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It's difficult to imagine that Friends, a show that ended 15 years ago, could be of any real importance to a modern streaming giant like Netflix.
In fact the sitcom, which features a bunch of 20-somethings living together in a time before streaming was even invented, is US Netflix's second-most watched show.
Today, Netflix announced that it's poised to lose its rights to broadcast the series to its original parent company, Warner, which plans to launch its own streaming service, HBO Max in the first quarter of 2020.
The blow follows another announcement in June that Netflix's number one series, the US version of The Office, is also being snatched back by its creators, NBCUniversal, to be broadcast exclusively in the US on its own yet-to-be-launched streaming service.
Old media, analysts are noting with no small amount of surprise, is suddenly bringing the fight to Netflix, and it looks like Netflix could be the one that gets knocked out, or at least very knocked around.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday July 13 2019, @08:13PM (6 children)
Your church must be used very differently than my church. We just dedicated a wall to DVD/blu-ray storage, floor to as high as either of us can reach, shelves exactly as spacious as the tallest case we had in the collection at the time.
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Fact: Celery is 95% water
and 100% not pizza.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 14 2019, @07:29AM
He's talking about discs purchased at actual stores containing mainstream content like blockbuster movies and tv series. Not kiddy porn.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 14 2019, @11:14AM (4 children)
I currently have over 4TB of H264 video. Mostly 480p but a notable amount of 720p as well. It would take up an unholy amount of space in one-deep rows of discs and still be much slower to access.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Sunday July 14 2019, @12:32PM (2 children)
I have stacks of boxes with the original disks, which I almost never access. I've ripped it all to MPEG2 (DVD) and H.264 (Blu Ray) and then reencoded it all to H.265. The machine I'm typing from has a 3TB share of media files, and I've got Kodi installed on most of the devices in the house.
It's incredibly convenient - but the whole setup process, including ripping hundreds of disks and reencoding them, was a royal pain.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 14 2019, @04:11PM (1 child)
Truth. It's much easier for one person to rip video and distribute it than for everybody to have to rip it themselves. Greener too from all the juice used for each encode.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Monday July 15 2019, @09:12PM
Right now I don't distribute. I can see the ethical arguments for it but I don't completely buy them. I might change my mind.
As a more practical thing, I know just enough about anonymity software, etc... to get myself into trouble. With my luck the first time I tried to use Tor to upload to a pirate torrent site I'd get malware on all my boxes and an overnight MPAA lawsuit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 15 2019, @12:02PM
You bugger me hearty shiver me timbers PIRATE!
Take all your ill gotten rips outside, pile 'em up, and set fire to 'em.
Then, pull down your pants, open your wallet and hold it in front of your, pull down your pants and wait for the 'appropriate authorities' to come deal with you.
YOU STINKIN ASS PIRATE YOU
how dare you rip off the starving artists! deprive them of an income! consume their content for free! glutton! evil, misbegotten pirate! Burn on a pyre of DVD-R disks!