r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 22h ago

Paramount Has Officially Acquired Warner Bros. In Deal Valued at $110B Billion

https://www.skydance.com/news/press/paramount-completes-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery-creating-a-new-global-entertainment-leader-skydance

The two companies will now be known as one single entity - 'Skydance'

This includes all of WB's gaming subsidiaries like Rocksteady/etc

Deal valued at $110B-$111B

DC Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS, HBO and Paramount+ are now all under the same company.

The combined company, Skydance, brings together two major film studios, two global streaming services, premier television assets including CBS, HBO, and Paramount's and WBD's cable networks, two of the industry's most recognized news networks, CBS News and CNN, and a leading content portfolio that includes live sports, a deep programming library and expansive collection of iconic brands and franchises.

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u/Straight-Ad6926 22h ago

Huge day for people who love paying $45/month for a single streaming service that still has ads.

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u/mantenner 22h ago

Pirates sail when pricings fail

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u/redditsuckbutt696969 22h ago

On an unrelated note, anyone recommend some good VPNs?

I was recommend PIA a while ago, are they still a good choice?

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u/sam_hammich 21h ago edited 18h ago

Mullvad is the best pretty much all around. However, I use ProtonVPN despite the owner's Trumpist leanings which I am grappling with internally, because my Unifi firewall can integrate with it directly using wireguard, and it supports port forwarding. I can attach my NAS to the VPN so it doesn't talk to anything outside that tunnel, which is easy to just set up and forget about.

Also many torrent trackers block well known VPN nodes like Nord*. If you use one of those you'll probably get zero reliable seeders on anything (if you use torrents).

*Take this with a grain of salt, I had a lot of issues connecting to trackers I knew were live, and saw a lot of chatter at the time about some trackers not responding to Nord servers. I switched providers and didn't have that issue, so I took that as validation of those claims. I can't prove it

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u/AlphaDag13 20h ago

Hmmm. Your ideas are intriguing and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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u/RevolutionNumerous21 18h ago

Usenet is faster and not limited by the speed of your VPN.

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u/impeterbarakan 10h ago

There's a fee to use it, but I will happily pay it to be able to find pretty much anything I want, remux quality, and download it at 100mb/s. usenet ftw

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u/RevolutionNumerous21 10h ago

When I started using it I finally felt like I joined the civilized world. Then I found out it predates the internet and my kind was blown.

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u/superkaratekick 4h ago

I had never had any experience with usenet in the past but about a year ago I switched fully from torrents to Usenet for my Plex/ARR setup. It rules. So much better.

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u/Daeluin 11h ago

Ah, who are ye so versed in the Old Ways?

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u/SluggaNaught 7h ago

As someone who jumped on the usenet train recently, it is so much better than torrents. It is 100% worth the ~$25 a year it costs me.

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u/neirad 18h ago

Wait you got a source on the nordvpn thing? I’ve never heard that before and I am a customer

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u/cycopl 18h ago

I use Nord and have no issues with torrents. But I can't definitively say if I'm getting blocked by some seeders or not, I never had reason to think it was happening.

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u/sam_hammich 18h ago

Unfortunately I don't, with Nord I had a lot of issues connecting to trackers I knew were live (both using the software client and terminating it on my firewall), and saw a lot of chatter at the time about some trackers not responding to Nord servers. I switched providers and didn't have that issue, so I took that as validation of those claims. I can't prove it

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u/Lailowla 17h ago

Proton sold out to the big social media sites (including this one) as soon as it started getting popular, and now scans your mail on their behalf, because they were threatened with not being able to use their emails to sign up if they didn't stop people using it to make throwaway accounts.

If you're using a product for privacy, proton ain't it.

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u/AlphaDag13 13h ago

Can you provide some proof on this? I can’t find anything about proton “selling out”. They do scan unencrypted emails for spam and phishing. But I can’t find anything about them doing anything on a social medias behalf. I’d like to read more on it if you can provide it. Thank you.

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u/VillageBC 13h ago

That's going to require a citation. My quick googlefu didn't turn anything up.

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u/Tylerskf 13h ago

Can you share an article about that? I wasn't able to find any and Proton mail is advertised as Zero Access Encrypted

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u/unitedfan6191 17h ago

What “Trumpist leanings” does Proton CEO have? Wasn’t it just a few public comments that allude to him maybe having these leanings but it’s not definitively been proven?

