Netflix proved that people are willing to pay for media if it's more convenient than piracy. Somehow, companies are forgetting that lesson and slowly making piracy now convenient again :/.
Literally. I can pay $5 a month for a VPN, setup software, and auto download whatever i want, as much as I want, no user input. And i have it across TV and all streaming platforms. Lmao fuck these companies
It's not piracy. It's simply an optimization of the practice of sharing passwords by sharing the actual content behind said password-protected accounts. It's quite elegant, actually.
Hello here from Ukraine. Torrenting is also a big part of the media culture here. By using Russian torrent aggregators you are only ever supporting the common folk who just want to be able to enjoy some content in their spare time.
As a chilean dude, everyone is probably go back to the old ways of piracy, becase comunitarian netflix acounts are so common that external people often sell spots of the acount at max 500 clp. Mostly beacuse every family have netflix and sharing as wide as possible the acount, so having free netflix is really easy
“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 Good job Netflix, you outplayed yourself. I use cellular data because my whole family use wifi to watch shows online. Now Netflix decided to make a dumb move like this, I’m disappointed. I’d rather seeing the subscription price going up than charging the account more for each “user” like this. This decision is not affected in my country atm, and things might change, but this is such a silly reason to “protect” their wallet. I’m going back to torrent.
Netflix has been talking about password sharing crackdown for years now...and I'm sure every thing they test.. does not work well. Per household? How would that work? IP Address? Weird, cause I have 3 different IP Addresses. (4 if I use my work's VPN.. 5 if I use my own VPN). They saying I'll be charged 5x? Can't see it...
Netflix hit a roadblock where there's no longer a way to raise the stock price. Whoever would sign up for netflix already has (in most markets), so the only two ways to satisfy shareholders and show growth are to either raise the price or find corner cases where more money could be made like friends sharing accounts.
@@nothing1707 imagine a world where companies would recognize limits and adjust their model to work without more growth, instead of resorting to scummy tactics to nickel and dime all their customers
Not entirely accurate for Netfix. They have plenty of markets to expand into, but they are very difficult to get into. One strategy they adopted is heavily subsidized pricing in these new markets, while raising prices for other markets to make up for it.
I've never once paid for a streaming account and never will. We live in a golden era of media, and with RUclips alone, including videos such as this one, I have more than enough content to consume. In Canada, the Digital Locks Act means that owning Copyrighted or "locked" material is legal, but reproducing it is not. Families who share Netflix accounts don't distribute the content, but rather, Netflix themselves do. So in Canada, Netflix requiring additional payment for a previously free feature may be illegal, and I think Canadians could actually sue Netflix for it.
yeah i think so and i just use whoever else's streaming accounts i have access to pretty rarely, torrenting and piracy streaming is so much better and can be ad blocked if you dont wanna see any of those or get 100 pop ups
T&C are upheld at the whims of legal systems. A contract means nothing without an enforcement mechanism. Companies depend on the state for that. In a country where the T&C is void, there is no enforcement.
I remember the reason Netflix became popular to begin with, and some zoomers won't remember it because it was _that_ long ago, but people did not like the way that they were being nickel and dimed by cable and satellite TV channel packages back in the day, so they largely resorted to piracy. Here netflix comes along, and provides a service so cheap, so convenient, so consistent, that piracy rates dropped hard and was so useful that it literally murdered physical rental stores. I mean, why would you need rental stores, you could just mail order what you want to rent, watch it, and then send it back when you were ready. Talking about netflix today feels like I'm talking about an entirely different service than the one that killed rental stores like hollywood video and blockbuster back in the day. I feel like they need to get humbled and remember their roots with a reminder of why they were successful to begin with by losing massive amounts of money for trying to pull this shit. You want to inconvenience us, people will inconvenience you.
Na nobody who has Netflix will cancel Netflix if your paying for streaming platforms at this point you’re loosing money it’s never been so easy to pirate
@Ibnu This, basically when a game goes Epic Games Store exclusive for example it basically doesn't exist on PC as far as I'm concerned, I've got a backlog, I don't even need to graciously accept Tim Sweeney's free copy of the game, I can just play something else. They dragged their feet for so long it took 3 years for EGS to add a _shopping cart_ meanwhile Valve is already in the future supporting stuff like VR and Linux despite the presently small install bases. As far as I'm concerned, steam is the only game service that earns their store publisher cut no matter how much devs seethe at it, even GOG has been faltering lately despite my love for DRM free games.
@Ibnu Don't have to, have not purchased an EA game ever since origin became a thing with Battlefield 3. And judging by all the controversies that happened in my absence like Star Wars Battlefront lootboxes and Anthem in general, I feel like that was the right decision.
I could easily afford it but I'm not going to give them money so they can rayp kids and spit on my history and culture in their shows. So we use the in-laws Netflix and torrent to my NAS for stuff that's good enough to want to keep.
Oh, they know why. That's why they're doing this. It's cutting into their profit margins and making shareholders mad. So let's piss off the customer instead, right?
I think the pricing is the issue, if you want the full netflix experience you have to pay 3 times the value of any other streaming service, like amazon prime, which btw does not restrict you about how many screens do you want to use, and the quality of the streaming
I am sorry to break what you thought. RUclips is a streaming service, just not paid. However, I see what you mean; you do not see movies and series through a streaming service.
Let's be honest for a sec, google is all the big tech we need and all the big tech we want: android, search, youtube, google books, chromium and maybe even more. All for the "free" price of our souls * ___/*
I tried prime for a year, was not impressed. They could never make the 2-day delivery window they boasted. packages arrived at the same time as before, without prime, which was still already pretty fast. The catalogue on prime video was a joke. And the worst thing of all, I had to actually create and use a twitch account to use my prime sub that I felt obligated not to waste.
@@Dean..... My experience with Prime aas that it was really fast and good prior to the lockdowns and then went to crap and the deliveries started taking longer and longer. I never did use any of the video service or music so I can't comment on that but it looked p crappy anyway.
@@doomguy9049 When I signed up for amazon prime, it was back when there was no monthly option, you either paid for 1 year straight up or not at all. It made it out to be about $6 a month though which seemed like a steal. The reality though is that Amazon's ability to make due on their shipping promises vary wildly depending on location. Of course, Amazon probably knows this, which might be one of the reasons why prime is cheaper in my country and the minimum product cost required on a purchase without prime is lower to qualify for free shipping.
As Gabe Newell one said “ piracy is a service problem” most people pirate because the service being sold to them is ass. Or they just don’t want to pay which is fine because these companies don’t deserve your money
This is the best take. Piracy has died down when services became extremely convenient now that Steam and Netflix are becoming more restrictive and user unfriendly, Piracy will skyrocket in many countries.
@@zerohero5753 Wait in what ways did steam become user unfriendly? I cant be bothered to switch since steam's online, and workshop features are really great compared to other launchers. Though the only games I ever pirated are singleplayer or porn.
That's why Steam panders to Russia so much that they are willing to sell their and others' games for a tiniest fraction of the price just so the Russians don't pirate everything into oblivion. It's not a virtue, what Valve is doing is simply trying to milk Russians as much as they can. However they had to comply with the big gayming companies requesting that all their games that were sold could not be downloaded again by Russians. An example of such games are the Halo MCC and Halo Infinite. Too bad for them I already downloaded MCC and I will not delete it any time soon because I have tons of storage (every Russian does for obvious reasons). So the credibility of Steam has too gone down the shitter in Russia. No one really cares about any other service either. And I hate the antichrist
I'm not defending Netflix but in South america we take advantage of anything, no exceptions: some middle-poor communities and neighborhoods buy only one account and share it among neighbors, creating schedules and among those who share each one would pay one month, so for example if you had 12 people you only had to pay 1 month and you would have netflix practically 1 year for your house following the rules. one account could be shared by more than 20+ houses so I think that's why netflix started thisin LATAM.
I get what you means, people using shared Netflix profile according to time slots just like making 1 Netflix account into a mini cinema serving 12 people, without consent.
"Sometimes your household IP changes because you probably have a dynamic IP." In germany the IP is really really really dynamic; for privacy reasons. By law every houses IP changes every 24 hours by default (exept, if you told your ISP to assign you a static one.)
Not true anymore and it wasn't for privacy reasons. It was because there was only a limited number of IPs so the routers would always disconnect after usage and get a different IP when reconnecting. Nowadays dynamic IPs still exist but are rarer, with some providers like Telekom only allowing IP changes every 180 days.
