rather than this stupid fucking snip snap game where, instead of, as a user being able to buy into a company that’s building a massive, marvelous, library-of-alexandria-core archive of every good show ever made, you’re paying into some shitty ephemeral bullshit made by stupid greedy dickheads who have no fucking sense
Because profit. And weak consumer culture just accepts it as normal. Smart consumers are left to look for other means, or are left to sail the high seas.
I was a huge supporter of Netflix when it launched. Easy to use, affordable, and lots of selection. As the streaming service has splintered and shows disappear without warning I find myself back on the high seas.
As Gabe once said:
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,
If you make it harder to stream and keep up with what’s where then piracy it’s no surprise people will ultimately choose the latter. Though the price thing has gotten crazy too. Multiple streaming services can now equal or eclipse cable TV prices… And yeah, you can come and go but again that comes back to the service issue. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to have to evaluate monthly which streaming services I need then drop the ones I don’t and add the ones I do.
It all stems from corporate greed Loan out the cash cow until you can learn how to make your own cheese. I genuinely thought Disney+, peacock, and paramount streaming would fail but the problem is also people willing to pay for their fragmented service. Even HBOmax, which I genuinely liked, becamejust MAX because they started loaning out their OWN IPs for money. So dumb.
At least we got to enjoy the early Netflix era around 2010 before it all became crap.
and where is the office for streaming now? why can’t they at least all have the same shit, like with music streaming, and compete on features and price, rather than this absolute transient hell where it’s ridiculously stark how none of anyone involved cares for art or culture
