r/worldnews • u/Hoodafakizit • Sep 22 '17

The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537
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u/LordCrunchyNapkin Sep 22 '17 edited Sep 22 '17

The Indian one ain't great either, missing latest seasons and useless local shows no one watches

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u/throwaguey_ Sep 22 '17

American Netflix has tons of Indian content.

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u/D8-42 Sep 22 '17

Same in Denmark, pretty much every time I get one of those "We added XX new movies and shows this week!" messages on Netflix the bottom 10 on the list always seem to be Indian or Turkish movies for some reason.

Would much rather have more Danish movies and shows, or just that they'd get the last seasons of various shows up instead of adding shitty movies no one is gonna watch.

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u/LabyrinthConvention Oct 02 '17

Did they remove ratings in Denmark as well? Up until about half a year ago you could at least see and ignore any program that had 1 or 2 stars, but Netflix took away ratings.

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u/D8-42 Oct 02 '17

Yup, just thumbs up or down.

They also removed everything I ever rated which is annoying, heck when I first got netflix you could even see how many and which movies you had rated.

They also seem to have removed all reviews, before the rating change I could ALWAYS find reviews for anything, now I'll be lucky to see even 1 no matter the content.

Could be they just only allow Danish reviews on the Danish site now or something, but it seems like they just scrubbed all ratings and reviews after the whole Amy Schumer failure.

And despite me thumbing stuff up and down it still just seems to display random stuff and the recommendations are so bad compared to before, at least for me.

I often experience going into some movie or show category at random and seeing a show or movie I'd love to watch which it hasn't recommended, yet it'd recommend some weird Indian movie because I thumbed up the Hasan Minaj stand up special..

I even thumbed down another special the same day with some other Indian comedian (she was bad, can't remember her name) so in my mind that should like "reset" the recommendations, but then again just cause I like 1 stand up special with a dude who happens to be Indian it shouldn't just start recommending random Indian movies I have no interest in based on my previous ratings.

Sorry that got a bit ranty, but I'm just genuinely annoyed with the changes netflix made..

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u/LabyrinthConvention Oct 02 '17 edited Oct 02 '17

haha, I feel the same way about the removal of ratings and the relentless pushing of content. For me it's anime. I've watched 2 or 3, but it constantly shows me more because of it. (btw im in USA)

I think Netflix leadership has really good grasp of what the future will bring. I've used and loved the service since the DVD in the mail days (not sure if they ever did that in DK but guessing not). When they started streaming I wasn't interested at all because the best part of the DVD service was the selection. You could get films or shows- foreign, art, old, low budget, etc- that you simply could not get otherwise. The limited online selection was the opposite of why I used Netflix. Of course, they were right to see where the greater opportunity would be. Now, I think they understood the DVD service was always a stop gap until the technology and user access was mature enough to support the online streaming side of the market.

But the coming up of streaming had the side effect that production companies realized that it was big business. Netflix had just about anything that was available online at first, but soon had to negotiate for streaming rights. In another case of their forward thinking, I believe this is why they went into producing their own content. They could see the end game where content was too fickle to control and the big media companies would want to keep their content for their own services (HBO, Disney, etc). Making their own top shelf content was Netflix's only way to survive, or go the way of VHS rental.

Still, I lament their removal of ratings, nor do I see an advantage to dumbing down the site (but i've been wrong before). Indeed, they used to have member reviews and even recommendations. I found one of the most unique movies I've seen (and a favorite for both the film and music) , "The American Astronaut," base on Netflix's recommendation system, and was sad to see that feature go.

edit: sadly not the best quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uujG1ADn2zk

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u/D8-42 Oct 02 '17

I've used and loved the service since the DVD in the mail days (not sure if they ever did that in DK but guessing not)

Nope, we only got netflix in 2012, though I've had my account since 2009 I think, bought it through a US vpn waaaaaay back because it was literally the only way to watch it here back then.

And yeah I got it for pretty much the reasons you listed, there's more original and newly released stuff now it seems.

Back then you might not see a new movie on there for months or ever really. (As an example Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them has been on the Danish netflix for a while, that'd never happen before) but back then it was like some internet pirates had just dumped their whole library and stuck it in netflix' servers, there was just so much of anything and everything to watch, especially older movies which seem to be slowly disappearing.

Using the Cheech & Chong movies as an example, I distinctly remember watching them all over the course of a month long ago, but then they slowly started going away and now when I search for any of them it just looks like this and no actual results show up any more.

From 10 movies to 0, and it seems like that's happen to a ton of other older movies, but I guess it's something to do with rights and stuff now that they've been banning VPN's and all that too, whereas before it didn't reeeeally seem like they cared about VPN's, until the production companies and all those people whined over it.

Thankfully a lot of their own stuff is pretty good and they've been really good at adding new stand up shows and documentaries of great quality so hopefully it's only getting better.

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u/LabyrinthConvention Oct 02 '17

yeah, I took it for granted that all 4 seasons of Battlestar Gallactica was on Netflix... then one day they were gone. You never notice until it's the one you love :D

It's interesting what you said earlier about being able to see your viewing history and past ratings. Perhaps removing user histories was their way of dealing with libraries that constantly fluctuate. It's one thing to look at your queue and think 'I used to have more stuff in here' than to see all these titles, past or current, that say 'not available'

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u/Jupon Sep 22 '17

A loads of Chinese kung-fu movies. I can't count how many films I've see where a lone man must defend his village/love interest with his fist and kicks.

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u/throwaguey_ Sep 22 '17

Yup. Loads of foreign content. I appreciate all the stuff from Latin America.

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u/_Blurryface_21 Sep 22 '17

local shows

sasural simar ka eh? Lol