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A stream is not identical in functionality to a DVD. Aside from that, this is a difficult to prove assertion. I'm not sure there's actually been a paid legitim
by stormbrew 13y ago
A stream is not identical in functionality to a DVD.
Aside from that, this is a difficult to prove assertion. I'm not sure there's actually been a paid legitimate service that's actually better than the free pirate one overall, when you take out the morality equation.
Netflix, rdio, etc. do seem to be doing quite well at proving that people are still willing to pay for a good service with legitimate content, though. Imagine if they were actually as good as the alternative.
- Blahah 13y agoGoogle play almost solves this problem for me with music. I have a hopeless addiction to fairly off-the-beaten-track hip-hop, and used to have to use private trackers and forums to find good stuff. I got Google play music recently, uploaded stuff I already had, and now I get really good suggestions for new, rare stuff every day. It's still not as comprehensive as what's available on the rest of the internet, but it's better than any other paid music thing I've tried.
- e12e 13y agoI think the closest I know of is vodo.net -- but it has the usual problem of free/indy media -- a lot of it is simply crap. But it has some low-budget gems, like Pioneer One: http://vodo.net/pioneerone http://vodo.net/pioneerone (Note that one person's gem is often another person's crap...) Yet, vodo.net, even being free -- still has higher friction than The Pirate Bay, less choice in [encoding] quality -- but at least supports offline usage (unlike Netflix).
- Blahah 13y agoPioneerOne plot sounds a lot like Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.