[HN Gopher] Netflix Open Content
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       Netflix Open Content
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 557 points
       Date   : 2025-12-30 10:11 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (opencontent.netflix.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (opencontent.netflix.com)
        
       | carschno wrote:
       | The last addition was made in 2020.
        
       | HelloUsername wrote:
       | (2022)?
       | 
       | (Or earlier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25801075)
        
         | pwdisswordfishy wrote:
         | <https://netflixtechblog.com/engineers-making-movies-aka-
         | open...> (2018)
        
       | _flux wrote:
       | Funny how how all the links, including the ones to their own
       | pages, are routed through google.com/url, e.g. the link "Assets
       | Available to Download". Usually tracking isn't quite this
       | visible.
        
         | afandian wrote:
         | It is very odd. I don't see a good reason, not even tracking.
        
           | jmathai wrote:
           | Aren't those just the URLs in google search results if you
           | copy from the results page instead of clicking through to the
           | destination?
        
             | esrauch wrote:
             | The reason for the intermediary is because the clickthrough
             | sends the previous URL as a referer to the next server.
             | 
             | The only real way to avoid leaking specific urls from the
             | source page to the arbitrary other server is to have an
             | intermediary redirect like this.
             | 
             | All the big products put an intermediary for that reason,
             | though many of them make it a user visible page of that
             | says "you are leaving our product" versus Google mostly
             | does it as an immediate redirect.
             | 
             | The copy/paste behavior is mostly an unfortunate side
             | effect and not a deliberate feature of it.
        
               | afandian wrote:
               | I don't understand. They are redirecting to their own S3
               | bucket, so who would be the recipient of the leak?
               | 
               | Also, isn't this what Referrer-Policy is for?
               | https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
               | US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...
        
               | giancarlostoro wrote:
               | Quoting web standards, you are more optimistic than I am,
               | unfortunately, nobody uses them consistently or
               | accurately (look at PUT vs POST for create / update as a
               | really good example of this - nobody agrees) its a shame
               | too, there's a lot of richness to the web spec. Most
               | people don't even use "HEAD" to ensure they aren't making
               | wasteful REST calls if they already have the data.
        
               | afandian wrote:
               | I was replying to
               | 
               | > All the big products put an intermediary for that
               | reason
               | 
               | Surely whoever maintains the big products can add headers
               | if they want?
               | 
               | And this is about people who care enough about not
               | showing up in Referer headers to do something about it
               | rather than people in general not understanding the full
               | spec .
        
               | giancarlostoro wrote:
               | The other problem is if you're too big like Google, you
               | cannot assume everyone will honor this, which is why they
               | do these redirects.
        
               | afandian wrote:
               | Referrer-Policy is a response header, so in this case it
               | would be Google sending it, and the browsers who would be
               | honouring it. You have to hope that the browser makers
               | get it correct... Unless I misunderstood?
        
               | otterley wrote:
               | Blogger predates the existence of this header by many
               | years. Blogger, I believe, has also been in maintenance
               | mode for many years.
        
               | Kye wrote:
               | It sees periodic major updates to keep it in line with
               | standards. That's not much more than maintenance mode,
               | but it's more than just keeping the servers running. It
               | seems like someone at Google pays attention to it and
               | keeps it from falling behind, but I suspect the same was
               | true of Google Reader until it wasn't.
        
               | reddalo wrote:
               | >someone at Google pays attention to it and keeps it from
               | falling behind
               | 
               | I feel like it's the same for Google My Maps. They even
               | discontinued the Android app, so you can only use it on
               | the web. It totally feels like there's a single guy
               | keeping the whole system up.
        
             | lionkor wrote:
             | Not if you use the ClearURLs addon ;)
        
         | reddalo wrote:
         | It's because their blog is hosted on blogger.com (yeah, weird
         | decision), which is owned by Google and does that by default.
        
           | XCSme wrote:
           | I also have a blogger.com blog.
           | 
           | Why? Because I had it for 20+ years, and I still didn't find
           | an easy way to automatically migrate it to WordPress.
        
