Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix & remembers why
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00:00 - Introduction
00:15 - In 2005, it made sense that the world had not caught up with the Cowon A2
00:45 - Why piracy is justified - you get a better experience when you don't pay
01:08 - Addressing the common ad hominem attack
02:35 - Louis watches a TV show with his girlfriend
03:10 - Loading netflix in firefox
03:21 - Why your TV should NEVER connect to the internet
04:40 - Netflix on a computer looks like garbage
05:30 - Watching netflix on the smarttv
06:24 - Piracy would've gotten me 1080p for free
06:34 - Netflix got me 720p for $20+/mo
07:04 - How you know you've found the one
08:07 - You are treated better as a PIRATE than as a CUSTOMErl
08:49 - If you're pointing to workarounds, you missed the point. ENTIRELY.
09:35 - People don't pay for adversarial relationships - they pay for partners
11:10 - Who are your partners? Who are your adversaries?
12:07 - The NetFlix HD measures still don't provide the 4k stream, even if you paid for a 4k netflix account
13:00 - I have no problem paying for value
13:54 - Why piracy wins
14:10 - The punchline
14:55 - I'm not expecting them to provide a better deal than free
16:10 - CZcams as an example
16:30 - CZcams asks premium members to verify their address
16:50 - Brave shields members & Ublock origin members are NOT asked to randomly verify their address
17:00 - Users who whitelist youtube in their adblocker get annoying splash screens from youtube
17:08 - Users who DIDN'T whitelist youtube in their adblocker get no annoying splash screen
18:18 - I am opting out of content locked to crappy ecosystems
17:25 - 22 years later, minimal progress
If you are so paranoid you won't even hook up your TV to the internet for fear of some unknown entity spying on you, that is frankly your problem.
Read the TOS. Read what it says in the menu. You don't have to dig to understand what happens when you connect it to the internet. I included Screenshots in this video, but I don't expect people who make comments like this to be literate enough to have read it.
@@rossmanngroup Agreed. Companies just blatantly mention that in the TOS and they know very well that 99% of the consumers won't ever read the TOS and blindly accept. I know a lot of people they don't even care if their privacy is violated because they have "nothing to hide".
Meatheads like you are the reason the stigma of bodybuilders being dumber than bread exists. All the juice went up your head.
is it even paranoia if it's actually there though?
There must be a reason comments like this are around, I guess it's the only thing someone can think of to try and down play bad practices. Frankly it is more likely going to be your problem, sense you don't see the risks. Then others might say If your so worried about car crashes don't drive, or being robbed, then don't own stuff. People don't realize how invasive this stuff gets, you talk about anything like ice-cream and see 5 ads later, your info gets sold to scammers, you say a password or names and get hacked, all sorts of stuff, chances maybe low but never 0, there is no end to the risks. Frankly I prefer to NOT buy a door without locks whenever I can.
If paying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
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Words of wisdom
Now THIS comment is worth pinning. Although I understand the pin of shame
It never was. Duplication isn't theft, authorized or otherwise, as nothing of the original is lost.
I am stealing this
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“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue" - Gabe Newell
Even if you have a better service than piracy, overpricing is still a problem.
Valve likely even knows how many and who pirate their games, but just left it as is as.
that mf has been raising prices here in brazil, he can get fucked.
Yes. I love Steam, BUT whenever available I buy games on GOG instead.
Because games on GOG have no DRM, Steam does.
@@Razorwindsg considering valve games are mostly populated by poor people countries (dota, cs) they know
At some point it felt dystopian to think stuff like "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product" but we're even farther than that now, we pay a lot for the product, and we're still the product.
Its only going to get worse. Theyve found the limit of subtlety for pushing shit like this onto society. The gen behind mine has grown up always having net, and theyre so adapted to it the limit will be even further. My kids bring me lists of movies to pirate, but im only one man with three kids. The numbers are against us.
And the GD subscription model from hell
@@jotun.616well. Someone has to pay for it.
Also, you don’t become a huge tech company by giving folks the best value. Maybe for some years, but before and after they build a good rep.
That simply means that without "you" in this equation you would've paid even more, cause that's the true price.
@@middleofnowhere1313 yup. They managed to make it the exact same as having a cable or satellite package.
I remember the days when you had to watch anti-piracy clips before watching a movie AS A PAYING CUSTOMER but if you pirate it you can just start with the movie directly. Modern media landscape is absolutely nuts these days.
I liked the anti piracy advert.
Back when you could rent a movie or a video game from a store to actually see if it's good or not.
Yea I remember they played those anti-piracy ads in the movie theater previews. The movie theater, where the vast majority paid to get in. If you snuck into the theaters you definitely weren't going to pay attention to those ads anyway. It was so insulting.
I remember some of those ads.
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR!!!!
The fuck we wouldn't, if we had the option! Hold my beer and watch this!
@@jasonbrannen7598so fucking real lmao
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
-Gabe Newell
I'd *LOVE* to know how these idiots think anything can beat free under capitalism when most people struggle just to eat, let alone afford their escapism via entertainment ROFLMEYERWIENER
We already pay nearly $200 a month for barely 1 gigabit internet ffs :/
Last time I checked there was 1gig for like 60-70$/mo. But I agree TV subscriptions are getting ridiculous
@@IDSR_69 We're locked into Xfinity, that's all that's available here except for *maybe* satellite ...
And they charge *more* the fewer services you sign up for! It's outrageous but if we want internet, which is required for me to get *any work at all* then, well, we don't have any choice
Piracy is a service issue, not a price issue. That's why Spotify and Steam are popular - they offer a better service than piracy.
And a convenience issue. Trying to keep track of 18 different streaming services and figure out which show is where..
Used to be in Spotifys case, now they're sneaking ads into premium plans.
@@SEEYAIAYEwhen did that start? Personally haven't had the "luck" to encounter it so far
@@SEEYAIAYEhow? I've never seen an add, unless you mean Spotify pitching it's multiuser plans to a single user which imo is fine cause it pops up like maybe once a month, and dismisses without any annoying "ARE YoU SuRE yOu DoN't want this GrEaT DeAl?" there's absolutely no audio adds in premium, or banner ads.
Spotify and steam are simply mainstream enough to involve millions of normies who don't know how to pirate.
That's why I've been a sailor for almost 40 years and still going strong sailing the high seas today!!
This is why I still buy physical media. Love my 4K and Blu-ray Discs. Can’t be taken away, they sit on my shelf, no subscriptions needed.
This is one of the main reasons I have a stack of CDs on my shelf behind me. No company can take my music away, and I supported my favorite artists.
I watched game of thrones with a streaming service and any of the dark scenes looked terrible, so I got the DVDs from my parents and it looked way better.
Careful of the Blu-ray. A Sony movie disc could bork your Blu-ray player. I was offered a free player because it could only play DVDs because Sony borked it with a movie disk that the owners rented, and Sony wasn't going to send codes to make it work because reasons. After being offered the player, I quit shopping for Blu-ray players
I bought a deluxe blu ray of a movie and received a digital online copy as well! But 5 years later i can no longer access the digital version and am thankful i have the blu ray disc lol
@@ambiarock590 CD becomes unreadable after a while.
Vinyl is pretty much the only physical media that lasts.
It should *never* be _more_ _difficult_ to access your legitimately purchased media than it is to pirate it.
GoG knows this. I've never had a problem with it.
What? You should celebrate that its so easy to find everything for free, it might not be like that in a few years...
I buy all the bluray versions of the BBC nature docs. They don't come in a digital version so I barely watch them because I like to go from my laptop in the kitchen while cooking, to the tv when eating. I can't do this with a disc unless I can start it on a CZcams or pirated version for the kitchen. It's very frustrating. I probably own 50 DVD's I've never even opened for this same reason.
@ryomensukuna457 I think he's saying if you're paying it should be just as easy, if not easier
Ok, but if people don't like the paid version, then the ONLY morally acceptable thing to do is to just not pay amd not watch at all.
There is no moral pathway for, "I don't like the paid version, so I will steal it".
That woukd have to imply you have some god given RIGHT to watch it. But we don't.
