Infinitely reproducible digital media has little inherent value. As the article acknowledges, the value proposition Netflix offered was convenience. If pirate sites offer more convenience than Netflix offers legitimate users, Netflix will lose. I find it baffling they are fucking around with ads and locking down access, making their experience worse. Same with Amazon Prime. It's like they forgot their own business model.

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 46 points 9 months ago

Exactly. Steam figured this out early on and it's how they have maintained their dominance in the game distribution business. It's the same lessons the entertainment streaming platforms must learn - your value is convenience. Add more walls between consumers and content? you will be cast aside.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago

Yo, Netflix! This one right here! Read it and understand plz

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Small sticking point: digital media isn’t infinitely reproducible without eventual degradation. No matter how lossless you think your format is.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

That's just an engineering problem... Not a particularly hard one either

Wtf would you keep re-encoding it? If you don't, it's just binary. You can run error checks on it, save it on raid config with high redundancy, and it's more stable than any physical media

Load it into memory and you can copy it all you want, do error checking at the destination and you're golden.

The exception is if you keep uploading it to and ripping it from hosting sites which keep re-encoding/compressing it... But replication itself is easy