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YouTube Now Streams Free Ad-Supported Movies -- Including 'The Terminator' and 'Hackers' (techcrunch.com)
YouTube's "Movies & Shows" page added a "Free to Watch" section last month. They're trying to compete with free ad-supported online movie offerings from Roku, Walmart, and Tubi, while "Amazon is rumored to be working on something similar," reports TechCrunch:
Before, YouTube had only offered consumers the ability to purchase movies and TV shows, similar to how you can rent or buy content from Apple's iTunes or Amazon Video.... Currently, YouTube is serving ads on these free movies, but the report said the company is open to working out other deals with advertisers -- like sponsorships or exclusive screenings.
YouTube's advantage in this space, compared with some others, is its sizable user base of 1.9 billion monthly active users and its ability to target ads using data from Google.
The 99 free movies include the first five Rocky movies, and four movies in the Pink Panther series (all from the post-Peter Sellers era, including the forgotten 1993 film in which the title theme is sung by Bobby McFerrin), as well as Pauly Shore's dreadful 1996 comedy Bio-Dome (which received a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes). Also available is James Cameron's original 1984 film The Terminator, the 2010 documentary With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story and the 1995 film "Hackers" starring Angelina Jolie.
"In this cyberpunk thriller, a renegade group of elite teenage computer hackers rollerblade through New York City by day and ride the information highway by night. After hacking into a high-stakes industrial conspiracy, they become prime suspects and must recruit the best of the cybernet underground to help clear their names."
YouTube's advantage in this space, compared with some others, is its sizable user base of 1.9 billion monthly active users and its ability to target ads using data from Google.
The 99 free movies include the first five Rocky movies, and four movies in the Pink Panther series (all from the post-Peter Sellers era, including the forgotten 1993 film in which the title theme is sung by Bobby McFerrin), as well as Pauly Shore's dreadful 1996 comedy Bio-Dome (which received a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes). Also available is James Cameron's original 1984 film The Terminator, the 2010 documentary With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story and the 1995 film "Hackers" starring Angelina Jolie.
"In this cyberpunk thriller, a renegade group of elite teenage computer hackers rollerblade through New York City by day and ride the information highway by night. After hacking into a high-stakes industrial conspiracy, they become prime suspects and must recruit the best of the cybernet underground to help clear their names."
Content with adds is most of what you pay the cable company twice for.
Seems Google didn't make these available after all.
Because they just demonetized every MGTOW channel in existence.
So is this for US only or do I just happened to be in one of the countries that are not supported?
And content producers are probably still wondering why people download stuff
I've got better things to do tonight than die.
Does it delete ads from your memory in return for watching Hackers?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Trying to compete with Kodi and the Pirate Bay?
Criterion Collection (AKA WarnerMedia) has announced their plans to make their entire collection available for $9.99 a month or $89.99 for a year (for charter subscribers) to replace FilmStruck. It will be known as the Criterion Channel.
https://www.criterion.com/curr...
Bio-Dome? I don't even think they play that on cable.
Take that "Rest of the World" !!!!
Hackers, heh, I need to watch that again now that I know better.
I was pleased while rewatching Wargames though. It has aged well since it was pretty good about using actual hacking techniques.
Rewatching Manhattan Project was...weird. Totally fine film in and of itself, but man, the world is a very different place now.
Not everyone gets to watch. They are all blocked in my country. Maybe some of the 99 aren't but I didn't try them all. Those I checked are all marked as "not available in your country".
*sigh*... ok, here comes the VPN. Why they do such nonsense to us?
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Problem with YouTube - they don't give independent publishers without a heavy subscriber base to monetize from their content. Amazon allows.
For example, my films are always uploaded by others on YouTube and I lose revenue, ending in a cat/mouse game. But if I upload, there is no way to monetize.
And like other online offerings - there is absolutely no way to contact them and/or explain the situation.
Movies available were mentioned in the story (and a lot of the bad) Everything else they have available... You're gona' have to pay me to watch ($275. per hour, 50% discount on travel time)
In about 50% of ads I see on YouTube, the player fails to return to the video I want to watch at the end of the ad. I have to reload the page.
The combination of Pihole and Adblock has meant that I don't see ads on Youtube, except on our Nvidia Shield. On the Shield, Pihole blocks nearly all ads that interrupt a video, but not the ones that play at the beginning. This is just barely acceptable.
I turned off Pihole for an hour to solve an unrelated problem and experienced the full-fat ad experience on the Shield. This is not something I could stomach and would pay for Youtube Premium...at least for the winter months when the weather pushes me into hobby mode and hit Youtube a lot more.
