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      I’ve been aware long enough of big gaps in the libraries of streaming services that there was never a reason to give it up.

      It took until fucking March of this fucking year for Spotify to have any old De La Soul to stream. Good thing I’ve had a high quality rip of their early discography for fifteen fucking years. Otherwise I would have been shit outta luck on listening to them.

      I couldn’t stream a killer album from fucking 1989 in 2022. There continue to be massive gaps in their libraries due to licensing issues and people who just don’t want to get underpaid by Spotify.

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        At least the De La Soul situation was understandable. Imagine the amount of time it must have taken to track down and relicense every sample.

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          The fact that visual collage can exist so easily, and yet audio collage is facing an uphill battle, some 40 years later, feels like a big indicator that copyright law in the US still needs a massive overhaul

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      Me too, but for some damn reason, it seems to cost more per month, overall, than a couple subscriptions.

      But I will say, I love my setup…

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    Way too accurate. Netflix, when it was the sole main provider, was super good. Then the other companies realised the big bucks they could get from streaming/peddling their own shit.

    Thanks to this meme, I killed my netflix account. Nicotine is fine :D

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        The whole idea that competition is good is a total libertarian lie. Cooperation leads to the best results. It’s just impossible under capitalism.

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          It is good, if the competing products/services are interchangeable and they need to compete on factors such as price, convenience, or reliability. For example, competing grocery stores, all of which offer by and large the same products. Or competing mechanics, all of which can perform service on your car.

          Streaming services don’t do this. They have carved up the market and “compete” by making you choose which products you want more.

          Imagine two grocery stores, one of which had all the ice cream, and the other had all the chocolate, and neither could carry things that the other stocked. That is what streaming services are doing.

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          Ehh…it’s entirely dependent on the product. Music streaming services are actually all comparable to one another and have not suffered the same fragmentation that the TV and movie streaming services have. With music streaming services, you literally just pick whichever works for you and you can get nearly all the same content. It just doesn’t work the same for every market I guess.

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          i can’t describe you how much joy your comment gave me. an (at least) anti-capitalism comment in a completely random post. i love it.

          thanks for making my day

          arrrrrgh 🏴‍☠️

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      Pretty sure I read they’re all losing money hand over fist, which is why they’re implementing ads and jacking up prices. Exception being Netflix.

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    I’ve just finished my setup with Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyfin, qBittorrent and nzb360. I’ve paid 120€ for proton vpn for 2 years, 200€ for m2 ssd for 4tb and a few bucks for domain to access my setup from anywhere. Also, I have a 1gb internet connection for 65€ pm…

    So, I’m willing to pay… I don’t want to spend all this time configuring scripts and integrations(though it was fun 😁)… But paying for Netflix, Prime, HBO, Disney+ and not being able to watch everything I want, simply makes me angry and miserable.

    Duck them all. Arrrrr

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      I have outsourced much of the setup you describe to a country with lower law enforcement pressure with regards to torrenting. Costs me 15€.

      Worth it for me.

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        Saw some service offering like 100k movies for $15 a month.

        Only thing stopping me is the thought of giving my credit card details to a criminal…

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          It’s a seed box I should have written that. If you google seedboxes it should be the first hit or so.

          You still have to torrent but it’s not on your pc.

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        Is it done SaaS or do you have your private setup? Also what about the speed? I stream 20gb files over wi-fi and can experience issues with stream lag time to time

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      It also requires you to skip from page to page. You need a page to search to tell you what page to to go search for what you want to watch

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      I have nutflex but still ended up downloading ld&R because they would not stop fucking up the episode order or playing no more than one at a time before rotating back to a reshuffled episode menu and i JUST WANTED TO WATCH THE FUCKING SHOW

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    As we approach every service charging $30 a month, there’s going to be a point where the average consumer will just give up.

    Meanwhile, your seedbox will still only be $5.

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        Does jellyfin support transcoded downloads already? Thats the only thing holding me back from plex. All my movies and shows are 4k no need to load giant 4k files to a phone when traveling.

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          Yeah, it also has hardware acceleration for on the fly transcoding. It needs some configuration to tell it what you’re running it on but nothing particularly major

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      Plex is getting worse tough just saying…pushing their own services and now they started blocking certain hosting providers.

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        It may be but until other options are available on a PlayStation, I doubt I’ll move. I don’t even watch stuff but the people I serve to need functionally on the PS… maybe they’ll get smart TVs soon

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    Yeah, I used to turn to such activities because it was cheaper, now I do it because it’s simpler/easier.

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      The price increase I can deal with. The drop in quality and getting rid of password sharing (after they actively endorsed it) is why they lost me.