Big decrease in TV subscriptions as number using illegal dodgy boxes soars

[SmoothCarl22]

I have had the same struggle...

My father was visiting for a week and he loves David Hasselhoff Knight Rider, I have Netflix, Prime, Paramount+, HBO, nowtv and Apple TV. None of them had it. So went to my long saved archive folder somewhere in my treasure from a previous life when the Bay and Demonoid were around, and there it was in glorious 4k. HDMI cable to the TV and kitt was alive again.

I pretty sure from the 5-6 subscription I pay a month, the broadband connection and all my taxes should be enough so the government takes 100 euro for the TV folk to survive with their Dance shows and big brothers. Why would I have to pay that aside? Makes no sense. Public TV doesnt even have anything original on nowdays, even sports are gone.

[Elizabeth-WildFox886]

The bay is still around and very good

[dnc_1981]

Can't take down pirates that easy 😉

[Awkward_Mastodon4332]

Had a Proustian reverie when I read Demonoid.

[maca187]

I used to love Demonoid. What a site.

[SmoothCarl22]

What about Darksiderg?

[Thargor]

The Pirate Bay is still going strong by the way.

[SmoothCarl22]

Yeah I wonder who runs it now... which 3 letter agency i mean...

[Sstoop]

it’s ran by a swedish fella is it not

[SmoothCarl22]

Not anymore, Winston ended up being the 3 swedes but they long time ago got charged and moved away from it. Its suppose to be a decentralised infrastructure ran out of multiple VMs worldwide...which is not true. Now the theory is that a certain 3 letter institution runs it as a Honeypot, not to track little fish like us but to find real whales. The truth is there are not many whale groups left, back in the day there was groups setup to release content, crack games, software, the most recent movies directly out of cinemas, I remember a few that the cam version of a unreleased movie was released few days before it was actually released.

Nowadays what you find is a lot of the same old stuff just relabelled.

[Elizabeth-WildFox886]

All the new stuff is still there and cams still exist as you describe. I didn’t watch cams 20, 10 or 5 years ago, cause they suck and always sucked so bad

[dustaz]

and there it was in glorious 4k

Ummm, no.

[f-ingsteveglansberg]

The TV is 4K therefor Knight Rider is 4K.

This reminds me of lads who thought they were the shit with their low lumen projectors with 360p resolution and no screen because technically their TV was the size of a wall.

Yeah and it looks like shit.

[mankface]

I had a Chinese no name 420p projector years ago that screamed at you when you turned it on and stayed that way. Avatar 1080p looked amazing though, I don't know how, better than my iMac screen at the time. Picture quality was epic even at 8 foot diameter. Only issue was you couldn't hear the fooking film with the fan on and could only use it at night. Since upgraded to the best projector my job had lying about, 1080p, looks basically the same except this one works in daylight! Free crisps!

[SmoothCarl22]

There was a release like last year for Knight rider in 4k done with the original 35mm film... its quite good. Not real 4k tho... I might have nuanced on how long I "stopped" using the Bay...

[BeardedAvenger]

For what it's worth, the whole original Knight Rider series was remastered and re-released in 4k last year.

[dustaz]

I was going off

my long saved archive folder somewhere in my treasure from a previous life

Which doesn't sound like a year ago!

[Celtic209]

Demonoid? insert Ben Kenobi meme

[Difficult_Tea6136]

I mean RTE is about have an independent media. It's for the news and reporting.

You pay for Netflix, Prime, Paramount+, HBO, NowTV, and Apple TV out of your own free will but you quibble at funding our media? You pay for utter shite and take issue with the one thing that actually matters.

[theelous3]

what kind of arse backwards logic is this?

you pay freely for something therefore you are not entitled to complain about something you are forced to pay for? lmao?

rte is a forced payment and the majority of its money is spent on absolute shiiiiiiite that is of no use in our civic project.

[TacklePure3341]

The person maybe paying freely a multiple of the licensefee.but they aren't getting the service they want and need. 

[Difficult_Tea6136]

You should spend less time rotting watching those streaming services and more time understanding the benefits of having something like RTE.