@@The_Dude99 IPv4 are still greatly limited (all combinations possible are already in use worldwide). Some ISPs have started issuing IPv6 as buying more iov4s is expensive. If you have IPv6 it is probably extremely unlikely to change. You might even have a some IPv6 block (multiple addresses with same beginning basically) for your household.
"B-but this way you're hurting the companies that make those contents!" Good. See the artists, actors, composers, editors, stunt personnel and so on get paid regardless. The ones who lose money are the higher ups, rich pigs who I am more than happy to rob from.
A neat solution you could host for your normie friends that still want to use netflix would be setting up wireguard so that whenever someone you share your netflix with wants to use it they connect to your wireguard instance so netflix only reads it as 1 IP (which is probably all they check for)
I was thinking about doing something like that in my 3rd world gentrified neighborhood back in 2015 by hosting my own server and tokenize it with crypto, but the max any ISP offered was 20mbps so it wasn't really doable. Just last year optic fibre was enabled (it was already installed since the 90's, but it wasn't really usable due to the computing capacity we had back in the day) and there is a gigabit internet pack, I think the time has come to apply that old idea and tokenize it with BAT or some other ad-based crypto
Whole idea of streaming services was to provide cheap and easy access to a lot more content, and that had an impact on torrenting levels at the beginning. But since they started splitting into thousands of different streaming services, all that was lost. These services don't do what they were supposed to do anymore and its time to ditch them. Also not to mention that older movies and tv show would practically be 100% dead if it was up to these shitty services. Torrents are literally the only way to get and see old diamonds.
while I dont condone piracy I can attest that original Napster had way more music than you can find today. All kind of obscure shit that is probably lost.
the whole idea was for netflix to make money. everyone else likes to make money, too. plz do not act as if netflix was ever "good", they were simply blazing a trail. the medium through which content is transferred is irrelevant. if streaming was successful, it was inevitable that it would become cable 2.0 exploitation boogaloo.
@@jhoughjr1 eh maybe, maybe not. Music piracy is alive and well. I never jumped on the subscription bandwagon. My phone has 40gb of torrented music >.>
@@rawhide_kobayashi Dont nitpick. Of course money is the goal, nothing wrong with that, but for them to get the money they have to sell an idea of a service to people, and unless we start punishing them(by not paying) when they start doing something totally different, they are going to keep doing it. There is no good or evil in the business, consumers make rules.
it was especially bad since you could only create a cable company by getting the governments permission therefore creating a horrible government controlled monopoly.
I mean it's a "natural monopoly" since the barriers for entry in the cable tv market are so damn high that startups couldn't exist. Net neutrality was supposed to help us consumers out with the monopoly problem but it went poof and vanished
I don't think there's really a way around this, because they have to lay cable along public roads and such. The even _more_ scummy thing is that there's a perverse incentive for towns to _encourage_ corporate monopolies -- namely, they can get up to 5% of the cable company's gross revenue. See 47 U.S. Code § 542. So when cable companies abuse their monopoly power, the state/municipality benefits. This is also why it was hard for Google to get government support, because with competition often comes cheaper prices.
Yeah but VHSes start to 'rot' and get worse over time Plus worse quality So, if you wanna get HD and not use Netflix... Reject Netflix, return to piracy
I just torrent. Its easier, especially since I can build a multi media (games, movies anime) library. Best part is that I don't need internet to watch or play, just a lot of storage space.
@@adriatical9016 Dude, the people pirating content on the reg generally have an idea what they're doing. Tbf you always need to watch out but I had 1 problem in like 15 yrs and that was me being lazy.
Can't say i didn't see this coming. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. All movies and tv shows ever made for 10$ a month is too good to be true. It was never going to last. They're going to fragment them among different services and start charging more and more until it's as bad as cable
of course! do you realize it was 10.99 a month and it was a small company. Also when they get to big they will destroy themselves. some other company will pick of the slack and offer 4 dollars a month or something so w/e. In the meantime since they wanna be that way I'll be using 1337x
@@jhoughjr1 exactly, that's how big fish are able to survive the stupid and seemingly counterproductive policies they end up supporting: they are better able to survive long enough to starve out any competition and deal with the expensive policies and legal issues that result, and they can just jack up the prices and dump the quality of service afterwards to make it all up.
Fun fact, netflix in my country has 15-20% of content available compared to us/uk, but costs the same as in us. So, to really use it you need to buy a subscription AND a vpn. Or you can use torrents and get yourself some snacks instead. Easiest choice of my life.
Honestly, piracy has become (mostly) morally ambiguous at this point. I can think of few things that I wouldn't rather pirate. Donate to open source projects: Don't be a sucker and pay for inferior proprietary software.
There is literally nothing wrong with torrenting. I categorically reject any and all moral arguments to it. The false shame is and has always been an op. So pirate away.
@@mgh7634 There is literally nothing wrong with stealing through armed robbery. I categorically reject any and all moral arguments to it. The false shame is and has always been an op. So steal from local businesses anyway.
Mental Outlaw i love when you talk about torrenting. Your videos are important to me and i enjoy all the topics you cover. Thank you for all the work you put in to making them
From the Russians I knew, I dont think it will change the amount of piracy that happens. I forget what sw I needed and he said something like one of the advantages of being Russian is reading Russian as you can find anything on Russian sites.
Honestly, I wish piracy remains niche for the time being. Or companies will start cracking down on it hard in some way or the other if enough people are using it (even though the decentralized nature of it prevents such a thing......I'm sure companies can somehow or the other convince the public it is evil or something). Also people with moral superiority complexes might try to stop us.
Idk about that. Torrenting has been a thing for ages now, and even with how shitty cable TV services were, people still paid for them. Piracy will certainly rise with the BS these streaming services are pulling now, but it's unlikely that it'll be enough for companies to actually cause any real damage to piracy.
Tormenting online or just p2p file sharing is the very first digital immortal being nothing can stop it... all you need is the .torrent file and the torrent application will find all of the file parts all over the internet from other PCs just look at the piratebay or YTS or all the modern torrent sites that learned from piratebay ... no files are on the internet so as long as you have the back up of the original site with all those torrents lists ... I bet those files can still be downloaded....so the only thing you can so is seeeeeeddd.
Part of the reason Netflix grew as popular as it did was precisely because of the good will they built with customers by overlooking issues like account sharing. That will go out the window at the worst time possible with rival competitors taking up a bigger slice of the streaming pie.
I've subscribed to Netflix the first day it was available in my country, that was in 2012. I cancelled my subscription in 2018 when Netflix became shit. Piracy is the way to go and there's no good options to it, it's either piracy or corporate greed
When 95% of the content is lazily made or pure copy pasta because creators are running out of ideas or whatever, guess who is not going to pay a subscription. Since the beginning of netflix, I have watched 2!!! shows that are on it. Fck this shit show.
Indeed, I posted about that as a reply to another comment merely seconds ago xd. Alternatively you could also use some cheap VPS like 1 dollar or less if you want uptime. Ram, CPU, etc totally irrelevant, all you need is dedicated IP. Hetzner and contabo are some of the cheapest afaik
I'm nearly 30. I've lived a long time through so many diffrent technological advancements, heck I even remember the limewire days. All I can say is what you can't get for free on youtube... you can torrent. You no longer have to be locked into cable companies or live streaming nonsense. **Starts blasting lazy town - You are a pirate**
I agree with this video.. Iv never paid for a service to get content, it's fragmentation of multiple services to watch what you want is ridiculous too. I can watch all these shows without the pay wall and paying for multiple services. It isn't about the money it's about the morality of not filling greedy pockets so they can continue to wall you off with multiple options
I never had one to begin with, but I hardly used my parents when I was with them. But damn, I still remember when they had disney movies on the Wii, back when they would mail DVD's to your door. And now everything is so split up and unorganized, it's getting to a point where it's Cable again. And thanks to you, I now know how to torrent. And, for the 1st time in my life, I have a computer. I will seed. Thank you for Enlightening me.