             | wijwp wrote:
             | You're also presumably not a $400m+ company, which makes it
             | more intestesting.
        
               | XCSme wrote:
               | My point was that it's not trivial to migrate away from
               | blogger.
        
               | yunnpp wrote:
               | I assure you no amount of capital trivializes the
               | endeavour of migrating to/from Wordpress.
               | 
               | GP speaks wisdom.
        
             | jonny_eh wrote:
             | Clearly engineers at Netflix have more important work to
             | do.
        
         | cfn wrote:
         | And when I click them I get a page with "Did you mean
         | netflix.com? The site you just tried to visit looks fake.
         | Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making small, hard-to-see
         | changes to the URL." which then sends me to the Netfcix home
         | page. Chrome on MacOS.
        
           | giancarlostoro wrote:
           | ...how is that even possible?
        
           | bstsb wrote:
           | it's because their s3 bucket is called
           | "download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com". the
           | subdomain makes chrome think it's pretending to be
           | "netflix.com"
        
             | IggleSniggle wrote:
             | But they said it sends them to Netfcix? That seems
             | incorrect
        
         | philsnow wrote:
         | The ios gmail app does the same thing, but why? I would assume
         | the app could just transparently relay the click through its
         | already-open grpc channel to google's servers, and it would be
         | faster for them and (more importantly) for me.
        
       | cooper_ganglia wrote:
       | Cool! I'm looking forward to going through some of these, looks
       | very interesting!
        
       | FunnyLookinHat wrote:
       | Anyone else surprised that the download links are plain HTTP
       | without SSL? I know it's a page that in the past I would have
       | typically not worried about securing - but nowadays it's SSL
       | everything or else your browser yells at you.
        
         | mrtksn wrote:
         | The page look like zero effort given anyway, like one of the
         | free templates you can find.
        
         | ronbenton wrote:
         | Yeah, this is bad. The page almost seems like someone's pet
         | project that didn't have any explicit funding and they got
         | bored or left Netflix in 2020. I'm not sure how that would
         | explain the lack of SSL cert except for just general lack of
         | thoroughness.
        
           | reddalo wrote:
           | > The page almost seems like someone's pet project that
           | didn't have any explicit funding
           | 
           | It probably is, given that it's just a static page hosted on
           | blogger.com
        
           | gregoryl wrote:
           | From the names mentioned in the most recent blog post, they
           | left late 2022.
        
         | robingchan wrote:
         | this is hosted on s3 which doesn't support HTTPS, that said -
         | if they used cloudfront in front of this bucket, they could
         | save $$$ and have a SSL
        
           | 8organicbits wrote:
           | S3 absolutely supports HTTPS. I think they set their bucket
           | policy to forbid HTTPS. The whole thing is odd.
           | 
           | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/exampl.
           | ..
        
             | robingchan wrote:
             | so, isn't this using the s3 static website hosting feature
             | - (im assuming due to the dir listing) which i dont believe
             | does support https
        
         | uyzstvqs wrote:
         | I'm surprised they didn't use BitTorrent, with these HTTP links
         | as web seeds. That'd make the most sense.
        
           | alex_duf wrote:
           | Politically it would be an interesting choice for Netflix to
           | encourage people to use their BitTorrent clients..
           | 
           | But technically, you're right.
        
             | abustamam wrote:
             | I didn't even know Netflix had a bit torrent client!
        
         | maxmcd wrote:
         | Quite surprising. It does seem like you can get an https
         | download with                   aws s3 cp --no-sign-request
         | s3://download.opencontent.netflix.com/sparks/creative-commons-
         | attribution-4-intl-public-license.txt .
         | 
         | Which is hitting the bucket path route at:
         | https://s3.amazonaws.com/download.opencontent.netflix.com/sp...
         | 
         | "aws s3 ls" similarly requests:
         | https://s3.amazonaws.com/download.opencontent.netflix.com?li...
        