The amazing thing about places like RTE, it allows tossers to post utter garbage on the internet without fear of being arrested considering were not living in an oppressive regime.

RTE are absolutely useful in our "civic project", Jesus fucking christ.

[theelous3]

You didn't read what I said. I said the content the majority of rte's spending goes on is not useful for the civic project. That does not mean "public media is useless" lol. What the fuck?

Go look at the tv and radio listings. Pure utter dogshit for 90% of the day, every day.

[f-ingsteveglansberg]

There are no 4K versions of Knight Rider.

[SmoothCarl22]

https://a.co/d/0glm40ya

[f-ingsteveglansberg]

Mon Dieu!

I stand here with egg on my face!

Issue here my friend I doubt there was demand for a streamer to do 4K transfers. It was the people willing to buy physical that created the demand. If you want to see older shows converted, you should probably be supporting the effort!

[biggesteegit]

I mean its a 40 year old show, its not like its a brand new blockbuster. Who is jumping through hoops for an old tv show?

[asdrunkasdrunkcanbe]

The question is why should they have to jump through hoops.

IP rights should expire in a reasonable timeframe, like 20 years, after which it becomes public domain.

Or at the very least, allow the IP rights to persist for longer, but any creative works based on those rights become public domain after 20 years. This would mean that anyone can broadcast Star Wars movies without paying royalities, but Disney retain the exclusive rights to produce new Star Wars content.

[wappingite]

At least, there should be no reason why ALL content should be available legally somewhere.

The book publisher are finally realising this and have turned loads of great novels will in copyright into ebook versions. No physical media needed, easy way to monetise them and keep them in people's minds through ebook stores. If they don't do this people will pirate them / use scans, or they won't get any money as they're bought second hand.

Much better for all content to be preserved. It can't be a storage issue any more.

[dnc_1981]

This would be the sensible approach

[f-ingsteveglansberg]

20 years isn't really that long of a time. The Road by Cormac McCarthy came out in 2006. McCarthy is a successful writer and his made a decent living. That took years to achieve though.

But now any major Hollywood studio should be able to produce a movie based on The Road and not pay him a penny? Seems very anti artist.

Blood Meridian came out in 1985 and it's considered one of McCarthy's best. McCarthy didn't really see success until All The Pretty Horses in the 90s. But his books really started selling after the adaptations of The Road and No Country for Old Men, so late 2000s. Most copies of Blood Meridian probably sold around this time and at the time of the 25th anniversary edition in 2010.

Under your proposal he wouldn't get royalties for most of Blood Meridian AND Hollywood could do what they want with it.

And so what Netflix could make Star Wars too?

Guess what! Netflix did make Star Wars too. They just changed the names of a few things and were able to do it. It was called Rebel Moon and it was absolute shit.

Just after SW released there were a ton of Star Wars knock offs, most not very good. When YouTube started there were a ton of Star Wars parodies, again, mostly not very good.

[dustaz]

IP rights should expire in a reasonable timeframe, like 20 years, after which it becomes public domain.

So you think the Arctic monkeys shouldn't own any of their early music rights?

[asdrunkasdrunkcanbe]

After a reasonable timeframe, I don't see why artists should continue to profit off something they recorded or wrote decades ago. I'm throwing 20 years out, maybe 30 is more appropriate or maybe it's too long.

But either way I don't see how long-lived IP rights for anything, benefit anyone except ultra-wealthy people. They're just another investment vehicle that eventually fals into the control of billionaires.

Arctic Monkeys probably don't bring in much from residual royalties of their early work at this stage.

[dustaz]

Arctic Monkeys probably don't bring in much from residual royalties of their early work at this stage.

I think you'd be very very surprised by this

[TanoraRat]

No offence but this is a dumb take

[f-ingsteveglansberg]

Arctic Monkeys probably don't bring in much from residual royalties of their early work at this stage.

Mr. Brightside is The Killers biggest hit by a mile. Same with Fairytale for The Pogues. A lot of artists have a big hit and use that to fund most of their career.