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Is this a submarine PR to test the waters? If they put ads on netflix, what's the point of not pirating the torrent even if I pay netflix because I hate ads? M

by tough 5y ago

Is this a submarine PR to test the waters? If they put ads on netflix, what's the point of not pirating the torrent even if I pay netflix because I hate ads? Maybe they can try it for netflix originals and in exchange of free instead of paid subscription, would be a nice experiment to try and compete with TV that way going free/ads

yakubin 5y ago
I used to pay for Netflix and still torrent its content due to the low quality of video, sometimes mysterious network problems (only with Netflix), sometimes not being able to watch a movie without dubbing (???). Generally, no matter how much magic there is on Netflix's backend that I read about, the frontend seems to be a pile of goo. But over the years, movies kept disappearing from Netflix and at this point anything I may want to watch is typically not available on Netflix, so I cancelled my subscription. I'm probably going to switch to Amazon Prime, since it appears to have the best offer in terms of content.
t-writescode 5y ago
It’s an advertisement.
zeruch 5y ago
I already torrent some Netflix content for fear of them removing it after some set date arbitrarily (e.g. Gloria, Umbrella Academy) Netflix as far as I'm concerned, is just the newest member of "Big Content" with essentially the same behaviors except they are 'streaming first'...beyond that, no different. Like Google, they will eventually forget everything that made them appealing in the first place and be trash, with the commensurate backlash to go with it.
- SarikayaKomzin 5y ago
  Those dates are almost always not arbitrary. They're usually due to licensing and distribution agreements. Not trying to dissuade your from torrenting, but it's disingenuous to call those dates arbitrary. They're the simple reality of being in the content business, even originals aren't always fully vertically integrated, but that's certain the direction the industry is moving.
  - sebazzz 5y ago
    Is there transparency of these dates to the Netflix clients? If not, it is from that perspective pretty arbitrary.
  - zeruch 5y ago
    I'm not being disingenuous, and "the reality of the content business" is mostly arbitrary in many ways (I worked in anti-piracy for years in an irony to trump all ironies, and the industry is on a good day, a bad sub-plot from an episode of Entourage). Those licensing and distribution agreements are often opaque to the public, and the industry has helped to create a consumer fickleness that perpetuates the bad habits all around.
moltar 5y ago
Maybe they want to offer free service, but monetized by ads?
- samspenc 5y ago
  Or a low-cost option with ads. Hulu and others already do this, and Disney+ just announced that it would be trying a similar model.

by tough 5y ago

yakubin 5y ago

I used to pay for Netflix and still torrent its content due to the low quality of video, sometimes mysterious network problems (only with Netflix), sometimes not being able to watch a movie without dubbing (???). Generally, no matter how much magic there is on Netflix's backend that I read about, the frontend seems to be a pile of goo. But over the years, movies kept disappearing from Netflix and at this point anything I may want to watch is typically not available on Netflix, so I cancelled my subscription. I'm probably going to switch to Amazon Prime, since it appears to have the best offer in terms of content.

t-writescode 5y ago

It’s an advertisement.

zeruch 5y ago

I already torrent some Netflix content for fear of them removing it after some set date arbitrarily (e.g. Gloria, Umbrella Academy) Netflix as far as I'm concerned, is just the newest member of "Big Content" with essentially the same behaviors except they are 'streaming first'...beyond that, no different. Like Google, they will eventually forget everything that made them appealing in the first place and be trash, with the commensurate backlash to go with it.

SarikayaKomzin 5y ago
Those dates are almost always not arbitrary. They're usually due to licensing and distribution agreements. Not trying to dissuade your from torrenting, but it's disingenuous to call those dates arbitrary. They're the simple reality of being in the content business, even originals aren't always fully vertically integrated, but that's certain the direction the industry is moving.
- sebazzz 5y ago
  Is there transparency of these dates to the Netflix clients? If not, it is from that perspective pretty arbitrary.
- zeruch 5y ago
  I'm not being disingenuous, and "the reality of the content business" is mostly arbitrary in many ways (I worked in anti-piracy for years in an irony to trump all ironies, and the industry is on a good day, a bad sub-plot from an episode of Entourage). Those licensing and distribution agreements are often opaque to the public, and the industry has helped to create a consumer fickleness that perpetuates the bad habits all around.

moltar 5y ago

Maybe they want to offer free service, but monetized by ads?

samspenc 5y ago
Or a low-cost option with ads. Hulu and others already do this, and Disney+ just announced that it would be trying a similar model.