       | jcattle wrote:
       | I was curious about this recently. I was wondering about open
       | files of well known artists.
       | 
       | Unlike netflix/YouTube its not immediately clear to me which
       | Organisation would spearhead something like this out of their own
       | interesting. Closest I know of is the MuseGroup, which are doing
       | this "growing of the pie" with open source music creation
       | Software.
       | 
       | Anyone know of something else?
        
       | niceboy2 wrote:
       | I love it just because squid game.
        
       | andrewstuart wrote:
       | There's basically zero innovation in online video.
       | 
       | Such a pity startups can't innovate on the content stores of the
       | big companies.
        
         | philipallstar wrote:
         | > There's basically zero innovation in online video.
         | 
         | AV2 is coming out this year.
         | 
         | > Such a pity startups can't innovate on the content stores of
         | the big companies.
         | 
         | What do you mean?
        
           | afavour wrote:
           | Can't speak for OP but personally I'm thinking of things like
           | the ability to actually add new features. Like what Netflix
           | did with the Bandersnatch episode of Black Mirror years ago.
           | Online video is extremely locked down when compared to the
           | web.
        
             | olyjohn wrote:
             | Probably because there are over 9000 different TVs with
             | their own proprietary apps on each one. So the easiest
             | thing to do is just go with the lowest common denominator
             | which is just giving you a menu to play a simple video.
        
               | afavour wrote:
               | For sure. But something like Bandersnatch shows that it
               | _is_ technically possible. Not for all devices of course.
               | But there could be some kind of open standard companies
               | implement and startups innovate on. But no one with power
               | has an interest in doing that.
        
           | walterbell wrote:
           | 20 years ago, it was possible to seamlessly merge video clips
           | from multiple streaming RealPlayer servers into a single
           | composite video stream, using a static XML text file (SMIL)
           | distributed via HTTP, with optional HTML annotation and
           | composition.
           | 
           | This is technically possible today but blocked by DRM and
           | closed apps/players. Innovation would be unlocked if 3rd
           | party apps could create custom viewing experiences based on
           | licensed and purchased content files downloaded locally, e.g.
           | in your local Apple media library. The closed apps could then
           | sherlock/upstream UX improvements that prove broadly useful.
        
             | phantomathkg wrote:
             | It is not blocked by DRM but different codec. Even if you
             | have two MP4 files, but if they were encoded differently
             | ffmpeg will still need to do some computation to join them.
        
               | walterbell wrote:
               | Gapless playback with MSE would require identical
               | encoding, which is likely more prevalent in the Apple
               | catalog than the wild west of Youtube. Client-side
               | transcode would require DRM cooperation.
               | 
               | For two video streams with different encodings, swapping
               | between two media players + prefetch can give a close
               | approximation of a continuous video stream.
        
           | ksec wrote:
           | >AV2 is coming out this year.
           | 
           | Which has less than 48 hours to go.
        
         | gibsonsmog wrote:
         | It's actually a regression overall compared to physical media
         | like DVDs and Blurays. No director commentaries, no behind the
         | scenes, no silly menu games, etc. Streaming would theoretically
         | allow for tons of this type of content to be made and connected
         | to a film at any time but instead we have this stagnant
         | recreation of cable TV. C'est la vie
        
           | michaelbuckbee wrote:
           | The lack of director commentaries and behind the scenes
           | content on streaming has always baffled me as the rights to
           | that must be much cheaper to acquire and would result in more
           | minutes of streaming watched for less licensing money.
        
             | sbarre wrote:
             | It's telling that VFX subcontractors are putting out their
             | own BTS content on YouTube now as promotional material,
             | since the primary production companies for shows and films
             | (with a few exceptions) have completely stopped doing this.
             | 
             | I miss director commentary, I loved re-watching movies with
             | that audio track.
             | 
             | Is there just too much content now? Or has streaming become
             | such a "content mill" that the creators aren't inspired
             | enough about their own work to sit down and talk about it
             | after it's complete?
        