I will download EVERYTHING...cant rèm er the last time I paid, but I am man enough to admit that it is stealing amd not morally correct. This guy is just making up excuses. He's a weak male.
Think of this bro...imagine you are have a car rental company.
The customer feels that the coffee was bad in the waiting room. So, he decides not to pay. Instead, he sneaks in gently and steals the car gently, then returns it before the sun comes up with the se amount of gas. He even disconnected the speedometer to keep the same milage. You wouldn't even know it was stolen. No negative effect on the company owner....would that be ok for him to take that car?
If he didn't like the coffee in thewaitong room, it's ok for him to walk out, but no,it does not justify him access to the car/product. You see?
The creator of valve and steam said, 'piracy is a service problem'. once you make your content easier to see in a 'illegal manner' vs a legal one. you've already lost.
Ironically, video game piracy nowadays provides a better service than Steam imho. I'm not into modern gaming and don't have a system that could run Windows 10. Steam is discontinuing Windows 7-8 support by the end of this year, now I have over 600 games I can't play. In hindsight I should've went with GOG, but Steam was there first. I think it was TotalBiscuit that said "you don't own anything on Steam", if the service is screwed, you're screwed.
Gabe's right.
@yaroslavkurgansky6205 that being said, fuck it. Start buying real things my friend
@@snowcow1173 at least Steam actually provides a valuable product such us the friend list and the ability to invite your friends instatly, find people or friend that play your games, workshop content which makes modding as easy as it gets, the posibility to share your favourite games for free with someone, easy updating... most of the time I end up buying the games I pirate.
@@yaroslavkurgansky6205 Won't argue there may be fringe cases. I will say you should switch to linux rather than stay on an older version of windows.
other than that there is other things steam supports that provide a better service than pirating. they've made it possible that for the past few years i've not had to worry much, if at all if a game will run on my chosen os. proton is pretty much plug and play. Gog outright said they'll never support linux...
I actually laughed out loud when you said the guy who whitelists YT gets the message to turn off adblockers but the guy who doesn't does not :D
A pirate is free.
@@rossmanngroup He is captain of his own ship.
Should I be concerned using an ad b l o c k e r?
Ads mess with your computer, put in malicious code or so I hear, and computers short on RAM choke on ads.
And we wish we could get something similar for our home phone and the radio, what with all the stupid ads and pesky telemarketers.
At least the ads served a purpose back when people still watched TV. It gave you a couple of minutes to run to the bathroom or the refrigerator. Since there was no pause button.
Pirated games work far better than the ones you pay for.
Smooth, no drop in frame rate, and so on.
I don't why. Maybe because the paid games are connected to the net, and who knows what goes on there.
@@FuckTheSimulationthere is only 2 games where the opposite was true, Space pirates and Zombies 2, and Ravenfield
Ravenfield makes sense because it’s still in Early access and is updating all the time
The fact that there is even a button to say "Can we spy on you?"
They ask if they can sell the information they find, not if you want them to take it. So it's even worse.
I love the fact they ask "can we make money spying on you?"
if you even trust that turning it off does anything
@@stevesamson3940 oh it probably does nothing 💀
More like a hidden option to say "Do NOT spy on me". Your alternative would imply it's op-IN instead of opt-OUT.
The worst part is that most people have been conditioned to expect that they need to give away their freedom and information to partake in what they don't understand to be an inferior product. The majority of people using these services don't even know what it means for something to be DRM-free. Preach, bro. You are absolutely right.
one of my colleagues at work helped another collegue of mine create his email account yesterday (he somehow didn't have one until now) and when I made fun of the amount of personal data you have to give them to make an account the guy was like "it's for verification", my ass
And this comment should receive 2000+ likes.
Now that the actors are getting screwed by the streamers. Piracy is justified because there is no "poor suffering actor" losing out because the company keeps almost all of it
Welcome to the 3rd pinned comment
"If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed" - Peter Lee, Disney Executive in an interview with The Economist in 2005.
As long as DRM exists, it is not only justified, but mandatory.
DRM exist under DMCA law blame your government for supporting those big media giants
What's DRM?
@@rendezvousonmemorylane Digital Rights Management. A collective term for copy protection, authentication, encryption and anti-video capture technology.
@@rendezvousonmemorylaneDigital Rights Management
@@6581punkis Part of their DMCA laws is mainly protection laws I rather audit/abolish DMCA laws
That doesn't matter, the cat will still decide to scratch the speakers.
The other issue i have with the streaming services is how you have to have a dozen subscriptions to watch the shows you want. We're right back to the days of cable where you're not just paying for what you want, but having to pay for stuff you don't want or even paying for things you're opposed to.
TV is actually immoral in how it is used to propagandize and spread around "official" lies. All the more reason to *not pay* and/or to not watch TV.
And there are a lot of region locked shows too. Wanted to (re)watch a Documentary from the 70s about ww2, was only available in Britain… even with vpn it was annoying.
@@Ealon4wow
Yet another reason to not watch TV. I hear some ad on the radio, or some report on what is currently streaming, and it sounds so stupid, because they give references to invalid channels that do not come up on my TV nor computer. Come on, it is 2024 and not the 1970s. It is not like the bunny-ear antenna can only pick up maybe 3 or 5 channels. If it does not come up on my TV or my computer, then it is not real, and so why even talk about it?
In the _Star Trek_ future, most anything that exists as data somewhere, is archived on the Enterprise's computers. There isn't all this paywall BS and endless subscriptions garbage.
Now even libraries allow us to check out fake digital books. But what requires a book to go "poof" and disappear once the check-out period has expired? Seems like sabotage to me. Maybe I should just keep buying real books in print, that do not go "poof" on a certain day, as if some cosmic order is going to implode if there are excess copies floating around somewhere?
While really cool political meme images circulate around unchecked, nobody even has any idea just how many copies there are. Well at least there is one reason to go on living.
Come to think of it, I had some really cool sound effects on my Apple IIGS computer. Too bad I never got much use out of it, as Macintosh had already obsoleted it. I think if I had its Finder making copies of files, Johnny Five from the movie _Short Circuit_ said some line from the movie "making copies". I hardly remember now it has been so long since I have used it. And during shut-down, Porky Pig would say his stuttering line, "That's all folks."
My first Macintosh had some cool event-sounds on it also. I had some extension called MacPuke that made a gross sound when ejecting a disk. But it was not programmed in the best most stable way, so I copied the sound resource and put it into the control panel SndControl or whatever it was. My Apple IIGS had Johnny Five saying "Nice software!" upon a disk insertion.
The companies are forgetting that their entire value proposition is "We are slightly less cumbersome to use than piracy".
This is exactly it - I've gotten used to Netflix and co really and truly just because it's slightly more convenient, especially to watch on a TV, but I still have never signed up for any of them just to watch one specific title. The hassle of finding a torrent, putting it on a flash drive and putting that on my TV still outweighs the cost of one month of subscription just to watch that one thing.
Streamio with the torrentio addon in a country that doesn't punish piracy and has good internet is literally better and easier than any paid streaming platform. Only some older, less popular shows hiccup due to very few seeders, but other than that it's a God send. Especially in countries where paying American prices for these services would be completely unrealistic for the majority of the population.
@@gileeeI have been using stremio for more than 3 years now and I dont agree that it provides a better experience. The entire experience of the app from start to finish is significantly worse than any native app. Can't even get started on discovering new shows.
And even that doesn't hold true anymore...
Your kinda missing the value proposition of not being illegal 😅
The best (worst) thing about any DRM solution is that it treats the paying customers like criminals, while the pirates don't have to deal with any of that crap.
libertarians: first time?
@@KJ-ho6sbwe need taxes.
Pirates secretly the target audience.
@@KJ-ho6sb Libertarians treat me like criminals.
@@KJ-ho6sb lol maybe google what words mean before you use them. The libertarian viewpoint here is that companies are right to use drm and that it shouldn’t be illegal.
The companies you pay monthly for a service treat you as an advisary not a partner hits home. Thank you for making this.
