As a wise man once said: "Piracy is almost always a service issue, not a pricing problem." Gabe was 100% right at least for me. I stopped pirating for probably 15 years until the services I paid for got continually worse and yet somehow the prices just went up.
Plus what has been shown is we may not even be getting the full product we are paying these services for. LTT recently talked about how some people are going back out to buy DVD's because the streaming service crops the show to fit wide-screen which in of itself isn't a problem, but you don't get the full effect of the visual gag that is going on. Or the one I really don't here people talking about much is like what happened with stranger things where netflix went and changed up a fee episodes, so if you really liked a show and wanted to rewatch it later it might not even be the same thing you initially watched. * if anyone is wondering ( the main thing to my knowledge) they changed a scene where Will ( not that big a fan, so might get some names wrong) ( the older brother) is spying on Nancy from the forest where he then notices her friend get taken by the demigorgon. Don't remember what they changed it too, but they tried to make him look less creepy / stalkerish lol.
or they hid the stuff you WANTED to see behind a paywall. Like, my brother and I love certain movies. The Last Starfighter was ONLY available if you "rented" it
I buy star trek DVDs whenever I can because of how often it keeps moving. Eventually when I have all the shows and movies I won't have to stream for trek anymore.
I don't miss having to worry about damages over time and having an entire area dedicated to storing physical content, but it's always cool going through someone's collection when people do still collect.
@@StevenCutcherSTCUTCHER that's why they are just now trying to phase out dvds. many movies and shows are never released on physical media, only streaming or drm restricted purchase. they want to be able to take away anything they don't want you to see anymore or that they want you to pay for again.
Literally cannot play Ghost of Tsushima, God of War: Ragnarok, or Until Dawn on PC without pirating in my country (and 177 other countries and territories). For no reason.
Nothing wrong with piracy, I was talking to a guy from Mexico who said his parcels arrived empty when he buys games and DVDs online. I don't see anything wrong with it.
@@ffviifakeremake9997The problem is that Steam is a far better service than piracy. I WANT the updates. I want cloud syncing. I want online and leaderboards. I want achievements. So I'm just not gonna bother with the game at all because I can't have those things if I pirate. Sony is throwing money away here for literally no reason. Its unprecedented in the history of Steam.
I still have all my DVDs/Blu-rays because you never know when any service will just stop showing them on streaming. Everything else I get with an antenna. 80 OTA channels free is not that bad.
I don't get that many in my area, but yeah OTA TV(lets just hope they don't screw it up with ATSC 3.0 DRM) is a great thing with channels like MeTV launching a MeTV Toons channel soon, and they might be expanding out their MeTV+ channel as well at some point. Also there are so many free steaming services to supplement our physical movie collections there is almost no reason to pay unless it's a very specific show you want to see, or you're someone like me with a family that likes sports.
I've downloaded so much that there are whole seasons of streaming shows that I haven't watched yet, and quite possibly never watch ever. Several critically-acclaimed theatrical releases, too. Like I only watched Barbie a couple of weeks ago. And I haven't watched Oppenheimer. Nor Civil War.
If you have an old computer and $130 you can make a relatively future proof streaming server of your own. Ive got an old i5-6500k paired with an intel Arc A380 GPU(the $130 cost) and I can comfortably have four 4k streams running simultaneously. Storage will always be the expensive part depending on how much content you want to make available to yourself. But even still in the long run buying 14TB hard drives will still be more cost effective than having 10 streaming services.
@@d3stiny117 Mostly public torrent sites like ThePirateBay, kickasstorrents, and one private torrent site called IPTorrents. I went a bit overkill with the file management system. I use Radarr, Sonarr, and jackett for movie management, TV management, and torrent tracking management. But the software(radarr, sonarr, jackett) are all free and open sourced projects that can run on something like a raspberry pi. And it removes the need for you to manually select and download torrents as well as organizing the files once they have been downloaded.
This the problem, despite subscribing to Netflix and Prime type of services, I still have to pirate content. Eventually a time comes when I'll just not bother with any subscription services, because the convenience of having these streaming services gets outweighed by cost of maintaining them and lack of content on each such service.
shouldve mentioned password sharing crackdowns. im someone who doesnt watch many shows or movies, but when i do want to i use my familys accounts. when i want to watch one thing on netflix, now that i cant watch at my own place with my familys account, am i going to go and buy a subscription to watch that ONE THING and then cancel it? hell no also, without peacock and ESPN+, i dont think i ever would have gotten into football (soccer) as much as i am now.
And technically in the United States it's not Illegal to download stuff. The fbi only goes after the person accused of being the one to originally upload the torrent file to the internet
Honestly the most frutstrating part of every company starting their own streaming services is places like here in the UK lost access to shows on services like Netflix but also aren't able to access the new service that was created so we are left out to dry with no way to get certain shows even with physical media because physical media distrubution is also poor. A good example of this is that King of the Hill is unavailable to watch here in the UK in full as even the DVD's are incomplete.
Even worse, there are some series I loved which were made by a British company, for release on British TV that I can no longer watch in the UK because some US company now owns the rights to it and region locked it. Plus even when we here in the UK are able to sign up to a streaming service, you're never sure exactly what content you'll actually be able to access - because they never tell you what is region locked or not until AFTER you've already signed up - and quite often the most popular shows, which are invariably American, just don't appear at all on the UK version of those Streaming platforms. It sucks!!