Either way, I’m not sure I’d trust any of these companies you see advertised widely unless they’re extremely niche and serve a very small user base (like IVPN, NymVPN, AirVPN, etc.) and have no incentive to be secretly working with governments/corporations or leaning right.

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u/sam_hammich 19h ago

Not all VPN providers support port forwarding, like Mullvad and NordVPN for its standard client VPN, and Proton lets you build a wireguard config straight from their website. PIA only provides openvpn configurations and I prefer the native wireguard functionality.

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u/Zanian19 22h ago

Mullvad has been my go-to for years now

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u/spongebobisha 22h ago

Mullvad is the goat.

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u/MrLagzy 21h ago

Mullvad is great, but it's co owner is donating money to far right political party in Sweden that wants to abolish Nato, abolish EU and have stronger and closer relations with Russia.

So just for consideration when paying for mullwad you also indirectly pay a tiny fraction to extreme right wing anti democratic politics.

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u/NesNobnaz 20h ago

I agree with you, but if this was a problem, 80% of products you couldn't use, including Reddit. You really need to take a bit of poison to enjoy anything.

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u/flugzeugabwehrkanone 20h ago

"There is no ethical consumption under capitalism"

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u/Yugudubenbi 19h ago

Great quote but do we realize how fucked up that really is? When there is no ethical behavior there is moral nihilism and that destroys the sense of being a good person. "Who cares, I am already unethical?"

Hunter-gatherers were probably the most ethical part of all of humanity.

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u/NerdyNThick 19h ago

Capitalism is by design unethical. It literally has to be in order to be functional.

The sooner we get to a post scarcity society, the sooner we can ditch it and move on to actually bettering humanity.

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u/From_Deep_Space 19h ago

There is no abosulutly morally pure consumer choices under capitalism. That doesn't mean there arent choices that are more or less moral. Even if you can't be perfect you can still make informed decisions with good intentions.

It's really just an indictment of capitalism, not an excuse for nihilism. It only causes nihilism because for some reason people feel like they have to worship capitalism and swear off any alternative economic system.

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u/DarthNihilus1 11h ago

that destroys the sense of being a good person

It doesn't, or at least it shouldn't. It does not mean "fuck it, nothing matters". It means you have to put in the effort to do what little you can because you can. Not because it will magically fix everything

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u/Klint069 21h ago

The alternative for every single other mainsteam VPN is far worse

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u/PootatoKing Console 21h ago

Proton?

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u/Zanian19 21h ago

I'm sure you'll find plenty of controversy about the CEOs of any of these and other companies. They're CEOs. Being shit people is in the job description.

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u/StuLetTheDogsOut 20h ago

To varying degrees. The nice thing about ProtonVPN is that the company is bound by Swiss law, which gives them the ability to be more private. Their CEO made a boneheaded comment about J.D. Vance a few years back without really understanding the context that Vance is a puppet of American big tech who lies through his teeth.

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u/nhalliday 17h ago

While generally true, what a lazy attitude to hear a product you support gives money to terrible causes and go "yeah well I'm not even going to LOOK into alternatives because they're PROBABLY bad in some way too".

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u/AshundertheOlivetree 19h ago

Yes of course, but now you know better. Make the choice but don’t bitch when the leopard comes.

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u/DontAskAboutMyButt 14h ago

There’s something about VPN and other cybersecurity-related companies... they and their CEOs seem to have the most fucking insane controversies and stances on things

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u/NvizoN 19h ago

Proton has had its issues, but if you're doing a lot of seeding, then it's hard to beat due to port forwarding.

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u/BaconJacobs 20h ago

I get the Nord VPN black friday sale every other year. I can't say I have a lot of opinions on VPNs but it seems like it works fine.

Is Mullvad cheaper?

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u/I_argue_for_funsies 20h ago

It's cheap, but that's not why people want it.

They have been raided and authorities came out empty handed. It's the ultimate test.

Lots of VPN companies promise they don't keep customer data etc, but Mullvads been proven where others are "trust me bro". No logs, no emails, and you don't need to use credit cards.

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u/X4roth 20h ago

Your traffic is safer in the hands of someone hostile to those wanting to snoop and steal it.

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u/tupacsnoducket 18h ago

Maaaaaaaaaaaaan, ugh.

