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> In other words a bad user can share the links with others where as if they did this through patreon you'd have to log in to access the media. Of course bad us
by cirno 6y ago
> In other words a bad user can share the links with others where as if they did this through patreon you'd have to log in to access the media. Of course bad users can still share the media they downloaded in other ways.
They do. There's a popular website I won't name (----.-----) that has users provide their Patreon logins, and it goes and auto-scrapes all post content from people that login supports and mirrors it for free. Almost every artist with more than 100 subscribers is illegally shared there. It's really quite sleazy when you consider most of the artists let you see their entire catalog for a $1 or even $5 tier. Cheating someone out of thousands of hours of labor for $1 is particularly low.
I know it's the internet and you can't really stop piracy, but I'd like to see Patreon being proactive against a service that hurts both itself and its creators like that.
- andy_ppp 6y agoYes, water marking downloads with account details and charging for this sort of thing would help put a stop to it...
- michaelt 6y ago> charging for this sort of thing If there are zero hacked accounts ever, sure. But charging someone $500 for actions a hacker took with their account would be.... very unusual.
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- jermaustin1 6y agoA PDF I bought on sellfy actually did this. It stuck my email address in the footer of every page. That email was tied to a transaction in paypal, making it highly traceable back to myself. In 30 seconds, one could easily remove that from the PDF in Acrobat, but that doesn't mean there aren't other hidden watermarks in the file.
- tomp 6y agoPiracy has proven to be the best competition for shitty legacy content delivery methods. I wonder if we'd have Netflix without ThePirateBay. Fact is, people want to pay for content (not because it's "not cheating" or whatever, but because they genuinely want to support artists and want them to keep creating) but are unwilling to jump through hoops for that. It's on Patreon & co to improve their game.
- sschueller 6y agoNetflix's UI is total shit. It is as if they are purposefully trying to keep it that way to hide the fact that most of the movies they have are garbage and the only way to get people to watch those is to give them some odd "compatibility" with your taste rating.
- tomp 6y agoSure, but I'm more commenting on the ease of use. I mean we can debate it until heat death of the universe, but the fact is, my less computer-proficient family members ask me to download torrents for them, whereas they have no problem buying/watching films on Amazon/Netflix/etc.
- rechristened 6y agoNetflix's UX is better than any other their competitors.
- albertshin 6y agoI totally agree that they're anti-user. But they have a dilemma. Imagine a nicely formatted table of Netflix movies and shows available in your country. New, potential users can quickly find out if it's worth signing up. Existing users can quickly realize that maybe the service is not worth it. I also have a theory that if you're stuck looking for something to watch and you've already spent enough time on their platform, you might just settle on something. They're trying to stay as the "first stop" of when you want to watch something, and the only way they can keep that position is purposefully being murky with their offerings because, yes, it's a 90% shitty collection.
- rotterdamdev 6y agoAccount sharing is not illegal, it's just against the ToS. Drama queen.