               | lotsofpulp wrote:
               | > Is there just too much content now?
               | 
               | I would guess this is the reason. Before there was
               | unlimited content or ways to entertain yourself on a
               | screen, having additional content on a disc would have
               | been a marketing point to make people feel like they're
               | getting more for their money.
               | 
               | But now, I doubt even 1 in 1,000 people would respond to
               | that, since there is always something else that can be
               | instantly switched to watching or playing, so why go
               | through the effort?
        
             | wincy wrote:
             | We've started watching Pluribus on Apple TV and it seems
             | like when they're making the show Apple contractually
             | obligates them to make a podcast about each episode. Some
             | of them are very interesting (like costume design) and some
             | are less so.
             | 
             | It was funny how the sound engineers remoted in for the
             | podcast and had extremely low quality mics, despite it
             | being a show with fantastic sound (really it's an excellent
             | show in general, just really good).
        
               | filoleg wrote:
               | I noticed the same with Severance (also Apple TV). After
               | every episode, there is a short director commentary/crew
               | interviews about random episode specifics or more higher
               | level thoughts.
               | 
               | I liked it quite a bit.
        
             | hamdingers wrote:
             | DVD extras existed as an incentive for users to re-buy
             | films they already had on VHS.
             | 
             | No such incentive is necessary with streaming, the format
             | competes so well on convenience it doesn't have to invest
             | in extra content.
        
           | expedition32 wrote:
           | DVDs were iirc 480p which would look absolutely terrible on a
           | modern TV.
        
             | k12sosse wrote:
             | Remember those DVD releases that had plastic edges and
             | cardboard fronts/backs? That's an era for you. They're
             | always max 480p, sometimes even 480i, and often single
             | layer, dual sided. Those came out when the Sony was still
             | making Trinitron CRTs that could barely do 720p.
        
           | treesknees wrote:
           | Disney+ has quite a bit of this actually. I agree though that
           | overall most streaming services don't offer this.
        
           | weslleyskah wrote:
           | Exactly. And this is why a whole dimension of collecting rare
           | footages is quite dead now. This is why piracy through these
           | great public trackers still matters.
           | 
           | Rare movies and film documentaries from the 20th century
           | still can be found on rutracker, for example. The Russians
           | really did create a dedicated community of archivists, with
           | the quality varying to a certain degree depending on the
           | uploader's reputation, but they certainly created a notorious
           | collection of movies, even the ones relatively unknown or
           | sometimes censored to death on western countries.
        
       | 332451b wrote:
       | More recent content from Netflix is part of the ASWF Digital
       | Production Example Library. https://dpel.aswf.io/
        
       | everlier wrote:
       | Is this for some sort of a formal compliance or being able to
       | point out "we host things free of charge too?
        
         | bwilliams18 wrote:
         | It's all technical test footage used to test their media
         | pipelines - presumably, they're sharing it to create industry
         | standards, particularly for partner and open-source library
         | implementations.
        
         | ahartmetz wrote:
         | It costs them little and what's in it for them is better codecs
         | -> lower bandwidth expenses. Interests are aligned with the
         | public, it's fine.
        
       | Fiveplus wrote:
       | This could be a huge deal for anyone working on video codecs or
       | display tech. Finding legally clear, high-quality, uncompressed
       | (or mezzanine) 4K HDR footage to test encoders against is
       | surprisingly difficult. Most test footage you find online has
       | already been stomped on by YouTube or Meta compression.
       | 
       | Having the raw EXR sequences and the IMF packages for Sol Levante
       | and Meridian means researchers can finally benchmark AV1 vs HEVC
       | vs VVC using source material that actually has the dynamic range
       | to show the differences. The fact that they included the Dolby
       | vision metadata is the cherry on top.
        
         | Uehreka wrote:
         | Don't most camera manufacturers (like ARRI and BlackMagic) have
         | test footage for their raw and/or log formats on their
         | websites? Here's ARRI's (which includes ProRes in addition to
         | their proprietary formats) https://www.arri.com/en/learn-
         | help/learn-help-camera-system/...
        