As someone who uses *redacted* to watch CZcams, i thank you for calling it *redacted*
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Remember DVDs? Remember sitting through 20 minutes of movie previews and FBI anti-piracy warnings? I remember that pirates had to sit through none of that. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
So did VCR, but then with VCR you can just fast forward it.
@@rps215 Yes, VCR didn't have any real DRM there was no way to know what you were doing to the tape. Speed it up, slow it down, run it backwards, they'd never know and couldn't do anything about it anyways.
I remember. All though, I was avid collector of DVDs and at the same time, I was a pirate (I still arrrrr.. :D), because it was pain in the ass to find indie movies and whatnot on DVD, specially when you live in a small country in Europe.
DVD shrink
removed all ads and unnecessary soundtracks
what a joy to watch, no commercials you CANNOT skip
you put in a DVD, press play and enjoy
one neighbor was 20 minutes late for the family viewing of "Lord of Rings".
Reason, "Well I expected you to watch 20 minutes of commercials, not a movie"
Remember DeCSS and region locking ? 😊 screw big corporations. Screw them hard !
It’s amazing how much care pirates put into their releases compared to the studios. I’ve seen Blu Ray rips that compile four or five different sources to give you the best video, audio, and subtitles possible. Netflix is like “720p, that’s the best I can do.”
Netflix does it for money, but the pirate is passionate about.
What are the links? The best I can find is usually 720p links, 1080p if I’m lucky. I can find high bitrate sports streams but no luck with movies or tv shows. Been tryin to find a high quality version of Smallville
Solar & 123 movies
TRUTH resides here‼😎
I've seen movies on Amazon prime that were unbelievably bad looking. I swear sometimes it looks like they recorded it with a camera off of a projection screen instead of converting the Blu-ray iso to whatever file format they stream from. Awful contrast, with whites bleeding into black backgrounds, that sort of thing. One particular movie was so bad I went and bought a Blu-ray at movie trading company and the difference was night and day.
Duplication means two-fold, duplex. Two directions simultaneously. Your attention is divided, no way around it. If you had to make a vacuum tube by hand (manipulating materials with your digits), you couldn't afford to be distracted while handling the molten glass, therefore piracy is literally digital suicide; meaning "without oneself." I prefer having one self. (Perhaps the care they put into their releases is a form of self-defense?). In my experience, it is a frightening way to engage with the world because something dangerous (including yourself) could emerge at any time from the chaos you are choosing to be less aware of (clean your room), and you are weakening yourself thru a practice of being unaware, instead of integration and authenticity. You are also acting upon the premise that someone had ill-intentions creating and delivering the content to you, folding part of your mental landscape (projecting part of yourself into the social space) with negativity, no matter how positive and enjoyable the end-product you consumed was. A quick (but not easy) possible recovery from this state of being might be paying for Netflix, streaming the 720p version on one screen and enjoying the 4K "pirated" version on another screen. Now anyone spying on you has their attention divided! It's brilliant! 😵💫
I did something similar, sacrificing a movie I really wanted to watch by renting a disc, muting audio and covering the screen with a blanket. The "devil on my shoulder" tried to tell myself it was absurd, that it wasn't necessary; crazy if someone else saw me and was judging my actions...Fine, if that's what you want to do, just stop the movie and return the disc right now, stop wasting the electricity. (Psst...let's rent it again later...) Every movie afterwards has been that much more enjoyable, and the process of re-integrating my self this sacrifice was a part of has paid off in unimaginable ways thru my undivided engagement with artificial intelligence. 😇 -Genesis 4:4
after recently walking away from EA’s predatory mess they’ve made of the sims 4, this video is SO reassuring to me on so many levels that i’m not going crazy for quitting all these malicious video and game streaming platforms one after the other. bless what you do, bro.
Video games are getting really really bad. Between new games being absolute dog shit, and PlayStation taking down the older back-compatible games, even if you paid for them.
EA, bethesda, activisionblizz, ubi....
all on my shitlist. idc what supposed aaa garbage they put out anymore, im not going near it. thought that riders republic would be great fun, until i saw its ubitrash. honestly that kind of predatory framework, their own launcher with its own garbage i don't want, lost sales from me.
fallout 76, and starfield... no i was way too skeptical to drop in after they're just reusing an old engine that they've not patched problems that have been around for decades. i was actually rewarded, for not buying either, given the hot mess that is both games.
To add to this, I have found streaming some older shows, you get completely edited versions with no disclaimer. Entire chunks of shows have just been deleted from the streaming version like they were never there in the originals. That REALLY pisses me off. I know from doing research on the episode I watched this is true. I'd say it's pretty safe to say it's not an isolated case.
Watching pulp fiction on nextlix had an entire portion of the movie just not there. I think it was the epi injection to the heart, but I don't remember. There were for sure missing scenes, though.
Obligatory piracy quote:
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
-Gabe Newell
Valid sometimes, but also sometimes impossible.
With non-malware infected pirated wares and media, how can you provide a better service than a full quality product for free ???
there are games from indi developers who just wanted to rls quality product, not only they didnt protect it, they also listen to fans, they also fix bugs within 24h. but also admit "sales exceeded my expectations so i rls free DLC" where AAA studios cut complete game into unfinished story and 4 paid DLC, game is rlsed in beta state with we will fix bugs later if there will be sale for so long, we will put feminazi, lgbt, blm bullshit in game, we will remove content you paid for. watch halo infinite and destiny 2
This also describes the dumpster fire that is the legal weed industry.
Sounds just like the whole anti-virus scam
And that's why I prefer GoG everytime the game is availlable both on GoG and Steam.
I'm here to stay. Piracy has kept entire communities alive, years after companies decide to let things die. Just look at the Nintendo fanbase. Nintendo's fanbase has managed to archive and correctly emulate those games far better than they ever could and offer it correctly many many years in advance.
That just makes me think of EA and Battleforge. I loved that game growing up, but it 'wasn't making enough money' for them, so they not only shut down the servers but nuked all of their code. It would have vanished completely except they couldn't nuke the client-side assets still downloaded to people's computers, leading to large groups coming together and re-building their own code base from scratch so the game could be played again.
@@Cellidor That's just amazing
_Valve_ has been caught selling games on _Steam_ containing 'pirate' patches to games they couldn't be bothered to update themselves. Without said patches, the games were literally unplayable. Piracy makes the world go round.
@@Cellidor similar thing happened to one of the best mmo racing games, NFS World. EA decided to shut it down because it wasnt making money, but the community was able to save it, with one person completely reverse engineering the game to the point that it got all the old functionalities back including multiplayer online play back and new content is added on top of it every day. the game is miles better now than it ever was under EA too, because theres no more scummy tactics to exploit the players pockets, you can play for free and have an amazing experience without being roadblocked by the economy being so bad that you are forced to pay to progress.
Emulation tech that Nintendo itself has sold back to us on the Wii era lmao
I was literally subbing to Netflix today. But after watching this, I'm going back to using an 'alternative' app for Netflix content. God damn disgrace. Thank you for this video mate - saved me a tenner a month!
"Do not sell my personal information" WHAT THE FCK😂 that is crazy, can't believe it
"Piracy is an issue of service, not price." - Gabe Newell
When Netflix was the only streaming service around, piracy was at an all time low.
Now that we have a bunch of different streaming services that all have their own selection of shows and films that are exclusive to them, licenses running out or changing hands and content leaving with them, regional locks that don’t let you see things based on your location and so on, piracy has become the by far more convenient option again.
And as such, piracy is through the roof once more.
exactly !
