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Beat piracy? Lol. Netflix is a joke, every time i sign up again I find it lacking tonnes of content. It optimizes for flicking through its catalog so nobody n

by waheoo 6y ago

Beat piracy? Lol. Netflix is a joke, every time i sign up again I find it lacking tonnes of content. It optimizes for flicking through its catalog so nobody notices its missing nearly everything. It does this to wear you down into submission watching or rewatching some old crap. I went to watch the last season of the 100 before the new release, found its catalog is two seasons behind. Its a mess.

wolco 6y ago
What country are you in? We're watching the last season now-
- waheoo 6y ago
  Australia, me too, by torrents. Netflix stuck on season 5. Why? Prob same old bullshit. Exclusivity and some shit murdoch run network trying to maintain relevance in a youtube world. Netflix is garbage all over the world, it was only every half decent in USA where its now being erroded
  - untoreh 6y ago
    indeed thats probably also one of the most important reasons why they went on funding their own shows, and I don't think that there is another company that tries to bootstrap regional quality shows like netflix. As setting up your own streaming platform becomes easier most of the advantage netflix would provide is maybe just easier service offering outside of the main region of the network and less legal burden
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  - caf 6y ago
    Yeah the latest season is on Foxtel in .au
- airstrike 6y ago
  New seasons come out on Amazon Prime first, and only hit Netflix much later. Since the new season of The 100 is about to come out you're finally caught up on Netflix
philliphaydon 6y ago
> every time i sign up again I find it lacking tonnes of content. This has nothing to do with Netflix though and everything to do with broadcasters buying rights in a region/country. If ABC agreed to an exclusive license of Arrow to TV3 Australia, then Netflix cannot stream Arrow to Australia customers of Netflix. But can stream to New Zealand. What these production companies need to do is stop being greedy, let a few services exist for competition, and allow licensing to 1 or more services. As consumers we may need to buy 2-3 subscriptions, but production companies can pick and choose which services have their content by licensing to the highest bidder. Unfortunately what we have is every production company trying to run their own service to get the maximum profits which means consumers are stuck buying 5+ services to watch all we want. And because of this, piracy will continue to exist.
- waheoo 6y ago
  Yes, that is my point. You can defend netflix all you like. Its still a sub par experience to torrenting. Stop trying to "fix" a working distribution network. Start improving it. Legitimize the distribution, get rid of the scummy torrent sites, empower the people, and run ads directly in the content like they are already doing with product placement or self release with skipable ads. No, its not the perfect, most effective profit wise, but that isnt the fucking point is it. Supplying the people with entertainment is. Artwork is. Culture is. You can still make profit, nobody will complain, but if you start shitting on the fans you deserve to get whats comin. Seriously, the industry had its entire distribution channel paid and developed for free, and they shit on it instead of embracing it. Can you imagine if amazon was able to get people to deliver their products to eachother for free? You think theyd be upset?
ojosilva 6y ago
Netflix is "TV, evolved" - including cable TV. It's not comparable to Spotify or iTunes ("CD, evolved"), which made music piracy almost irrelevant with their very comprehensive catalogs. Netflix content beats many open TV channels in my area, at least in the fiction and documentary arenas. And like some TV/cable networks do, Netflix invests heavily in producing their own content. It's just a matter of time until they figure out how/if/when they will launch a TV-like continuous stream of content that includes news, weather, sports, gameshows, realities... And add more focus on "live" and sell differentiated content packages by user taste.
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- input_sh 6y ago
  If you're into documentaries, you may want to check out CuriosityStream. Subscription is incredibly cheap and their catalogue is pretty good.
- Krasnol 6y ago
  I'm lucky to live in a country with a wide public broadcasting network (Germany). So I'm pretty sure that if Netflix comes up with a linear stream, I won't come back anymore. That split of content killed it for me and at this point streaming or 1-click hosters work well enough for the selected content I need. For everything else I have our public broadcasting network.
  - ojosilva 6y ago
    If they implement some continuous streaming (a hunch of mine), it would be just another box in your Netflix home grid. Click on it for autoplay to start and watch a bundled playlist of current (random) content or, if they decide to dig into it: news, weather, sports etc.
schwartzworld 6y ago
its bad now but it used to be incredible.

