The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

  • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    8 months ago
    1. Forcing me to buy a new TV because my current one is suddenly an “unsupported device”.
    2. Not allowing me to watch Netflix in my summer house because they’re “cracking down on sharing accounts”.
    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Is 14 really a thing? Or are you talking about having to buy a new smart device that may or may not be included in your TV and that in any case can be replaced but a separate device?

      • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        Yep. Very much. Translated to English it says “Netflix is no longer supported on this device. Visit netflix.com/compatibledevices for a list of supported devices”.

        This is when hitting the netflix button on the tv remote. Worked until a few days ago.

        • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          I’d chuck that up more to “smart TVs are trash”.

          They have crappy processing power and TV makers support them for the shortest of timespans. I’ve solved that but turning my smart TV into a dumb screen and an NVidia Shield TV as its brains (NVidia has so far been exemplary in supporting Shield TVs).

          • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            8 months ago

            I don’t disagree that smart TVs are trash, but this wasn’t the TV not keeping up, this was netflix deciding that I couldn’t use it anymore.

            I give them money, why are they making it hard for me to use their product.

            • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              8 months ago

              These major corps are pulling some absolute bullshit all the time with this kind of stuff. People are frustrated with the rich in general, but I think they don’t even comprehend the amount of fuckery that is pulled on us all.

              One example, I have an android phone from 2017 that still works great. Luckily the company that made it doesn’t go hard on planned obsolescence seemingly, but I was curious about replacing it, and new comparable phones are more expensive than mine was, have more bloatware preloaded, and lower specs to top it off. To be fair though they do have incredible new cameras.

            • Isycius@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              It is likely due to: they want to update their software to add new features, but these device doesn’t have enough power to support that or it takes far too much human resource to implement, so most logical answer is they drop it. As for what kind of feature they add that would make it so difficult to implement…

              In this brave new world of companies, more ways to serve ads and new method to mine telemetry data seems to count as a feature.

        • fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Vendors should be entitled to withdraw support on particular hardware, but they shouldn’t be allowed to brick the service as a result ‘just because’. All it needs is a TOS/EULA update prompt advising that viewers with X hardware are on their own as of now. I’d be willing to bet this denial of service practice originates in kickback discussions between TV manufacturers and streamers.

          It strikes me as another case where corporate can inculcate learned helplessness in the customer by having him think disallowing and withdrawing support for are indivisible.