What constitutes a "household" is KEY. We pay ~$100 a month for ~8 paid streaming services, but share them across 8 family members who live in 4 different residences/with 4 Internet connections. If they further restrict account sharing such that our price per family member increases significantly, or they remove certain tent-post content we like, I'm absolutely gonna start pirating again (we don't care about sports really, but prestige TV is a must, plus high-end documentaries/docuseries, and some British and Australian stuff).
I remember seeing this video, I don't remember who posted it, but he set up a vpn server at the house that pays for netflix, then when other locations connect to it, to netflix it looks like they are at home and does not charge extra.
@@lance_374 Yes! I've been considering this, using a routing/network-bridging VPN like Tailscale to allows all our devices to interact with each other and the internet as if they're on the same local network. It does require another subscription and/or an always-on home server, but as you point out, could address the accounts-sharing/household problem presented by e.g. Netflix (currently costing me ~$25, 1/4 of my total monthly family media budget). One could take this to an extreme, finding the jurisdiction with the lowest combined monthly cost for all content, and base your family network on a server/IP there. There could be a service for that, like those tax evasion/golden passport/e-residency schemes that give elites effective use of advantageous locales for their tax and globe-trotting needs.
There are shows that streaming services take off and make them not available then the only option is pirating. my Wife loves this show called One Night that paramount plus released. She wanted to rewatch it with her mother but it suddenly wasn't on a streaming service or I couldn't buy it digitally or physically.
Matt hit on a big point with watching your favorite sport team. You could be paying for all these streaming services and still fall into a blackout spot and not be able to watch them. You should be able to pay to watch your team and that gives you access to whatever streaming platform it's on that day. It's a win-win, you watch your team no matter what, and all the streaming services have you being exposed to their platform and have a chance to get you to sign up on a longer term basis for other things they carry.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up Godzilla Minus One, only being released in Japan, and being one of the best movies ever made, it's the most pirated piece of content right now
@jasonshapiro6420 hopefully tomorrow, but nothing yet. And some articles are saying Netflix won't have it for US, so we'll see. But still, could've been a topic when mentioning pirating content
Since the late 90's I've been collecting VCDs, & DVDs and now Blu-Rays along with them, so I have the stuff I really really want to want on physical media, & not beholden to a streaming service, and I really only pay for RUclips TV, and Peacock mostly because of Sports, with the of it as a bonus, & and my only other paid is RUclips Premium for no ads on my tablet/phone/TV, etc.. but the moment RUclips TV, and/or Peacock loose the sport I want to see, or they start charing a kidney I will drop them like hot lava with zero regrets as there are plenty of free streaming services, and Antenna TV is still a thing as well. These companies only have themselves to blame.
I definitely appreciate the flexibility of options still present over cable, but it’s becoming a new paralysis of choice ala cable. Then there’s things that I feel locked into like Spotify because I have so many playlists set up I don’t want to recreate that on Google’s crappy RUclips Music app
I mostly watch 'free' RUclips and Twitch until the NFL season starts up. Then I check what streamer will give me the biggest chunk of my team's games without being ripped off by RUclips TV for 'the package'. If I miss a few I'm fine with that. I don't care enough to pay a hundred or so dollars a month to see it all. I do occasionally pay for a month of a service to binge a show I like if one is out. If they try and AGOT me with a staggered release, I'll either binge at the end or skip it if I hear too many spoilers because then I lose interest. I refuse to let a streamer schedule my entertainment time. Football gets the only pass there because I really like it and any spoiler ruins the entire game.
You know, RUclips has been making a killing die to the death of cable. If these services combine and put ads back for a massive discount video platforms like YT will have reduced revenue. Not massive but enough to notice. The content here wil make this never fail.
We got rid of cable years ago just for me to think about getting it again. Streaming is just cable reborn. Also, buying digital movies is a joke too. You own it but you don’t really own it. If that service goes out of business then you lose the content. In the end we’re getting screwed
I took note of you guys mentioning binge watching and actors getting a tiny piece but how many series are there out there that 5-10-15 years old that people want to binge watch? How many times should Hollywood be paid for something that has already been paid for numerous times?
Even Netflix doesn't make money, they might be able to show a profit on their accounts but thats via legal but creative accountancy practices, their cash flow is massively in the red every year. Streaming services just have to buy way too much 3rd party content and also produce way too much original content compared to before and while they may get more for each subscriber than they got in carriage fees for their linear channels on cable they have fewer subscribers and they are harder to rely on month by month so they bring less money in while spending more. They need to be able to share the load better where they don't need to be competing on 3rd party content as much thus not driving the cost up and where they don't each need a new original every month, Disney can have one in Jan, Netflix in Feb, Peacock in March, Max in April and paramount in May and each can still keep their subscribers because they are subscribing to watch something on one of the others
It's not even the amount of services because I will load my Roku TV with as many channels as I need to watch the content I want. The price of each service for an experience that is objectively not as good as sailing the seas, and I am paying for that privilege. Not to mention the price of each going up and us getting less in return with stricter restrictions
I carry 3 streamers at once as soon as I go more than a week not opening an app I cancel it and pick something else to replace it. I am fine doing that. I know a lot of people say that is too much work I get it. And I admit I am a simple guy and watch a ton of RUclips
I predicted this 5 years ago. When my parents got rid of cable in 2019, I told them “Other companies are pulling their stuff from Netflix and making their own streaming service. Disney just did it, and Apple announced that they’re making their own service. Soon, you be paying for 10 different streaming services to get what you currently get on Netflix. And if you’re paying for that many, it’ll probably cost the same as Cable does now.” I had no idea just how right I was. I predicted the current state of the entire video streaming service industry.
