<story><title>Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kempbellt</author><text>I may (or may not) have built my own Netflix competitor. It had more content than all of the major providers combined.&lt;p&gt;Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;)&lt;p&gt;The service was available cross region. Stored videos in multiple resolutions for streamability in low-bandwidth situations. No DRM bs. It cost me under $400&amp;#x2F;month to run the whole service, and I could access it from any device, anywhere I had internet.&lt;p&gt;I gave access to a few friends and family and they all chipped in to help cover expenses (it was never profitable). I ran it for a few months before I started to lose interest in maintaining it - it was mostly just a proof-of-concept, and fell back to Netflix&amp;#x2F;HBO&amp;#x2F;other subs for convenience.&lt;p&gt;I applaud Netflix, HBO, etc for offering competitive solutions to monopolistic cable companies and other restrictive media outlets, but this will &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; remain a problem.&lt;p&gt;Once you create a piece of art and put it out for the world to see, you &lt;i&gt;cannot&lt;/i&gt; control how&amp;#x2F;when&amp;#x2F;where it will be shown. Stop trying... Just make it more convenient for people to pay to view it.&lt;p&gt;Going after people for low-level copyright violation, like sharing a password, is childish.</text></item><item><author>LeoNatan25</author><text>No worries, I&amp;#x27;ll just use the torrent sharers. I bet those will give me a constant 4K quality on all my devices, no ridiculous DRM, get to keep them once I terminate my &amp;quot;subscription&amp;quot;, etc. Oh and it&amp;#x27;s free, not 10-15$ USD for each service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comeondude</author><text>Dude ...&lt;p&gt;This comes off as incredibly self-entitled and arrogant.&lt;p&gt;That piece of art? It takes years and tremendous amount of people hours to bring these films into existence your enjoyment. I grew up in Hollywood, in family of filmmakers. My friends are actors, producers, and well anybody else who is involved in the business - and we all dedicate unbelievable hours of love and labor into the “non copyrighted cat videos”&lt;p&gt;Yes. The system isn’t perfect, but ... what you’re doing is quite frankly, stealing. It’s offensive. We’re entitled to our livelihoods as much as you are.&lt;p&gt;Show some gratitude please.</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kempbellt</author><text>I may (or may not) have built my own Netflix competitor. It had more content than all of the major providers combined.&lt;p&gt;Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;)&lt;p&gt;The service was available cross region. Stored videos in multiple resolutions for streamability in low-bandwidth situations. No DRM bs. It cost me under $400&amp;#x2F;month to run the whole service, and I could access it from any device, anywhere I had internet.&lt;p&gt;I gave access to a few friends and family and they all chipped in to help cover expenses (it was never profitable). I ran it for a few months before I started to lose interest in maintaining it - it was mostly just a proof-of-concept, and fell back to Netflix&amp;#x2F;HBO&amp;#x2F;other subs for convenience.&lt;p&gt;I applaud Netflix, HBO, etc for offering competitive solutions to monopolistic cable companies and other restrictive media outlets, but this will &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; remain a problem.&lt;p&gt;Once you create a piece of art and put it out for the world to see, you &lt;i&gt;cannot&lt;/i&gt; control how&amp;#x2F;when&amp;#x2F;where it will be shown. Stop trying... Just make it more convenient for people to pay to view it.&lt;p&gt;Going after people for low-level copyright violation, like sharing a password, is childish.</text></item><item><author>LeoNatan25</author><text>No worries, I&amp;#x27;ll just use the torrent sharers. I bet those will give me a constant 4K quality on all my devices, no ridiculous DRM, get to keep them once I terminate my &amp;quot;subscription&amp;quot;, etc. Oh and it&amp;#x27;s free, not 10-15$ USD for each service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magduf</author><text>&amp;gt;Legal buffer: I will not say what the content was. It may have all been non-copyrighted cat videos ;)&lt;p&gt;Cat videos are far more enjoyable to watch than the dreck that Hollywood is putting out these days.</text></comment>