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I think those are called "torrent sites", where people get the streams from multiple services and aggregate them on a single site. Meanwhile, everyone else see

by jarfil 8y ago

I think those are called "torrent sites", where people get the streams from multiple services and aggregate them on a single site. Meanwhile, everyone else seems to be interested in forcing users to pay for and use as many different services as possible, starting with 5G's network slicing features.

bognition 8y ago
Meh, I get what you’re trying to say but ultimately I’d rather pay content providers for making the content.
- scarface74 8y ago
  I don’t have a moral qualm about pirating. But I’d rather pay for convenience. I stopped pirating music when the iTunes Music Store came out. It wasn’t worth dealing with the hassle of Napster/Kazaa/Limewire. I’m not above getting a movie or tv series “off the back of a truck”, but if I want something now I’ll rent it from iTunes. I’ve even bought a few movies from Amazon, Google, and iTunes now that you can sync most purchased movies between all three services via Movies Anywhere. I also pay for Hulu, Amazon Prime, DirectV Now, and get Netflix free from T-mobile.
- ThePadawan 8y ago
  That is a startup idea I've shelved. It would allow "pirates only due to laziness" to go "You know, I quite like that show/game, give the creators $5/$10/$20" anonymously. Of course, this would need to be so easy that someone lazy would still use it at all...
- Sir_Substance 8y ago
  These guys have a legion of lawyers, maybe they can put them to good use and draft up a profit sharing agreement that underpins a shared service that has all their collective content on it. If they try to downstream their inability to play nice with each other to me by asking me to juggle the updates, breakages, outages, and platform incompatibilities of 5 different streaming services, I'm just gonna go hit the high seas because it's objectively easier. It's not about money.

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I think those are called "torrent sites", where people get the streams from multiple services and aggregate them on a single site. Meanwhile, everyone else see

by jarfil 8y ago

bognition 8y ago
Meh, I get what you’re trying to say but ultimately I’d rather pay content providers for making the content.
- scarface74 8y ago
  I don’t have a moral qualm about pirating. But I’d rather pay for convenience. I stopped pirating music when the iTunes Music Store came out. It wasn’t worth dealing with the hassle of Napster/Kazaa/Limewire. I’m not above getting a movie or tv series “off the back of a truck”, but if I want something now I’ll rent it from iTunes. I’ve even bought a few movies from Amazon, Google, and iTunes now that you can sync most purchased movies between all three services via Movies Anywhere. I also pay for Hulu, Amazon Prime, DirectV Now, and get Netflix free from T-mobile.
- ThePadawan 8y ago
  That is a startup idea I've shelved. It would allow "pirates only due to laziness" to go "You know, I quite like that show/game, give the creators $5/$10/$20" anonymously. Of course, this would need to be so easy that someone lazy would still use it at all...
- Sir_Substance 8y ago
  These guys have a legion of lawyers, maybe they can put them to good use and draft up a profit sharing agreement that underpins a shared service that has all their collective content on it. If they try to downstream their inability to play nice with each other to me by asking me to juggle the updates, breakages, outages, and platform incompatibilities of 5 different streaming services, I'm just gonna go hit the high seas because it's objectively easier. It's not about money.