"And if you’re paying for that many, it’ll probably cost the same as Cable does now.” The point of cord cutting is to min and max your money monthly.. for entertainment subscription needs via streaming service. Pay one for a few months, cancel.. then pay another. You're not in contracts like cable.
I’ve only hypothetically pirated a couple movies but in my defense if I did that it is because I went and saw the movie paid for a ticket wanted to watch it again so hypothetically I pirate it but then if it is a good movie I buy it as soon as it goes vod so it is bad but not as bad right?
Let's say I know I want to watch X show. I google it and it says it's supposed to be on X service, but then i look on that service and it's not there. So whether i subscribe or not I can't get what I want to watch. I can't really go rent it anymore because those stores closed so i will end up either finding it on the high seas or just not bothering.
The dream of cutting the cord was so bright and promising all those years ago. We just circled back to it with streaming services being the new "cable" and it is just as expensive. All you really are doing is paying for conveniences. And as one individual in the comments here (@andyofCT) has stated, the streaming platforms are horrible when it comes to residuals for the actors, and the production crews. I have my favorite sites I use. And honestly, I have gotten to a point that I choose Twitch/RUclips/VIdeo games over all of the TV and Streaming platforms. I rather sit and interact with a world with a good story, or a real person as they do the same.
it boils down to getting the content to you. that requires storage, and in 4k, that requires mad storage. It also requires bandwidth, and in 4k, thats mad bandwidth. that shit aint free. getting it for 7-12 bucks a month, on demand in your hand, is a fucking deal, and its still not good enough? another thing is, making tv costs more. equipment costs more, crews cost more, cast costs more, sets rigs locations cost more. all that shit is pricy. ultimately, tv is for rich people. reruns are for the poor ppl like me who watch pluto tv and tubi.
i signed up to paramount for , the ninja turtles , the knuckles show. keenan and kel and the new Fraser. i hope whatever comcast do it is beneficial to the viewers although that's unlikely, oh and buffy is now on paramount always worth watching .. x
I feel like streaming has been ruined over the past few years. There used to be one, maybe two, streaming services, so paying 10-15 bucks a month was no big deal. Now everyone has their own service, and it's hard to foot the bill of 10-20 dollars per service over, like... ten different ones. And most of them have maybe 1 thing worth watching each since they removed all their stuff from Netflix to prop up their own service. There's probably a lot of piracy that goes on now just out of convenience since you can't watch all you want from one place. Better on the wallet, too. Maybe this Comcast thing will be good, except the purpose of streaming services was to cut the cord at one point.
Watch Sony buy Paramount and do the impossible, since they've been making garbage Spider-Man-without-Spider-Man movies, and actually save Halo and make it a really good series. They'll just hire the Forward Unto Dawn team who had like the same budget as ONE EPISODE of the Halo series, for their entire 90 minute thing. And yet FUD is 9 billion times better. So Sony will just give them like $20 million and we'll get the greatest sci-go since Doctor Who. It'll be huge. Like Game Of Thrones. I mean, Hell, if they properly adapt the first book, they'll literally have 300 characters, half of which die and a few more end up grusonely crippled... and then when the SURVIVING Spartan-IIs go on their first mission, we get basically the most heart-wrenching death of the entire series. And then in book 2 we get some grotesque body horror and a new nightmare unlocked for almost every viewer, and we lose one of the biggest fan favorite characters. Actually, 2. I kinda forgot what happens to Keyes in the first game. (Book 2 is basically the first game with extra detail) Then, honestly, I vote we detour and do Contact Harvest & The Cole Protocol, which are prequels to what I consider the Quadrilogy. The 4 main books. Then we do books 3 and 4... honestly, I don't remember anything really of note in book 3, but I did read all the way through it at a time when I had mostly stopped reading... so it was decent. But book 4? Kurt basically becomes a new Master Chief mixed with Mendez & Keyes, and we get the Spartan-IIIs, with only TWO survivors from one batch (of I think 300 again?) So it's basically just a green light for the writers to be absolute SADISTS with character deaths. And then we get a MUTE Spartan. From the TRAUMA. If that isn't GOT bait, idk what is. And then Kurt basically sets out to stop the Spartan-IIIs from being completely disposable, and Halsey comes back into play and stuff... book 4 is pretty epic. And with how well I think it would do, we can adapt the Kilo Five trilogy as a spin-off, next. It's literally at least a decade of PHENOMENAL "tv" if they make it that way, or at least 6-7 great movies. (Despite that being 9 books, I'm not sure we should make each book it's own movie. Like especially 3 since I completely forgot it. And maybe even 2 since it's practically the first game. They can just be like, "Watch the first movie, play The Master Chief Collection now 50% off, the second movie happens roughly between the 2nd and 3rd game." (Book 4) The two prequel books could maybe be mashed into 1 movie? And then a trilogy for Kilo Five. Feels like MAYBE that's reducing things a bit too much... But whatever they wanna do. Honestly, Sony wouldn't have the rights to do movies, probably... But they could make the best damn series. Oooh. I mean, they won't... because Sony hasn't made a good movie or series in over a decade, afaik... but like... one can dream, right? Honestly, 343 has mostly killed my passion for the series, and Paramount didn't help... but if Sony was like, "Hold my beer." and just did everything right? Man. I can't contain my passion for the idea of Halo done justice. I liked it more than Star Wars at one point, which I liked more than most people lol. But everything I've ever loved has been destroyed.
