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Just a few weeks a ago "Real Engineering" relased a video about how Nebula works. Literally talking about the streaming protocol used and the technical aspects of it. Nebula is definity pirateable with ffmpeg if you properly edit the m3u8 file, from what I can tell.
But seriously, I'm with most other people here ... just pay for it for a month an cancel. It's a really great platform and I'd feel bad ripping from them. I actually bought the $300 lifetime membership the other day.
If you have some means of recieving donations, PM me, I'll send you the $5 for a month.
I wonder if the $300 is sort of like extra startup money to get better hardware, infrastructure, software improvements in the short term. I honestly have no idea. I pop on there sometimes to watch the full length videos from YouTube and there is some really great content, but not necessarily enough. Their UI/apps could definitely use some work, though I have not checked recently.
I really hope they continue to run and it looks like I need to catch up on some content. I took a break from most YouTube/TV/etc. I cancelled all of my other subscriptions, but I have no reason to not support a company like Nebula, especially at their price points.
I am not going to debate the ethics of piracy or people's justifications for or against it. It isn't productive. I do think this is an instance where you are better off paying for a month than spending a lot of time trying to get it another way. Sometimes, I like to put things in the perspective of I make X dollars an hour, how many man hours did I spend to do X task? Cost benefit analysis. This isn't always practical, thus the "sometimes".
Yes, it totally is. It says so in the video I was refering to. They basically needed some capital but didn't want to be accountable to traditional investors. He explains it much better in the video.
the fact that they offer a lifetime subscription tells me that they don't care about sustainability and will disappear within a decade
A tiny fraction of their users paying upfront (remember opportunity cost of money) is hardly going to doom them to insolvency.
Look at this way - investors give money to a company now to receive money later. They risk capital now in exchange for future rewards. Lifetime subscribers pay a large fixed amount now to receive free service later. Same thing.
They're probably just leveraging the good will they have as the plucky underdog. I personally found the app clunky and that the videos loaded really slowly, but I don't blame them for offering a lifetime subscription.
Either that, or it's just price anchoring and they weren't expecting anyone to spend $300, but it made the other options look cheaper