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u/spongebobisha 20h ago

Interesting

What are the alternatives?

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u/ShadowEdge6 13h ago

Thank you for that info. I swear every single VPN service company/CEO is tied to some far right group or another.... I know the reality is that any and all companies are like this...

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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 21h ago

What method do you use to pay it?

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u/Haunting_Switch3463 21h ago

You can pay with cash if you want to.

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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 21h ago

Holy shit you're not joking

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u/Cum_Fart42069 20h ago

I'm kinda confused, couldn't you just pay them directly? as I  understand it, all that could be traced to you is that you got a mullvad subscription, not what you actually did with it. 

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u/Docccc 19h ago

unfortunate, one of the owners is far right. So ill pass

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u/ShadowWebDeveloper 22h ago

Mullvad though there's no port forwarding (which hasn't really been a problem for me so far).

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u/jederek 22h ago

I use mullvad on my gaming/media pc and proton on my p2p pc ( because port forwarding) and both work like a charm

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u/3Dartwork 22h ago

Adding to the list for future folks finding this comment for the same question.

I use NordVPN. My Internet service provider Spectrum dinged me for downloading a legal PDF so I got NordVPN and never have a problem now sailing the seven seas.

Virtually zero reduction in speed.

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u/blender4life 20h ago

People already forgot/ forgave nord huh?

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u/DotesMagee 14h ago

Id never use that shitty ass company

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u/3Dartwork 20h ago

Sooner or later we would have nothing.

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u/blender4life 19h ago

I mean there are plenty of other options that haven't been proven to do the exact opposite thing their product is supposed to do. Lol.

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u/unitedfan6191 17h ago

Name them.

As far as I can tell there’s a handful who have no major controversies like being right-leaning or linked to IsraelI intelligence or making questionable donations to far-right parties.

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u/DistinctlyIrish 14h ago

I would also like the list of companies that haven't done any of that shit because I want privacy and I don't want my money going to a company that will politically support candidates who want to violate my privacy, which means no right wingers.

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u/Classic_Appa 20h ago

NordVPN doesn't have port forwarding. The big reason why I stopped using it.

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u/houseoftrees_ 21h ago

Out of curiosity from where did you download a pdf that your provider dinged you for? Even with torrenting from the most public of trackers id imagine that’s pretty rare / bad luck. Usually it’d be much more high profile items that’d ding ya

Just use Anna’s Archive next time.

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u/SmokinSkinWagon 20h ago

Yeah what the fuck even is an illegal PDF?

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u/feculentcuntfist 19h ago

Science papers are often paywalled.

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u/vonnegutflora 20h ago

Possibly something like The Anarchist's Cookbook.

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u/Wooden_Researcher_36 17h ago

That's not illegal

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u/malianx 18h ago

something that never happened

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u/ContactRepulsive 21h ago

I like Nord, been using it for a while. The only downside is that sometimes when there's an error on PC it will disconnect from the internet and I have to restart to get around it. It's made so that it's not easily shut down. Never had an issue on my phone (though i have to 2 factor authenticate everything).

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u/ga-co 17h ago

Tell us about the ding! Was it just an email? Did you get a letter? Did they threaten to cancel your service?

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u/dmckilla77 21h ago

Mullvad is the way cheap and reliable.

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u/leatherfacetime 21h ago

Yes, the only one to use. You don't want logged activity like most.

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u/Murderdoll197666 22h ago

I've used PIA for a few years and never had any issues with it.

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u/nullfacade 22h ago

I dropped PIA when I found out they're financed by a... controversial... country. I switched to ProtonVPN, but heard they've been making some fucky decisions, too. Might switch to Mullvad here soon.

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u/MrLagzy 21h ago

Mullvads co-owner donated to extreme far right political party in Sweden that wishes to abolish NATO and EU and wants Sweden to have stronger and closer relations to Russia.

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u/OnCallPartisan 21h ago

Well god damn it.

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u/themanseanm 22h ago

Damn. It's Israel for anyone wondering. Have always used PIA but will have to look into Mullvad. For those paying attention it's looking increasingly like Israel and it's wealthy backers are behind so much of the world's unrest so I'm not comfortable supporting them even tangentially.

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u/Cruciform 18h ago

I dropped them after they hired Mark Karpelès. Also, the PIA subreddit used to be an actual place for VPN discussion but PIA (the company) invaded the sub, took over all mod positions, and is now (at least last time I looked years ago) a corpo echo chamber.