           | randall wrote:
           | yeah but distributing them is probably not just "oh it's open
           | source!"
        
             | otterley wrote:
             | These are motion pictures, not software. "Open source" is
             | about the latter.
        
               | clbn wrote:
               | But... you'll see Netflix calls it "OPEN SOURCE CONTENT"
               | if you click the link.
        
               | otterley wrote:
               | You are right! At least the link title got it right.
        
               | nipponese wrote:
               | I believe open source is about the law. Software is one
               | way it can be applied.
        
               | otterley wrote:
               | IAAL (but this is not legal advice).
               | 
               | Anyone can freely license a work to the public, and
               | copyright holders were doing that long before modern
               | computers were invented.
               | 
               | "Open source" (other than, say, in the context of open
               | water sources or intelligence or journalistic sources,
               | where it was rarely used) as a descriptive term did not
               | enter the common lexicon until 1998 and that was
               | specifically to refer to software source code.
               | 
               | https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-
               | source...
        
               | scott_w wrote:
               | You're correct but words and phrases can evolve in their
               | meaning over time. If the licensing terms for this are
               | analogous to open source software licensing terms then
               | calling it "open source media" is pretty reasonable.
        
               | otterley wrote:
               | I'm all for linguistic evolution as long as it decreases
               | ambiguity and confusion, as opposed to exacerbating it.
               | See: "literally."
        
               | RobotToaster wrote:
               | It's not popular, but even creative commons, the
               | organisation that wrote the licence they are using,
               | prefers the term "free cultural work"
               | https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/freeworks/
        
               | saghm wrote:
               | They're "we won't sue you for using these" bytes. The
               | terminology might be fuzzy but I feel like everyone in
               | this thread understands the concept.
        
         | jwr wrote:
         | I used to work at a company developing an independent H.264
         | decoder implementation. We would have _killed_ for this kind of
         | source content, especially if the license allowed showing it at
         | trade shows.
        
       | game_the0ry wrote:
       | With all that $500K talent, you would think they could make a
       | better looking website.
        
       | 0xbrayo wrote:
       | 34gb for a 5min short film, crazy. High fidelity though
        
         | ronsor wrote:
         | Not that crazy. The cost of storing the film--even 2 hour
         | features--is dwarfed by the rest of the production costs. You
         | can afford a dedicated HDD when you're done.
        
           | stavros wrote:
           | Well, hopefully two.
        
           | echelon wrote:
           | This will at some point in the future invert.
           | 
           | The cost to generate a future kind of film from some template
           | (script, characters, art choices, etc in some kind of source
           | file) won't be much more than the cost to store it.
           | 
           | When this happens, perhaps we will cache the results but
           | later dump them. Assuming storage costs don't drop faster and
           | more significantly.
           | 
           | Maybe 30 years?
           | 
           | Edit: Lots of downvotes. I'm a filmmaker, I've made lots of
           | photons-on-glass films. Most of us are experimenting with
           | this tech and aren't thumbing our noses at it like people
           | outside our industry. We don't really have a choice but to
           | adapt, and I find it funny that casual observers on the
           | outside are so morally opposed. It's actually an incredible
           | tool for pitching and has utility for some SFX, compositing,
           | and B-roll shots today. It's really going to help mid market
           | and below, for films that don't have Disney budgets.
        
             | hamdingers wrote:
             | If this (tragic, dystopian, abominable) future comes to
             | pass, why would we store movies at all?
             | 
             | Just distribute the prompt and I'll generate my own movie
             | on the fly, with my own tweaks of course.
        
               | echelon wrote:
               | It's funny to me that I work in film and have more hope
               | and imagination over the use of this technology than
               | people who (presumably) don't make films at all.
               | 
               | As long as humans have dreams it won't be like that. The
               | human spirit and desire to connect to others and tell
               | stories doesn't just suddenly die.
               | 
               | I think the very best lens to look at it is that all of
               | the tens of thousands of kids that go through film school
               | and never get to bring their VFX-heavy fantasy to life
               | now suddenly have voice to match their ambition.
        