Even if you dont have cable most people still have internet so companies like comcast still make their money from you no matter what streaming services you have
I love star trek so I sub to Paramount. We keep our sub even when there are no new treks, and we still watch some stuff on it occasionally. I know it saves them bandwidth for me to not constantly consume content, and i keep my sub going even in times where i havent watched anything for a month. my plan is only 7 bucks.
I'm not paying 8 quid to get the same prime I used to get but now has ads it's ridiculous so I'll watch prime stuff some other way. Disney is the same so glad I get it free through my wife's bank. Ads blocked on my phone. Hahahaha
at about the 5 minute mark, I disagree with you Matt. It is not a la carte like it was prior. for me, I really only watch USA network and FOX network. but that is because I really only watch WWE on tv. that isn't available via those options. some (like WWE) are on Hulu but AEW is not. neither is the WWE'S Most Wanted Treasures that I like to watch. I have to have live tv for that. it's not possible to watch actual live tv via streaming unless you go through something like YTTV or Hulu with live tv, etc. these streaming services are not meant for live tv consumption but rather old shows on demand. new shows are not available on demand in that same aspect. they aren't the same but they both serve their own avenues. now I'm getting forced to purchase Netflix since Raw is moving there starting for 2025. streaming rights are a joke.
480p with decent bitrate honestly doesn't look half bad if your device does half-decent upscaling (most phones/TVs). Though it should only be like less than $4/month for that.
I have not watched netflix for over 5 years.... I'm tried of this s! doesn't matter how good a show is! I'm so done.. also disney.. i'm done. the only thing I have it's HBO. lol they gonna put so munch ads XD
i find the concept of losing money to be an idiotic concept there is only two ways of actually losing money 1:you spend it 2:you lose either cash or get your account hacked so companies saying that they are losing money arent actually losing any money at all they only ¨lose¨potential income not actual money tldr you cant lose money that you never had in the first place
Excuse me sir, ESPN -8 The Ocho, is the true ESPN. The rest wish they were as cool. If not for The Ocho, I would have to go back to subscribing to obscure sports quarterly magazine.
HOW IS YOUTBE TV SO expensive, Monthly i pay for RUclips premium and i share Disney with my two sisters, parents pay for Netflix, prime video comes free with prime for $60 a year and i support Nebula for $8 which is worth it for jetlag
Because RUclips TV is essentially cable and not even close to the same thing as RUclips Premium. One is for actual "cable" channels, the other is for ad-free RUclips videos.
Austin is out of touch with reality, back ion the old days unless you were really out in the boonies you were having like 20+ channels. With just a over the air rooftop antenna (same kind as anyone in the 80s or 70s or 90s had/has) i get 72 channels. Even in the country you would get 7 to 13 channels. And Austin forgot Disney+, that one isn't losing money as well as Netflix
YOU have to be a triillionaire to have these streaming services. and then you ain't a trillionaire because you under into the billions. any normal person can't afford all this stuff.
As a wise man once said: "Piracy is almost always a service issue, not a pricing problem." Gabe was 100% right at least for me. I stopped pirating for probably 15 years until the services I paid for got continually worse and yet somehow the prices just went up.
Definitely not the case these days, especially with the cost of living it's nice to be able to have some type of fun even if it's not official 😏
Plus what has been shown is we may not even be getting the full product we are paying these services for.
LTT recently talked about how some people are going back out to buy DVD's because the streaming service crops the show to fit wide-screen which in of itself isn't a problem, but you don't get the full effect of the visual gag that is going on.
Or the one I really don't here people talking about much is like what happened with stranger things where netflix went and changed up a fee episodes, so if you really liked a show and wanted to rewatch it later it might not even be the same thing you initially watched.
* if anyone is wondering ( the main thing to my knowledge) they changed a scene where Will ( not that big a fan, so might get some names wrong) ( the older brother) is spying on Nancy from the forest where he then notices her friend get taken by the demigorgon. Don't remember what they changed it too, but they tried to make him look less creepy / stalkerish lol.
or they hid the stuff you WANTED to see behind a paywall. Like, my brother and I love certain movies. The Last Starfighter was ONLY available if you "rented" it
Did you just call our lord and savior Gabe Newell just a man ?
I wouldnt spend a single penny on something I can get for free!
If buying isn't owning, than pirating isn't stealing
One of the most beautiful words ever spoken
The quote of the decade
I stopped sailing the high seas for years. Streaming made it pointless. Now, it's the best choice to watch what you want to watch again.
I buy star trek DVDs whenever I can because of how often it keeps moving. Eventually when I have all the shows and movies I won't have to stream for trek anymore.
Same, then I upscale them to 4K
All this video did was remind me to cancel some of my subscriptions. So thanks guys for saving me some money 🙏
This is why I've been rebuilding my movie and TV show collection, can't segregate my shows after I own them on disc lol
Owning them on disc also means they can't stop you from watching your content
I don't miss having to worry about damages over time and having an entire area dedicated to storing physical content, but it's always cool going through someone's collection when people do still collect.
Me too, getting to the point where buying dvds are going to be worth it again. At least until the increase the price to a god like amount
And you wont need wifi
@@StevenCutcherSTCUTCHER that's why they are just now trying to phase out dvds. many movies and shows are never released on physical media, only streaming or drm restricted purchase. they want to be able to take away anything they don't want you to see anymore or that they want you to pay for again.