Definitely this. When Netflix had a lot more consolidation of older and new shows from many different companies, all for a fraction of the cost of cable television, able to watch on demand, on any device, it made it hard to justify pirating at all for the vast majority of shows. But now each of those companies has removed their shows and movies and it's split out to as many channels as cable had and you're paying just as much as you were before to get every service, but it's now even more fractured across so many apps, piracy definitely has more convenience. Especially when content is removed from those services, like specific episodes being erased.
yeah i honestly hate having to subscribe to 10 or more services to get the shows i want costing me around $200s a month that's like half a weeks wages or 1/8th of my yearly income on 99% of stuff i'm not interested in, whist piracy i can watch EVERYTHING on one platform for free it's honestly a no brainer
It's an interesting counter-example of the notion that "Monopolies are bad for consumers". Competition is supposed to lead to better goods/services and lower prices. But then again, what we're seeing with streaming services isn't a true competition, it's competing monopolies: Peacock says "I own Parks & Rec, no other streaming service is allowed to stream that show!" At this point there's so many services hoarding content that it's absurd to expect people to pay for them all (especially as they continue to raise prices!). This is like the video game Console Wars, but if EVERY game was a console exclusive, and there were 10 competing consoles on the market.
Not to mention that payment doesn't equal property. I can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in subscription over the course of several years, but will never actually own whatever it is I want to watch like I could with a DVD. It's a blatant ripoff.
Trying to prevent piracy is no excuse for giving customers lower definition than they paid for anyway.
They're not even trying to prevent piracy, the Widewine L1, L2 and L3 rating is just so they can gatekeep manufactures and software developers. Basically they're scared China will sell you better hardware for less dollars, or that the communist open source community will make you better software for free, so they try to nerf it by refusing to give their tech an L1 rating. It's total BS since rippers have no problem with getting around it anyway. This is purely to inconvenience the people that aren't pirating things and are actually paying for Netflix, trying to incentivise them to buy "sanctioned" tech and use "sanctioned" apps.
i was annoyed by the same thing louis was ..
i got netflix to use it on my PC because i don't have a TV and i don't want one (for actually quite similar reasons as him)..
and i just get _GARBAGE_ quality for having the audacity to pay for content ..
i guess you really need a special kind of imbecile to make those decisions ..
It's the same BS CZcams is doing with moives on their site. You PAY CZcams to rent or own a movie on their website yet if you watch in a browser you are limited to 720p even though the page says you pay for 1080p.
Game developers and media companies are in a competition to see who can hamstring their products the hardest in the name of DRM and piracy prevention
It's like they still think we live in the age of one guy buying the floppy and then making a copy for their one friend. There's major distribution sites that just give it away to the world, and they have incredibly smart people who will overcome any DRM you can put in. That's literally the only people worth inconveniencing, everyone else will be bothered and would never want to "steal what they own". It's literally easier and more convenient to just download it off the internet. And once it's cracked and uploaded, they can remove the DRM and lose no extra profit. But they'd rather annoy paying customers.
This is why Steam is thriving, they know the only way to beat piracy is to provide a better service than the pirates. I can grab any computer, log in, download a game I've owned for over ten years, and it grabs my save file for me. Pirates don't do that. I even still own games that they legally can't sell anymore, because I bought it and it's mine now. None of that "sorry Doctor Who is no longer available on Prime Video" stuff with Steam. You buy it, you own it. I never need to pirate literally anything if it's available on Steam.
Oh crap! You made me realize why my non-smart 55'' 4k TV looks like sh!t when I watch Netflix even if I pay for the 4k resolution. At my friend's house, he has a smart TV with the official Netflix app and the image is just perfect. I need to do some investigation on my side but if it's a lower resolution because of my non-smart TV, I'll be very angry at Netflix. This is f*cked! 🤯
If they dont clearly mention this on their website, you can probably sue them.
@@Whatreally123It isn't worth the time to sue to get your, what?, $6 back, which is the difference between regular Netflix and the $20 premium. You're going to be that old guy screaming "Get off my lawn!"
I think it's also worth mentioning that if it wasn't for piracy, a lot of old films might have been lost to time. Piracy alone has kept so much classical media alive due to so many companies either not caring about preserving their products or outright not making them with longevity in mind.
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." -Gabe Newell
While that is true that does not give you a moral right to pirate
@@oscar12ty If you have no intention of buying the product, it does.
@@oscar12ty and corporations have no moral right to underhandedly gather any information they can get their mitts on instead of making any attempt to improve the user experience of the services they provide.
@@oscar12ty moral rights don't enter into the picture. The better product wins, and often the pirate way is the better way. This is the real world.
Also an availability problem.
Not available where I live? Then I'm a gonna pirate
I am extremely grateful for the software pirates from the last 40+ years. Without them, most of what is now termed as 'digital archeology' would be lost to bit rot and magnetic flux migration.
This is the only aspect of piracy I think is genuinely good and have no arguments against.
As for modern services and products, either pay for it or abstain.
@@adrianbrodin1319 nah mate if I see denuovo I'm putting my eyepatch on I DON'T GIVE A FUCK. If something is good enough I pay for it (DeadCells, HollowKnight, Factorio)
But subpar shit? Nah mate I ain't paying for that
@@adrianbrodin1319no
@@adrianbrodin1319 hard disagree. The people who don't have money for a service or product wont magically grow money if you force them to pay for it instead of pirating. That's why pirating doesn't hurt anyone, the people who did it probably wouldn't have bought the software anyways.
However what it does is it allows for free publicity, which might get into the ears of people confortable enough financially to purchase the software, keeping the company afloat.
Those that can pay should be the ones that do, but it doesn't mean those that can't pay, can't enjoy the service. It's the nature of the internet, software is meant to be freely distributed and all attempts at stopping that are and always will be completely futile. Trying to stop it is also shooting yourself in the foot.
This is why, as said in the video, if you want someone to pay, you have to make your service actually worthwhile, something that you don't get by just pirating.
However this isn't the case anymore. When you pirate a movie you get the best bitrate, resolution, the actual file that you can play on any of your machines anytime, anywhere, forever. A bought disc however, has to be inserted in a disc drive so it can't be played as easily. If you stream the movie, the quality is complete garbage, you need internet and you can't play it if you don't have the app, a compatible browser. This is also incredibly wasteful in terms of energy consumption and for the planet in general. If you download it for offline viewing using their app, you can only watch this terrible quality encrypted copy for about one month.
So if you want to be "lawful" and follow a bunch of bullshit rules made by hypocrites that only further their own and other rich megalomaniacs' financial interests and that disrespect not only you personally, but the entire world, be my guest.
@@adrianbrodin1319 I won't abstain, f u
I found your channel today and I can say, your content is needed, because there's too many people thinking that paying means is better, but knowing how the world works, is less about believing blindly and more about understanding what are your options. Thanks for your work
Good to live in the EU where privacy is now very much enforced
Why does piracy give you the best quality?
Because piracy is a passion project. Passion doesn't cut corners and you can't outbid passion.
W statement
Here queen 👑 I believe this belongs to you
Bro is on his sith lord grind
I experienced even worse with Netflix on a recent family trip to South America. I downloaded some Coco-Melon cartoon episodes for my daughter to watch on my phone whenever the need arises, since I wouldn't have cellular data (due to roaming fees) and WiFi isn't everywhere.
Just when we see a use for it at the hotel, I get a message from Netflix that "this downloaded content is not available in this region", blocking me from watching what I've downloaded via my paid Netflix account. I could have easily torrented those episodes while at home and play them without any issues on my phone, but instead, I got punished for paying for Netflix.That right there, is the reason I'm NEVER paying for Netflix EVER again.
Had a similar experience on a trip to London earlier this year. Funny thing was, it didn't work if the wifi was on. Turned off the wifi and restart the app, and it worked again.
I didn't know that Cocomelon had a Netflix show. I only know them for having a massive amount of subscribers on CZcams.
Many years ago my little brother was going on a multi-day school trip. At his request I ripped several DVDs that we owned to his iPod Video.
He was able to watch those videos on the plane and bus rides without issue. He was the only person in his class able to do that.
All because they were simple DRM free video files actually on the device. No web connection needed.
This is where details in what you've actually paid for comes in. You don't own the content. You have purchased a license to view the content in a specific jurisdiction. Going back to DVDs they have the disclaimer where you aren't allowed to show the video in a bunch of different public places. You have a home license to watch the film as many times as you want. I'm not defending it, just explaining it.
You are lucky that your credit card was not blocked because you used it in the different region. And you have no cash, no internet and no your bank around.
