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It is simple really.
People stopped because the steamers made accessing media easier than piracy at a reasonable price.
Now that the reasonable price part is slipping away, people are re-assessing that decision.
It’s not just the reasonable price part. It’s the ever increasing fragmentation of the video streaming market. When it was mainly Netflix, and it had a great variety of content, it was easy. Now every major studio has its own streaming service, and it’s all about exclusivity. But you can only get real variety by subscribing to several streaming services.
More competition… =Prices increase.
This is not the outcome I was told would happen.
Wait, what else was I told that never came correct.?
Student loans Housing Pay raises Protect and serve Self driving cars Pot/Gateway Equal opportunity Meritocracy
… I’m beginning to think all of society, in it’s entirety, is just one big grift.
No matter what they say capitalists do not actually like, or benefit, from competition.
They actively kill competition for a reason.
You’re forgetting the effect demand has on prices. Studios all pulled their content from Netflix and said “fuck you, pay us”. People paid, so here we are. Had people said “No, fuck you! Put the content back on Netflix” then we’d still have $15 for everything on one platform. There was enough demand for companies to sell their products. It’s not competition when each service has different offerings.
That possibly would’ve worked if the platforms all had an agreement to share the same content and not monopolize exclusives. If that were the case you’d choose the one with the best price and the best features.0
Is it really competition when for example Disney has a monopoly on Disney Streaming Content?
Just gonna re-post my own comment from another thread in this community, relating to a similar article, because it’s just as applicable here:
This is honestly hilarious to me. The streaming companies actually had it right to begin with. They delivered on-demand content at a much lower cost than DVD distribution, without having to negotiate with cable companies to deliver it. They had a working system that delivered value for money, and kept the profits in their own pockets.
Then they shit the bed. Classic case of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. Greedy dickheads.
I don’t think that’s what happened. Studios fought streaming tooth and nail. But they were willing to license their videos to Netflix because they were a DVD distributor. Then Netflix was really savvy and pioneered streaming, making a killing doing it. Those same anti-progress, greedy fuck studios who fought against streaming saw how much money Netflix was making with their content and spun up their own half-assed streaming services, then pulled their licensing from Netflix. Netflix didn’t kill itself, the same greedy people who tried to kill the vcr, fought streaming, and sued Napster users, killed it.
Nah - Netflix, and all the others, have absolutely shit the bed on this one.
I was happily paying for 5 or 6 streaming services a month. Then they got greedy, started price gouging, and reducing the quality and/or range of content. Netflix even wanted to charge me for password sharing, because my stepkids used our account at their dad’s house.
They all fucked themselves over.
I cancelled Netflix when they implemented that policy, but they reported that their revenue went up, so most people didn’t cancel, and a bunch of people signed up.
I’m no economist, but it’s interesting how a free market and more competition doesn’t result in a better product for consumers. Just each company going “oh, the other guy raised their prices, let’s do the same or we’ll fall behind”
It’s crazy how consumers just keep eating the higher prices too, instead of rebelling by cutting their spending. I’ve been wondering if people are just charging everything and we’re going to hit a major recession when everyone runs out of credit. I sure hope not! I’ve already gone through too many “once in a lifetime” economic events.
Be nice to the goose.
- Martin O’Donnell
Pre-emptive reminder that piracy is illegal in Australia, so please don’t share any links to pirated content or it will be removed in accordance with Rule #5
No need. There are plenty of places here in the fediverse to find out about piracy.
Just thought I’d get ahead of the curve because these kinds of posts tend to attract a wider audience from outside this instance who might not be familiar with our rules. I’m not saying I agree with copyright law - I think it’s stupid and in 100 years time we’re going to be laughed at for it. I just don’t want and I doubt anyone wants this instance to be associated with crime
Yep.
I heard there are full piracy themed instances, with guides and wikis for all that
some of the big studios are starting to not do discs releases here in Australia as well. If I want an archive copy of a movie (for the months I dont feel like shelling out for streaming access), I can’t even fall back to disc. The high seas is already the only place to get some content, when its not on disc and no one has purchased the digital rights
That is the bed they made and now the studios must lay in it.