Having content interrupted by ads is not something the majority of cord-cutters will put up with. I'd rather stare at the wall.
We need a terminator+hackers crossover sequel where the believed to be crashed Gibson is acquired as an asset of Cyberdyne Systems, and naked people come from the future to hang out with Mac PowerBook users who are mankind's last hope.
YouTube used to have a movies section with a ton of free classic movies. Most of them not as recent as Hackers but there was lots of movies across many genres. They then disappeared it and now they're back with more current films and ads.
Just another second banana
I don't know about terminator but you can catch Hackers on the local over the air station once a month or so.
include the first five Rocky movies, and four movies in the Pink Panther series (all from the post-Peter Sellers era, including the forgotten 1993 film in which the title theme is sung by Bobby McFerrin), as well as Pauly Shore's dreadful 1996 comedy Bio-Dome
Why would anyone even bother?
Unless perhaps the ads are really good.
Haha. Who am I kidding. It's fucking doomed.
I was demonetized for not having enough views so I don't care.
Look, i know most Americans think that their country is the center of the world, but there are other people out there. The reporting could at least let us know which countries this is available in. I am sure that we all understand that with current copyright legislation being different around the world that they might not have negotiated the rights to these movies everywhere yet no one seems to mention where they have negotiated the rights to do this.
this is not available in Canada and i seriously wonder if it is available anywhere other than the USA
There are a ton of old movies that are periodically put up that studios don't seem to be interested in investigating whether or not there would be any public interest in them. For the price of scanning them in (which they may have done already), they can put them up on YouTube and gauge customers' interest while bringing in a few bucks.
For the public, this could mean finding lost classics as well as giving scholars a chance to look back in history. There are a few movies I'd love to go back and watch ("The Louis Pasteur Story" with Paul Muni being a big one for me) again.
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Roku Channel, Crackle, Pluto TV, etc....
They all run very similar line up of movies at the same time. Terminator and Hackers has been floating around those channels this month. The same old same old. Occasionally, they'll slip in some thing that I think is good like "Death at a Funeral".
But what you'll never see is the Indiana Jones movies, Star Wars, and any of those bockbusters.
Anyway, all those "free" ad supporter channels all run the same shit over and over again and it looks like youtube wouldn't be any better.
If you want to see a good film noir on YouTube right now, check out THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946), starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin and a 24 year old, smoking hot Lizabeth Scott. It's good nasty fun and there are no commercials. It was directed by the great Lewis Milestone.
Here's a link. Don't ever say I ain't done nothing for you.
https://youtu.be/wHVGP8S984c
You are welcome on my lawn.
Ok, it's great to have free films made available but sounds like most of these are leftovers from the Blockbuster bargain bin. You can't give away most DVDs now, they are literally worthless.
$ mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_qI6_mIXc
Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_qI6_mIXc ...
[ytdl_hook] ERROR: no conn, hlsvp or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed, trying to play URL directly
[ffmpeg] tls: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
Failed to recognize file format.
Exiting... (Errors when loading file)
DAMN!!!
Fuck them...
Thank goodness Stallone and his team didn’t succumb to avarice and produce any cookie-cutter sequels.
#DeleteChrome
At least some of the movies not available in Switzerland, did not try them all though, but the first ones in the list are not.
Totally useless when nobody can watch it especially when those other providers probably have or will give access to other countries
Video unavailable
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
Same bullshit as always.
I.
HATE.
Geoblocking.
Just saying.
Same for me.
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don't let the cat ladies at rotten tomatoes tell you anything... all they do is give high marks to sjw rubbish
Out of curiosity I wanted to see if YouTube would let me watch one of these videos the other day. While not surprised even these old movies YouTube is requiring me to install a digital management restriction component for. I obviously turned down the demand. This component would have compromised the security of my computer and I wasn't about to go down that path. For those who aren't aware you are giving an untrustworthy entity full control of your system and they can pretty much do whatever they want with it. There is no source code or oversight. If something doesn't work nobody can fix it either. Only the company that wrote the proprietary component can fix bugs, add features, etc.
Fortunately there are alternatives to YouTube that seem to be working pretty well. I tried out LBRY.io the other day and it worked nearly exactly the same as YouTube. The main difference is lbry.io is a free software application that requires installation. It's also decentralized and enables people to upload content for sale or to offer wise offer up on the network for free. It worked great and doesn't require any DRM.
YouTube Now Streams Geo-Blocked Free Ad-Supported Movies -- Including 'The Terminator' and 'Hackers'
FTFY.
Yes, they do this in one country. The Internet is a bit bigger than that. Maybe mention it next time?
At least this is a start so we will see as this goes.