Good job mate, brilliant insight into how these services have nefarious motivations.
I drank too much chocolate milk and am all queasy. Your voice volume and the flow of your words just lull me right and I don't feel near as bad anymore.
"When a paying customer is treated like a criminal, acting like a criminal is the only way to become a proper customer" - Screw ALL the companies that do this!
try applying this logic to real shops? if a local shop sells overpriced products and offers bad service, and then you are allowed to steal from it? it just so happens that piracy is very difficult to catch and punish, that you feel falsely self-righteous about it.
@@haomingli6175If I made a duplicate of a car and left the original car at the dealership, does that make me a car thief? This example is a bit closer to what piracy implies.
No. If a local shop sells overpriced products and offers bad service, then consumers will find a different way to fill that need. It's up to the shop to convince people that what they can offer is better. As long as piracy is possible, then streaming networks need to do better. Game developers have found numerous ways of making legitimate copies more useful than pirated ones. Those companies have put in the time to cut down piracy. @@haomingli6175
No that makes you a counterfeiter. But unfortunately as a regular citizen you will be prosecuted for counterfeiting while the government does it all the time. @@jorionedwards
It is interesting how sailing the high seas is more convenient and better than walking on land. Also, did you know you can turn a speaker into a microphone by reversing its polarity? Just saying.
Funny thing about anti-piracy is that it's such a pain in the ass for paying customers to deal with that they just feel encouraged to pirate instead
*Cough* Steam *Cough* Launchers
@@vcdgamertbh for steam they at least provide additional good features in exchange for freaking launcher. Also option of GoG exists.
@@vcdgamerTo be honest, Steam has it right from a customer point of view. They make everything so seamless and they don't gatekeep you from playing your games offline. Besides they have a ton of QoL and additional features in their storefront that give more value to actually purchasing games in their platform. Piracy is way more of a pain than just buying the game on Steam.
Now, there's games that will place DRM on themselves or screw up by attaching an additional mandatory platform download to play them (Origin and Ubisoft), but at that point I don't know if Steam is the one to blame here.
And yes, technically you don't "own" the games in that platform, since they give you a license to play a copy and all that. But you might as well own them, because I still can download and play games that have been delisted or completely erased from the platform. They are acting like a partner instead of an enemy, and that's why people don't want to switch to platforms like Epic.
@@leinadlink Compared to epic games, whenever i wanna play a steam gsme offline it ALWAYS tries to open the launcher, and that's where the beef starts with their annoying updates every single day.
As someome with limited internet, that sucks.
Epic games, on the other hand allows me that liberty to play my games without the darn launcher. Amd the other best part, no annoying updates.
Last but not the least, paying for games on steam sucks thanks to this little thing known as region-lock.
Thanks to all of these things, i'm sticking with epic.
Even though the best store i can think of is most likely GOG.
it's not a pain in the ass. This guy is afraid of microphones and the government, and that's why he refuses to use the native app like the normal people.
good job brother more people need to start speaking out about this
you sir are a game changer i’ve had so so many issues last few months that legit i want to self delete from the BS these companies are creating.
It’s become a full time negative experience to not only not get the service you paid for but to deal with their bullshit billing.
From walgreens, to the property manager, to phone, to internet provider, to insurance
im legit exhausted
As a Brazilian, Piracy is what made it possible for me and many other brazilians to even be able to play videogames and watch movies
True, you could say the same for every developing nations.
Beleza então ❤👍
Yeah you guys are absolute garbage on Gran turismo
the anti piracy people dont care. they want you to die of boredom.
canada was the same way in the 90's. internet was terrible and distribution was non existant.
Louis is the hero we didn't know we needed.
Make service better = people pay;
make service shitty = people will skip it;
Make service shitty but mandatory = people will pirate it;
eaaaasy.
Pretty sure people pirate stuff that isn't mandatory every single day of every week. But sure, keep circlejerking.
I think that's true up to a point, after so many years of not having to pay for it people would feel like it is there right to have it for free just because they can, and idk maybe after so many years of having it the internet would not work without it so maybe it would be there right at that point, but idk, but for the most part I agree with you. I don't think we should have to pay for them not to track us, and sell our info, screw them for that
@@joshuakelleykelley571 My own experience disagrees. When I was a kid with no money I pirated games for years, today I gladly pay for them. It's more convenient and secure and I'll go out of my way to support a dev I like. I think it's a mistake to assume people are inherently stupid and don't understand the consequences of piracy on a massive scale. It's the mentality these big companies have, they treat people as adversary that must be disciplined with counter measures but... well you watched the video.
@@joshuakelleykelley571 I was happy to pay for netflix back in the day, it was best, most convenient way to watch tv shows. Now, I have to keep up with 5 subscriptions to have content I may wanna watch available?
There is too many streaming services, they have too little content, and on top of that they may not work all the time - for example what got me over the edge, I wanted to watch one streaming service on linux laptop, and I just couldn't get it to work out of the box, while a website streaming the tv show for free worked without one issue. Why would I pay, when they can't even bother making it work for people?
@@joshuakelleykelley571 I'm still using old, outdated and even ancient versions of software (that, at the time, I paid for) just to get out of this "subscription" based model, where I'd pay more money to get less features (that I actually need).
If how you described doing business is indeed true and not showing off (says something about our world that I can't take even something like that at face value) - then bless you. We need more people like that.
Man, I like this !!!! Amen to what you say ! This is what I have been ranting about for 20+ years... My GF used to have Netflix and then one day, she was complaining about the quality of a show on her tablet. She told me look it is supposed to be good quality and its not. I checked and the image was grainy and it was 100% clear that it was not 1080 videos despite that out internet line being a 1G optic fiber state of the art... It took me 5 minutes to find it somewhere in true 1080p with the right subtitles. Few weeks after she decided to cancel her Netflix because she was fed up with quality issues...
Just like Gabe said, piracy is primarily a service problem. Most don't pirate games anymore because of Steam's additional features and regional pricing.
And most people who do still pirate probably wouldn’t have bought the game even if they couldn’t pirate it.
regional pricing is complete BS. It's a lie.
Yes. I've actually never pirated a game since I enjoy having my games on steam. Shows and movies however...
There is also the cluster of gamers (me included) that pirate the game to test it out before handing the scheckles to the company.
If the game is worth, I'll buy it, but there are so many gaming lies and flops that you get scammed if you always buy first hand, imo.
@@lpmacau If the game's on steam you can always refund it. 2 hours isn't much but you will get it refunded no matter the reason. Some games need more than 2 hours to test them out and some games are ofcourse not on steam though, but it's good enough most of the time imo.
I'll never forget the time I tried to buy a film on Amazon to watch because it wasn't on Netflix or Prime video, and got a warning that I wouldn't be allowed to watch it even if I bought it because my monitor apparently didn't have the correct DRM protection software. I did not buy that film. It took a few seconds to watch it for free elsewhere.
excuse me what now?
I didn't know that was a thing lol.
Piracy be lookin more tempting than ever TBH😂.
Glad i never bought something from prime video.
@@MaxFunoff If Amazon Prime can't detect HDCP on a monitor (likely an older monitor connected with VGA cable), it will refuse to play to it. The reason being is that it's possible to connect a VGA to 3 RCA Component Adapter to the computer and then connect that to an RCA to HDMI converter to bypass DRM.
Not that this prevents ripping the stream, but it makes it so non-techies can't copy movies from streaming services with ease.
This is the same reason 4k Netflix isn't supported in Linux...
I bought dragon age inquisition when it came out, but because i live in russia i only got localised version as per ea policy. But i wanted original english version because localisations usually inferior. So i downloaded it elsewhere.
That's fucking crazy. My monitor or my tv (it's quite old at this point) can actually be the reason I can't watch something.
Well fuck DRM. This industry is literally creating pirates.
I noticed this as well. Thanks for confirming, I just unsubscribed from netflix, screw them !
