we live in hell

I don't even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they're saying....hey do you want a worse experience?

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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Or just reading the file name on the DVD lol

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Sure but this is actually Automatic Content Recognition, specifically Roku's video ACR that takes snapshots twice a second.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Would it be possible to argue that this is copyright infringement? They're basically screencapping copyrighted content at a shitty framerate and distributing it over the internet.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    They're not distributing it. They're taking a screenshot, identifying the content, and transmitting hashed and aggregated data. Even if they were transmitting screenshots, they'd be transmitting it to their own systems to be hashed and analyzed, not watched.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    You agreed to it when you set up the device. It should be illegal to have incredibly obtuse and impossible to read T&C, they should make it abundantly clear exactly how much of your personal information is being given away, but unfortunately it's legal to just have a little checkbox that lets you lie about reading them.

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