Literally cannot play Ghost of Tsushima, God of War: Ragnarok, or Until Dawn on PC without pirating in my country (and 177 other countries and territories). For no reason.
Nothing wrong with piracy, I was talking to a guy from Mexico who said his parcels arrived empty when he buys games and DVDs online. I don't see anything wrong with it.
@@ffviifakeremake9997The problem is that Steam is a far better service than piracy. I WANT the updates. I want cloud syncing. I want online and leaderboards. I want achievements. So I'm just not gonna bother with the game at all because I can't have those things if I pirate. Sony is throwing money away here for literally no reason. Its unprecedented in the history of Steam.
I still have all my DVDs/Blu-rays because you never know when any service will just stop showing them on streaming. Everything else I get with an antenna. 80 OTA channels free is not that bad.
I don't get that many in my area, but yeah OTA TV(lets just hope they don't screw it up with ATSC 3.0 DRM) is a great thing with channels like MeTV launching a MeTV Toons channel soon, and they might be expanding out their MeTV+ channel as well at some point. Also there are so many free steaming services to supplement our physical movie collections there is almost no reason to pay unless it's a very specific show you want to see, or you're someone like me with a family that likes sports.
I've downloaded so much that there are whole seasons of streaming shows that I haven't watched yet, and quite possibly never watch ever. Several critically-acclaimed theatrical releases, too. Like I only watched Barbie a couple of weeks ago. And I haven't watched Oppenheimer. Nor Civil War.
If you have an old computer and $130 you can make a relatively future proof streaming server of your own. Ive got an old i5-6500k paired with an intel Arc A380 GPU(the $130 cost) and I can comfortably have four 4k streams running simultaneously. Storage will always be the expensive part depending on how much content you want to make available to yourself. But even still in the long run buying 14TB hard drives will still be more cost effective than having 10 streaming services.
where do you get your stuff from? like the shows and all? i have never found a reliable source.
Or just use streamio
@@d3stiny117 Mostly public torrent sites like ThePirateBay, kickasstorrents, and one private torrent site called IPTorrents.
I went a bit overkill with the file management system. I use Radarr, Sonarr, and jackett for movie management, TV management, and torrent tracking management. But the software(radarr, sonarr, jackett) are all free and open sourced projects that can run on something like a raspberry pi. And it removes the need for you to manually select and download torrents as well as organizing the files once they have been downloaded.
hypothetically speaking..... stremio + the Torrentio extension would be a pretty cool thing
Cable TV subscriptions here in Mexico have been doing this for a couple of years now, offering up to 6 streaming services for a reduced cost 😅😅
a return to physical media plus plex/jellyfin when possible for me
The only reason I still Have DirecTV stream is to be able to record my NFL games so I do not have to be home when the game starts.
This the problem, despite subscribing to Netflix and Prime type of services, I still have to pirate content. Eventually a time comes when I'll just not bother with any subscription services, because the convenience of having these streaming services gets outweighed by cost of maintaining them and lack of content on each such service.
**checks calendar** Did it ever leave?
Well, the companies have stopped speaking about it
Been sailing the high sea for anime for a while now.
I am chomping at the bit to cancel my TV service. It is hundreds of channels of pure crap.
shouldve mentioned password sharing crackdowns. im someone who doesnt watch many shows or movies, but when i do want to i use my familys accounts. when i want to watch one thing on netflix, now that i cant watch at my own place with my familys account, am i going to go and buy a subscription to watch that ONE THING and then cancel it? hell no
also, without peacock and ESPN+, i dont think i ever would have gotten into football (soccer) as much as i am now.
Streaming is going to get a lot more weird before it's said and done. Comcast and Charter(Spectrum) teamed up to make Xumo.
That 2nd to last episode of Young Sheldon finale gave you feels.
And technically in the United States it's not Illegal to download stuff. The fbi only goes after the person accused of being the one to originally upload the torrent file to the internet
Honestly the most frutstrating part of every company starting their own streaming services is places like here in the UK lost access to shows on services like Netflix but also aren't able to access the new service that was created so we are left out to dry with no way to get certain shows even with physical media because physical media distrubution is also poor. A good example of this is that King of the Hill is unavailable to watch here in the UK in full as even the DVD's are incomplete.
Even worse, there are some series I loved which were made by a British company, for release on British TV that I can no longer watch in the UK because some US company now owns the rights to it and region locked it. Plus even when we here in the UK are able to sign up to a streaming service, you're never sure exactly what content you'll actually be able to access - because they never tell you what is region locked or not until AFTER you've already signed up - and quite often the most popular shows, which are invariably American, just don't appear at all on the UK version of those Streaming platforms. It sucks!!
What constitutes a "household" is KEY. We pay ~$100 a month for ~8 paid streaming services, but share them across 8 family members who live in 4 different residences/with 4 Internet connections. If they further restrict account sharing such that our price per family member increases significantly, or they remove certain tent-post content we like, I'm absolutely gonna start pirating again (we don't care about sports really, but prestige TV is a must, plus high-end documentaries/docuseries, and some British and Australian stuff).
I remember seeing this video, I don't remember who posted it, but he set up a vpn server at the house that pays for netflix, then when other locations connect to it, to netflix it looks like they are at home and does not charge extra.
@@lance_374 Yes! I've been considering this, using a routing/network-bridging VPN like Tailscale to allows all our devices to interact with each other and the internet as if they're on the same local network. It does require another subscription and/or an always-on home server, but as you point out, could address the accounts-sharing/household problem presented by e.g. Netflix (currently costing me ~$25, 1/4 of my total monthly family media budget).