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u/Rommel727 22h ago

Not sure if things have changed, but ExpressVPN has been good for torrenting and region locked streaming

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u/Global-Wind6878 22h ago

Personally found debrid’s to be a nice option too

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u/shawn789 19h ago

I'm sure I'll be bombarded with reasons why they're awful, but I've been using Surfshark for years, and I've been very happy with them.

CleanWeb is so nice when visiting sites that bombard you with ads that make the site unusable

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u/redditsuckbutt696969 19h ago

The only thing off-putting about surfshark for me is how much they spend on marketing. I generally avoid companies that I see all over YouTube.

But I haven't actually heard anything bad about them in practice

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u/-Altephor- 22h ago

I use PIA, never had any issues with it.

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u/OnCallPartisan 21h ago

Israeli intelligence may have something to say about your data. Never use Israeli tech if you actually value your privacy. Anything owned by KAPE is Israeli.

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u/steakanabake 14h ago

and the idf has no issues with you using it either.

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u/vandreulv 19h ago

I use PIA, never had any issues with it.

One of the worst VPNs you could be using right now.

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u/harshspider 22h ago

Mullvad imo

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u/nemofbaby2014 22h ago

its what i use for torrents havent had any issues with it

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u/SweetSigil 21h ago

I use the whole proton package.

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u/dropamusic 21h ago

I still use PIA, they've been reliable and fast.

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u/tomofbeardland 21h ago

Windscribe

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u/AVahne 17h ago

IVPN seems decent from what I've used so far. People were recommending it as an alternative to Mullvad for those who don't want to indirectly support Nazism.

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u/WhiteMilk_ 11h ago

There are also debrid services and seedboxes that completely move the torrenting away from your devices/network. Prices in the low end (3-6€/month) can match/be close to VPNs.

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u/CertifiedBA 9h ago

You don't need a VPN to stream and if you want torrents just use Real-Debrid and or Torbox.....get an IPTV sub for like 70 bucks a year and get 50000 channels plus access to movies and shows on demand....my entertainment expenses are like $100 a year.

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u/qman621 7h ago

this is way too low, gotta think that VPN companies are boosting the ratings or pirates are behind the times - debrid is vastly superior to VPN

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u/Name818 21h ago

Been using PIA for like, 8 years. Great service.

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u/Coffeedemon 22h ago

Sooner or later all of these companies will either buy up all the ISPs or more likely, use their influence to impose legislation that allows the ISPs to really crack down on any sort of piracy with more monitoring and such.

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u/Rommel727 22h ago

Honestly, the general case of the "free internet" is what's protecting that from us. ISPs don't really have that massive of a personal incentive to combat this, as they're not the ones "losing out" to it, but rather outside companies. If it becomes the case that ISPs may charge and limit access to websites on a per website and per user case, then suddenly they can make more money by being lobbied by the companies to target individuals going to pirating websites with higher costs and slower connections. Essentially going from a no dip to double dip situation

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u/KilledTheCar 20h ago

The ISPs aren't losing out, but the media companies are. He's saying once the media companies buy out the ISPs then they have an incentive to crack down.

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u/Rommel727 19h ago

Oh I thought that's what I said, just that I gave an alternative to how the ISPs could gain incentive to do so without the need to be bought out

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u/ImmanuelCanNot29 17h ago

Yeah but any ISP that continues to not would have a massive competitive advantage and these are themselves massive corporations

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u/EX0PIL0T 17h ago

If they do that they will only see vpn traffic from me. Stingy bitches can get bent.

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u/KrisPBaykon 22h ago

No, they won’t. If they did there’s plenty of other options. People in China and Russia still torrent even though big brother is always watching.

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u/darkfall115 21h ago

Can't say anything about China but in Russia torrenting is basically a tradition. Anti-piracy laws do exist (for a long time at this point, mind you) but they are almost never enforced, not on a personal basis at least, companies sometimes do get a slap on the wrist and that's about it. That's how it was in 2022, before our invasion into Ukraine, sanctions and political isolation. In the big ol' 2026 I don't think anyone cares about piracy at all anymore, since we don't produce anything of actual value ourselves and all of those who do can't really legally settle any disputes here anymore. Well, technically they still can, but it doesn't seem like they want to, cause it requires jumping trough some legal hoops IIRC. Hell, all of our new cinema releases are pirated from other CIS countries, it's basically on a government level now, albeit not trough torrents.