As a Chilean, adding insulto to injury, this is on top of the new "taxes on online services" wich targeted specifically Netflix's and the likes of. So yeah, the hashtag #chaonetflix (#byeNetflix) is already wreaking havock in every single online forum/social network. All at a time in which cost of like is going up significantly due to multiple factors. For example, the bread and butter of Chileans is (no pun intended) bread and Netflix. What I mean by this is not only we watch a lot of Netflix, but we are like world champions on bread consumption. Since bread's core is flour, and Ukraine being one of the "mills of the wolrd", war hit hard on chilean pockets. So if you add the online service taxes, the new sharing fee, rising prices due to war, inflation, and so on and so forth, at first those extra bucks a month only sound like that, a couple of extra bucks... But once you start to add up... Yikes! Rgds from LATAM 🇨🇱
You don't know anything about poverty. Chilean cost of living is extremely cheap compared to Canada so people have more purchasing power than even rich Western countries since everything is so cheap.
@@zerohero5753 Lmao you clearly don't live over here. The minimum wage (which is what most people get paid) is just barely enough to survive, let alone live.
Never donate to charities in situations like this. In America, they're only legally obligated to donate one cent out of every dollar, and the rest can be assigned to "management costs" AKA the pockets of the pyramid scheme directors.
Vet the org for sure. The bad ones are exactly like that, just exist to skim money as a middleman. But you just need to look at who is actually present and helping, and you can find a good charity to support. The 🇺🇦 made a smart move and even opened direct accounts to help - either the humanitarian or the war effort.
Statement of RuTracker admin team: "We have always been and always will be outside of politics. In current situation legalization of RuTracker is a clear political move, gov't officials try to use us as manipulation tool. There is no legal basis for our un-blocking (as there was no legal basis for our blocking too). Unblocking of RuTracker might carry certain risks for our users who will use it from their own IP without VPN protection. Copyright owners are not sleeping, criminal persecution of "piracy" is still there. Government institutions of Russia demand cooperation and access to private data of our users - we will not allow it. Therefore in this situation we categorically against and will actually resist attempts at our "un-blocking". Based pirates, showing middle finger to Russia and West and setting sails high.
Here at Mexico basic Netflix account cost $139 Mexican pesos ($6.83USD) monthly, so $3 extra dollars for sharing your account is almost the half of how much you paid for it. When Netflix fist came to Mexico on 2011 basic account started at $99 Mexican pesos (around $7.61USD at the exchange of that time). I know it because my cousins are normies who pay Netflix, Amazon Prime and shit like that, and my nephews always put me to watch movies with them using this services. I'm torrenting since the ancient times of Limewire and I don't expect to stop doing it soon.
"Instead of sharing passwords we should just share torrents? Sounds like a terrible idea! Don't forget some nootzi cop will come and diddle your starfish!" - Sponsored by Netflix, Amazon and Hulu
I think the most ethical, simple way for netflix to handle this would be either a hard cap on consecutive streaming devices. Ex. you pay a certain amount for 2 consecutive devices, more for 3. If you want to share, you can, but it'll get annoying. But it's simple, clear to the user what will happen, and with minimal stalking required. Of course, they'd never do this when they have an excuse to track you more.
@@LaskyLabs Read the comment on this video from the guy from Latin America. Netflix is mad because people are creating schedules to share their account with dozens of people, getting around the device limit.
For Netflix I'm a bit of a masochist, I'll deal with a lot of their shit willingly but I'm drawing the line at ads. The Moment they try to push ads on paying customers I'm pulling the plug
It started out okay when you could find what you were looking for on Netflix. Then it turned into 3 streaming services. Then a couple dozen. It all became redundant when Netflix and Crunchyroll didn't have the shows I wanted to watch. Nyaa has been my friend ever since.
and remember to absolutely never put the show you plan on watching into the search bar with 'mp4' at the end of it, and especially never click the links that show the list of dmca takedowns at the bottom of the page!
as a chilean I can say that most people i know have a dynamic IP address, it changes every 3 days and sometimes once a week for some ISPs. some ISPs give you the option to have an enterprise grade connection but it only means that your IP is static and you don't have to deal with a CG-NAT , most probably I'll share my own VPN with friends so we don't have to deal with this problem but if it becomes something official worldwide, most definitely we will replace Netflix with our trusty TPB
@@zerohero5753 yeah sometimes it can be costly but if you use a low power computer to seed it can be a lor cheaper, like a raspberry pi with some external usb hard drives, i personally have a second computer always seeding and it's a lot more efficient than my primary rig.
9:10 As a Russian I can confirm, When I was trying to get the Steins Gate visual novel for free and all the free versions were ALL from Russia, and I mean all, there was not a single free version I could find that was not made in Russia. I would also like to comment on the invasion of Ukraine and say that there is almost nobody who supports it, from people I've asked only about 10-15% at most support it, you've seen the protests you've seen the backlash. The sanctions hit our economy even harder than in 2014 and even though almost no one supports this war, we still suffer the consequences of the sanctions, please, don't make it worse by blocking our IP's. TOR is blocked in Russia, however VPN's aren't so we prevail.
Is the voting booth still secure enough to vote for whom you want, or do they know what you voted for? Are there even any good options to vote for or do you have an situation like in the us where only few bad parties have even a chance to prevail. Or are the elections just straight up rigged?
@@jannikheidemann3805 The elections are rigged to an undeniable extent. In Russia there is the ruling party "United Russia" which holds 75% of the Russian Parliament seats and can pass any law by outvoting the other parties, there are many other parties so they never win because even if people wanted for someone not from United Russia to go into parliament, their votes would get splintered between the multiple parties. You probably heard about the oppositional politic Navalny, who was poisoned by the Russian government, and then jailed after he survived the poisoning. Navalny and his team created an app called smart voting, where people could unite and vote for one single candidate from a political party with the greatest calculated chance of winning, and overthrow the current candidate from United Russia. The last vote for the Russian Parliament happened in 2021 and the candidates of smart voting were actively winning, until the United Russia candidates suddenly got a few million extra votes from the system of the internet voting. TLDR: Elections are falsified beyond reasonable extent, to a level that is blatantly obvious, but we can't do anything because the other parties have almost no seats in the parliament. Oh by the way, Navalny is facing another 13 years in a high security jail for "money laundering" even though everyone knows he didnt do anything. The court is also corrupt and controlled just like the elections. There are amazing and storong candidates from other parties, the just never get voted in. Sorry for this rant
I realized that I could have time to exercise, cook healthy food, socialize, learn new things and help around my community if I cut TV and all media consumption altogether from my life. I've never looked back since.
My sister pays for literally EVERY streaming service. 3 of us use it. Legally household has many different meanings. No one outside of our family uses it ( in fact i haven't used the Netflix account in several years. I use the hbomax and Disney+ accounts once in a while though.) Alot of times we stream to our phones since we all have unlimited mobile data and different IPs. I don't see why 3 people should have to pay more when they are literally family. My brother and I would not pay for it anyway. As he is the torrenter of the family. As soon as something hits pay perview or digital we have it via him. My sister tried this but its like she never heard of a vpn and the ISP was sending her desist pirating letters lol. So now we have the tech savvy folks handle all that so we dont get any more nasty letters from the ISP.
the real problem is that you can't easily find much tv shows/cartoons in other languages on torrents etc, not much people are using piracy nowadays except for illegal streaming websites full of ads/pop ups where you can't seed or easily download the movie
Oh man, I'm from Chile and I was sure this was a worldwide move. As a piece of trivia, last year an special tax law was implemented here specifically for streaming services. That and an increase in the subscription cost have almost doubled the price, getting close to what a cable bill was back in the day. Another piece of trivia is that, as of 2019, Chile was still in The USA's "black list" of piracy (along the likes of Algeria, Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia , Ukraine and Venezuela), so it's quite likely that this move from Netflix will remind everyone of our national file sharing hobby.
You are basically describing Stremio (you need to install rarbg plugins and others to actually have content on it. Works on desktop app and android. iOS stremio cant install plugins because apple lol)
Streaming services really shit the bed once every company decided they wanted to launch their own platforms. The great thing about torrents is you never have to worry about licensing rights expiring and the content becoming unavailable.
I think Netflix as a company is fine with users sharing their password. Only when their revenue is at risk they try to combat password sharing. (as they do now)
Tried netflix trial for a month just to see how good/bad it actually is, only to find that quite a lot of movies are not there, the bitrate is atrocious (YIFY tier) and in order to have it play in 4K you can't use it through a browser... and you can't even manually select the resolution!
