Situation: There are 14 competing streaming platforms.
Ridiculous! We need one streaming platform for all the media licenses.
Situation: There are 15 competing streaming platforms.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
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What we actually need is a ban on exclusivity. There aren't nearly as many complaints about music streaming services because most music is on all of them.
Plus if more TV and movies were on multiple streaming services, they'd have to start competing on service instead of exclusive content and maybe actually improve the experience...
Take a read through https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.
Real shame this was terminated rather than extended to streaming platforms.
I keep thinking that too but I highly doubt greedy hollywood execs will attempt anything like that..
there actually is one platform for all the media.
its called 1337x
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Unless it's just taking a while to come down from the scene group heavens, some 4K TV show seasons seem to be perpetually missing, presumed due to Widevine L1. Oddly, sometimes half of a show's 4K seasons are released while the others aren't.
Streaming services did it the other way around. We had one platform for almost everything, and then the studios created their own to get more of the subscription money.
There are lots of streaming platforms, but no real competition. Because the studios and networks hide behind the streaming services and price gouge like crazy. They know people will blame the streaming service.
I mean, they made piracy WAY easier to understand than how to legally watch all the seasons of pokemon in order, so I’m really just not feeling any sympathy for streaming companies whatsoever
I'm reminded what GabeN said: Piracy is an issue of service, not price.
I agree with him up to a point. As price gouging is a feature of modern day streaming.
One reason Steam became the defacto standard is because the insane Steam sales that Valve put on in the early days.
They kept their monopoly in the face of other stores giving away games mostly due to service, though.
What a shitshow streaming is. So glad I'm not funding it at all.
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