But with Jellyfin you don’t necessarily need to do that yourself. You can have a friend with a server or pay some shady dude 5$/mo to use his server.
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ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours agoWhile I am in the same boat as you, you severely overestimate the tech-affinity of the average Netflix user.
Pirating content safely, setting up a media server for it, share it with other people… it is all possible, there is good documentation out there. But aside from having the drive to do this, you also need to invest time to keep it running and maintain it.
The average person out there is happy to pay Netflix money so they don’t need to do that.
drmoose@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
If you have a friend who is invested in this, sure. How many have one?
And paying some shady dude on the net versus paying a “reputable” company… I don’t think the average person will go for that either.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think you underestimate people’s drive for a bargain.
This was a decade back, but the satellite paytv system here was not cheap. $50/m for base, up to $150/m for full. A technical crew worked out how to pirate it by hooking the verification card up to a dongle on a PC and sending the verification requests from each set-top box over a VPN back to their master device. They sold access to the system for about $100 (for the dongle & setup) and then $10-20/month for full access to the Fox-based service. Went on for years before loose lips sunk the ship, and their were thousands of users when it got busted. No marketing, no Internet presense, just word of mouth “I know a guy”.
The modern Internet-based streaming pirate services that people can buy cheap devices for on ebay preconfigured, and pay $5-10/m for access to all movies and TV? Cheaper and faster access, all online, nobody has to visit your home. Everything is easier and the barrier of entry is lower.
If Netflix and others don’t stop being so greedy, they’ll be reminded that people only play by the rules when the terms are reasonable.
drmoose@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Of course getting real data here is very difficult but I really do feel its becoming very easy to be a pirate.
I can only share my anecdotes that I see right now - if I type in “iptv” to the main e-commerce websites here in Thailand (Lazada, Shopee, tiktok) all have hundreds of listings and thousands of monthly sales. Iptv piracy tech UX is very similar to Plex or Jellyfin tho the latter is more expensive to run and more legally challenging but the UX from the customers pov is identical. Buy a subscription, get account details and app install instructions, connect and watch. So UX is not the barrier here imo.
As a ancient pirate this does worry me a bit as it’s becoming too easy and corporate services are really pushing the consumers which brings way too much attention to this.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
For $5/m, I’m your friend!
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
The normies can’t do this argument never sat well with me when it comes to tech, as if their ignorance somehow diminishes the software or process for everyone else.
I also appreciate them. If more people pirated, we might have a tighter crackdown from world governments over it, luckily the streaming services get enough pleb bux to keep the peace.