               | CamperBob2 wrote:
               | The downvotes are a _good_ sign. If AI didn 't promise
               | massive artistic disruption -- the sort that threatens to
               | put real creative power into the hands of outsiders -- no
               | one would object.
               | 
               | Look at the history of photography itself to see an
               | example. "But... but... but my portrait-painting skills
               | will be obsolete! Somebody do something. Waaah."
        
               | jayers wrote:
               | Your comment left me incredibly annoyed because I think
               | you fully misunderstand the relationship of AI to art.
               | 
               | > If AI didn't promise massive artistic disruption -- the
               | sort that threatens to put real creative power into the
               | hands of outsiders -- no one would object.
               | 
               | Putting creative power into the hands of outsiders isn't
               | important. In fact, creative power is currently in the
               | hands of outsiders. You do not need a cinema studio to
               | make a good film. There is nothing stopping most people
               | from making a good feature length film and putting it up
               | on YouTube except for their willpower, spirit, and
               | creativity.
               | 
               | The bottleneck on great art has never been technology but
               | the creative vision of the individual. Increased AI
               | presence in art will do nothing to alleviate that
               | bottleneck.
               | 
               | With that said, I am not bothered by the emergence of AI
               | or its applications for any kind of art. I'm just a
               | realist. It will enable equally enable both the great and
               | the shitty, so in the end it is a wash.
        
               | CamperBob2 wrote:
               | Your comment left _me_ encouraged, just because there are
               | so few people left around here who would say something
               | like
               | 
               | > _You do not need a cinema studio to make a good film.
               | There is nothing stopping most people from making a good
               | feature length film and putting it up on YouTube except
               | for their willpower, spirit, and creativity._
               | 
               | That being said, it's not true. Even Robert Rodriguez had
               | to exercise a modicum of management skill and spend a
               | non-trivial amount of money to get El Mariachi made. And
               | even then, the available resources severely constrained
               | what he could do with $7000 (about $20000 today).
               | 
               | The next Rodriguez is probably already using half-baked,
               | primitive tools like WAN 2.2 to blow us all away. We just
               | don't know who he or she is yet.
               | 
               | Something else that's not true is:
               | 
               |  _> It will equally enable both the great and the shitty,
               | so in the end it is a wash._
               | 
               | The great works add far more to our culture than the
               | shitty works take away. Before AI, 90% of everything was
               | crap. After AI, 99% of everything might be crap. But the
               | remaining 1% is all that matters.
        
               | deadbabe wrote:
               | We could market books as movies by marketing them as long
               | consistent prompts. Moviebooks.
        
             | CamperBob2 wrote:
             | The thing about the ludds is that as a rule, they don't
             | understand that their perceived enemies are threatening to
             | make their lives _better_.
             | 
             | They can be safely ignored... at least here, and at least
             | for now.
        
               | array_key_first wrote:
               | Yes I'm sure that when we start pumping out 10
               | movies/minute the quality will only _increase_.
               | 
               | As it currently stands, most things are crap. The speed
               | is not the bottleneck.
        
       | ysangkok wrote:
       | How do I play back the EBU STL subtitles on Linux?
       | 
       | http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/ind...
        
         | Ndeshpande wrote:
         | Closed Caption Creator has a desktop version of Linux that can
         | read EBU-STL files.
        
       | caseyf7 wrote:
       | I would like to see them give us an option to turn HDR off. In
       | some situations it is just too bright and in others too dark.
        
         | floydnoel wrote:
         | Wouldn't that be handled on your TV and/or streaming box?
         | That's how I control it, at least.
        
