Warner Archive Instant Steals nearly 2000 Netflix Shows! - Polidicks

[quote]As of May 1, Netflix will officially have 1,794 fewer titles in its streaming repository. Now, before you freak out too much, this isn't as bad as the Great Netflix Starzageddon of 2012. After Netflix and Starz were unable to renew their streaming agreements with one another, more than a 1,000 films — including many of the newer films in Netflix's streaming catalog — disappeared from the service.[/quote] Sauce: [url]http://mashable.com/2013/04/30/netflix-streamageddon-2013/[/url] This sucks... The Warner Archive Instant costs 10 bucks a month! :(

And they wonder why people turn to pirating their movies..

Capitalism splits standards, once again.

This is why you download and setup a film and tv archive on a network HDD so they are yours and you don't need to care about greedy capitalist pigs.

[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;40514618]This is why you download and setup a film and tv archive on a network HDD so they are yours and you don't need to care about greedy capitalist pigs.[/QUOTE] yeah srry i wanted the convenience of instant streaming

isnt this like a week old

[QUOTE=RoadOfGirl;40514637]isnt this like a week old[/QUOTE] First time I saw it, sorry if it's late!

God damnit why can't they just keep it to one or two services instead of every company having their own. I can't afford paying for several different streaming services every month, and what I like about Netflix is that they have content from several providers.

[QUOTE=magravn;40514707]God damnit why can't they just keep it to one or two services instead of every company having their own. I can't afford paying for several different streaming services every month, and what I like about Netflix is that they have content from several providers.[/QUOTE] It breeds competition which breeds innovation. Of course, I don't think anyone is going to be taking Netflix down anytime soon, but there's nothing wrong with it.

[QUOTE=magravn;40514707]God damnit why can't they just keep it to one or two services instead of every company having their own. I can't afford paying for several different streaming services every month, and what I like about Netflix is that they have content from several providers.[/QUOTE] more money for cable companies

[QUOTE=Unisath;40514868]It breeds competition which breeds innovation. Of course, I don't think anyone is going to be taking Netflix down anytime soon, but there's nothing wrong with it.[/QUOTE] I don't know how it can really breed innovation. Its a video streaming service. You find the title you want, click play and you watch it. Isn't really much room for improvement.

This is why I don't have cable nor do I pay for online services. To get the shows and movies I want, I have to jump through so many ridiculous hoops and pay by the assload

[QUOTE=Demache;40514934]I don't know how it can really breed innovation. Its a video streaming service. You find the title you want, click play and you watch it. Isn't really much room for improvement.[/QUOTE] I'd probably say some of the ways innovation can happen in video-streaming would be the speed at which it can be downloaded, the quality of the video, better netcode, that kinda stuff.

Eh, I don't have a problem with this. Looking through the list, I haven't found one movie I've even heard of.

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;40514632]yeah srry i wanted the convenience of instant streaming[/QUOTE] Except if you have it saved on a HDD on your network/computer, you still have instant streaming, but it works even when your Internet is dead/slow. Think before posting in the future.

Netflix is the closest thing out there to actually competing with piracy, but movie studios don't arbitrarily reach into my hard drive and delete my (legally owned and backed up) movies. Shit like this makes me want to cancel my subscription already. New content comes in at a leaky faucet-like trickle, while lapsed licensing deals remove content in massive dumps. I love how this deal is being canceled so that Warner can push their own shitty service that costs more than Netflix. Forget about cord-cutting, the way we're going you'll have to spend $150 a month on a dozen different streaming services to get all the shows that are worth watching.

I'm sure their service will go to shit within a year or so and they'll be like "h-hey Netflix can you like.. take our movies back?"

[QUOTE=Unisath;40514868]It breeds competition which breeds innovation. Of course, I don't think anyone is going to be taking Netflix down anytime soon, but there's nothing wrong with it.[/QUOTE] They need to learn to do it without fucking the customers over though. This is exactly like when Origin came out. They should try to beat out the other guys with better service rather than making their content exclusive.

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;40514632]yeah srry i wanted the convenience of instant streaming[/QUOTE] Are you a fucking derp?

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;40514632]yeah srry i wanted the convenience of instant streaming[/QUOTE] Uh, set up a webserver and stream. Mount the network 'drive', etc. I do the same and can stream all my shit.

[QUOTE=Jellyman;40515415]Uh, set up a webserver and stream. Mount the network 'drive', etc. I do the same and can stream all my shit.[/QUOTE] The thing I do like about Netflix is that all that content is already available to be streamed. I like being lazy and not having to wait to acquire the movie before I can watch it. Especially if I'm away from a PC. Of course, shit like this does make it frustrating. [editline]3rd May 2013[/editline] And the fact that you can't watch it properly on Linux is also annoying.

[QUOTE=Demache;40514934]I don't know how it can really breed innovation. Its a video streaming service. You find the title you want, click play and you watch it. Isn't really much room for improvement.[/QUOTE] Just because the concept is simple doesn't mean it can't be improved. New features, fancy way to suggest more shows to a user, faster loading, option to pay to download a series for yourself, etc. Without competition, everything will be terrible because, I mean, what's the point of improving your service if you're the only one? It costs money to improve and innovate, and people don't have any other choice, so they'll have to leave or deal with it.

this shit's starting to fuck with me. same shit happened with spotify, a great deal of artists have disappeared, and i'm stuck with my dick in my hand paying $10 a month for songs that could disappear at any time. as far as i see, this sort of standard should be unacceptable. technically, services like netflix and spotify are the same as services like cable; wer're paying a monthly fee in order to have access to certain media. but you don't see channels from your cable provider vanishing once their licensing has ended. why are the standards any different?

Apart from the fact that Netflix isn't available in Austria, it's the closest thing convenience wise to my current setup of an old Pentium 4 with Ubuntu+XBMC. The only problem is when I want to buy something because for some extremely stupid reason no company manages to sell DRM free downloads of their shows/movies. How is it possible that TPB can provide a better service than all the media giants combined? They should be ashamed of themselves.

Removing SO many good movies and KENNY VS. SPENNY TOO?!?!?!??! Welp not paying for streaming sites ever again, I mean I was pretty pissed even when they removed FMJ, but this......

I hope this doesn't keep getting like that. Netflix, at least for me, is an exceptional replacement for cable. I don't want to have to eventually have to subscribe to four services where before I only needed one or two.

[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;40514618]This is why you download and setup a film and tv archive on a network HDD so they are yours and you don't need to care about greedy capitalist pigs.[/QUOTE] I'm glad I'm not the only person that does this. It saves bandwidth when I want to watch an episode again.

[QUOTE=Unisath;40514868]It breeds competition which breeds innovation. Of course, I don't think anyone is going to be taking Netflix down anytime soon, but there's nothing wrong with it.[/QUOTE] One thing is adding to the market, it is another thing entirely to take away from the market. That does not create innovation or competition.

[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;40514618]This is why you download and setup a film and tv archive on a network HDD so they are yours and you don't need to care about greedy capitalist pigs.[/QUOTE] I don't know, I'd rather just have Netflix on my Tablet or something so I'm not restricted to my house. Especially given the huge selection of TV shows and movies.

[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;40514618]This is why you download and setup a film and tv archive on a network HDD so they are yours and you don't need to care about greedy capitalist pigs.[/QUOTE] So instead of depending on your current connection's download speed to watch movies (usually pretty ok) you're relying on your home internet's upload speed (almost always shit)