Of course getting real data here is very difficult but I really do feel its becoming very easy to be a pirate.

I can only share my anecdotes that I see right now - if I type in “iptv” to the main e-commerce websites here in Thailand (Lazada, Shopee, tiktok) all have hundreds of listings and thousands of monthly sales. Iptv piracy tech UX is very similar to Plex or Jellyfin tho the latter is more expensive to run and more legally challenging but the UX from the customers pov is identical. Buy a subscription, get account details and app install instructions, connect and watch. So UX is not the barrier here imo.

There are also tools inspired by popcorn time like Stremio + Torrentio which is basically pirate netflix with no UX overhead at all - click and play - but the quality still isn’t great there due to lack of p2p supply and the install process is not accessible to grannies.

As an ancient pirate myself, this does worry me a bit as it’s becoming too easy and corporate services are really pushing the consumers which brings way too much attention to piracy and might result in more DRM shit being added everywhere.

But with Jellyfin you don’t necessarily need to do that yourself. You can have a friend with a server or pay some shady dude 5$/mo to use his server.

Yes, to effectively use AI you actually have to understand the medium you’re in to describe the problem you’re trying to solve. You can get there with prompting but it’ll take you much longer if you just don’t understand code yourself.

Thats why most senior software devs are not afraid of LLMs cause they need strong oversight and thats exactly what years of software dev experience trained you to do.

I recently setup my own Jellyfin server with qbittorent search plug-ins and its so easy. Netflix is really playing with fire here cause people will leave when pushed enough as it’s becoming so easy to switch. You can just hop on your friends server too

Sounds like a skill issue my dude. While you struggle to get a js script people are putting out entire programs with AI assistants so sure - you’re right and they’re wrong

Sure but that’s not how free markets work. If there’s only 3 million consumers you can’t afford 3 million voice actors but you can afford 3 million AI renders.

Thats not how AI training works and even then there’s absolutely enough data. Also training data can be created and even synthesized. There are many techniques to extract make training value from datasets that we discover every year - It’s really not a problem you think it is.

I’m genuinely confused how AI illiterate users here are. It’s just blind leading the blind.

It becomes easier and cheaper every day. Today’s open source LLMs are better than last year’s best model.

Yes geopolitics is about selling out to the evil capitalism scary spooky west! Don’t trip over your tank tracks.

Maybe you should take your advice and work on your reading comprehension before jumping to conclusions and trying to gaslight people. Bye

This is clearly the future despite the outrage here.

There are at least 389 living languages with over 1M speakers. That alone means it’s impossible to reach some people and they get left out. Most of these languages dont even have enough professional voice actors to cover the bandwidth.

There are thousands of books released every year. That’s impossible to cover even in English alone.

Its an objective net good to have more accessible audio books and the privileged people who do care about this stuff can very much afford to vote with their wallets for non-ai voices.

In fact since AI moat is so minimal this will very quickly be adapted by open source solution providing audio book access to millions if not billions of people to whom this was not an option. Its amazing.

You seem wildly confused what competence we’re talking about here. Saudi Arabia by far is the most competent Middle East country when it comes to building relationships with the west, no?

Take away Israel’s free pass not take over. Jesus dude you have reading comprehension of a 3rd grader and that’s generous.

Take away does not mean “steal” or “take over”. Just like when your mom takes away your dinosaur figurines before dinner she’s not really playing out t-rex vs stegosaurus battles herself right?

Sure it’s everyone’s fault but the guys who are beheading children lmao

Ah yes it’s the west that did it! Not the oppressive local religion and failed culture, not that at all! /s

The perpetual victims while also being the greatest and god chosen too.

I said absolutely nothing about free pass and Saudi Arabia - where are you getting that?

My point being is that Saudis connecting middle east to the west could make Israel redundant and too expensive to support. Is that clearer? There’s 0 opinions in this comment just a geopolitical observation.

Reading comprehension and mental healthcare of a true American lmao

Take care

That’s not what I said, maybe take a nap or something? You seem groggy

Not sure what that has to do with anything I said but sure

Yup Israel has always had a free pass cause they’re basically the only ally of west in broken and dangerous middle east.

Thats why Saudi Arabia is so fascinating - if they drag middle east out of swamp of incompetence they could make Israel redundant and take away its free pass.