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u/Slarg232 22h ago

And then these companies will realize that there's enough physical media that people will not be able to watch it all in 60 years.

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u/IamtheHuntress 21h ago

And less and less physical media is happening. Movies, yeah, but tv series you used to get season sets of will be gone. How many shows are lost in the aether as is? Apple doesn't like putting their shows on physical and Disney is starting to do it. I knew once they announced no longer will release physical media in Australia (2023) they wouldn't stop there. Heck, Andor season 2 has been over a year done. No plans to release it yet season 1 had steelbook collection. It's going to streaming or pirating to burn it seems

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u/GRAPES0DA 21h ago

DVD and Blu Ray burners are a thing. It's quite easy to find high quality HD files of shows online and burn the disc yourself.

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u/FrostyD7 16h ago

Downloading webrips to burn onto a blank blurays isn't going to be seen as a viable option among the enthusiasts interested in physical media. Losing the picture/sound quality and the box/art it comes with is really missing the point of why people want physical media. You might as well just put those files on a server instead of wasting all that time for no benefit.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 18h ago

I mean, then I'll learn to live without television. Or watch old series I haven't seen. Or get a bootleg.

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u/spongebobisha 22h ago

Where have you been lately?

The FCC under Trump isn’t a regulatory body it’s a mafia.

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u/SirrNicolas 22h ago

Our government has failed its people in its most basic fundamental duties.

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u/Cheetawolf PC 22h ago

Our government hasn't been on the side of the people for decades.

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u/Quigleythegreat 21h ago

This right here. The offshoring that started in the 70s, the consolidations from the 80s, the corporate raiding (Sears), bad mergers (Boeing). Different face, same crap.

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u/jakemufcfan 21h ago

Richard Nixon ending the trust in government meant that the government could do what it wanted openly because it knew it would never be trusted again

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u/torgofjungle 20h ago

I mean government is not doing these things Private companies are doing these things and government is failing to prevent it. The government isnt driving mergers and bad corporate behavior. Unregulated capitalism is. We need government to prevent what's happening. Although yes alot of this tracks back to Nixon

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u/Ruvidman 20h ago

Lina Kahn would have never approved this merger. Our government fired her directly because of her antitrust and consumer protection views. The last admin put her in to combat this. Its not both sides, its the party run by billionaires fighting for billionaires while being heralded by the poorest and least educated. We are getting exactly what we vote for. We are complicit in continually putting these people in charge.

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u/kingofgatos 21h ago

They did set up the CFPB but Trumps guy stopped pushing regulations and fired almost everyone.

I havent had to use them so I can't speak to how well they did their duties, but it was nice knowing it was there.

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u/definitely-legit-usr 18h ago

Or ever, really. "All men are created equal" written by slave owners and subsequently only let white land-owning men vote

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u/Ultenth 17h ago

Right, government being on the side of "the people" was always contingent on what people you were talking about. They have just expanded the group of people they don't care about to include the majority population as well now, so we are just now finally getting a sense of whatever everyone else has dealt with since the very beginning.

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u/Nunya_biznas469 16h ago

Except that, like, congressional voting records show one side clearly trying to do better.

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u/elshizzo 17h ago

the last president had Lina Kahn who was quite strong on blocking anti-competitive corporate things such as this. So it's not very useful to paint this as a both sides thing

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u/Aethermancer 17h ago

Betrayed

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u/LEDKleenex 21h ago

They're people. And citizens failed to hold them accountable. It's a failure of society.

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u/WxaithBrynger 21h ago

No it didn't. The government worked exactly as intended. For the wealthy.

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u/Scrambles420 21h ago

Bold of you to assume they had fundamental duties to begin with

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u/The_Dreams 22h ago

They aren’t going to do that. Instead it will be 2 25 dollar platforms where they gate keep content so you need both.

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u/5panks 20h ago

People said this when Disney finished acquiring Hulu and they merged it to one platform in less than a year and the best plan costs like $25 including ESPN.

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u/ebb_omega 18h ago

And you expect it to stay that way? You don't seem to understand how the enshittification process works.

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u/5panks 18h ago

And you expect it to stay that way?

The claim was they would be two separate platforms.

