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      And they will never stop piracy. If it can be displayed and shown to your eyes, it can be recorded.

      It’s certainly a good thing to keep businesses in check. It’s very much a “or else…” to them trying to screw people over as much as possible.

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        And they will never stop piracy. If it can be displayed and shown to your eyes, it can be recorded.

        Good news everyone! With this new mandatory ocular implant, we can deliver our content in an immersive and intrusive manner never before considered possible or even acceptable! Sign up now to receive two whole weeks of free premium thought suppressor, with guaranteed minimum levels of harmful radiation!

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      How exactly? I find it more difficult than before. Granted I don’t download movies anymore, I just search for free streams. And I’m pretty sure that at some point Google will stop showing them in searches.

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      Hulu was great when it first started. An option for one long ad at the beginning and often it wouldn’t interrupt you between episodes either.

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    Don’t forget them immense selection of languages for both audio tracks and subtitles!

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    It was great while it lasted, but company greed killed yet another revenue stream.

    Well maybe not for the majority, they will probably pay more since they “don’t care” as usual.

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    every fucking company wanted to dip their toes into the streaming service cash pool and now they pay the price, unpopular opinion but a tripoly like system that exists with music is the way to go.

    Spotify, Apple music are big ones with YouTube Music lagging 5 behind due to the 50th rebranding and there is TIDAL for those who want better quality audio.

    similarly Movie/tv show streaming should be limited to a few companies competing with basically the same catalog.

    but it won’t happen, so whatever, I also don’t much care, I have my own plex server

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        There’s already zero competition because most shows are tied to a specific service. Real competition comes when you can get The Office on your platform of choice.

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        I agree. If they ran themselves more like the music streaming apps, by maintaining similar content libraries, all this competition would be great.

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      Disagree. I’d argue that the companies releasing the movies shouldn’t be the same ones running the streaming services. It would mean they can’t double-dip, and they’re encouraged to be on as many services as possible

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        I think that would come as a natural result, or rather could be enforced by law, younkinda have to remove these exclusivity bullshit deals for the sake of the customer.

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          It’s actually a relatively common idea! A great example is many countries forcefully separate the Internet providers and the companies that own the lines themselves. It means the ISPs share lines and are in competition with every other ISP, and the companies that own the lines are incentivizes to build as many, bigger cables as possible and onboard as many ISPs as possible. It’s honestly a great system

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      Bad take. Spotify shafts artists very hard and rips off users frequently. The only reason they haven’t enshittified yet is because they are free from the interest rate mania going on in the US (they are a EU based company) and their actual customers are the music labels, not the final listener. So the final power is in the hands of the music executives not Spotify themselves, unlike with US tech giants that hold all the power against regular citizens. Look at what they want to do with podcasts for a glimpse of their future potential for enshittification.

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        It could work. Say the steaming platform takes a 10-15% cut for servers, staff etc. The rest of the user’s $10/month flat fee get divided up to the artists based on listening time.

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      Why not just pirate?

      Reasons to do so:

      1. It has a very good price (just the price of a trusted VPN)

      2. It has better customer service.

      3. There is no moral problem when not paying a multi billion business. You aren’t even stealing something.