mavikt :
"Because Sky-lake doesn't have enough Oomph"
or
"Because Kaby-lake represents a quantum leap in computing performance"
Intel apparently made a great improvement in their decoder
turkey3_scratch :
lahma :
If the only requirements for watching a TV show are a new computer, with a new processor, the latest OS, a web browser no one uses, and a premium subscription that forces these stipulations upon you, why would anyone choose to pirate TV episodes? They make it SOO easy... you would have to be crazy to go to ALL THAT trouble to pirate the show (even if you already have a Netflix subscription which entitles you to view it). But I digress... all pirates are criminals who are just trying to get something for nothing.... right?
Sounds like you're just trying to justify all the pirating you do and trying to get people to thumb you up. Nope, still criminal. The law says so.
You know, when someone tells you bluntly why they pirate something, and your only response is 'its illegal' you are making a horrible case.
Personally, I love pirates, its the entire reason we have things like gog and steam sales. If you cant price match piracy, you can surpass them in convenience, there is only a small minority of people who pirate things, hell, even the most popular movies barely make it over 1 million pirated copies world wide. But so long as those people exist, companies will still be forced to try and compete with it, give me the content for cheaper, make the game better, so on so forth.
you see piracy as a negative only, I see it as a clear signal 'this is not working, how do we fix it' and the answer is simple, either make better drm or remove the restrictions.
Hell, If I was netflix, I would weigh my options. I can appease these companies who are screwing my customers, or I can be very real and tell it like it is. "Hello netflix user, currently all *Studio here* content is no longer available because they wanted to impose stronger drm and restrict how you viewed the said content out of fear of piracy" I would then go to pirate sites, just confirm with the entire catalogue they are taking away, that they are all bluray and dvd rips, not netflix streams, and even if there were netflix streams I would list the day they allowed netflix to have it, and the day they released the bluray/dvd just completely stripping them of their argument for more drm at the expense of my customers.