As I type this my other monitor is displaying pirated content in glorious 4K resolution downloaded via sites that have been in blatant contravention of the existing laws for 19 years. Simultaneously I pay for a subscription entitles me to watch the same content in the same resolution on a TV I don't own and don't have room to install if I wanted one.
My other choices include watching it in glorious 720p that somehow manages to look worse than SD from 1995 or paying $150 to buy optical disks of a series I'd like to watch once to see it in 1080p and buy an optical disk drive for the privilege.
While not everyone's quality is quite as bad as Amazon they all work worse on computers than TVs and in addition to dealing with mediocre hardware and limiting platforms one is now expected to deal subscribe to 7 platforms to have access to most content.
Meanwhile jellyfin is basically netflix for content on your own hard drive or network which is trivial to acquire from sites that have been distributing torrent and magnet links for 19 years. If its worthwhile to pirate even while actually paying for the same content and such pirated content is readily available from lawbreakers you can't shut down despite obviously breaking existing laws maybe making random websites implement expensive screening isn't a useful thing.
Now bob's forum has to buy tens of thousands of dollars of tech to keep people from theoretically sharing links to <insert series> while every Tom Dick and Harry are torrenting from the usual suspects.
To end most piracy make it like radio where services pay for a standard license for content and every streaming service has every piece of content while competing on interface. Then I can subscribe to a service that works well on Firefox on Linux and you can use a service that only works on your shitty ad laden tv if you please.
My other choices include watching it in glorious 720p that somehow manages to look worse than SD from 1995 or paying $150 to buy optical disks of a series I'd like to watch once to see it in 1080p and buy an optical disk drive for the privilege.
While not everyone's quality is quite as bad as Amazon they all work worse on computers than TVs and in addition to dealing with mediocre hardware and limiting platforms one is now expected to deal subscribe to 7 platforms to have access to most content.
Meanwhile jellyfin is basically netflix for content on your own hard drive or network which is trivial to acquire from sites that have been distributing torrent and magnet links for 19 years. If its worthwhile to pirate even while actually paying for the same content and such pirated content is readily available from lawbreakers you can't shut down despite obviously breaking existing laws maybe making random websites implement expensive screening isn't a useful thing.
Now bob's forum has to buy tens of thousands of dollars of tech to keep people from theoretically sharing links to <insert series> while every Tom Dick and Harry are torrenting from the usual suspects.
To end most piracy make it like radio where services pay for a standard license for content and every streaming service has every piece of content while competing on interface. Then I can subscribe to a service that works well on Firefox on Linux and you can use a service that only works on your shitty ad laden tv if you please.