One could take this to an extreme, finding the jurisdiction with the lowest combined monthly cost for all content, and base your family network on a server/IP there. There could be a service for that, like those tax evasion/golden passport/e-residency schemes that give elites effective use of advantageous locales for their tax and globe-trotting needs.
There are shows that streaming services take off and make them not available then the only option is pirating. my Wife loves this show called One Night that paramount plus released. She wanted to rewatch it with her mother but it suddenly wasn't on a streaming service or I couldn't buy it digitally or physically.
Matt hit on a big point with watching your favorite sport team. You could be paying for all these streaming services and still fall into a blackout spot and not be able to watch them. You should be able to pay to watch your team and that gives you access to whatever streaming platform it's on that day. It's a win-win, you watch your team no matter what, and all the streaming services have you being exposed to their platform and have a chance to get you to sign up on a longer term basis for other things they carry.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up Godzilla Minus One, only being released in Japan, and being one of the best movies ever made, it's the most pirated piece of content right now
Not anymore thankfully it is now available in the US even minus color
@jasonshapiro6420 hopefully tomorrow, but nothing yet. And some articles are saying Netflix won't have it for US, so we'll see. But still, could've been a topic when mentioning pirating content
Plex/Jellyfin FTW!
I have plex
You guys are missing out on X-Men ‘97
Since the late 90's I've been collecting VCDs, & DVDs and now Blu-Rays along with them, so I have the stuff I really really want to want on physical media, & not beholden to a streaming service, and I really only pay for RUclips TV, and Peacock mostly because of Sports, with the of it as a bonus, & and my only other paid is RUclips Premium for no ads on my tablet/phone/TV, etc.. but the moment RUclips TV, and/or Peacock loose the sport I want to see, or they start charing a kidney I will drop them like hot lava with zero regrets as there are plenty of free streaming services, and Antenna TV is still a thing as well. These companies only have themselves to blame.
I definitely appreciate the flexibility of options still present over cable, but it’s becoming a new paralysis of choice ala cable. Then there’s things that I feel locked into like Spotify because I have so many playlists set up I don’t want to recreate that on Google’s crappy RUclips Music app
I mostly watch 'free' RUclips and Twitch until the NFL season starts up. Then I check what streamer will give me the biggest chunk of my team's games without being ripped off by RUclips TV for 'the package'. If I miss a few I'm fine with that. I don't care enough to pay a hundred or so dollars a month to see it all.
I do occasionally pay for a month of a service to binge a show I like if one is out. If they try and AGOT me with a staggered release, I'll either binge at the end or skip it if I hear too many spoilers because then I lose interest. I refuse to let a streamer schedule my entertainment time. Football gets the only pass there because I really like it and any spoiler ruins the entire game.
Comcast currently doesn't allow you to stream the apps unless you have Comcast internet. It's main reason I'm leaving away from them.
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You know, RUclips has been making a killing die to the death of cable. If these services combine and put ads back for a massive discount video platforms like YT will have reduced revenue. Not massive but enough to notice. The content here wil make this never fail.
We got rid of cable years ago just for me to think about getting it again. Streaming is just cable reborn. Also, buying digital movies is a joke too. You own it but you don’t really own it. If that service goes out of business then you lose the content. In the end we’re getting screwed
I took note of you guys mentioning binge watching and actors getting a tiny piece but how many series are there out there that 5-10-15 years old that people want to binge watch? How many times should Hollywood be paid for something that has already been paid for numerous times?
Even Netflix doesn't make money, they might be able to show a profit on their accounts but thats via legal but creative accountancy practices, their cash flow is massively in the red every year. Streaming services just have to buy way too much 3rd party content and also produce way too much original content compared to before and while they may get more for each subscriber than they got in carriage fees for their linear channels on cable they have fewer subscribers and they are harder to rely on month by month so they bring less money in while spending more. They need to be able to share the load better where they don't need to be competing on 3rd party content as much thus not driving the cost up and where they don't each need a new original every month, Disney can have one in Jan, Netflix in Feb, Peacock in March, Max in April and paramount in May and each can still keep their subscribers because they are subscribing to watch something on one of the others
It's not even the amount of services because I will load my Roku TV with as many channels as I need to watch the content I want. The price of each service for an experience that is objectively not as good as sailing the seas, and I am paying for that privilege. Not to mention the price of each going up and us getting less in return with stricter restrictions
Austin over here paying double what my phone bill is😂😂
You should try to make a video on the Red Magic 9 Pro.
I carry 3 streamers at once as soon as I go more than a week not opening an app I cancel it and pick something else to replace it. I am fine doing that. I know a lot of people say that is too much work I get it. And I admit I am a simple guy and watch a ton of RUclips
I predicted this 5 years ago.
When my parents got rid of cable in 2019, I told them “Other companies are pulling their stuff from Netflix and making their own streaming service. Disney just did it, and Apple announced that they’re making their own service. Soon, you be paying for 10 different streaming services to get what you currently get on Netflix. And if you’re paying for that many, it’ll probably cost the same as Cable does now.”
I had no idea just how right I was. I predicted the current state of the entire video streaming service industry.
lol it didn’t take a genius to predict it lol. It’s was pretty obvious what was coming since like 2010 lol
"And if you’re paying for that many, it’ll probably cost the same as Cable does now.”