I don’t care if they start distributing microSD cards, there MUST be a physical distribution format that is not linked to an online subscription.
I’ve always been surprised its remained optical media for so long. I’d have bought a USB drive with a season of television on it. No doubt they’d fuck it up with another DRM scheme.
I’m resigned to the fact that if there is no offline distribution in the not too distant future, I will still build a library of the media I want from other sources.
Pretty soon it will ONLY be the pirates that have access to a lot of this content. You should think of it is a global community service.
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Was 20 years between sails. 56kb dialup that could hardly get an album down in a couple of days to self hosting a server that I don’t even consume the content of.
Seed. That. Shit.
Jellyfin best streaming platform
Can’t wait for Christmas money to build a home server and doing (amongst other things) exactly that.
In the meantime, you might find Real Debrid useful, combined with an app like Weyd, Stremio/Torrentio, Syncler, etc. You can immediately stream torrents without having to download them, since Real Debrid caches them on their end.
For royalty-free videos only, of course. Nobody would dare use the internet to illegally acquire copyrighted material.
Of course not! Why would anyone want to download copyrighted material? Outrageous!
Thanks btw
Currently, you will run into far fewer issues and limitations if you use Plex.
Some people never left the seas
Streaming services are hard to navigate. There needs to just be one place to stream everything from like music. Then I’ll never sail the seas again,
All The Web is getting too hard to navigate. If it isn’t the layers of layers of ads and trackers making it impossible to read content, or the obfuscation of permalinks, or AI plagiarism of original content, it is the 7 pages of Sponsored Links in search engines, meaning that your eyeballs are going to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile algorithmic curated lists are force-fed to consumers for the sole purpose of manipulating their political beliefs and buying habits, railroading them into making life decisions for the benefit of others.
Just yesterday, I looked for a tool to encrypt files in Dropbox.
I couldn’t remember the name, so I searched “encrypt files in drop box.”
Every single link on the first page was to the official site. I had to guess at the name of the software to find its site.
Now imagine you were a network user who just wanted to know how to configure a Write-Only network folder, or you wanted to find plans for a mailbox with a secure parcel receptacle.
Both of these concepts were historically called a Dropbox, until one commercial company hijacked the name for a Read-Write personal network folder, and corrupted the name by providing Read-Only features to their product.
In fact, I had that issue with something but I’m drawing a blank at the moment. It’s truly annoying.
Arrrrrr
I have always been a sailor but did pay for Netflix for 6-7 years mainly to share the account with others. When content evaporated I dropped it. I paid HBO streaming to support Game of Thrones and then dropped it too. I always watched WEB-DL even when paying for a service because of quality
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Digital piracy is the act of illegally copying or distributing copyrighted material, such as music, TV shows or movies, via the internet.
Associate Professor at the RMIT University School of Media and Communication Ramon Lobato said piracy levels were related to a number of different factors, including disposable income, willingness to pay, users’ digital skills, and the availability and convenience of both legal and pirate services.
It is important to note data on piracy cannot be drawn as entirely conclusive as it relies on self-reporting and information availability is limited due to its criminal nature.
Dr Lobato said delayed releasing of movies and TV shows has historically been a driver of piracy in Australia, but the studios and distributors have worked hard to reduce this in recent years.
The Attorney-General 2022 Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement, which has the latest official Australian data, showed an increase in piracy across the music, movies, TV programs, video games and live sport compared to the year prior.
The most popular form of unlawful consumption was paying a small fee to access one or many subscription services through a shared or unknown account with 16 per cent of respondents using this method.
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Yeah if the mainstream media could shut up about piracy that would be great.
This is how takedowns happen
With how garbage the Star Wars stuff and Marvel stuff has been it sucks we can’t get a refund out of Disney yet they think they deserve more money. The only real pull they’re getting is Doctor Who, which they don’t even make, and hopefully will have no influence over. But it sucks if that’s all yoi want to watch on there and that it used to be free through ABC
