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What's the problem with that exactly? Legacy catalogs having some incomplete coverage? That the Pokemon Company can't make a good list if pressed? These are al

by mxfh 1y ago

What's the problem with that exactly? Legacy catalogs having some incomplete coverage? That the Pokemon Company can't make a good list if pressed? These are all not new or streaming Problems The gist is here, that the complete first four season are on YouTube for free and the 5th is being added as we speak? (200+ episodes) https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialPoke%CC%81monTV/playlists https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialPoke%CC%81monTV/playlists There was nether the expectation with streaming that third party content doesn't rotate. If you want a bit more persistent access you can buy them on Apple TV (Season 1-5 and 10-25) Oh Boy, Pokemon is really not the example I would bring up here, when the aim is completeness on official channels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_episodes_removed_from_rotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_episodes_removed_...

Gud 1y ago
It’s pretty obvious that no one wants to subscribe and look for some content on 5 different platforms. While the pirate goes to his or her favourite torrent site and downloads it all, with the added bonus of having offline, permanent access.
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gjvc 1y ago
with a sample size of one, there is no obvious problem. presumably any given household wants to watch more than just pokemon, though and this is where things become unstuck. suddenly, to satisfy the demand for the range of things people in the household want to watch they are forced to make subscriptions to multiple services, perhaps sometimes for one-offs. scale this up, and you have a population forced to make multiple subscriptions to multiple streaming providers to satisfy their demand for content. or people just choose a couple of them and that's that. either way it seems that there is a symbiotic relationship between the content authors and the streaming companies. but wait, read the page carefully, multiple seasons of the same thing spread across different streamers forcing consumers to subscribe to multiple streamers .... and now we are into Phoebus cartel territory.
- mxfh 1y ago
  That's not how streaming worked, ever. You had to deal with what Netflix had to offer and that was it. These were the happy monopoly days. It was simply the lack of choice and nobody felt left out at watercooler talks. The paradox now, is that if you're FOMO inclined you feel the need to subscribe to multiple ones at all times to satify all needs in a household. You don't have to. You can keep baseline Disney if you really have to, but everything else can be easily rotated or just cought up on for a month or three on the usual discounted offers. The social pressure was not some invention of the streaming companies. Also pirating has a hardware and energy cost, that's not trivial and mostly subsidized by parents. On a ROI basis of adults with disposable income "buying" (aka personal licenses, ideally shareable with some other accounts what some might call a family) 4-5 movies for like 5 dollars on platforms like Apple TV each a month is actually cheaper than pirating. Streaming is not everything. And don`t kid yourself that your DVD or Bluray collection is worth something or usable in 20+ years. That's a niche hobby. Go visit a flea market. People are that lazy when it comes to couch and home entertainment stuff.
  - thaumasiotes 1y ago
    You think pirating videos will raise your electric bill by $25 / month?
    - mxfh 1y ago
      Storage isn't free. running a 50 Watt anything 24/7 costs like 10 Dollars a month in Europe already if you don't want to be an anti-social leacher or want the convenience of an netflix-like media server.
      - thaumasiotes 1y ago
        Your comment is a bizarre tangle of different concerns, of which none make even a tiny amount of sense. - If you download without uploading much, what does that have to do with the costs of piracy? - If you upload as well as download, how will that increase the amount you pay for 50 watts of electricity? - In what possible sense is storage not free? You already have the storage. Putting things on it is free, unless you get to the point where you need to buy additional storage. You don't need to retain the things you pirate any more than you need to retain the things you stream. -- Even if you decide to do that, storage is an utterly trivial cost. - Stipulating that 50 watts a month costs $10, your network stack draws less than 25 watts. Given that storage will never add up to any amount you'd notice, it will take less than one month before piracy blows rental out of the water on costs, after which its lead will increase forever.

by mxfh 1y ago

Gud 1y ago

It’s pretty obvious that no one wants to subscribe and look for some content on 5 different platforms. While the pirate goes to his or her favourite torrent site and downloads it all, with the added bonus of having offline, permanent access.

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gjvc 1y ago

with a sample size of one, there is no obvious problem. presumably any given household wants to watch more than just pokemon, though and this is where things become unstuck. suddenly, to satisfy the demand for the range of things people in the household want to watch they are forced to make subscriptions to multiple services, perhaps sometimes for one-offs. scale this up, and you have a population forced to make multiple subscriptions to multiple streaming providers to satisfy their demand for content. or people just choose a couple of them and that's that. either way it seems that there is a symbiotic relationship between the content authors and the streaming companies. but wait, read the page carefully, multiple seasons of the same thing spread across different streamers forcing consumers to subscribe to multiple streamers .... and now we are into Phoebus cartel territory.

mxfh 1y ago
That's not how streaming worked, ever. You had to deal with what Netflix had to offer and that was it. These were the happy monopoly days. It was simply the lack of choice and nobody felt left out at watercooler talks. The paradox now, is that if you're FOMO inclined you feel the need to subscribe to multiple ones at all times to satify all needs in a household. You don't have to. You can keep baseline Disney if you really have to, but everything else can be easily rotated or just cought up on for a month or three on the usual discounted offers. The social pressure was not some invention of the streaming companies. Also pirating has a hardware and energy cost, that's not trivial and mostly subsidized by parents. On a ROI basis of adults with disposable income "buying" (aka personal licenses, ideally shareable with some other accounts what some might call a family) 4-5 movies for like 5 dollars on platforms like Apple TV each a month is actually cheaper than pirating. Streaming is not everything. And don`t kid yourself that your DVD or Bluray collection is worth something or usable in 20+ years. That's a niche hobby. Go visit a flea market. People are that lazy when it comes to couch and home entertainment stuff.
- thaumasiotes 1y ago
  You think pirating videos will raise your electric bill by $25 / month?
  - mxfh 1y ago
    Storage isn't free. running a 50 Watt anything 24/7 costs like 10 Dollars a month in Europe already if you don't want to be an anti-social leacher or want the convenience of an netflix-like media server.
    - thaumasiotes 1y ago
      Your comment is a bizarre tangle of different concerns, of which none make even a tiny amount of sense. - If you download without uploading much, what does that have to do with the costs of piracy? - If you upload as well as download, how will that increase the amount you pay for 50 watts of electricity? - In what possible sense is storage not free? You already have the storage. Putting things on it is free, unless you get to the point where you need to buy additional storage. You don't need to retain the things you pirate any more than you need to retain the things you stream. -- Even if you decide to do that, storage is an utterly trivial cost. - Stipulating that 50 watts a month costs $10, your network stack draws less than 25 watts. Given that storage will never add up to any amount you'd notice, it will take less than one month before piracy blows rental out of the water on costs, after which its lead will increase forever.