Never used Netflix before but holy shit, by the sound of it, that is way worse than what I thought which is the fact that you have to pay for it lol Well, guess the 3-pass AV1 encoding they isn't really convincing
No human needs to be so hooked on tv shows that they pay for a netflix subscription. Spend time talking to family, making one, create content, make money, freakn live life not watch other live it.
Interesting to watch Mental Outlaw go from a tech-savvy tutorial channel into a well-spoken, entertaining technologist/Social Commentator. Great stuff!
just make a plex server off an old pc, it takes like 20 min and now you have your own streaming service as long as its up lmao (oversimplified i know). Thats how I do it . you can just look on youtube and find a tutorial for how to make one and its perfect for hosting all of your definitely legit movies and tv on your own private server
Man, thanks for the reminder of donating to ukraine. This is the best thing to do. Ukraine really, truly needs our help to defeat ruzzian terror. Great channel! Subbed since a long time ago!
You know, the "not torrenting from russia because Russia is being bad in Ukraine" logic is flawed for mostly 2 reasons: 1. putin is the one who decided to invade Ukraine, not the Russian people (and before you say "they elected him": a political election has more than one candidate and/or political party) 2. By downloading movies from russian torrenters, you take a small part in slowing down the internet of another country
@@clankfish there’s nothing wrong with that approach either. My personal preference for my streaming device for our living room is to pay a little for access to the premium servers. Roughly speaking on a monthly we are looking at a cost of $9.80 per month for both the vpn and the real debrid. This provides us access to most if not all the available streamable content and live streams as well. It also helps that we have fiber internet 😃
The treachery I suffered most in cable and satellite TV was f-ing ADS I had to wait like 30 damn minutes for the ads to end just to continue watching my cartoons
Not like it's any different these days. Most people don't know how to use ad block for YT and will sit through unskippable ads for short videos or see like an ad every 5 minutes on a super long video.
Why do you *never* put links for the articles you read in the video? For someone that claims to have a neutral opinion, you tend to bias us by only showing the parts of the articles you want us to see, rather than let us read it all for ourselves and develop an opinion.
I'm waiting for these streaming companies to switch to a contract model to keep people from subbing for a month, watching the few things they want and then canceling. 99% of what they offer is garbage, and none of it is worth paying for. If they do have something I want to see, well, that's what my eyepatch and shoulder parrot are for. Yaarrr, matey!
It's not pirating. It's a special file sharing operation.
Good one
lmao
Based beyond belief.
It's not pirating. It's an alternative solution.
Wish I had thought of this
Everytime a Big Tech company tell about "security", I feel they talking about the security for their wallet, not for the user.
That is exactly what they are up to.
Sharing accounts never a security issue, even if any, it's still it's fundamental faults not the security problems
When was the last time that big companies actually care about their customers?
Considering a lot of them sell user data, obviously it's for their financial security.
Well said . . . lol
Netflix proved that people are willing to pay for media if it's more convenient than piracy.
Somehow, companies are forgetting that lesson and slowly making piracy now convenient again :/.
Literally. I can pay $5 a month for a VPN, setup software, and auto download whatever i want, as much as I want, no user input. And i have it across TV and all streaming platforms. Lmao fuck these companies
@@matnovak just drag and drop into Stremio and watch it
@@randomdude12370 also if you don't live in a dystopian shit hole, you don't even need a vpn
@@TheHighborn Most countries that don't require a VPN for piracy are dystopian shitholes more than western countries that do.
those companies age getting greedy
It's not piracy. It's simply an optimization of the practice of sharing passwords by sharing the actual content behind said password-protected accounts. It's quite elegant, actually.
Hello here from Ukraine. Torrenting is also a big part of the media culture here. By using Russian torrent aggregators you are only ever supporting the common folk who just want to be able to enjoy some content in their spare time.
Man, I can't cancel Netflix, I would have to signup first to be able to do that lol
As a chilean dude, everyone is probably go back to the old ways of piracy, becase comunitarian netflix acounts are so common that external people often sell spots of the acount at max 500 clp. Mostly beacuse every family have netflix and sharing as wide as possible the acount, so having free netflix is really easy
Me da una cuenta de netflix chipeada?
How much is that? "500clp"?
@@handleneeds3charactersormore 62 US cents
@@patriciopincheira3552 neat as fuck
HAY QUE PURO PIRATEAR SHUSHETUMARE
“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
Good job Netflix, you outplayed yourself. I use cellular data because my whole family use wifi to watch shows online. Now Netflix decided to make a dumb move like this, I’m disappointed. I’d rather seeing the subscription price going up than charging the account more for each “user” like this. This decision is not affected in my country atm, and things might change, but this is such a silly reason to “protect” their wallet.
I’m going back to torrent.
They're not charging per user but basically per household
@@TheSailorKing oh yeah sorry I’ll edit the comment
I wouldn't even really say Netflix shot them selves in the foot. Hollywood killed Netflix from truly flourishing
Netflix has been talking about password sharing crackdown for years now...and I'm sure every thing they test.. does not work well.
Per household? How would that work? IP Address? Weird, cause I have 3 different IP Addresses. (4 if I use my work's VPN.. 5 if I use my own VPN). They saying I'll be charged 5x? Can't see it...
@Sadik.H I once abandon it, now I must return
Netflix hit a roadblock where there's no longer a way to raise the stock price. Whoever would sign up for netflix already has (in most markets), so the only two ways to satisfy shareholders and show growth are to either raise the price or find corner cases where more money could be made like friends sharing accounts.
It's almost like infinite growth is unrealistic
For sure.. they have essentially reached the saturation point, so growth will be minimal or completely eroded going forward.
@@nothing1707 imagine a world where companies would recognize limits and adjust their model to work without more growth, instead of resorting to scummy tactics to nickel and dime all their customers
@@LilacMonarch not under capitalism
Not entirely accurate for Netfix. They have plenty of markets to expand into, but they are very difficult to get into. One strategy they adopted is heavily subsidized pricing in these new markets, while raising prices for other markets to make up for it.
I've never once paid for a streaming account and never will. We live in a golden era of media, and with RUclips alone, including videos such as this one, I have more than enough content to consume. In Canada, the Digital Locks Act means that owning Copyrighted or "locked" material is legal, but reproducing it is not. Families who share Netflix accounts don't distribute the content, but rather, Netflix themselves do. So in Canada, Netflix requiring additional payment for a previously free feature may be illegal, and I think Canadians could actually sue Netflix for it.
lmao, read T&C of Netflix 💀
yeah i think so
and i just use whoever else's streaming accounts i have access to pretty rarely, torrenting and piracy streaming is so much better and can be ad blocked if you dont wanna see any of those or get 100 pop ups
T&C are upheld at the whims of legal systems. A contract means nothing without an enforcement mechanism. Companies depend on the state for that. In a country where the T&C is void, there is no enforcement.
I remember the reason Netflix became popular to begin with, and some zoomers won't remember it because it was _that_ long ago, but people did not like the way that they were being nickel and dimed by cable and satellite TV channel packages back in the day, so they largely resorted to piracy. Here netflix comes along, and provides a service so cheap, so convenient, so consistent, that piracy rates dropped hard and was so useful that it literally murdered physical rental stores. I mean, why would you need rental stores, you could just mail order what you want to rent, watch it, and then send it back when you were ready.
Talking about netflix today feels like I'm talking about an entirely different service than the one that killed rental stores like hollywood video and blockbuster back in the day. I feel like they need to get humbled and remember their roots with a reminder of why they were successful to begin with by losing massive amounts of money for trying to pull this shit.
You want to inconvenience us, people will inconvenience you.
Mail? Wait, you're talking about RedBox! XD
Na nobody who has Netflix will cancel Netflix if your paying for streaming platforms at this point you’re loosing money it’s never been so easy to pirate
@Ibnu This, basically when a game goes Epic Games Store exclusive for example it basically doesn't exist on PC as far as I'm concerned, I've got a backlog, I don't even need to graciously accept Tim Sweeney's free copy of the game, I can just play something else. They dragged their feet for so long it took 3 years for EGS to add a _shopping cart_ meanwhile Valve is already in the future supporting stuff like VR and Linux despite the presently small install bases. As far as I'm concerned, steam is the only game service that earns their store publisher cut no matter how much devs seethe at it, even GOG has been faltering lately despite my love for DRM free games.
I remember when they sent you DVDs in the mail.
