Way too accurate. Netflix, when it was the sole main provider, was super good. Then the other companies realised the big bucks they could get from streaming/peddling their own shit.
Thanks to this meme, I killed my netflix account. Nicotine is fine :D
It sucks when competition spoils a market
The whole idea that competition is good is a total libertarian lie. Cooperation leads to the best results. It’s just impossible under capitalism.
It is good, if the competing products/services are interchangeable and they need to compete on factors such as price, convenience, or reliability. For example, competing grocery stores, all of which offer by and large the same products. Or competing mechanics, all of which can perform service on your car.
Streaming services don’t do this. They have carved up the market and “compete” by making you choose which products you want more.
Imagine two grocery stores, one of which had all the ice cream, and the other had all the chocolate, and neither could carry things that the other stocked. That is what streaming services are doing.
Modern copyright law is essentially a state sanctioned monopoly.
Rights holders should be forced to license the content to anyone that wishes to distribute it. As it stands now, they can lock it in a vault for generations if they wanted.
As it stands now, they can lock it in a vault for generations if they wanted.
Like Disney used to?
You mean like Disney still does… they just purged 500 million dollars worth of content from Disney plus and there is no other legel way to view most of that content now untill Disney decides to wheel it back out again (content that got a physical release is obviously still available)
no other legel way to view
Case law states that if media is no longer available, it’s consumption is considered preservation and is thus completely legal. Nobody can argue lost profits for something that literally isn’t even on the market. Fun fact: this is the reason why Nintendo releases their old games on the E shop for way more than what they’re worth. Once it’s up there they get to do takedown requests of every ROM on the internet.
I was not aware they’re back to vaulting things
Competition on price sounds nice because it prevents excessive prices, but it’s also a root cause of poverty and environmental abuse. Cooperating is much better.
Thank you for giving the much warranted economics lesson.
Are ya ready, kids?!?
aye aye captain!
I subscribe to a bunch of services but still pirate all the shows because it’s nicer to have them all in one place
Say the line, Gabe!
The eyes in this fucking strip have haunted me for years.
This, it would be less deep in the uncanny valley without eyes at all.
On second though, it doesn’t seem like a big improvement. Reminds me a bit of limbfeeders without limbs.
I thought that was hair. I still see it mostly as hair. My brain can only see it as eyes for a fraction of a second at a time.
To the grand line!!!
It’s Plex’in time!
Plex is getting worse tough just saying…pushing their own services and now they started blocking certain hosting providers.
It may be but until other options are available on a PlayStation, I doubt I’ll move. I don’t even watch stuff but the people I serve to need functionally on the PS… maybe they’ll get smart TVs soon
Jellyfin is a great and superior alternative.
Corporations had a good thing going on, they fucked it up.
Corporations had a good thing going on, they fucked it up.
Show me nearly any problem the US has and I will boil it down to Corporate Greed and/or Racism.
I’m usually baffled whenever companies do a long term face-plant for the sake of short term profit. Really goes to show that what academics like to theorize about capitalism isn’t reflected in reality. Sure the system might work with people interested in long term gains but it very obviously is run by people that want short term gratification and in general just more of whatever they already have. Mostly that means money, because swimming in money still is not enough for these people.
Loot boxes and streaming are the best examples, the companies could have had a thing where they just print money. All they had to do was to moderate themselves a bit and not extort the customer for the last cent. But no, insane amounts of cash flow/profit are not enough, it needs to be ludicrously insane amounts. And after that some more.
Honestly most of my problems in life have much to do with the fact that rich Southerners halted the Reconstruction in order to maintain dominance over the poor
So both!
Good Ol’ Andrew Johnson.
Duh, we live under capitalism. Racism can be overcome (not in this lifetime tho), but the greed is built into the system.
Yeah, I used to turn to such activities because it was cheaper, now I do it because it’s simpler/easier.
Haha I’m poor
As someone who watches a lot of non-English stuff, I could never put the hat down.
Where $currentYear?
Ooook.just pay for Nebula and mabye curiosity stream
Just use a single subscription at a time, binge everything there, and proceed with the next one!
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