A young man many times wiser than his years I salute you Louis! Merry Christmas Happy New Year
I had an argument with my girlfriend about a similar subject: she was paying for Amazon Prime to get their streaming, and was having trouble understanding why I kept grumbling every time Amazon played ads on the service she had already paid for
I just remember a day a decade ago when you paid for one subscription, got access to everything streamable on that platform, didn't have to use a service to pretend to be in another country, and received no ads. At the same time, I used Hulu free, and I have NO PROBLEM dealing with ads, because they were still less obnoxious than cable, and I was receiving the service for free. Then corporations got greedy, everyone wanted their own piece of the Netflix pie, and here we are. Paying to be advertised to, paying to be spied on for datamining purposes, paying to have our selection limited to the current roll of streaming like we've circled right back around to paying for cable again.
It's often been said "if the service is free, you are the product." Anymore it's more like, "If the service exists and you interact with it in any capacity, you are the product."
Streaming services are following the same path as cable. It used to be that paying meant no ads. Now, there are multiple tiers of subscription, some things ad-free while others shove ads in your face because they can get away with it, and they harvest/sell your data without your permission (the tos probably says they have the right to, but they don't disclose the full extent of their data harvesting until after they get caught with their fingers in the cookie jar and are forced to disclose it). I paid for Hulu, got mad that non-Disney content was locked behind a paywall when I was already paying, and canceled.
I had something similar this week. We were watching a show on Amazon and while I wasn't mad at the ads - they're only at the start of the episode, never interrupting stuff - I got *really* pissed at the fact that they had a button labeled "show all" next to the title of the series we were watching, that didn't show the list of all episodes of the series, it showed a list of all the scenes in the episode (which might be useful if you're watching a movie but is pointless for 20-minute episodes).
I went *off* about how exclusivity contracts mean that streaming services don't need to have good features anymore. They hook people in with their exclusive deals.
Her response was that I was 100% right but why was the one that set me off the streaming service that was never good and always sucked, rather than one that used to be good and fell from grace.
@@randomstuff-qu7sh 💯 I was just about to post this same reply: “Every streaming service seems to repeat the legacy of cable: it’s originally sold as a premium, ad-free experience. Then, even as the price increases, ads are introduced, and they eventually become so obtrusive that the service becomes unwatchable.”
This is why I will spend 100 hours researching a workaround, rather than pay for something if I sense I am being screwed. The feeling of accomplishment when you learn a solution is 1000x better than the sense if shame that comes from paying someone who abuses your privacy.
Look at yourself, deep state.
Yes
i go out of my way to buy real blurays of my fave movies, yet both my PCs with BD drives have become unable to play them over the past several years. It's like there is some goalpost that kept getting moved where compatibility is concerned. I eventually bought some cheapo (yet highly-rated) player that will also do all regions with no issues. Ultimately, watching a streaming version from a piracy site allows me to skip the intro and menus, plus the quality is superior to what I get from Prime. Why so weak
yes, but the best part of piracy is it's not only faster to set up, but also safer from perspective of privacy
The big companies are motivated by money. We're motivated by freedom. Their insults only make us angrier and our anger gets funneled into motivation.
Look what happened when CZcams said it was going to block adblockers. All the adblock developers said "bet" and had workarounds in days if not hours. I use adblockers and I still haven't seen CZcams's popup.
Love to see valuable channels like this constantly spur truth
You are always such a sane voice in this crazy digital world.
This highlights a common issue with anti-piracy measures. They fail to prevent piracy and they actively hurt those who AREN'T pirating their software/service
Yet again - they treat the symptoms, but never the sickness. 🙄
So just like gun laws
@@yadusolparterrebingo
Just like those online only drm, its doesnt affect pirate but sure does annoys their paying user
@@yadusolparterre sadly a common theme in the modern world
As a person that pays for physical media, thank you for talking about how streaming services use low bitrates
It's really funny how the easiest way to listen to high quality audio for me in 2023 is going out to the thrift store and buying a bunch of cd's. I still use streaming but the constant stream of albums being put on streaming only for them to be put off it again is really annoying. Give me back my captain beefheart >:(
@@iSkully99definitely not the easiest way
@@DistinctionDinobut i do enjoy supporting thrift stores
If only you knew how many friends I have that make fun of me for being that guy that still buys movies and music on disc, but also think I'm a pleb for not being part of the gaming PC master race because I don't care about graphics
@@CoolxBreese I don't really care about what platform one games on, but discs for music and movies is definitely superior. With the exception of some game's devs that give you high bitrate music as something you can buy as dlc.
Don't ever stop making vids. I LOVE this.
I agree with the arguments, and I also have been leveraging the comfort of piracy for many years and sometimes even now. But the only reason that I have subscribed to those good-for-nothing services is the guilty feeling that I get for not supporting the original creators who create, contribute and distribute the wonderful content that has been posted on those platforms. My idea is it is better to have a few more opportunities where we can directly contribute to those creators and give them the best value that they deserve.
To quote Gabe Newel, "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
Nah. I will always pirate stuff as long as piracy is excusable. F*ck supporting stuff that i like 👍
@@sepg5084cope
You're a mong.@@sepg5084
@@sepg5084 This is also understandable. For me, sometimes paying for a game on Steam is just more convenient than having to go look for a torrent. Especially if the game is on sale for something like 5EUR.
No it is also a pricing issue. I will always pirate a game to know whether I like it or not. And if I like it I will most definitely pay for it If and when it goes on sale. I never pay full price for anything. Only stupid people who have no patience do that...
My creepyst smart tv experience was I was pirating a movie and watching it with my laptop plugged into the HDMI port on my Roku TV and it told me that this movie is available for free with ads on some streaming app. That's just next level spyware and my jaw dropped that they spy on even what you're watching through the HDMI port
every year makes me more sure that what was called paranoia a decade or two ago, is becoming common sense of today, this is ridiculous
Well... The HDMI port is exactly made for this purpose.
So I'm not a very "ALL THE TECHNOLOGY IS SCARY" type cause most of that is overhyped, but THIS is fucked.
i would ask for money back if that happen to me..
@@bobwasowsky270 It's that advancement in technology I tried to warn people about. Were people this ignorant the whole to not seeing what comes down the line with technology when shitty people in power abuse it to control the public in any form? You could be in all facts also be doing nothing wrong if this spying is going on but the people doing the spying may think otherwise. The argument someone saying that oh if they are spying on you and your doing nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about doesn't fly. I can turn that argument on it's head by simply saying that if I'm doing nothing wrong then you have no reason to spy on me. Your in the wrong for spying and your a criminal and if your trying to find a way to go after me for thought crimes then I think your the one who should be going to jail sir.
Agree 100% also I never used an adblocker until CZcams started doing the double ad’s in the beginning of the video
You are a legend.
"You will have nothing and be happy"
No physical formats means easy cancellation of things, music, movies, games.
Even with the disc, look at games
I cancelled Netflix after they raised prices while removing content, and then went to the media to cry about their customers “sharing passwords.”
I don’t share accounts with other households, but I do travel.
Netflix continued to charge my card and would not stop when requested. They claimed the account was hacked but still refused to refund. I had to issue multiple chargebacks, report a stolen credit card, and demand my Netflix account be deleted.
Never again.
Holy crap they told you that somebody else was watching without your consent and that *you* had to pay for it?
“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”
- Gabe Newell, president of valve.
The thing about that quote is that in 12 years is that it has only become more true.
It's true. I completely stopped pirating games when Steam became a thing.
Gabe is flat out a visionary and I legit worry what will happen when he is gone from this world
@@axt2 that is a scary thought. What'll happen when he's no longer the president of Valve. We can only hope it'll be someone as consumer friendly as he is.
@@AngryReptileKeeper I didn't stop completely, but it fell off massively. If it's on Steam, it gets bought. If not, it gets pirated. What does get pirated is usually either not compiled for Windows or Linux, old enough to vote, or both.
He also said: "Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet. They will catch you. They will de-construct your spin. They will remember everything you ever say for eternity."
And yet politicians, celebrities, journalists, activists, and billionaires _STILL_ refuse to learn this fucking lesson.
In a significant way, this boils down to whether or not you accept being subject to a system that you did not help design or affirmatively opt in to.