@Ibnu Don't have to, have not purchased an EA game ever since origin became a thing with Battlefield 3. And judging by all the controversies that happened in my absence like Star Wars Battlefront lootboxes and Anthem in general, I feel like that was the right decision.
"Why do these people keep sharing their damn accounts?"
WE ARE FUCKING POOR BRO
😢
I could easily afford it but I'm not going to give them money so they can rayp kids and spit on my history and culture in their shows.
So we use the in-laws Netflix and torrent to my NAS for stuff that's good enough to want to keep.
Oh, they know why. That's why they're doing this. It's cutting into their profit margins and making shareholders mad. So let's piss off the customer instead, right?
💀
I think the pricing is the issue, if you want the full netflix experience you have to pay 3 times the value of any other streaming service, like amazon prime, which btw does not restrict you about how many screens do you want to use, and the quality of the streaming
Honestly I watch more of this channel than I do TV/Movies. No streaming services for me.
I am sorry to break what you thought. RUclips is a streaming service, just not paid. However, I see what you mean; you do not see movies and series through a streaming service.
I watch YT more than movie/TV services like Netflix, but as soon as things like Vanced stops working I'll probably be watching much less YT sadly.
other than youtube obviously
I never even useb vanced in the first place lol. I switched from youtube app to kiwi browser with extensions. Quite easy.
Let's be honest for a sec, google is all the big tech we need and all the big tech we want: android, search, youtube, google books, chromium and maybe even more. All for the "free" price of our souls * ___/*
Piracy is getting more moral by the day: as Greedy companies charge 9.99 for ads is just beyond me!
In the philippines people turned netflux shared accounts into profit. They sell a shared service.
First they shutdown Vanced, then they price hike Netflix, now they're talking about more fees, and i heard Prime is also hiking
Returning to banging rocks together for entertainment.
Prime was already overrated given the amount of crap there.
I tried prime for a year, was not impressed. They could never make the 2-day delivery window they boasted. packages arrived at the same time as before, without prime, which was still already pretty fast. The catalogue on prime video was a joke. And the worst thing of all, I had to actually create and use a twitch account to use my prime sub that I felt obligated not to waste.
@@Dean..... My experience with Prime aas that it was really fast and good prior to the lockdowns and then went to crap and the deliveries started taking longer and longer. I never did use any of the video service or music so I can't comment on that but it looked p crappy anyway.
@@doomguy9049 When I signed up for amazon prime, it was back when there was no monthly option, you either paid for 1 year straight up or not at all. It made it out to be about $6 a month though which seemed like a steal. The reality though is that Amazon's ability to make due on their shipping promises vary wildly depending on location.
Of course, Amazon probably knows this, which might be one of the reasons why prime is cheaper in my country and the minimum product cost required on a purchase without prime is lower to qualify for free shipping.
As Gabe Newell one said “ piracy is a service problem” most people pirate because the service being sold to them is ass. Or they just don’t want to pay which is fine because these companies don’t deserve your money
This is the best take. Piracy has died down when services became extremely convenient now that Steam and Netflix are becoming more restrictive and user unfriendly, Piracy will skyrocket in many countries.
@@zerohero5753 Wait in what ways did steam become user unfriendly? I cant be bothered to switch since steam's online, and workshop features are really great compared to other launchers. Though the only games I ever pirated are singleplayer or porn.
@@keyushraken9166 I see you don't want the games to be seen in your profile LOL.
That's why Steam panders to Russia so much that they are willing to sell their and others' games for a tiniest fraction of the price just so the Russians don't pirate everything into oblivion. It's not a virtue, what Valve is doing is simply trying to milk Russians as much as they can.
However they had to comply with the big gayming companies requesting that all their games that were sold could not be downloaded again by Russians. An example of such games are the Halo MCC and Halo Infinite. Too bad for them I already downloaded MCC and I will not delete it any time soon because I have tons of storage (every Russian does for obvious reasons). So the credibility of Steam has too gone down the shitter in Russia. No one really cares about any other service either.
And I hate the antichrist
Based statement
Despite that stance not lasting as long as it should. Sad!
I can't cancel Netflix. I cancelled it like 6 months ago.
😂😂👍
based
Don't use any streaming services; I never use them. There's better content made by independent people on RUclips than any Hollywood crap they have.
I'm not defending Netflix but in South america we take advantage of anything, no exceptions:
some middle-poor communities and neighborhoods buy only one account and share it among neighbors, creating schedules and among those who share each one would pay one month, so for example if you had 12 people you only had to pay 1 month and you would have netflix practically 1 year for your house following the rules.
one account could be shared by more than 20+ houses so I think that's why netflix started thisin LATAM.
I get what you means, people using shared Netflix profile according to time slots just like making 1 Netflix account into a mini cinema serving 12 people, without consent.
as a colombian, i may have not done something like this, but it's the most latam thing ever ive ever heard
Lucky you can do that because there are enough ppl who pay full price.
that is perfectly fine tho
@@Jackgalaga In my day it was copying floppies. If u met someone with a comp, you had all their software. Im sure billions were lost over the decade.
"Sometimes your household IP changes because you probably have a dynamic IP."
In germany the IP is really really really dynamic; for privacy reasons. By law every houses IP changes every 24 hours by default (exept, if you told your ISP to assign you a static one.)
lol in germany we have some of the worst Internet speed in EU
@@based9 And the most expensive internet plans.
Not true anymore and it wasn't for privacy reasons. It was because there was only a limited number of IPs so the routers would always disconnect after usage and get a different IP when reconnecting. Nowadays dynamic IPs still exist but are rarer, with some providers like Telekom only allowing IP changes every 180 days.
@@The_Dude99 thats still technically dynamic, but ive seen the same pattern in the states with my sips. Mine changes so rarely I dont notice.
@@The_Dude99 IPv4 are still greatly limited (all combinations possible are already in use worldwide). Some ISPs have started issuing IPv6 as buying more iov4s is expensive. If you have IPv6 it is probably extremely unlikely to change. You might even have a some IPv6 block (multiple addresses with same beginning basically) for your household.
"B-but this way you're hurting the companies that make those contents!"
Good.
See the artists, actors, composers, editors, stunt personnel and so on get paid regardless. The ones who lose money are the higher ups, rich pigs who I am more than happy to rob from.
paid*
@@brodie3088 You suggest a very simple causality between piracy and halted production on good movies. Could this be so simple?
Crazies gotta justify their piracy hate boner somehow.
@@brodie3088 Source?
also, higherups have so much money, and them making slightly less money wouldn’t kill movie makers.
@@citratune7830 when majority does it, it's not "slightly less"
A neat solution you could host for your normie friends that still want to use netflix would be setting up wireguard so that whenever someone you share your netflix with wants to use it they connect to your wireguard instance so netflix only reads it as 1 IP (which is probably all they check for)
id be fucked as my ip change like every hour
@@vincentschumann937 u could use a cheap vps
@@reidjcsn got a dyndns that my router autoupdates, good enough for me
I swear i learn something new from the comments every day. I have no idea what any of this is but in 2 hours i will
I was thinking about doing something like that in my 3rd world gentrified neighborhood back in 2015 by hosting my own server and tokenize it with crypto, but the max any ISP offered was 20mbps so it wasn't really doable. Just last year optic fibre was enabled (it was already installed since the 90's, but it wasn't really usable due to the computing capacity we had back in the day) and there is a gigabit internet pack, I think the time has come to apply that old idea and tokenize it with BAT or some other ad-based crypto
Whole idea of streaming services was to provide cheap and easy access to a lot more content, and that had an impact on torrenting levels at the beginning. But since they started splitting into thousands of different streaming services, all that was lost. These services don't do what they were supposed to do anymore and its time to ditch them.
Also not to mention that older movies and tv show would practically be 100% dead if it was up to these shitty services. Torrents are literally the only way to get and see old diamonds.
while I dont condone piracy I can attest that original Napster had way more music than you can find today. All kind of obscure shit that is probably lost.
They basically killed their golden goose in a fit to get a piece of the streaming pie.
the whole idea was for netflix to make money. everyone else likes to make money, too. plz do not act as if netflix was ever "good", they were simply blazing a trail. the medium through which content is transferred is irrelevant. if streaming was successful, it was inevitable that it would become cable 2.0 exploitation boogaloo.