           | caseyf7 wrote:
           | Unfortunately iPads also don't allow you to turn off HDR
        
             | swiftcoder wrote:
             | For a long time putting them in low power mode killed HDR,
             | but it seems they patched that bug (feature)
        
         | ComputerGuru wrote:
         | I'm still rocking a plasma tv which sidesteps the matter
         | altogether :)
         | 
         | Best tv tech to date, though OLED improvements in the past year
         | mean we might see good panels hitting the market in a few
         | years. The race to produce the brightest panels (and putting
         | them on display for comparison and testing in brightly lit
         | electronics stores in environments that couldn't be further
         | from the actual viewing experience) resulted in a bunch of mass
         | market crap.
        
           | Lord-Jobo wrote:
           | Newish QD oled finally hit that threshold of upgrading for
           | me. Plasma definitely had a hell of a run though.
        
           | timc3 wrote:
           | Took down my Pioneer Kuro a couple of weeks ago. OLED is so
           | good now.
           | 
           | Agree with the in store crap and all the processing that's
           | turned on for the TVs on display. But brightness is useful -
           | can help combat ambient light, and HDR can look amazing.
        
           | assimpleaspossi wrote:
           | I wish there was a rubber ducky like thing to give you as a
           | fellow plasma TV user.
        
       | dom96 wrote:
       | Slightly off-topic, but I notice Cosmos Laundromat (2016) is on
       | that page. One of my favourite animated shorts ever. Something so
       | unique about it. It would be nice to get a feature length version
       | of it, but alas.
        
       | zaptheimpaler wrote:
       | Firefox refuses to open the download links with an error like:
       | 
       | Blocked loading mixed active content
       | "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/?de..."
       | 
       | It seems to be something like blocking loading any HTTP request
       | from an HTTPS page. Very annoying :(
        
       | lrvick wrote:
       | Do not give netflix -too- much credit for this. Netflix
       | permanently closes distribution of most content they touch and
       | kills the very physical media ownership options for content that
       | they built their empire on.
       | 
       | You will be hard pressed to find a blu-ray or dvd release of any
       | netflix show in the US.
       | 
       | As someone that enjoys having a physical offline media
       | collection, and who does not want to support netflix, I am often
       | forced to buy japanese copies or bootleg copies of netflix shows
       | whereas I can buy legitimate US copies from virtually all other
       | studios.
       | 
       | Even hits like K-Pop demon hunters, netflix has forbidden
       | physical purchase or ownership, so piracy is the only option for
       | those who are not netflix customers or want to watch offline on a
       | blu-ray player on an airplane.
        
         | calt wrote:
         | Why buy Japanese bootlegs when webrips are on popular torrent
         | sites?
        
           | lrvick wrote:
           | I absolutely torrent as a way to discover new content, but I
           | want favorites on a shelf on very long shelf life media where
           | it does not require internet access and is never going to get
           | altered or deleted as streaming services often do, or end up
           | unavailable in the future with no seeders.
           | 
           | There are piles of obscure things for which physical
           | (sometimes bootleg) media exists but no seeders.
           | 
           | For example the mexican hacking drama Control Z, I found 0
           | complete rips even on private trackers, but I did find some
           | nice blu ray bootlegs with cases and cover art.
           | 
           | Even with blu-ray rips in hand, burning a disk myself and
           | putting it into a nice recognizable case that fits in my blu
           | ray wall cases is a pain in the ass and I would rather pay
           | someone else for this service.
           | 
           | Plus it makes it way easier to hand select shows to hand a
           | kid to play in a portable media player, and avoids the need
           | to give them unrestricted alone time with an internet capable
           | device.
           | 
           | I prefer official copies but if the studios do not allow them
           | and thus do not want my money then bootlegs it is.
        
             | reaperducer wrote:
             | _I absolutely torrent as a way to discover new content, but
             | I want favorites on a shelf on very long shelf life media
             | where it does not require internet access and is never
             | going to get altered or deleted as streaming services often
             | do, or end up unavailable in the future with no seeders._
             | 
             | You're on a site called Hacker News, and don't know how to
             | burn a video file to DVD?
        
       | swypych wrote:
       | no Big Buck Bunny...
        
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