DStv faces renewed threat from piracy

[Jan]

Old DStv enemy making a comeback

Online piracy is making a comeback due to a fractured streaming landscape and deteriorating user experiences with paid services like Netflix and DStv.

After a significant decline with the launch of affordable streaming services, online piracy has seen a massive resurgence.

 

[G.A.S]

The best way to ensure that people do not consume illicit services

How about: Providing a superior product at a decent price? And NO region locking.

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

 

[neoprema]

more rubbish from Multichoice lol. I love the way they compare themselves to Netflix, Prime lol. They're not even nearly, remotely, not even universally close to the technology, content, and experience of Netflix, AppleTV, Prime etc. They're just money-making shills complaining because of piracy lol.

 

[neoprema]

How about: Providing a superior product at a decent price? And NO region locking.

Because then you can't pump funds into their other group companies and you have a scapegoat for why the business is rubbish lol.

 

[neoprema]

"
It includes machine learning analyses of online behaviour, flagging suspicious patterns, and using a ranking algorithm to prioritise takedown targets, fast and at scale.


It also employed real-time detection for live events to detect and remove illegal streams before they go viral."

Would also be very interested to know what they're collecting from their users behavior, on mobile apps, web streaming app etc... sounds interesting.

 

[FiestaST]

You know/no the drill:

 

[Binary_Bark]

Oh, boo-hoo, cry me a river.

 

[Smiggles]

They must fight harder my pirated Kyknet and Supersport streams are still up.

 

[Forum Reader]

You know/no the drill:

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This is true in my circle. As soon as things became more exclusive, so you needed to have more and more subscriptions, people started pirating again.

 

[Tman*]

With the assistance of ai, I built a fully automated "arr stack" that automatically downloads my series as they are released and adds it to my library.

Gone are the days of visiting dodgy piratebay sites, I browse new movies on Jellyseerr- it looks very much like Netflix.

Why would I pay for something, if I can self host all the content I will ever need...for free?

 

[Brian_G]

How about: Providing a superior product at a decent price? And NO region locking.

Yep. Truly a fascinating seesaw of an industry, guarantees more massive changes coming soon..... with or without Multiploos making the right efforts for users.

 

[Brian_G]

Why would I pay for something, if I can self host all the content I will ever need...for free?

Well, sounds like your method may be borderline within legalities, but if we all did that then how could the industry survive?

 

[Smiggles]

With the assistance of ai, I built a fully automated "arr stack" that automatically downloads my series as they are released and adds it to my library.

Gone are the days of visiting dodgy piratebay sites, I browse new movies on Jellyseerr- it looks very much like Netflix.

Why would I pay for something, if I can self host all the content I will ever need...for free?

I don't have time to deal with self hosting and the related HDD and energy costs to keep that up. Rather just pay $3 p/m.

 

[RedViking]

Undoing all the hard work of oom Frikkedel.

 

[Tman*]

Well, sounds like your method may be borderline within legalities, but if we all did that then how could the industry survive?

You wouldn't download a car?

Why is the industry (or any industry for that matter) survival my problem?

 

[Tman*]

I don't have time to deal with self hosting and the related HDD and energy costs to keep that up. Rather just pay $3 p/m.

$3pm, for one service, then next month its going to $5pm, with ads.

Then you find out you want to watch the new Dexter, but you need another $4pm service to watch that.

See why people are returning to the 7 seas?

 

[Brian_G]

You wouldn't download a car?

Why is the industry (or any industry for that matter) survival my problem?

Boomerang effect, it all adds up. Nobody can say you should, or any of us should, but if we don't collectively we ruin our own future entertainment.

One of those debates that maybe has no real solution - too many couldn't give a shyte , in the present anyway..

 

[PsyWulf]

DSTV having a rough time,how many piracy articles is that now?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Can't really say its a renewed threat for DSTV...

DSTV are a threat all to themselves, they don't need piracy to shoot themselves in the footses.