@@jhoughjr1 eh maybe, maybe not. Music piracy is alive and well. I never jumped on the subscription bandwagon. My phone has 40gb of torrented music >.>
@@rawhide_kobayashi Dont nitpick. Of course money is the goal, nothing wrong with that, but for them to get the money they have to sell an idea of a service to people, and unless we start punishing them(by not paying) when they start doing something totally different, they are going to keep doing it. There is no good or evil in the business, consumers make rules.
"the media has recently pushed an emergency firmware update to be peoples morality" this is golden
it was especially bad since you could only create a cable company by getting the governments permission therefore creating a horrible government controlled monopoly.
I mean it's a "natural monopoly" since the barriers for entry in the cable tv market are so damn high that startups couldn't exist. Net neutrality was supposed to help us consumers out with the monopoly problem but it went poof and vanished
I don't think there's really a way around this, because they have to lay cable along public roads and such.
The even _more_ scummy thing is that there's a perverse incentive for towns to _encourage_ corporate monopolies -- namely, they can get up to 5% of the cable company's gross revenue. See 47 U.S. Code § 542. So when cable companies abuse their monopoly power, the state/municipality benefits. This is also why it was hard for Google to get government support, because with competition often comes cheaper prices.
"You mean I won't be able to share cuties with my mum & dad? Outrageous!"
LOL!
spicy
jj joe biden
tfw I can't sneed
@@windowsxseven I think you meant to write Hunter Biden, he enjoys that sort of stuff as evident from the leaks
Reject neetflix, return to the almighty analog VHS
DVDs are highly duplicatable with no generation loss, as are CDs, and most digital media, if you use a software that doesn't give a shit about it.
Yeah but VHSes start to 'rot' and get worse over time
Plus worse quality
So, if you wanna get HD and not use Netflix...
Reject Netflix, return to piracy
I just torrent. Its easier, especially since I can build a multi media (games, movies anime) library. Best part is that I don't need internet to watch or play, just a lot of storage space.
Have to be careful with malware though
@@oceanlawnlove8109 I prefer Jellyfin, since it's FOSS and they aren't trying to cram useless shit down our throats
@@adriatical9016 there's so little malware in torrents nowadays it's basically a non-issue tbh
@@adriatical9016 the best antivirus is between you and the computer, AKA common sense. DLing the movie? If it's an exe, don't run it.
@@adriatical9016 Dude, the people pirating content on the reg generally have an idea what they're doing. Tbf you always need to watch out but I had 1 problem in like 15 yrs and that was me being lazy.
Can't say i didn't see this coming. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. All movies and tv shows ever made for 10$ a month is too good to be true. It was never going to last. They're going to fragment them among different services and start charging more and more until it's as bad as cable
of course! do you realize it was 10.99 a month and it was a small company. Also when they get to big they will destroy themselves. some other company will pick of the slack and offer 4 dollars a month or something so w/e. In the meantime since they wanna be that way I'll be using 1337x
it only has to last long enough to kill the alternatives.
@@jhoughjr1 exactly, that's how big fish are able to survive the stupid and seemingly counterproductive policies they end up supporting: they are better able to survive long enough to starve out any competition and deal with the expensive policies and legal issues that result, and they can just jack up the prices and dump the quality of service afterwards to make it all up.
Oh boy do I have news for you 🏴☠️
It's already cable 2.0.
Fun fact, netflix in my country has 15-20% of content available compared to us/uk, but costs the same as in us. So, to really use it you need to buy a subscription AND a vpn. Or you can use torrents and get yourself some snacks instead. Easiest choice of my life.
What country are you talking about?
VPN?
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@@outofahat9363 Vpn in order to connect to a different country and watch material that is not available in their country.
anyways let's thank our sponsor; Netflix.
Honestly, piracy has become (mostly) morally ambiguous at this point. I can think of few things that I wouldn't rather pirate.
Donate to open source projects: Don't be a sucker and pay for inferior proprietary software.
Only things I honestly don't pirate is books that I like, anything else is a torrent away
There is literally nothing wrong with torrenting. I categorically reject any and all moral arguments to it. The false shame is and has always been an op. So pirate away.
@@mgh7634
_ummm, hello, Based Department?_
It's a little thing called friend-enemy distinction.
'elp me mates, screw me enemies. Simple as.
@@mgh7634 There is literally nothing wrong with stealing through armed robbery. I categorically reject any and all moral arguments to it. The false shame is and has always been an op. So steal from local businesses anyway.
Mental Outlaw i love when you talk about torrenting. Your videos are important to me and i enjoy all the topics you cover. Thank you for all the work you put in to making them
Wait, Russia legalize pirating?! This is mega based!
I'm pretty sure there's a Soviet joke in there.
Lmao
@@LinkEX "our" cultural content
From the Russians I knew, I dont think it will change the amount of piracy that happens.
I forget what sw I needed and he said something like one of the advantages of being Russian is reading Russian as you can find anything on Russian sites.
@@jhoughjr1 Get a browser addon that translates pages and you don't have to be Russian.
Honestly, I wish piracy remains niche for the time being. Or companies will start cracking down on it hard in some way or the other if enough people are using it (even though the decentralized nature of it prevents such a thing......I'm sure companies can somehow or the other convince the public it is evil or something). Also people with moral superiority complexes might try to stop us.
Idk about that. Torrenting has been a thing for ages now, and even with how shitty cable TV services were, people still paid for them. Piracy will certainly rise with the BS these streaming services are pulling now, but it's unlikely that it'll be enough for companies to actually cause any real damage to piracy.
True, if this becomes too strong, they will increase the internet surveillance even more.
@@kveller555 But torrents aren't feasible now. I checked pirate bay, and there were barely more than 2 seeders on the most popular things
@@JohnWick-oj6bw check ptp
Tormenting online or just p2p file sharing is the very first digital immortal being nothing can stop it... all you need is the .torrent file and the torrent application will find all of the file parts all over the internet from other PCs just look at the piratebay or YTS or all the modern torrent sites that learned from piratebay ... no files are on the internet so as long as you have the back up of the original site with all those torrents lists ... I bet those files can still be downloaded....so the only thing you can so is seeeeeeddd.
I cancelled it during the cuties debacle. Torrents are the ultimate solution.
me too
Part of the reason Netflix grew as popular as it did was precisely because of the good will they built with customers by overlooking issues like account sharing. That will go out the window at the worst time possible with rival competitors taking up a bigger slice of the streaming pie.
Yeah it was like decriminalisation.
I've subscribed to Netflix the first day it was available in my country, that was in 2012. I cancelled my subscription in 2018 when Netflix became shit.
Piracy is the way to go and there's no good options to it, it's either piracy or corporate greed
When 95% of the content is lazily made or pure copy pasta because creators are running out of ideas or whatever, guess who is not going to pay a subscription. Since the beginning of netflix, I have watched 2!!! shows that are on it. Fck this shit show.
Wouldn't setting up an OpenVPN server on your house and tell your friends to connect to it circunvent this?
Probable yes, but dont spect not savy consumers to know about this. I live in Perú and here most people dont even know what an Ip address is lol
@@perseo10000 Yeah lmao
@@perseo10000 there is nowhere in the world where your average person will know what an IP address is
You are very wrong
Indeed, I posted about that as a reply to another comment merely seconds ago xd. Alternatively you could also use some cheap VPS like 1 dollar or less if you want uptime. Ram, CPU, etc totally irrelevant, all you need is dedicated IP. Hetzner and contabo are some of the cheapest afaik
I'm nearly 30.
I've lived a long time through so many diffrent technological advancements, heck I even remember the limewire days. All I can say is what you can't get for free on youtube... you can torrent.
You no longer have to be locked into cable companies or live streaming nonsense. **Starts blasting lazy town - You are a pirate**
I agree with this video.. Iv never paid for a service to get content, it's fragmentation of multiple services to watch what you want is ridiculous too. I can watch all these shows without the pay wall and paying for multiple services. It isn't about the money it's about the morality of not filling greedy pockets so they can continue to wall you off with multiple options
I never had one to begin with, but I hardly used my parents when I was with them. But damn, I still remember when they had disney movies on the Wii, back when they would mail DVD's to your door.
And now everything is so split up and unorganized, it's getting to a point where it's Cable again.
And thanks to you, I now know how to torrent. And, for the 1st time in my life, I have a computer.
I will seed. Thank you for Enlightening me.
1st computer? wow! how old are you?
@@jhoughjr1 20. I had to wait until I was on my own.