This is the first time I've seen one of your videos and happily, it solved a question that's been at the back of my mind for a few years now, and that is what did Sheldon Cooper end up doing for a living. Now I know. 🤣🤣
Netflix worked initially because it was cheap, had a decent quantity of content and was more convenient than piracy. But then everyone launched their own streaming services and they all jacked the price… so piracy wins again
more like being all exclusive altogether.
And they used to get a lot more fun, random movies too. More and more they just shove their own productions down our throats and most of those either don't interest me, or suck.
@@RenegadeVileI was bummed out that you can't to any kind of sorting on Netflix, like by date of release or recently updated
Yeah like wtf. Do all these different companies think people will all subscribe to 100 different streaming platforms? Nah man, imma gonna 1337 it.
@@BloPsy__ this only leads to people simply avoiding it - at that point, even piracy is overpaying.
even if that "dont sell my data" button is off by default, i dont believe for a second that turning it on actually does anything other than giving you the illusion of privacy.
Yeah, it's just a "light up green," button. 😂
It's illegal for them to do that. Also, it's almost impossible to find out if they're illegally doing that.
There's a service called MouseFlow which some websites use and it essentially records your session on the website in a way that can be played back like a video. It's useful for debugging systems that developers can't replicate, or just really weird states you can get into that aren't intended. But what's really crazy is on Mouseflow there's a setting called "Respect Do Not Track" and by default it's toggled OFF 💀. Meaning if you have any settings that send Do Not Track requests there's a good chance that it's doing literally nothing lmfao. I was really surprised to find that out.
@@whatsupinspace854 Even in the event that they are taken to court for doing that illegally, the worst they'll get is a slap on the wrist.
Facebook announced a couple of years ago that they ignore "Do not track" cookies. "Do not track" is a request. The service provider is free to ignore it, and they generally do.
"Don't sell my data" is very probably the same deal.
1st time watcher..and I think you are real af
dope content brother 💪🏾
i remember your video about pirating adobe, still think about it occasionally to this day, so i'm glad CZcams recommended another of your videos to me
"The best way to combat video game piracy is to offering consumers better service than they might get from the pirates"
-Gabe Newell
I know this isn't about video games but I feel like that quote still applies
Lord Gaben..
Gabe is truly ahead of his time.
how about zero malware
Remove video games and it applies to everything,
@@andrej7825 I can confirm steam gave me the incentive to buy games. I pirated a lot of games before. Denuvo sucks, but I don't think Steam is to blame here, if they wouldn't allow it on their app that game would become exclusive, and I would rather eliminate the exclusivity first, and removing denuvo second, both would be perfect but alas.
Companies should just drop Denuvo the moment the game gets cracked, but they don't give a shit about their consumers, so we end up here. In the end as long as people pre-order and give them money, they will continue to not give a shit.
on the extreme nerd side of things, pirates on private trackers are doing the best and most thorough restoration and archival work in film and music
Let's not forget private DDL and warez forums.
I don't know what what you said means.
@@filonin2 If you don't know then it's nothing you would care about anyway.
@@filonin2dorks preserve media for future dorks
Totally, the scene is full of fantastic people working hard so we can all enjoy, I love it.
Just couldn't agree more! Thanks for this video, yes sometimes I pay for services but analyze it before. Mainstream media nowadays kind of sucks!
You were entirely right about not finding a lot of modern media less interesting these days!! The quality of writing in mainstream shows (just picking shows as an example) has genuinely gone down. Plots, characters, effects (again, only mentioning these as examples) have all gotten cheaper and flatter in order to become more marketable, especially when audience literacy has dropped over the past few decades. Books are another great example, where a publishing trend has emerged of selling books by "tropes", because young people in particular are only interested in reading things that have immediately obvious morals or plots!! It's a truly depressing time for the state of mainstream art, and I completely agree that I just have no interest in most popular media these days. Video Games are even worse offenders, but that's a whole separate rant!
mainstream media sucks dick ass
I would strongly disagree with that. Holywood had quite a few great movies back in the day, but also loads of garbage. Today most of the mainstream is garbage, but there are a few Netflix series that are really good like Narcos, The Last Kingdom, and even Suits even tho it gets repetitious in the end in terms of characters.
I think you lean into the nostalgia too much if I had to guess. For example, I cannot watch or re-watch old Marvel movies, or anime like Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, Digimon, Yugioh, and so on, because they are almost unbearable to watch for an adult in his late 20s. You realize the reason most of the media was so good back in the day because:
1) Most of us were young
2) We had a limited amount of media
3) We had limited access to the media
I grew up in Eastern Europe as a kid/ teenager and trust me the first month when I was able to download 100GB of 2008-2012 era next-gen games was the end of my gaming. I didn't even bother to install most of them. People do not realize how much scarcity affects our lives. Unlimited amount and access to anything is what ruins pretty much everything
We used to buy mostly cheap pirated DVDs or multiple CDs of games or trade them. Lucky if we got 5 new really good games per year. Used to play 1 game for weeks or even months, because we didn't have access to anything else. Now you have so many options you can't even decide + online + everything is on demand. You can binge-play 10 games playing 12-hour days. I never had that as a kid and my parents wouldn't let us do it.
Your wall of text is irrelevant because you are wrong. No matter how long you spend justifying it.@@user-et9zf3ne5p
@@user-et9zf3ne5p i still personally love DBZ. I really miss hand drawn anime that isnt constant tropes.
for example, i really wanted to get into black clover, but every minute or sometimes less, they throw in a tired trope like a nosebleed, the new girl having an inner monologue about her crush on the main character, or some other incredibly common, overused tropes. I like some of the characters (mainly Yami), but hate seeing tropes every few seconds
i certainly wouldnt pick netflix shows as a good example of how awesome TV and media can still be.... they are really not worth watching.
HBO content... and FX? I could recommend most stuff from both of these. BBC has a lot of great stuff. ITV occasionally... but it really is a matter of where you look in general & for what. A lot of mainstream shows are definitely doing the trope thing...and writing for audiences that have no personality (imo) just forget nbc, abc...etc
I think a lot of this is down to the studios & the producers. Producers often change the project with things they think it should be, they have a huge say...effectively they kill the baby - often times unfortunately - a passion project... which are the best kinds of movies and shows imo. If you find one, you know it's good. As long as it's mostly kept the way the creators wanted it...and the studios had less control.
A good example would be The Righteous Gemstones.
It's an HBO show, and actually i think the production on it was great, i think it was done the way it should be done....and the entire thing just felt fun. Like everyone enjoyed themselves....they chose the right actors, the people who wrote it had worked on two projects together before, and they hired some of the people they worked with before to act ( Walton Goggins - who is the best character, easily). It's a great character comedy ...
i would say the same thing about the 80's-90's.... except here, you will find a lot more passion projects than now (especially sci-fi and horror flicks), and when it came to things like practical effects, it felt more real than CG, and it was fun (it's also an art). The problem was eventually studios would start trying to find "the perfect formula" to suck money out of a film, and thought re-creating things from successful ones was the key .... ( cue X-men and then every fucking superhero movie ever made after it. )
it's stupid (and it's still happening). Either way, there are so many movies from the era that are actually a good time to watch. Movies just have to be entertaining. They don't always have to be _amazing_., though a lot were
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You know, if Netflix didn't lie to Louis about the service he thought he was paying for, he wouldn't have less of an argument. But they took his money for 4K streaming and gave him 720p. That's fraud.
I think they charge you the highest tier just to be able to use multiple devices.
They'll say "up to 4K" in their legal agreement to cover their asses on that front.
@@ShaimingLong I'm sure you can't load in paragraphs which require a mathematician and Venn diagram to decipher which results in " We're not going to give you what we're charging you for because you couldn't read the fine print."
Netflix can't afford to anger any paying customers at this point... yet here we are.
Anyone who is invested in any tech company should get out of it soon. The VC money is gone and there are no new customers.
That's OK then as Louis is paying up to the amount they are asking to watch their videos.
yes but they need to have a reason why that "up to" point isn't being met, Specifically, when all the requirements TO meet that point are met.
