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Netflix axes its $10 ‘Basic’ plan in the US and UK
(www.engadget.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Generally it's agreed the best way to stop piracy is by offering a more convenient alternative. I generally for example don't pirate video games available on Steam. With streaming services being so disjoint and expensive now I've gone back to pirating, at least with cable you can bundle channels.
I buy steam games, even ones I've already pirated, for a few reasons.
Quick and easy downloads
Seamless updates
Almost all my other purchased games in one place.
Cloud saves
Durability, just knowing my games will be available to download on my next PC for the foreseeable future.
And I pirate just about everything I watch mainly because I'm not willing to play musical subscriptions to watch the shows I want to see at the end of a long day.
If the film industry had a service that offered a similar experience to a Plex share, I'd pay quite a bit for it. But instead they have this system designed to extract maximum value from every viewer, and I'm tired of it.
Gabe Newell was right on the money when he said piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.
To add onto this, when someone who can't afford something pirates something, there is no lost sale because there never was a sale there to begin with. It didn't take any money away from the company since they were never going to see any money from that person.
With that said, the only piracy I partake in is for archival purposes, and like you I buy Steam games regardless because it's too convenient like you said.
And if you really like a game, why not supporting their devs
I don't think Netflix could get any more convenient than it already is though.
Convenience would be knowing whether the show I've queued up to watch will remain on the service, or getting warned well ahead of time if it's going to expire. Or having every season of a serialized show available or at least something showing that not all of it is on the service before you get deep into it and suddenly cut off halfway through. Or easy access to my watch history and likes, as well as more robust settings (or heck, any settings) to tailor the way content is shown so I can get a consistent user experience whether I'm browsing new shows or diving back into the next episode of something.
I think Netflix could get a lot more convenient.
That's very fair. My bad, I was narrow-minded and only thought about the UI.
They could let you share your login with your family members that don't live in the same house for a start, rather than making them create their own account having to pay $8 (or whatever it is in your country) per family household on my account.
As that person said, it should be like Plex - I pay for access and then I can share it with family without an extra charge. Netflix is now costing me like $50 a month just so myself and some of my family members can watch it. We probably won't be subscribed for much longer, and will just rely on my Plex library.