We're not doing piracy. We're doing a special file-sharing operation.
Stolen comment
@@kentandersen9526 No, It's a special commenting operation.
@@debanjanbarman7212 a stolen special commenting operation
@@debanjanbarman7212 you're a bot
@@bustanut5876 I'm not
As a Chilean, adding insulto to injury, this is on top of the new "taxes on online services" wich targeted specifically Netflix's and the likes of.
So yeah, the hashtag #chaonetflix (#byeNetflix) is already wreaking havock in every single online forum/social network. All at a time in which cost of like is going up significantly due to multiple factors.
For example, the bread and butter of Chileans is (no pun intended) bread and Netflix. What I mean by this is not only we watch a lot of Netflix, but we are like world champions on bread consumption. Since bread's core is flour, and Ukraine being one of the "mills of the wolrd", war hit hard on chilean pockets. So if you add the online service taxes, the new sharing fee, rising prices due to war, inflation, and so on and so forth, at first those extra bucks a month only sound like that, a couple of extra bucks... But once you start to add up... Yikes!
Rgds from LATAM 🇨🇱
You don't know anything about poverty. Chilean cost of living is extremely cheap compared to Canada so people have more purchasing power than even rich Western countries since everything is so cheap.
Kast could have prevented this!!
@@zerohero5753 cheaper stuffs but lower wage.
@@zerohero5753 hey, buddy, you just blow in from stupid town?
@@zerohero5753 Lmao you clearly don't live over here. The minimum wage (which is what most people get paid) is just barely enough to survive, let alone live.
Never donate to charities in situations like this. In America, they're only legally obligated to donate one cent out of every dollar, and the rest can be assigned to "management costs" AKA the pockets of the pyramid scheme directors.
Vet the org for sure. The bad ones are exactly like that, just exist to skim money as a middleman. But you just need to look at who is actually present and helping, and you can find a good charity to support. The 🇺🇦 made a smart move and even opened direct accounts to help - either the humanitarian or the war effort.
Woahhhhhh
Helping individuals in Ukraine seems much better than paying a middle man to give them the money !
Fuck charities
"Time to sail the high seas!"
One Piece theme starts playing
Yayo yayooooooo
Yohoho yohoho yohohoho yohohoh yohoho
People took too long to understand.
@@AxleNo7 No. Anything but that!
ah yes, the nsa promoting piracy
Statement of RuTracker admin team:
"We have always been and always will be outside of politics. In current situation legalization of RuTracker is a clear political move, gov't officials try to use us as manipulation tool. There is no legal basis for our un-blocking (as there was no legal basis for our blocking too).
Unblocking of RuTracker might carry certain risks for our users who will use it from their own IP without VPN protection. Copyright owners are not sleeping, criminal persecution of "piracy" is still there. Government institutions of Russia demand cooperation and access to private data of our users - we will not allow it.
Therefore in this situation we categorically against and will actually resist attempts at our "un-blocking".
Based pirates, showing middle finger to Russia and West and setting sails high.
Similar to “I refuse your refusal” statement
Thats how it should be, neutral, outside of governments regulations.
God bless the Russian people (and damn their government).
Here at Mexico basic Netflix account cost $139 Mexican pesos ($6.83USD) monthly, so $3 extra dollars for sharing your account is almost the half of how much you paid for it. When Netflix fist came to Mexico on 2011 basic account started at $99 Mexican pesos (around $7.61USD at the exchange of that time). I know it because my cousins are normies who pay Netflix, Amazon Prime and shit like that, and my nephews always put me to watch movies with them using this services.
I'm torrenting since the ancient times of Limewire and I don't expect to stop doing it soon.
Wave the flag highly with pride my man!
I saw that my local charity shop has some good stuff on DVD, and for fairly cheap, too.
The land before time... right in the childhood.
"You know, back in my day"
Highlight man. Stay Tweaking.
"Instead of sharing passwords we should just share torrents? Sounds like a terrible idea! Don't forget some nootzi cop will come and diddle your starfish!" - Sponsored by Netflix, Amazon and Hulu
Hoist the black flags and red banners, no quarter, no surrender.
I think the most ethical, simple way for netflix to handle this would be either a hard cap on consecutive streaming devices. Ex. you pay a certain amount for 2 consecutive devices, more for 3. If you want to share, you can, but it'll get annoying. But it's simple, clear to the user what will happen, and with minimal stalking required. Of course, they'd never do this when they have an excuse to track you more.
They already do this
@@RhizometricReality then what that fu-?!
@@LaskyLabs Read the comment on this video from the guy from Latin America. Netflix is mad because people are creating schedules to share their account with dozens of people, getting around the device limit.
@@sandsalamand3763 I saw that. I was just making a joke reply for fun.
The most ethical thing is for Netflix to go fuck themselves and let me share my account. I owe big tech nothing.
Netflix is a propaganda weapon. I haven't spent my money on this platform for a long time. I'm not going to pay for something to make me an idiot.
Society peaked in 1995. Don't try to change my mind.
Haven't had netflix since 2012.
Tv died for me in 2005. Cartoon network specifically at least.
@0pj twat The iPhone and its consequences have been an overall disaster for humanity
Society arguably peaked right before 1971, when the usd was disconnected from the gold standard
Office jobs
1995 was just another year in the decline. The actual, objective peak of American society was in the late 40s/50s.
For Netflix I'm a bit of a masochist, I'll deal with a lot of their shit willingly but I'm drawing the line at ads. The Moment they try to push ads on paying customers I'm pulling the plug
Well now we come back two years later and ads are on the paid version of the service so did you pull the plug
@@rejvaik00 I did when they implemented to one account per household
"Sorry sir this is no longer possible because of security"
Unalive
It started out okay when you could find what you were looking for on Netflix. Then it turned into 3 streaming services. Then a couple dozen. It all became redundant when Netflix and Crunchyroll didn't have the shows I wanted to watch. Nyaa has been my friend ever since.
and remember to absolutely never put the show you plan on watching into the search bar with 'mp4' at the end of it, and especially never click the links that show the list of dmca takedowns at the bottom of the page!
as a chilean I can say that most people i know have a dynamic IP address, it changes every 3 days and sometimes once a week for some ISPs. some ISPs give you the option to have an enterprise grade connection but it only means that your IP is static and you don't have to deal with a CG-NAT , most probably I'll share my own VPN with friends so we don't have to deal with this problem but if it becomes something official worldwide, most definitely we will replace Netflix with our trusty TPB
eh, i'd rather seed and dl
@@bgmdev Seeding is bad it will cost electricity bill so I never seed.
@@zerohero5753 yeah sometimes it can be costly but if you use a low power computer to seed it can be a lor cheaper, like a raspberry pi with some external usb hard drives, i personally have a second computer always seeding and it's a lot more efficient than my primary rig.
9:10 As a Russian I can confirm, When I was trying to get the Steins Gate visual novel for free and all the free versions were ALL from Russia, and I mean all, there was not a single free version I could find that was not made in Russia.
I would also like to comment on the invasion of Ukraine and say that there is almost nobody who supports it, from people I've asked only about 10-15% at most support it, you've seen the protests you've seen the backlash. The sanctions hit our economy even harder than in 2014 and even though almost no one supports this war, we still suffer the consequences of the sanctions, please, don't make it worse by blocking our IP's. TOR is blocked in Russia, however VPN's aren't so we prevail.
Is the voting booth still secure enough to vote for whom you want, or do they know what you voted for?
Are there even any good options to vote for or do you have an situation like in the us where only few bad parties have even a chance to prevail. Or are the elections just straight up rigged?
@@jannikheidemann3805 The elections are rigged to an undeniable extent. In Russia there is the ruling party "United Russia" which holds 75% of the Russian Parliament seats and can pass any law by outvoting the other parties, there are many other parties so they never win because even if people wanted for someone not from United Russia to go into parliament, their votes would get splintered between the multiple parties. You probably heard about the oppositional politic Navalny, who was poisoned by the Russian government, and then jailed after he survived the poisoning. Navalny and his team created an app called smart voting, where people could unite and vote for one single candidate from a political party with the greatest calculated chance of winning, and overthrow the current candidate from United Russia. The last vote for the Russian Parliament happened in 2021 and the candidates of smart voting were actively winning, until the United Russia candidates suddenly got a few million extra votes from the system of the internet voting.
