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510 points pierrelf | 1 comments | 20 Dec 24 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.312s | source
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pxoe ◴[21 Dec 24 14:33 UTC] No.42479914[source]▶
Does this app has any creator monetization in mind, or does 'your way' means 'fuck you, i'm not paying you for shit, i'm just taking it'? None of it is "your content", or their content, it's just someone else's content they're leeching on. "full ownership" - of what?

literally just, what are their thoughts on that. do people deserve being paid? or don't? and if they don't and it's not worth paying for, how is it still worth watching? what is this bizarre mix of disdain and yet desire and entitlement to things, that they'll try to get them in whatever roundabout way, instead of just not watching the thing?

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1. cxr ◴[21 Dec 24 15:51 UTC] No.42480325[source]▶
There is way too much incoherence and righteous indignation in this comment for it to be the top thread here.

> "full ownership" - of what?

By a reasonable and charitable reading: full ownership over your legally-obtained copy of the material that folks (the creators/rightsholders themselves) are publishing for gratis online for anyone to watch, and likely some non-gratis stuff that you are paying these creators for if you are a subscriber and decide to enter your account details into the app.

This whole app looks to be a video player that works like an alternative frontend to the official players by e.g. YouTube, Twitch, and so on, in the vein of "unity of interface"[1] and a continuation of the spirit of the Miro player (see also: virtually every podcast app in existence).

You seem, bizarrely, to be responding to it like a new KaZaA or Popcorn Time or other torrent-backed something-or-other.

1. <https://www-archive.mozilla.org/unity-of-interface>