Be Excellent To Each Other

Tried various things but it seems like they've shut down all the unblockers now, right?

I gave up on Netflix region-switching a while ago on my PC, and decided that piracy was both less effort and more reliable.

By all accounts Netflix don't want to clamp down on the region-switchers but were under immense pressure from their content suppliers to do so, and have been saying for a while that extra measures were incoming so I'd say that's the change that's happened.

We still pay for Netflix, Amazon Prime and also our BBC Licence fee, but they are often insufficient to even watch a TV series.

It's a bit unfortunate but maybe if you're paying these things it makes the piracy feel a little less bad?

Same here, gave up months ago. Shame really, but UK Netflix is picking up.

Well I resubscribed to Netflix purely because I was 'obtaining' Season 2 of Better Call Saul from elsewhere and it just seemed right to tip the cash over to them as they're providing Better Call Saul in this country.

(I'm still 'obtaining' Season 2 of BCS and squireling it away on the NAS (I haven't watched a single episode of the second season on Netflix itself), because I trust my ability to archive data over the years more than I do streaming digital content providers to maintain a service in perpetuity and/or retain rights to content, as stuff just flat out disappears from Netflix and Amazon Prime on a regular basis, as I discovered the hard way when a good chunk of my 'Watch List' vanished from Netflix before I'd had chance to actually watch it.)

Ultimately I have no idea what the solution to the new world order when it comes to 'content' is, because first it was music and now it's video (i.e. film/television/whatever) that has no real 'value' insofar as it's all available digitally, no physical product is required, and for a lot of folks there's no reason not to simply download and consume it for zero cost.

In an ideal world I suppose all the 'creators' would work together and share a reasonable amount of revenue for the works they produce, but if you look at what's happened to music maybe that won't happen (Portishead and their millions of streams on Spotify for a few thousand quid spring to mind).

Personally I love the BBC Licence Fee model, and cheerfully pay that every year just for the Radcliffe & Maconie show on Radio 6. Make everyone chip in a bit, and create enough content such that everyone can find something they like.

You don't even have to download it and keep it on a NAS these days

Exodus, a plug in for Kodi is a streaming service that has every episode of TV and films available as soon as they are out.

Its Netflix how it should be, but free.

Think it will cause issues for Kodi as lots of people I know are using it now that I know wouldn't have been into downloading.

You can pick up a Fire stick on EBay all set up with Kodi and Exodus for £40

I'm thinking longer term than that though, like if I want to watch BCS again in five years time, Netflix has gone bust and stuff like Kodi doesn't exist any more, which is why I want my own copies of it.

Or just Netflix doesn't have rights to BCS in five years time, shit disappears off there all the time.

I don't really use Exodus that much, I find it useful to see TV shows I might not know about.

The content is not on there long term, I found that they had all of Star Gate on there but none of the episodes would play.