by waheoo 6y ago

wolco 6y ago

What country are you in? We're watching the last season now-

waheoo 6y ago
Australia, me too, by torrents. Netflix stuck on season 5. Why? Prob same old bullshit. Exclusivity and some shit murdoch run network trying to maintain relevance in a youtube world. Netflix is garbage all over the world, it was only every half decent in USA where its now being erroded
- untoreh 6y ago
  indeed thats probably also one of the most important reasons why they went on funding their own shows, and I don't think that there is another company that tries to bootstrap regional quality shows like netflix. As setting up your own streaming platform becomes easier most of the advantage netflix would provide is maybe just easier service offering outside of the main region of the network and less legal burden
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- caf 6y ago
  Yeah the latest season is on Foxtel in .au
airstrike 6y ago
New seasons come out on Amazon Prime first, and only hit Netflix much later. Since the new season of The 100 is about to come out you're finally caught up on Netflix

philliphaydon 6y ago

> every time i sign up again I find it lacking tonnes of content. This has nothing to do with Netflix though and everything to do with broadcasters buying rights in a region/country. If ABC agreed to an exclusive license of Arrow to TV3 Australia, then Netflix cannot stream Arrow to Australia customers of Netflix. But can stream to New Zealand. What these production companies need to do is stop being greedy, let a few services exist for competition, and allow licensing to 1 or more services. As consumers we may need to buy 2-3 subscriptions, but production companies can pick and choose which services have their content by licensing to the highest bidder. Unfortunately what we have is every production company trying to run their own service to get the maximum profits which means consumers are stuck buying 5+ services to watch all we want. And because of this, piracy will continue to exist.

waheoo 6y ago
Yes, that is my point. You can defend netflix all you like. Its still a sub par experience to torrenting. Stop trying to "fix" a working distribution network. Start improving it. Legitimize the distribution, get rid of the scummy torrent sites, empower the people, and run ads directly in the content like they are already doing with product placement or self release with skipable ads. No, its not the perfect, most effective profit wise, but that isnt the fucking point is it. Supplying the people with entertainment is. Artwork is. Culture is. You can still make profit, nobody will complain, but if you start shitting on the fans you deserve to get whats comin. Seriously, the industry had its entire distribution channel paid and developed for free, and they shit on it instead of embracing it. Can you imagine if amazon was able to get people to deliver their products to eachother for free? You think theyd be upset?

ojosilva 6y ago

Netflix is "TV, evolved" - including cable TV. It's not comparable to Spotify or iTunes ("CD, evolved"), which made music piracy almost irrelevant with their very comprehensive catalogs. Netflix content beats many open TV channels in my area, at least in the fiction and documentary arenas. And like some TV/cable networks do, Netflix invests heavily in producing their own content. It's just a matter of time until they figure out how/if/when they will launch a TV-like continuous stream of content that includes news, weather, sports, gameshows, realities... And add more focus on "live" and sell differentiated content packages by user taste.

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input_sh 6y ago
If you're into documentaries, you may want to check out CuriosityStream. Subscription is incredibly cheap and their catalogue is pretty good.
Krasnol 6y ago
I'm lucky to live in a country with a wide public broadcasting network (Germany). So I'm pretty sure that if Netflix comes up with a linear stream, I won't come back anymore. That split of content killed it for me and at this point streaming or 1-click hosters work well enough for the selected content I need. For everything else I have our public broadcasting network.
- ojosilva 6y ago
  If they implement some continuous streaming (a hunch of mine), it would be just another box in your Netflix home grid. Click on it for autoplay to start and watch a bundled playlist of current (random) content or, if they decide to dig into it: news, weather, sports etc.

schwartzworld 6y ago

its bad now but it used to be incredible.