Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs “have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate” and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.
It was not Netflix. At a certain point Sony decided to strip the future from the PlayStation you didn’t have to strip the future but you could no longer update the PlayStation.
Netflix was first to require a newer version of the OS but sooner or later every game and every streaming title would require you to update to play the latest version.
They stripped it under the guise of piracy, It did absolutely nothing to stop piracy. The most they accomplished was keeping you from making a ISO of a disc after a long convoluted Linux install.
There were already blueray drives on the market that could read them enough to produce an ISO. It’s not like you could play any of the PlayStation games under Linux.
Furthermore, if you decided you didn’t want to game or stream on it anymore you could have left Linux on it and if anybody was really pirating using that feature they would have just bought another one and played on it. The only person they f***** over in this scenario was the average consumer.
Well, I don’t own shit from Sony anymore
Ok fuck, i didn’t know. But sure as fuck was one reason I never ever liked closed-systems like consoles or crapple or any of those. First they get you with lovely things, and when you’re hooked into their world, they’ll slowly strip you of your rights to quench you for bucks. Yeah, against piracy my ass.
I went from full piracy to legit (netflix, steam etc) just to be driven back to piracy, even though I am able and willing to spend. How stupid is that? And even Microsoft slowly manages to drive me completely to linux.
I think most of us who were of job age did the same. $10 a month not to worry about disc failures, shitty updates and they have most of what I want to watch? HELLS YES. We were naive to think they’d keep it going. They’re all trying to get up to that $100 per month per head cable price.
I shared a netflix when it came up, paid like 2,60 in the end. But it was too much for what I got: Some measly series, where the better ones were not finished. Half of what the Muricans got for exactly the same price. And on top of that I couldn’t install it (or view in HD) on most of my devices. Because they are rooted, as i prefer to OWN expensive tech-gadgets, not rent them.
I had it for the ease of use. Yes. In the end, sonarr/radarr and emby are way more comfy. I enter a series’ name and watch it some minutes later. Steam is still comfy because I don’t need TONS of HDDs (i already have an archive of like 100tb of disks) and don’t need to worry about updates. I only pirate to test a game. Nowadays 95% is crap anyway.
One streaming-service that has it all and lets me watch it on ANY device? Yeah sure, why not. But netfucks? lol no. Since i left they raised their prices like 2 or 3 times. But people don’t seem to care, so they’ll continue.