Dunkey's Guide to Streaming Services
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a funny but surprisingly accurate illustration of streaming fragmentation driving piracy.
What it is
Videogamedunkey's satirical guide to the fragmented streaming service landscape, ending in a joke about how to watch King Kong.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2024 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends skeaker · 2024-02 · on “Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly”
Yep. This video is played for laughs but I was shocked to learn how much of it was true and not just satire: [this video] Content being fragmented and constantly coming and going is a massive problem for users. Netflix used to be the go-to to find just about any given show or film, but has become a mystery box where the contents change on a near-daily basis. Piracy is reliable and simple instead, and works like Netflix used to: Just search up what you want to watch and you're golden. It has been and always will be a service problem.
Recommends geerlingguy · 2024-04 · on “'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'”
"If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing." And for a great illustration of the complexity of our current situation, see this videogamedunkey video: [this video]