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My dad is elderly and has figured out how to watch online movies for free. He goes to [1] and it is just like netflix point and click no skill needed. 1 https:

by 14 5y ago

My dad is elderly and has figured out how to watch online movies for free. He goes to [1] and it is just like netflix point and click no skill needed. 1 https://flixtor.to/home https://flixtor.to/home

kube-system 5y ago
I have no doubt that one, or even thousand of seniors are pirating the latest movies. I’m not saying that people don’t pirate stuff. But Netflix has 213 million users. If pirating was really so much easier and DRM made legal options unusable, they wouldn’t. DRM sucks, but Netflix isn’t going out of business any time soon
- peoplefromibiza 5y ago
  > But Netflix has 213 million users Nitpicking, but Netflix has 213 millions subscribers, not users. We don't know how many of them are active or how many people are using them. We simply know they paid one time.
  - kube-system 5y ago
    I’ll phrase it another way: in 2020, some number of people collectively decided it was easier to send Netflix 25 billion dollars instead of pirating movies.
    - peoplefromibiza 5y ago
      Let's look at it from another perspective: in 2020 people collectively decided it was easier to send Netflix $25 billion instead of other forms of entertainment (cinemas, theaters, concert halls, stadium, etc were closed) Pirating skyrocketed as well during 2020 The two things are not adversaries as much as one might think Theatrical releases on streaming services have helped piracy, now you can download a movie mere days after it came out and the quality is gonna be perfect. > More people are pirating movies during the coronavirus lockdown During the last seven days of March, there was a 43% spike in Americans visiting sites that pirate movies compared with the last seven days of February. Italy, which went under lockdown orders on March 9, saw visits to piracy sites spike 66%
      - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
        How do those spikes compare to the spikes on sites that you believe to be non-infringing?
        peoplefromibiza 5y ago
        I don't know. If you know more, I'm curious to listen.
    - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
      It's not because it's easier. People could park in no parking zones, it would be easier, they don't because they've made a moral and/or financial judgement.
      - kube-system 5y ago
        Because people care about the entire experience.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  "But Netflix has 213 million users. If pirating was really so much easier.." I am willing to bet there are more than 500 million people pirating, so I don't think this argument carries much weight. Netflix is a very 'rich western country' thing. The rest of the world exists.
  - kube-system 5y ago
    The media industry cares about piracy in as much as they care about making money from their customers. Preventing some dude in the middle of Asia buying a Disney DVD from the street market in a country where Disney+ isn't even offered is not affecting their bottom line. The rest of the world exists but that doesn't mean they were going to be paying customers anyway.

by 14 5y ago

kube-system 5y ago

I have no doubt that one, or even thousand of seniors are pirating the latest movies. I’m not saying that people don’t pirate stuff. But Netflix has 213 million users. If pirating was really so much easier and DRM made legal options unusable, they wouldn’t. DRM sucks, but Netflix isn’t going out of business any time soon

peoplefromibiza 5y ago
> But Netflix has 213 million users Nitpicking, but Netflix has 213 millions subscribers, not users. We don't know how many of them are active or how many people are using them. We simply know they paid one time.
- kube-system 5y ago
  I’ll phrase it another way: in 2020, some number of people collectively decided it was easier to send Netflix 25 billion dollars instead of pirating movies.
  - peoplefromibiza 5y ago
    Let's look at it from another perspective: in 2020 people collectively decided it was easier to send Netflix $25 billion instead of other forms of entertainment (cinemas, theaters, concert halls, stadium, etc were closed) Pirating skyrocketed as well during 2020 The two things are not adversaries as much as one might think Theatrical releases on streaming services have helped piracy, now you can download a movie mere days after it came out and the quality is gonna be perfect. > More people are pirating movies during the coronavirus lockdown During the last seven days of March, there was a 43% spike in Americans visiting sites that pirate movies compared with the last seven days of February. Italy, which went under lockdown orders on March 9, saw visits to piracy sites spike 66%
    - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
      How do those spikes compare to the spikes on sites that you believe to be non-infringing?
      - peoplefromibiza 5y ago
        I don't know. If you know more, I'm curious to listen.
  - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
    It's not because it's easier. People could park in no parking zones, it would be easier, they don't because they've made a moral and/or financial judgement.
    - kube-system 5y ago
      Because people care about the entire experience.
ClumsyPilot 5y ago
"But Netflix has 213 million users. If pirating was really so much easier.." I am willing to bet there are more than 500 million people pirating, so I don't think this argument carries much weight. Netflix is a very 'rich western country' thing. The rest of the world exists.
- kube-system 5y ago
  The media industry cares about piracy in as much as they care about making money from their customers. Preventing some dude in the middle of Asia buying a Disney DVD from the street market in a country where Disney+ isn't even offered is not affecting their bottom line. The rest of the world exists but that doesn't mean they were going to be paying customers anyway.