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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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366 points gniting | 3 comments | 08 Dec 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source

Previously: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315 (1333 comments)
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1970-01-01 ◴[09 Dec 25 01:22 UTC] No.46200185[source]▶
All I can say is welcome back to torrenting. This perpetual "same shit deal for consumers, different corporation" problem doesn't end until copyright kicks the media into public domain. Until then, you can play their content reindeer games[1] or you can download a copy of Reindeer Games[2] and watch it without worrying about ownership foofaraw.

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/reindeer-games

[2] predb.me

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1. gorgoiler ◴[09 Dec 25 03:11 UTC] No.46200838[source]▶
I looked for a modern, trending show on predb.me (Pluribus) and the results were unweighted, without any comments or votes, and sorted by upload time. They were also multiplied out by broadcast language (at least for German, “iTalian” and “MULTI”.) I know it’s not meant to be perfect but it was kind of a backed up toilet of results.

It would be a lot nicer if I could see a social network of torrenters and locate the market leader — the most popular with the best rips or most friends or something like that.

It feels like Altavista when I really wanted Google.

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2. squigz ◴[09 Dec 25 06:42 UTC] No.46201941[source]▶
I'm not sure why someone would browse for torrents on predb, unless I'm missing something. It lists releases, it doesn't provide downloads or magnets or anything.

Use literally any torrent indexer (I use 1337x) and you'll be able to see # of seeders/leechers to determine popularity.

3. omnimus ◴[09 Dec 25 06:49 UTC] No.46201982[source]▶
TPB and its mirrors still work fine. Then there is Stremio, a media player with support for plugins and once you acquire the the torrenting kind you got yourself a netflix. Streaming torrents is cool.