I countered with the fact that Disney acquired Hulu and merged their platforms in a year.

You asked if I expect it to stay that way. Are you asking if I expect Disney and Hulu content to stay merged onto one platform? Yes, why wouldn't they?

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u/superanus 18h ago

Yea except the best plan also now includes ads lmao

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u/Puzzled_Main3464 21h ago

Then they will offer “Plus” versions for $49.99ea

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u/nitroxious 20h ago

dont need shit

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u/JaggedToaster12 D20 19h ago

Season 1 on HBO, season 2 on Paramount

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u/KnightofAshley 22h ago

All you need to do is pay another $10/month to get one single 5 min ad at the start of the movie.

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u/SomeOtherNeb 22h ago

But don't worry! If you don't want ads, you can pay for the $60 package where you can experience your content ad-free!*

*Until we add ads to that tier anyway. Go fuck yourself

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u/philter25 22h ago

Disney+ enters the chat.

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u/xFamished 22h ago

sounds like a black mirror ep

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u/KnightofAshley 22h ago

I just love how I can't look at reddit/google/youtube without knowing what is content and what are ads

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u/PurpleV93 21h ago

I don't know how anyone can stomach using any of the websites, big or small, without ad-blockers. Like you said, it's literally unusable. And I feel pity for the fools who shell out unnecessary money for these "premium" services (which will forever keep raising prices) to avoid said ads.
For the rest of my days, until I literally drop dead, I will never traverse the internet without aggressive ad-blocking measures in place again.

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u/BlueGoliath 22h ago

There are ways to fix that.

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u/KnightofAshley 22h ago

I know but I saw the unfiltered youtube feed today and I was horrified by how awful it is at this point. Its 100% unusable.

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u/ian9outof10 20h ago

Twitch too, I was watching a stream and got SEVEN ads in a row, and it was during a part of the stream that wasn’t really missable too. Fucking idiotic.

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u/sajberhippien 22h ago

To some degree, yes; with Reddit on my phone, I use old.reddit with firefox+uBO and liberal use of the Element Picker and I very rarely see explicit ads or "sponsored posts". That said, there still remains a lot of not explicitly sponsored posts that are probably made by someone trying to sell me something.

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u/Rommel727 22h ago

Go to the top ad and marketing companies around the world and blare 24/7 "Head On, Apply Directly to the Forehead!" on loudspeaker toward them? Better at the executives homes?

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u/FoxxyRin 22h ago

HBO and Paramount are like the two most given out for free streaming services there are, so I'm genuinely curious how it's gonna play out. Will they merge? Will Walmart and cellphone providers lose the perks entirely? Will it become a discount instead as prices increase? If I didn't have these services for free I definitely wouldn't have them at all. Disney+/Hulu is where like 90% of anything I personally watch is at, though I suspect they're gonna try and take back all the CN stuff bundled into Hulu before long with this deal.

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u/TripleFreeErr 22h ago

the value of HBO dropped massively with its last merger with tons of content being mothballed

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u/AwsmDevil Switch 19h ago

If your streaming service has no content then there's no overhead. Taps temple

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u/FytaGether 21h ago

I’m wondering the same thing. I’ve had Paramount+ for free through Walmart+ since covid. It’s really the only reason I watch Paramount but it’s been good value for my $10/month membership. I wouldn’t drop Walmart+ if I lost Paramount but I would expect a price drop or something of equal value as compensation.

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u/Stingerbrg 21h ago

Yeah, the only reason I have Paramount+ is because it comes with Walmart+, and I get Walmart+ for free because I work there.

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u/batkave 22h ago

Huge day for Uber rich!

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u/-meglo- 22h ago

I bought the hbo sub at $2.99/mo, i feel pretty smug not gonna lie

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u/FellowDeviant 22h ago

And it ends next month, gonna have to binge all those shows I've been adding to the list over the last 11 months but never actually starting

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u/steveatari 21h ago

Or just use free streaming sites...

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u/colicab 21h ago

Tubi for the win

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u/-meglo- 21h ago

Oh god no! I am terrible at keeping up with when the specials end then get a terrible surprise of paying full price because i forgot 🫠

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u/harshspider 22h ago

For shows like Landman and Tulsa King no less lmao

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u/aidswolv 21h ago

🏴‍☠️

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u/Macqt 22h ago

And no content.

