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Netflix adds 13.1 million subscribers, tops revenue estimates (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is so strange to me. I guess people enjoy being ripped off and getting less and less value for their money.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (19 children)

This would be strange if Netflix didn't have enough of easily accessible good content.

When after finishing work we want to watch “a movie”, it's much easier to choose a Netflix recommendation than to do a half an hour reasearch online and then wait for the movie to be downloaded.

Now add to this time, energy, and expertise needed for looking up and trying pirating options, figuring out technical aspects, paying for a VPN, doing maintenance… Very few can and are willing to do all that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (10 children)

The people who don't know how I understand completely. But honestly people who have the know-how are underestimating how easy it has got. I can torrent a movie at a much higher quality than Netflix will even stream to my PC and do it all within 5 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Now imagine you have a family that likes to watch TV in the living room and not in your room.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you download the movie to your Plex or Jellyfin server and watch it in living room. I do exactly this all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right, I use Plex now too. However, it only has things that I already downloaded. So if we don't plan, we end up watching something on Netflix instead of spending extra time on looking+downloading+going back and forth between rooms.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Well Plex soon is adding support for buying and renting stuff.

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