).
- nomel 11y ago
  You would get a better selection of movies straight from Youtube if they didn't use DRM. The studios are pushing it, and they have no interest, even disinterest, in the success of Netflix, so there's no reason for them to budge. For Netflix, it's DRM or don't exist, with everything in between being pretty shitty (including the full DRM stance that they're at now). I can see that you don't like DRM, but wishing a company didn't exist due to lack of compromise is just silly. Every time I go full "anti DRM", I just think back to how everybody I knew purchased a Dreamcast, but non ever purchased a game. It's easy to have a strong stance of not supporting businesses that you don't like. It's much more difficult, as a society, to support businesses that you do like when you don't have to, especially when your demographic tends to be more towards the youth who is rarely monetarily stable and easily justifies their actions by "everyone else is doing it".
  - shmerl 11y ago
    > The studios are pushing it That's the lame excuse that Netflix was using. Studios (i.e. publishers) are pushing it, and Netflix (as a distributor) obliges their insanity willingly. So they bear the blame for DRM proliferation as well and can't blame it on the studios only. > For Netflix, it's DRM or don't exist Some sell DRM-free, and if distributors wouldn't have been so spineless about this issue, studios wouldn't have been so eager to continue this insanity. > especially when your demographic tends to be more towards the youth who is rarely monetarily stable and easily justifies their actions by "everyone else is doing it". Excuses of others can't justify personal choices. If you don't accept DRM - don't use it.
  - MichaelGG 11y ago
    DRM isn't preventing any piracy and we all know that. If Netflix was righteous, they wouldn't just DRM on their own titles, just ones that require it. Is that the case? Does Netflix use misleading words like "protect"?
    - shmerl 11y ago
      Indeed. Their excuse about studios pushing it, flies in the face of the fact that their own titles aren't available DRM-free.

shmerl 11y ago

Personally I'm not interested in supporting Netflix with my money, since they proliferate DRM (it were them who pushed it into HTML standard).

nomel 11y ago
You would get a better selection of movies straight from Youtube if they didn't use DRM. The studios are pushing it, and they have no interest, even disinterest, in the success of Netflix, so there's no reason for them to budge. For Netflix, it's DRM or don't exist, with everything in between being pretty shitty (including the full DRM stance that they're at now). I can see that you don't like DRM, but wishing a company didn't exist due to lack of compromise is just silly. Every time I go full "anti DRM", I just think back to how everybody I knew purchased a Dreamcast, but non ever purchased a game. It's easy to have a strong stance of not supporting businesses that you don't like. It's much more difficult, as a society, to support businesses that you do like when you don't have to, especially when your demographic tends to be more towards the youth who is rarely monetarily stable and easily justifies their actions by "everyone else is doing it".
- shmerl 11y ago
  > The studios are pushing it That's the lame excuse that Netflix was using. Studios (i.e. publishers) are pushing it, and Netflix (as a distributor) obliges their insanity willingly. So they bear the blame for DRM proliferation as well and can't blame it on the studios only. > For Netflix, it's DRM or don't exist Some sell DRM-free, and if distributors wouldn't have been so spineless about this issue, studios wouldn't have been so eager to continue this insanity. > especially when your demographic tends to be more towards the youth who is rarely monetarily stable and easily justifies their actions by "everyone else is doing it". Excuses of others can't justify personal choices. If you don't accept DRM - don't use it.
- MichaelGG 11y ago
  DRM isn't preventing any piracy and we all know that. If Netflix was righteous, they wouldn't just DRM on their own titles, just ones that require it. Is that the case? Does Netflix use misleading words like "protect"?
  - shmerl 11y ago
    Indeed. Their excuse about studios pushing it, flies in the face of the fact that their own titles aren't available DRM-free.