Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?
maybe I’ve been living under a rock but I don’t get all this emphasis on hosting. What’s wrong with having a file on your device that you just play when you want to
For me, it’s a matter of restoring the convenience and UX that you’ve given up by leaving the big providers.
Personally fed up with the greedy streaming companies. Price hikes, movies and series disappearing, lower quality because you don’t pay for the premium deluxe 2.0 subscription, and the most annoying of all: advertisements, even though you do pay $$ for premium deluxe ultra 3.0 pro max subscription.
Selfhost 🙌🏻😊- music is always available, same with movies. Perfect!
…well, almost perfect. It really is quite expensive, but also very fun and rewarding getting it to work.
Nah, federation is a valid alternative to self hosting
In what way? You don’t own anything on the fediverse. The people who run the various instances do.
Maybe they even have a TOS that says you own it, but then what? its still up to them to continue to host it, and they have no contract with you.
Unless you are self hosting your own instance, and only count what is on that, you own no more than with larger social media sites.
To be clear, I think that federations certainly are better than monolithic sources for a variety of reasons for real people, but they aren’t a solution for ownership.
disagree. legally a government can forcefully take down a community but it’s far more difficult to police a physical ring of pirates.
pirating in the late 90s early 2000s was mostly done through physical interaction. you could download content from places like Napster, limewire, etc, but the volume of which content spread the fastest was at LAN parties.
I filled up a brand new 250gb drive after one LAN party in 2002. I still have all that content 23 years later.
point is, if we could harness the power of a “trust” content sharing would run rampant.
So we should do LAN parties again then!
completely agree.
laughs in
piratedata archivistIf something isn’t worth waiting just a bit of time to torrent it, as opposed to just instantly streaming it?
Good rule of thumb: It’s slop, you don’t actually care for it, it’s just white noise.
Alternatively, your setup is kinda slow and you’re kinda lazy (not used pejoratively).
I can’t hear you over my 10TB storage disk of movies.
Imagine not having a double digit bay NAS with triple digit number Tebibytes.
Well…I preferred double parity for my 4-bay NAS :p
Rookie.
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Self-Hosting? What happened to saving things onto a hard drive?
that’s self-hosted.
Self hosting essentially stores all of your data on your hard drive, but it also allows access to that via local network (while at home) and over internet via secured tunnel (e.g. Wireguard tunnel, Tailscale) while away from home.
I guess I’m a unicorn in that Netflix or equal has no draw for me. I’m not a movie watcher. I’m more interested in how they made it vs the actual movie content itself. I don’t even watch TV of any kind. I have no Spotify or equal, music streaming platform. I just can’t take the incessant ads every couple songs, and it’s the same flipping ad over and over. Instead, I listen to my music collection which is fairly large, most of it from my days of running a licensed internet radio station back in the pre-Napster days, and read. Not much into fiction or novels etc. Give me history, news, anything to do with computers, etc. I mean, the internet is a vast repository of data, and I have yet to surf to the end of it. At no other time in human history have we had the sum total of the world’s knowledge, maybe not wisdom, but knowledge, resting in the palm of our hand or sitting on a desktop. The great libraries of Alexandria would look like my magazine rack in comparison. I just find that reading helps me digest the information better, and in the case of news, it allows me to cross reference, highlight, search, compare ad nauseam, in search of the truth trifecta, which you’ll never get on your TV screen.
They’re going up again?
I dropped all of those. I just have a couple services now.
CBC Gem (mostly to support CanCon and local media), one streamer, and I migrated to Qobuz for music.
I’m the spring I’ll go to yard sales for dvds/blu rays. They’re like a dollar there, which is reasonable.
A ton of content I liked is now owned by fascists and Larry Ellison, so I don’t even want to buy new media anymore.
Do you know what ORACLE stands for?
I wonder of Palantir is connected to Oracle. Likely so.
No
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
I’m probably going to be allowing most of my streaming subscriptions to lapse over the next year or two. Gonna stick with Dropout and PBS, but that might be all.
+1 for PBS streaming. It’s a great value and highly underrated.
The price of ownership is maintenance.
Prices keep rising because people will pay ANY price to avoid personal responsibility.
The only streaming services that make sense to me are the niche ones that focus on original content.
Wrestling streaming services like njpw world, trillerTV, or wrestle universe, specialised libraries like Shudder.
Generalised shit for mainstream content is not worth the money.
Thanks for reminding me. I still have shows I need to download.
