UK Gov Says Password Sharing on Streaming Services is Illegal
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I never came across a region locked drive that couldn't be unlocked, I know they exist but i just never found one and at the time I was doing some really dodgy crap with DVD's. I swear im innocent of any charges, type of things.
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I missed the good old days when it was all just on sky TV
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Sky TV is a grand rip off. I am always astonished at how much they charge, how **** some of their products are (sky sports apps on mac devices), how poor quality some of it is (I can get a better quality stream of football games from some dodgy website that is streaming sky than I can from the official sky app...) and the fact they show so many adverts on a paying service.
Mind boggling.
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im talking back in the day and price wise. it was cheaper to have a sky sub then a neflix, disney, hbo, sony, apple, android, microsoft, ocuk etc etc subs
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But all those services weren't invented back then and would have cost half as much.
How much are you paying for your OcUK sub?
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the OCUK sub was a joke.
The main thing and has already been mentioned here by @fez is that we now have over 5 different streaming services which when all added up, is quite expensive
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I can see some of these platforms completely self-sabotaging by going overboard with it.
I pay for a few services at the moment, but if I couldn't share the account with parents and friends etc I'd just cancel them all and up my Plex game.
I pay for a few services at the moment, but if I couldn't share the account with parents and friends etc I'd just cancel them all and up my Plex game.
It still costs less to have subs for all of Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple TV and a TV licence than it does to visit the cinema or buy a DVD twice a month.
While I agree with the points above - that if these platforms increase prices, make sharing more difficult, etc people will resort to piracy - I still don't understand why people have an expectation of putting in substantially less money and receiving substantially more content than they once did, when the majority of this content costs the same or more to make than it ever did.
As a consumer, I'd love this stuff to be free, but realistically I understand why it can't be, and I'd prefer to support an industry which I appreciate than to pirate it, particularly where that industry is - by and large - making their content as easily accessible and as cheap as it has ever been, even if they way they do so is still not ideal.
While I agree with the points above - that if these platforms increase prices, make sharing more difficult, etc people will resort to piracy - I still don't understand why people have an expectation of putting in substantially less money and receiving substantially more content than they once did, when the majority of this content costs the same or more to make than it ever did.
As a consumer, I'd love this stuff to be free, but realistically I understand why it can't be, and I'd prefer to support an industry which I appreciate than to pirate it, particularly where that industry is - by and large - making their content as easily accessible and as cheap as it has ever been, even if they way they do so is still not ideal.
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Does anyone remember how much it was to rent a VHS tape from blockbuster?
It ended up been £3.00 a night but then reduced to £2.00 per night. Some movies were 50p-£1.00 a night.
If you were late you then used to get charged a 'late fee'.
If you lost the tape this had to be paid for. Some were £10-£15 per replacement fee.
I used to rent 3x VHS tapes a week, it was on my doorstep and I was in there constantly.
Compare this to Netflix monthly subs....
There's nothing better than having to go into a shop and actually look through all the movies to pick one for the night!
It ended up been £3.00 a night but then reduced to £2.00 per night. Some movies were 50p-£1.00 a night.
If you were late you then used to get charged a 'late fee'.
If you lost the tape this had to be paid for. Some were £10-£15 per replacement fee.
I used to rent 3x VHS tapes a week, it was on my doorstep and I was in there constantly.
Compare this to Netflix monthly subs....
There's nothing better than having to go into a shop and actually look through all the movies to pick one for the night!
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An old boy used to run a local video shop rental place when I was a boy, everyone knew him and he was sound. Used to be really cheap and let you keep for 2/3 days, I used to rent SNES/Mega Drive games and he let me keep for a week at a time. Proper gent he was.
I miss going in the shop and looking at poster art on the cases and reading the backs, definitely was something good about it.
Blockbusters used to have this smell too, as they had popcorn machines going and other quick snack stuff.
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Absolute joke of a company. You have to pay a sub now to be able to skip ads lol. Con artists.
Disgusting.
That's alright, raise your prices, make password sharing illegal, do this, do that.. but don't cry when people start:
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I thought you couldn't skip ads at all before, though? So in a way that's an improvement.
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Sky is a premium subscription service though, shouldn't have ads in the first place and if they do they should be able to be skipped. Like every other premium service. Now they're charging you extra, to be able to skip them.
But they're a legacy business for whom ads have always supported their revenue. If people now want to skip them, plainly they need to replace that revenue.Sky is a premium subscription service though, shouldn't have ads in the first place and if they do they should be able to be skipped. Like every other premium service. Now they're charging you extra, to be able to skip them.
Don't like it? Don't subscribe to Sky. But I can't see how it's "disgusting".
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The point is sky is charging a high price already, other media streaming platforms don't charge you extra just to skip adverts.
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It's a shame - some how they should come back but it's not going to happen. Connections are getting faster now and everything is done with home tech.
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I never mean another piece of software I meant physically going into a shop. Not going to happen though.
World can't reverse now.
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Aye, sadly you are right.
Still one of my strongest childhood memories was browsing the local vhs rental shop - I still remember the joy at seeing the poster go up and then some weeks later the actual vhs for rental of the first predator movie.
Then later years visiting the likes of XtraVision and Blockbuster