4 ms·
TV is dead in the same way CD sales were dead. Anecdotally (yes, just me) - I've built a "whole piracy stack on my NAS" - Sonarr, Radarr, Deluge, NZBGet, Plex,
by goldcd 7y ago
TV is dead in the same way CD sales were dead.
Anecdotally (yes, just me) - I've built a "whole piracy stack on my NAS" - Sonarr, Radarr, Deluge, NZBGet, Plex, Pushbullet, with paid services for omgwtfnzbs, usenet and oznzb (I bought plex lifetime) - oh and a homerun-HD plugged into a new aerial I just had fitted to my house (pirates don't seem to care about my local UK TV).
I also pay for netflix, amazon prime, semi-premium-cable (that also provides my internet) and pay my UK TV license.
Maybe 80-90%+ of what I take from "the piracy stack" is available on the "plethora of stuff I pay for". The problem is (as with the early days of music downloads) there's no decent way of wrangling that together into a nice UI to consume from.
This is silly.
When I realized this was silly, was when I found myself deliberately switching from plex to netflix to watch a show, for the sole reason that "I wanted netflix to know I was watching it and to bump up the viewer count, so they didn't cancel it".
Which reminds me.. I'd be fascinated to know if there was a Netflix stat of "existing subscribers that watch a show from episode 2 onwards"
Which further reminds me that if anybody ever wishes to sell Helm/K8/docker to the masses, this is the perfect ingress.
- fred_is_fred 7y ago> I've built a "whole piracy stack on my NAS" - Sonarr, Radarr, Deluge, NZBGet, Plex, Pushbullet, with paid services for omgwtfnzbs, usenet and oznzb (I bought plex lifetime) - oh and a homerun-HD plugged into a new aerial I just had fitted to my house (pirates don't seem to care about my local UK TV). 99.999% of the people would rather just overpay for cable than deal with that, so it's a far cry from a killer.
- driverdan 7y agoYou underestimate the number of people who pirate media. Usenet isn't the only way.
- fred_is_fred 7y agoLots of people pirate media, but I stand by my percentage. Even in the tech world I literally don't know a single person who wants to deal with that complicated stack. My time is worth $90/month to not have to.
- goldcd 7y agoI realize I missed the explanation (piracy stack over the legit options I have). I log and just say "I want to watch this". Similar to how you'd have previously used a Tivo that sat over all your potential TV channels. I turn on my PC in the morning and get some push-bullet notifications of new episodes, I load up Plex on my TV and see them all sat there in a single "Here's what's new" place. I guess it's similar to what Android/Apple TV are trying to do - but it's better.
- fred_is_fred 7y agoYou have to account for some cost of your own time. And none of that is something that my wife and kids would want to deal with, especially if I am not home. I am willing to pay Hulu and Netflix for the convenience and so are most people which is how they stay in business. If everyone did what you did, I suspect there'd be an actual crack down on it.
- fortran77 7y agoI pay for TV because I don't like to steal, but I like TV.
- jedberg 7y ago> Which reminds me.. I'd be fascinated to know if there was a Netflix stat of "existing subscribers that watch a show from episode 2 onwards" That was a stat that was tracked internally. It wasn't that high, because most people watched a new show because someone told them it was good, and they were already a Netflix subscriber. Not a lot of people would pirate one episode of a Netflix show and then sign up to watch the rest. They either pirated the whole thing or signed up to watch the whole thing. If they were already a subscriber they just watched it on Netflix.