<story><title>Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally</title><url>http://in.reuters.com/article/us-netflix-launch-idINKCN0US23020160114</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manigandham</author><text>This is something that I run into a lot. It&amp;#x27;s just nicer being able to click a file and play in VLC that&amp;#x27;s more responsive, can fastforward&amp;#x2F;rewind, play at different speeds, etc.&lt;p&gt;Streaming through webpages just isn&amp;#x27;t that great for how I consume video.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I always like to remind people that VLC can open youtube videos natively. CTRL+V and paste in url. Not perfect control but nicer than youtube player.</text></item><item><author>0xffff2</author><text>Again? I used to regularly check Netflix before Pirate Bay, but it&amp;#x27;s been so long since anything I wanted to watch was streamable on Netflix (and I&amp;#x27;m in the US too) that I rarely bother anymore. Even at the best of times it was maybe 50&amp;#x2F;50.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I torrented &amp;quot;The Man in the High Castle&amp;quot; even though I have Amazon Prime just because I didn&amp;#x27;t feel like installing Silverlight. Even when you are paying for the content, it can still be easier to watch via other means.</text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>People will probably just torrent things again. In the minds of the vast majority of people piracy is a victimless crime. These people have only stopped pirating because it&amp;#x27;s easier to pay and use Netflix. Guaranteed they&amp;#x27;ll go back to torrenting.&lt;p&gt;Gabe Newell: &amp;quot;We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate&amp;#x27;s service is more valuable.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;EDIT: I always like to remind people that VLC can open youtube videos natively. CTRL+V and paste in url. Not perfect control but nicer than youtube player.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;THANK YOU &amp;lt;3.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t know! I was aware that I could open video streams (the old-school kind) in VLC, but I never realized it can pull a stream from YouTube video link. I see now it works great, though the video quality option is not obviously available. It can be set here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techverse.net&amp;#x2F;play-youtube-videos-vlc-media-player&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techverse.net&amp;#x2F;play-youtube-videos-vlc-media-playe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the page, under disadvantages of streaming YouTube through VLC:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Disadvantage
     No annotations.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Like hell. It&amp;#x27;s totally an &lt;i&gt;advantage&lt;/i&gt;. Annotations on YouTube are a total mess, and they&amp;#x27;re their worst invention, even worse than their comment section, infamous for low-quality content.&lt;p&gt;I absolutely &lt;i&gt;hate&lt;/i&gt; streaming videos in the browser. It&amp;#x27;s a stupid idea. Everyone uses a different player, half of them can&amp;#x27;t handle rewinding or skipping forward, and all of them are total resource hogs. There are things that really shouldn&amp;#x27;t be done with web technologies. Like spreadsheets, or video players. They work best if made native.</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally</title><url>http://in.reuters.com/article/us-netflix-launch-idINKCN0US23020160114</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manigandham</author><text>This is something that I run into a lot. It&amp;#x27;s just nicer being able to click a file and play in VLC that&amp;#x27;s more responsive, can fastforward&amp;#x2F;rewind, play at different speeds, etc.&lt;p&gt;Streaming through webpages just isn&amp;#x27;t that great for how I consume video.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I always like to remind people that VLC can open youtube videos natively. CTRL+V and paste in url. Not perfect control but nicer than youtube player.</text></item><item><author>0xffff2</author><text>Again? I used to regularly check Netflix before Pirate Bay, but it&amp;#x27;s been so long since anything I wanted to watch was streamable on Netflix (and I&amp;#x27;m in the US too) that I rarely bother anymore. Even at the best of times it was maybe 50&amp;#x2F;50.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I torrented &amp;quot;The Man in the High Castle&amp;quot; even though I have Amazon Prime just because I didn&amp;#x27;t feel like installing Silverlight. Even when you are paying for the content, it can still be easier to watch via other means.</text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>People will probably just torrent things again. In the minds of the vast majority of people piracy is a victimless crime. These people have only stopped pirating because it&amp;#x27;s easier to pay and use Netflix. Guaranteed they&amp;#x27;ll go back to torrenting.&lt;p&gt;Gabe Newell: &amp;quot;We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate&amp;#x27;s service is more valuable.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>Netflix has really good compression though. Torrenting takes hours, makes the internet unusable in the whole house, and the quality is much worse. Netflix just works, even if multiple people are using it. And it goes straight to the TV.</text></comment>