Internet Piracy Is Booming. Streaming Sites Are to Blame.
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Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.::Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    37·
    10 months ago

    Weird how an open source media streaming app works fine, but Disney can’t keep their app working on Android to save their lives.

    I assume bullshit DRM has something to do with it, but I wouldn’t know because there’s way easier (and even legal!) ways to get media onto my server than that.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Well to be fair, subtitles are often messed up on the open source one, but OH BOY you haven’t seen the state of Belgian streaming apps.

      Casting doesn’t work on most, subtitles only work on 1/3 with some reality shows having burned in subs, tapping the screen in logical places to play/pause doesn’t work (like the giant play button in the middle of the screen when paused), one of them literally doesn’t even have a search function.

      Ads are ridiculous, 10+ ads every 10 minutes. Not to mention that if you scrub at all instead of just forward/back, automatic ad break plays. Recently played just stopped being broken and giving wrong episodes. It is an absolute mess.

    • SloppyPuppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      Please share. I dont understand where people get media especially legal nowadays. I would go to pirate bay if I need something.

      • TK420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        I’m filling my wants of CDs and BDs from eBay, new stuff Amazon because I’m lazy. (then it lives on sans the case in a Case Logic binder)

        Pretty straight forward for me.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I buy DVDs.

        When they stop selling DVDs I’ll have to reevaluate.

        There’s plenty of screen and audio capture technology that is immune to DRM (sending the signal across a primitive wire to a separate DRM-free device), check your area for legality, but I don’t think any non-asshole would disagree with your moral right to backup your digital purchases.

        But at some point if they keep making it hard for me to pay money for media, well, yo ho ho, and avast!