The point of cord cutting is to min and max your money monthly.. for entertainment subscription needs via streaming service. Pay one for a few months, cancel.. then pay another. You're not in contracts like cable.
I’ve only hypothetically pirated a couple movies but in my defense if I did that it is because I went and saw the movie paid for a ticket wanted to watch it again so hypothetically I pirate it but then if it is a good movie I buy it as soon as it goes vod so it is bad but not as bad right?
How much is the Kyle add-on?
John and Kate plus 8 cinematic universe!’😂😂😂
Let's say I know I want to watch X show. I google it and it says it's supposed to be on X service, but then i look on that service and it's not there. So whether i subscribe or not I can't get what I want to watch. I can't really go rent it anymore because those stores closed so i will end up either finding it on the high seas or just not bothering.
The dream of cutting the cord was so bright and promising all those years ago. We just circled back to it with streaming services being the new "cable" and it is just as expensive. All you really are doing is paying for conveniences. And as one individual in the comments here (@andyofCT) has stated, the streaming platforms are horrible when it comes to residuals for the actors, and the production crews. I have my favorite sites I use. And honestly, I have gotten to a point that I choose Twitch/RUclips/VIdeo games over all of the TV and Streaming platforms. I rather sit and interact with a world with a good story, or a real person as they do the same.
I got that reference ;D
it boils down to getting the content to you.
that requires storage, and in 4k, that requires mad storage. It also requires bandwidth, and in 4k, thats mad bandwidth. that shit aint free. getting it for 7-12 bucks a month, on demand in your hand, is a fucking deal, and its still not good enough? another thing is, making tv costs more. equipment costs more, crews cost more, cast costs more, sets rigs locations cost more. all that shit is pricy. ultimately, tv is for rich people. reruns are for the poor ppl like me who watch pluto tv and tubi.
i signed up to paramount for , the ninja turtles , the knuckles show. keenan and kel and the new Fraser. i hope whatever comcast do it is beneficial to the viewers although that's unlikely, oh and buffy is now on paramount always worth watching .. x
i dont think the comcast stuff affects the uk, i could be wrong but i dont think i need to worry , i have sky
I feel like streaming has been ruined over the past few years. There used to be one, maybe two, streaming services, so paying 10-15 bucks a month was no big deal. Now everyone has their own service, and it's hard to foot the bill of 10-20 dollars per service over, like... ten different ones. And most of them have maybe 1 thing worth watching each since they removed all their stuff from Netflix to prop up their own service. There's probably a lot of piracy that goes on now just out of convenience since you can't watch all you want from one place. Better on the wallet, too. Maybe this Comcast thing will be good, except the purpose of streaming services was to cut the cord at one point.
I just stay away from subscriptions all together.
I stick to good 'ol fashion buying games, movies, tv shows, books etc (preferably DRM-free)
Watch Sony buy Paramount and do the impossible, since they've been making garbage Spider-Man-without-Spider-Man movies, and actually save Halo and make it a really good series. They'll just hire the Forward Unto Dawn team who had like the same budget as ONE EPISODE of the Halo series, for their entire 90 minute thing. And yet FUD is 9 billion times better. So Sony will just give them like $20 million and we'll get the greatest sci-go since Doctor Who. It'll be huge. Like Game Of Thrones. I mean, Hell, if they properly adapt the first book, they'll literally have 300 characters, half of which die and a few more end up grusonely crippled... and then when the SURVIVING Spartan-IIs go on their first mission, we get basically the most heart-wrenching death of the entire series. And then in book 2 we get some grotesque body horror and a new nightmare unlocked for almost every viewer, and we lose one of the biggest fan favorite characters. Actually, 2. I kinda forgot what happens to Keyes in the first game. (Book 2 is basically the first game with extra detail)
Then, honestly, I vote we detour and do Contact Harvest & The Cole Protocol, which are prequels to what I consider the Quadrilogy. The 4 main books. Then we do books 3 and 4... honestly, I don't remember anything really of note in book 3, but I did read all the way through it at a time when I had mostly stopped reading... so it was decent. But book 4? Kurt basically becomes a new Master Chief mixed with Mendez & Keyes, and we get the Spartan-IIIs, with only TWO survivors from one batch (of I think 300 again?) So it's basically just a green light for the writers to be absolute SADISTS with character deaths. And then we get a MUTE Spartan. From the TRAUMA. If that isn't GOT bait, idk what is. And then Kurt basically sets out to stop the Spartan-IIIs from being completely disposable, and Halsey comes back into play and stuff... book 4 is pretty epic.
And with how well I think it would do, we can adapt the Kilo Five trilogy as a spin-off, next. It's literally at least a decade of PHENOMENAL "tv" if they make it that way, or at least 6-7 great movies. (Despite that being 9 books, I'm not sure we should make each book it's own movie. Like especially 3 since I completely forgot it. And maybe even 2 since it's practically the first game. They can just be like, "Watch the first movie, play The Master Chief Collection now 50% off, the second movie happens roughly between the 2nd and 3rd game." (Book 4) The two prequel books could maybe be mashed into 1 movie? And then a trilogy for Kilo Five. Feels like MAYBE that's reducing things a bit too much... But whatever they wanna do. Honestly, Sony wouldn't have the rights to do movies, probably... But they could make the best damn series. Oooh. I mean, they won't... because Sony hasn't made a good movie or series in over a decade, afaik... but like... one can dream, right?
