this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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They altered the deal.
It was a good deal a few years back, so piracy decreased a lot, and streaming company profits grew a lot. Everyone was happy.
But then they altered the deal. It's no longer worth the money, and any movie or TV show they have can disappear at any time. They also decided to start flirting with ads, so they burned a lot of trust by doing that.
It's hard finding something worth watching. Once you have seen the few good shows at one streaming company, the rest is so awful nobody wants to touch it. So the subscriber is supposed to sign up to many streaming companies... Costing them tons of money.
If streaming companies were smart, they would work together and create one streaming service with all existing movies and TV shows, and set a fair price, and depending on what movies or TV shows people choose to watch, the profits go to whatever company makes the best content.
But working together is not what you do in capitalism...
What's sad is we HAD that in original Netflix. Then the studios got greedyaf and now we are back to, basically, cable. I'm not saying Netflix isn't at a huge fault here (that 720p during covid was some real bs) but the beginning of this disaster is squarely on the shoulders of all the studios wanting their share of the pie plus more.
Imagine if they didn't throttle the resolution to 720p. No one would have been able to watch anything for 2 years.
There's this Indian ISP called Jio. They have internet plans that bundle 14 or 15 Streaming services. These are mostly streaming that are only avaialble to that region. At least that way people don't have to go through the hassle of managing every single subscription.
I'm personally happy with sailing the seas, not that I have time to watch all this content anyway.