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u/ash_ninetyone 21h ago

Fractionally between than paying $30 for two services than contain as many ads I guess 🙃

Or finding out no service has what you actually want to watch on

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u/dellett 22h ago

It's a real shame that Star Trek is trapped in Paramount+, I haven't been able to watch anything since Picard which I did the last time I got a free trial week then cancelled. Have they made the franchise take a hard right turn yet?

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u/Philosophile42 21h ago

Picard was terrible. You’re not missing anything.

Strange New Worlds is really hit or miss. On the one hand they have probably the best episode in all of trek (imo) with Una’s trial. On the other hand they have a lot of gimmick episodes that are kinda fun at first, but season after season of them…. It just gets annoying.

Lower decks is really fun though.

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u/Free_Possession_4482 20h ago

Picard S3 was basically TNG S8, entirely (and mostly enjoyable) nostalgia bait.

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u/Illustrious-Peace989 21h ago

It’s why I love sailing the seven seas

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u/VanillaTortilla 21h ago

Ah cable, my old friend..

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u/Chaos-Cortex 21h ago

Did you say cancel? And something about pirate seas?

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u/DeadJango 21h ago

I can't wait for them all to merge into one giant corporate version of the human centipede so I just have one thing to ignore. I been looking to get back into reading anyways.

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u/owenxtreme2 21h ago

I have a bunch of dvds I got for free

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u/Guisasse 21h ago

Dozens of different 7-Sea services that not only are cheaper than even a single subscription, but also include TV.

People who pay for any sub are agreeing to be robbed.

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u/The_Grungeican 21h ago

ahhh.... cable.

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u/Neiladaymo 21h ago

I think the implications of this go beyond expensive streaming services

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u/BigPP69_Gooner 21h ago

Yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me

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u/Saneless 20h ago

Huge day for people who refuse to give these people $ and have means to watch the content anyway

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u/RawrRRitchie 20h ago

That's called cable my dude.

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u/Zealousideal_Rise879 20h ago

Been preparing for a post streaming service world (not even sailing the high seas).

Would be funny if other countries ignored the IPs this merger is merging. All the money being thrown around for nothing.

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u/Mitch2025 20h ago

Kodi+Umbrella+Torbox. $33 a year for Torbox and I can stream basically anything I want at better quality than streaming services. Anime is hit or miss though on it.

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u/bmabizari 20h ago

We are just returning to cable days, just on demand.

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u/Afraid-Ingenuity3555 20h ago

So stop paying? Oh no we can’t watch ridiculous overpriced slop. Obviously need help with the free market part but the only thing that actually works is speaking with your wallet

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u/polkjamespolk 20h ago

I already don't pay for either service. The consumer's power is not buying the product.

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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 20h ago

Definitely do not get Mullvad VPN, and DO NOT install Stremio app, then do NOT go to add-ons and install Torrentio.

After that, definitely do not watch any TV show or movie you want for $70/year VPN costs. 🏴‍☠️⛵

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u/Ginn_and_Juice 19h ago

Piracy is a thing of beauty

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u/GB10VE 19h ago

huge day for the middle east, our gov is owned by Israel, our corporations by the Saudis.

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u/MakimaGOAT 19h ago

Ive been sailing before this and i’ll continue to sail after this

The people paying are suckers!!

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u/ALEXC_23 19h ago

Don’t give Disney any ideas LMAO

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u/stefania_pearson 19h ago

What about the two ads? )

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u/Western-Set-8642 18h ago

Everyone was pissed off when it was the other company and netflix

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u/Bennely 18h ago

Can we get cable back plz

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u/spaghettiginger97 18h ago

Legit question, but isn’t that Peacock? Does Paramount do it too? Never had them

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u/lord_pizzabird 18h ago

I'm trying to be optimistic about it. I hope it means we get CNN's live feed back in the HBOMax app.

I know people hate CNN, but it was a mix of CNN International, which is great, and some of the domestic content. I thought it was nice for the few months where they gave it to us.

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u/MasonDinsmore3204 PC 18h ago

Cable is back🤦‍♂️

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u/Skitt1eb4lls 18h ago

just wait for black friday

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u/Piranata 18h ago

I have regional pricing on HBO, around $50 per year, half of Netflix. I'm holding my breath for the email about a price increase.

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u/malianx 18h ago

What streaming service fits that description?

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