Honestly, 343 has mostly killed my passion for the series, and Paramount didn't help... but if Sony was like, "Hold my beer." and just did everything right? Man. I can't contain my passion for the idea of Halo done justice. I liked it more than Star Wars at one point, which I liked more than most people lol. But everything I've ever loved has been destroyed.
At the end of all the positives you need to add
"For now"
Is there any particular reason why Matt is a Buffalo Bill's fan does he hail from the area is Matt Bill's Mafia?!?!?
Paramount+ is for Frasier. That's it. That's all i care about 😂
I’m going to pirate a pirate. Arggghhh!
They took runaways off disney plus so i pirate under cirtain circumstances
Who the hell re-watches. Runaways on PURPOSE? lol. You might as well had said Cloak and Dagger lmmfao
Forget RUclips tv and save and just get F1 Tv subscription.
Hello and welcome to Matt's new channel❤.. Austin what are you waiting for?🎉
Even if you dont have cable most people still have internet so companies like comcast still make their money from you no matter what streaming services you have
Some might say piracy never left.
I just pay a debrid service and get everything $20 bucks every 6 months lol
Where is the one streaming service to rule them all? :)
I love star trek so I sub to Paramount.
We keep our sub even when there are no new treks, and we still watch some stuff on it occasionally. I know it saves them bandwidth for me to not constantly consume content, and i keep my sub going even in times where i havent watched anything for a month. my plan is only 7 bucks.
Why would anyone have Spotify premium when RUclips premium is such a better deal no ads and music
Yeah Yeah Keep Pirating. I do so enjoy reading the 100,000 posts per week on Reddit asking why their accounts have all been hacked.
Dodgy+box=good deal
wait, i thought actors don't get residuals from streaming
I'm not paying 8 quid to get the same prime I used to get but now has ads it's ridiculous so I'll watch prime stuff some other way. Disney is the same so glad I get it free through my wife's bank. Ads blocked on my phone. Hahahaha
at about the 5 minute mark, I disagree with you Matt. It is not a la carte like it was prior. for me, I really only watch USA network and FOX network. but that is because I really only watch WWE on tv. that isn't available via those options. some (like WWE) are on Hulu but AEW is not. neither is the WWE'S Most Wanted Treasures that I like to watch. I have to have live tv for that. it's not possible to watch actual live tv via streaming unless you go through something like YTTV or Hulu with live tv, etc. these streaming services are not meant for live tv consumption but rather old shows on demand. new shows are not available on demand in that same aspect. they aren't the same but they both serve their own avenues. now I'm getting forced to purchase Netflix since Raw is moving there starting for 2025. streaming rights are a joke.
GO BILLS
Damn, Austin is back already?
I'm fairly sure Marvel is owned by Disney, and not WarnerDiscovery
I didn't know it ever left 🏴☠🏴☠
If you want to get into complicated things to watch let's talk about the NFL and how impossible it is to watch every game you want
Years ago I was against piracy, now I don't care anymore. 🤣🤣
I watch less the more streaming services there are and I'm okay with that
480p! plan in 2024 wtf
480p with decent bitrate honestly doesn't look half bad if your device does half-decent upscaling (most phones/TVs). Though it should only be like less than $4/month for that.
Netflix did it for a few years on their lowest tier and finally got rid of it.
@@nooneinpart il actually stil buy dvd's but man 23$ for 480p it's crazy
I have not watched netflix for over 5 years.... I'm tried of this s! doesn't matter how good a show is! I'm so done.. also disney.. i'm done. the only thing I have it's HBO. lol they gonna put so munch ads XD
Ahoooy Matees.
Let’s go Bills!
It never left.
Does Matt have half his beard trimmed? 😅
Piracy i don’t do that. 😉
i find the concept of losing money to be an idiotic concept there is only two ways of actually losing money 1:you spend it 2:you lose either cash or get your account hacked so companies saying that they are losing money arent actually losing any money at all they only ¨lose¨potential income not actual money tldr you cant lose money that you never had in the first place
Shit internet and 5 streaming services is still cheaper than cable
Excuse me sir, ESPN -8 The Ocho, is the true ESPN. The rest wish they were as cool. If not for The Ocho, I would have to go back to subscribing to obscure sports quarterly magazine.
HOW IS YOUTBE TV SO expensive, Monthly i pay for RUclips premium and i share Disney with my two sisters, parents pay for Netflix, prime video comes free with prime for $60 a year and i support Nebula for $8 which is worth it for jetlag
Because RUclips TV is essentially cable and not even close to the same thing as RUclips Premium. One is for actual "cable" channels, the other is for ad-free RUclips videos.
You guys mean your not paying 80 bucks a month yet....
Copy that Floppy.
Austin is out of touch with reality, back ion the old days unless you were really out in the boonies you were having like 20+ channels. With just a over the air rooftop antenna (same kind as anyone in the 80s or 70s or 90s had/has) i get 72 channels.
Even in the country you would get 7 to 13 channels.
And Austin forgot Disney+, that one isn't losing money as well as Netflix
YOU have to be a triillionaire to have these streaming services. and then you ain't a trillionaire because you under into the billions. any normal person can't afford all this stuff.
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Pirating is cool and all but are they even worth pirating? Most show on streaming service are garbage anyway same with cable.
I pay for youtube premium, its tge only worthwhile service
both on the spectrum
Couple this with Sony’s blue-balling of games on pc for regions they don’t cover. We’re sailing the seas again.
Also, if they buy Paramount it's over.
Napster;)