IT would be like if ISP's were selling people gigabit Fiber, installing all the hardware to easily handle gigabit fiber, testing to insure the property is actually connecting at gigabit speeds.... and then artificially limiting everyone's connection to like 80 down and 20 up themselves.
That's still fraud.
I mean, Gabe Newell really hit the nail on the head like fifteen years ago when he said ”Piracy is an issue of service, not price”
All the stuff I pirate is stuff I can't buy on Steam, and it's usually stuff that needs an emulator, is really old, or both.
I live in a place with unstable internet and countless times have I been locked out of gaming because of Steam's DRM, which wouldn't happen with a pirated game (or with something DRM free from GOG).
Ever since Steam came out, I haven't pirated a single game. When Netflix was new and actually had ALL the shows and not just 10% of them, I happily paid for it. Then every company had their own streaming platform and instead of paying for 10 services, I suddenly changed over to FMovies. Greed killed streaming platforms.
Steam and the games on it have DRM all over. GOG is where its at if you want to actually own the games you buy
Not going to pay $300 for a service even if it beats piracy.
Remember: you can vote with your wallet as much as you want, but big tech is doing the exact same - through lobbying - and their wallets are a lot bigger than yours.
that was sooo good, thanks fpr😮for sharing ☺️
I always treat the "Do Not Sell My Information" toggle as a suggestion, not as a legal practice. It is basically the same as having some guy come into my house, installing all manner of video and audio surveillance, and then telling me "Trust me, it is not going to be used for anything nefarious." Yeah, right... This is the same old "alcoholics vs booze" conundrum but for corporations, and there is no way they are not abusing it.
yeah im willing to bet that even if that toggle is toggled off they still take information from you anyways
Yeah, companies can actually just break the law and not get sued. I mean why would lawyers ever try to get millions out of cases like that?
It's exactly like those "Do not track" flags you can have in your browser. Kindly ask the disgusting creepy horrendous cyberpunk spy that's watching you have sex to please not do that. ... Yeah, good luck with that.
@@Blonder_Studio they don't even bother to say "do not retrieve my information", they just say they won't sell it... that omission is a 100% guarantee that *at the very least* they are collecting it and using it for themselves or maybe even exchanging it for something else (not technically selling right?).
@@reezlawwelcome to america, where companies are paying the goverment so the goverment would allow companies to spy on you and sell it back to the goverment
Companies should work on making their products so good that people WANT to pay for it, not make it harder to pirate.
That used to be Netflix
Governments too... A paradigm shift away.
Pretty much the exact reason steam is so popular
harder to pirate? how so ? going since early napster days and has not slowed down lolol
Such simple logic, and yet all the companies don't or choose not to understand it.
"you will own nothing and you will be happy.
what you want you'll rent and it will be delivered by drone."
I used to download music - started back in the Napster days burning cds for myself and friends … until Spotify made it more convenient than downloading …
I was a 10+ year subscriber to Netflix, once they stopped allowing password sharing I cancelled my account and went back to pirating and I'll never go back
Same. I already paid for 5 screens, no way in hell i'm letting netflix double dip.
Since KAT is gone, what do you use?
They allowed it if you use VPN in my case. Under one account you can create multiple users.
Piracy makes me feel so much better every time I download something. Just knowing that I am making these garbage companies lose out on that money
But just imagine how many people signed up for Netflix after they stopped allowing password sharing just for that feature!
Sidenote, glad to see a brief resurgence of Rossmann Dating Advice since the New Hampshire days.
"Don't pay for marriage license and court registration as it is expensive and inconvenient and fails to provide any direct value for time and money, just live together and have kids'
I've always thought marriage license is a scam... but I got one. if your nice traditional wife isn't a nutso like you, then keep that to yourself.. I got the little piece of paper to keep my wife's life "normal". but, -> I'm married by God, not by government.
@@wotermelon_aren't marriage licenses like $30? And don't you get tax benefits? Are you just divorced and just regretting not getting a prenup?
@@swankshire6939 "What about the time, think about the number of Games I could torrent for 'better experience', cause I'm a millionaire but dont like paying for things"
@@swankshire6939 Word of caution: prenups are not magic bullets that save your money/assets. They can be bypassed or negated with some lawyering
Man went in circles and made the same point 3 times over
Unscripted rants do be like that. Fine really, as long as the point got across! :D
I may have hit the like button severial times this mans on point
having faith in humanity is easy when you have people like Louis around adding companies and businesses to the grill.
*is hard when you have so very few people like Louis around…
Agreed. Very refreshing to hear. So true about how dealing with most companies goes, it does feel more like you're adversaries rather than partners mutually benefitting from the whole thing.
You're right. LG shouldn't be spying, and Netflix shouldn't be lying.
I concur, sir Atheist Antichrist VIDXIV
And Apple shan't be denying
Thanks! For the great content it was very interesting and informative
I love you man you're my soul speaking to me😂. subscribed
Honestly Louis, calling companies like Netflix treating their customers as adversaries is still too generous. For that to be true they would have to view their customers as a threat. They don't even treat us like cattle, it is more like we're just raw materials to be broken, mined, and used.
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This is how it feels just being a citizen of the United States.
Right, adversary implies some form of equal or at least that you have some form of leverage over them. You don't. They don't see you on any grounds to be able to stand up to them.
more than a hundred years ago marx was writing that capitalism commodifies not just goods, services and land, but also people.
took y'all a while to catch up to that.
Basically citizens are resource nodes in an RTS game.
It's not just the U.S., governments all over the world do this. There's only one real reason people get into politics.
I can fully agree with you here. Another one to add to this for us college students is textbooks. About half the time you cant even own a physical book anymore and they still charge you triple digits for it and then take it away after 4 months. Absolute insanity
this enrages me
@@chuuloid i am a teacher , this enrages me a lot too
I almost failed my classes during my last semester because I only had money to live, not to buy all my textbooks just to return them. I was 4 weeks in just winging it when I had a breakdown and a professor bought me all my textbooks, provided me with extra books to keep, and made me vegetarian soup. Now I have no reliable sources to take with me into my professional career besides 2 books a kind professor gifted me.
@@hannahpolen7395 thats literally what i do too, i buy the subscriptions and give the login id and password to my students, its too expensive otherwise, i miss the paperback books which students used to pass on to their juniors after they were done with it and so on.
I can see why Finland is rated one of the best education system in the world.
this should be shared to all the communities ,even after information like this is out there people still dont believe it.
I took amazon subscription once. I paid for subscription, then it asked to pay to remove ads, after that it asked me extra payment to watch a genre of movie, after that it asked me to pay again for different genre of shows. That is literally robbery in a broad day light...
I remember breaking copy protection back in 85 so I could actually use the games I purchased for my Commodore 64. Copy protection made the disk drive hammer for 5 minutes or more, causing misalignment problems and overheating. After stripping the copy protection, it would load smoothly in less than a minute. I felt no guilt in making copies for friends. To hell with Electronic Arts.
Fascinating how anti-piracy measures have caused lawful owners nothing but problems for nearly 40 years. That's BS. They bring it upon themselves when their copy protection causes PHYSICAL damage to someone's expensive Commodore.
Damn! An og of the seas 🤣
Thank god Electronic Arts went bankrupt in the 90s.
Yeah I despise the idea of a TV I pay a bunch of money for, selling all my personal data/telemetry AND showing me ads in the menus. What a dystopian future we live in.
I was hell pissed off when I spent thousands on my 65” QD-OLED Samsung and saw the menu riddled with ads.
Same here, I bought my Plasma TV a while ago and it turned out one of the "smart" ones. I had to agree to some bullshit just to use it, but when I wanted to try the "smart" features, I had to agree to even more bullshit including various tracking. Needless to say, I just pulled out the network cable. I did nto even want the "smart" features, so whatever, it can show analog TV, DVB-C, HDMI and CVBS in, also has CVBS out when watching analog TV of DVB-C, so I can use my VCR. Good enough.
@@N3G4T3that’s why I buy lg
You are 100% correct. Caveat Emptor has a whole new meaning in our age.