TLDR: Elections are falsified beyond reasonable extent, to a level that is blatantly obvious, but we can't do anything because the other parties have almost no seats in the parliament.
Oh by the way, Navalny is facing another 13 years in a high security jail for "money laundering" even though everyone knows he didnt do anything. The court is also corrupt and controlled just like the elections.
There are amazing and storong candidates from other parties, the just never get voted in.
Sorry for this rant
If people didn't cancel Netflix because of Cuties, I don't think they ever will.
true, sadly
I realized that I could have time to exercise, cook healthy food, socialize, learn new things and help around my community if I cut TV and all media consumption altogether from my life. I've never looked back since.
I am commenting because I am so interested in this video, totally not trying to get the algorithm to think people like it more
My sister pays for literally EVERY streaming service. 3 of us use it. Legally household has many different meanings. No one outside of our family uses it ( in fact i haven't used the Netflix account in several years. I use the hbomax and Disney+ accounts once in a while though.) Alot of times we stream to our phones since we all have unlimited mobile data and different IPs. I don't see why 3 people should have to pay more when they are literally family. My brother and I would not pay for it anyway. As he is the torrenter of the family. As soon as something hits pay perview or digital we have it via him. My sister tried this but its like she never heard of a vpn and the ISP was sending her desist pirating letters lol. So now we have the tech savvy folks handle all that so we dont get any more nasty letters from the ISP.
how much is her streaming bill in total?
@@coler154 Yes.
the real problem is that you can't easily find much tv shows/cartoons in other languages on torrents etc, not much people are using piracy nowadays except for illegal streaming websites full of ads/pop ups where you can't seed or easily download the movie
Thank you for continuing to share helpful and good info!
#CancelNetflix
If torrent uploader will cancel Netflix how we will get the torrent file 🙄.
@@Matrixkey_18 Well obviously for the purposes of piracy some dedicated people will need a Netflix account
@@The_Loudmouths that's only for netflix exclusives.
@@Smougda Oh yeah! Great point! I completely forgot!
Oh man, I'm from Chile and I was sure this was a worldwide move.
As a piece of trivia, last year an special tax law was implemented here specifically for streaming services. That and an increase in the subscription cost have almost doubled the price, getting close to what a cable bill was back in the day.
Another piece of trivia is that, as of 2019, Chile was still in The USA's "black list" of piracy (along the likes of Algeria, Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia , Ukraine and Venezuela), so it's quite likely that this move from Netflix will remind everyone of our national file sharing hobby.
how about instead of cancelling netflix we just silently keep using piratebay? why do we have to yell and blow our cover as pirates?
Someone could make a website similar to netflix, that catalogues torrents instead of hosting, and have it connect with webtorrent for streaming.
I can drop u a wonderful link who needs Netflix
You are basically describing Stremio (you need to install rarbg plugins and others to actually have content on it. Works on desktop app and android. iOS stremio cant install plugins because apple lol)
@@azenyr That is exactly what I was looking for, with the torrentio addon!
I used to have a thing like that on a raspberry pi 3 with kodi, but i didn't remember the plugin name.
There are two. Yts. And a similar named one
Streaming services really shit the bed once every company decided they wanted to launch their own platforms. The great thing about torrents is you never have to worry about licensing rights expiring and the content becoming unavailable.
I think Netflix as a company is fine with users sharing their password. Only when their revenue is at risk they try to combat password sharing. (as they do now)
I stopped using Netflix ever since “Cuties” was on the platform. I feel like I’m dodging a bullet by not subscribing to Netflix now.
Yup. That was a disgusting PDF move right there.
9:00 finally got to the point. none of that matters, netflix is for dummies and they don't watch your show.
I always said that people should stick to downloading the Linux ISOs the proper way and not get bogged down in these streaming services lol.
Stop distro hopping
@@nuclearbomb9483 hard
Tried netflix trial for a month just to see how good/bad it actually is, only to find that quite a lot of movies are not there, the bitrate is atrocious (YIFY tier) and in order to have it play in 4K you can't use it through a browser... and you can't even manually select the resolution!
Never used Netflix before but holy shit, by the sound of it, that is way worse than what I thought which is the fact that you have to pay for it lol
Well, guess the 3-pass AV1 encoding they isn't really convincing
Really hard to cancel netflix when I don't have it.
You're so cool
I still buy DVD and Blu Ray. I hardly ever pirate anymore.
i am proud of the fact that i never paid for a subscription service
same :D
Little Hats run everything. There is a solution.
OY VEY ITS ANUDDA SHOAH
Some may call it a final solution...
OY VEEEEEY
There was once an Austrian painter, and he didn't do anything wrong.
in minecraft of course
I love the boomer rhetoric like "well back in my day" you use sometimes.
Never had Netflix. Never will.
It's fine I'll just lock my friend out of his Netflix account and take it for myself
Today this man woke up and chose violence
No human needs to be so hooked on tv shows that they pay for a netflix subscription. Spend time talking to family, making one, create content, make money, freakn live life not watch other live it.
No worries 😉, I canceled Netflix a decade ago, ‘cause I saw 👀 this shite 💩 coming from a thousand leagues away.
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before you ask, yes, i am a redditor.,
@@generallyunimportant that's even more 🤢 than 💩-jis my dude. don't ever admit that! /jk
Interesting to watch Mental Outlaw go from a tech-savvy tutorial channel into a well-spoken, entertaining technologist/Social Commentator.
Great stuff!
just make a plex server off an old pc, it takes like 20 min and now you have your own streaming service as long as its up lmao (oversimplified i know). Thats how I do it . you can just look on youtube and find a tutorial for how to make one and its perfect for hosting all of your definitely legit movies and tv on your own private server
Plex is proprietary and puts features you want behind a paywall. Not that good imo
Why use proprietary Plex when Jellyfin exists?!
Man, thanks for the reminder of donating to ukraine. This is the best thing to do. Ukraine really, truly needs our help to defeat ruzzian terror. Great channel! Subbed since a long time ago!
ruzzian ❌
Russian✅
You know, the "not torrenting from russia because Russia is being bad in Ukraine" logic is flawed for mostly 2 reasons:
1. putin is the one who decided to invade Ukraine, not the Russian people (and before you say "they elected him": a political election has more than one candidate and/or political party)
2. By downloading movies from russian torrenters, you take a small part in slowing down the internet of another country
i honestly think that if we vote for anyone other than him we will just get assasinated lol.
it's not pirating, it's a specoperation to save netflix from my money
Mental Outlaw, I don't know who you are, but sincerely you never fail to surprise me. Regards, from France.
Some of us has never left the high seas. All ye land lobbers make me sick!
And this is why we invested in a VPN, a Real Debrid Subscription and a VPN 😂
real debrid?
Yeah it gives you access to their premium servers for streaming
@@0akland510 why not just stream torrents (for free)?
@@clankfish there’s nothing wrong with that approach either. My personal preference for my streaming device for our living room is to pay a little for access to the premium servers. Roughly speaking on a monthly we are looking at a cost of $9.80 per month for both the vpn and the real debrid. This provides us access to most if not all the available streamable content and live streams as well. It also helps that we have fiber internet 😃
@@0akland510 seems kinda bizarre paying for that when there's free alternatives that do the same thing out there, but you do you i guess
pirating using russian services would only be bad if it helped the russian government directly, which it doesn't.
Considering they only pirate content from other countries it kinda does
The high level of intellectual comedy is priceless. I like the video before I listen. I'm that confident in you.
The treachery I suffered most in cable and satellite TV was f-ing ADS
I had to wait like 30 damn minutes for the ads to end just to continue watching my cartoons
Not like it's any different these days. Most people don't know how to use ad block for YT and will sit through unskippable ads for short videos or see like an ad every 5 minutes on a super long video.
Why do you *never* put links for the articles you read in the video? For someone that claims to have a neutral opinion, you tend to bias us by only showing the parts of the articles you want us to see, rather than let us read it all for ourselves and develop an opinion.
Just Torrent bro
I'm waiting for these streaming companies to switch to a contract model to keep people from subbing for a month, watching the few things they want and then canceling.
99% of what they offer is garbage, and none of it is worth paying for. If they do have something I want to see, well, that's what my eyepatch and shoulder parrot are for. Yaarrr, matey!
Yarrr!
Torrenting is not only popular in Russia, it is also very popular in Ukraine and the whole Eastern Europe.