▲ 663 ▼ Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it? (www.theatlantic.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 206 comments fedilink hide all child comments Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 years ago (1 child) Same here on Jellyfin. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (2 children) I was always 100% on board with paying 50-100 bucks a month for being able to watch anything I wanted, whenever I wanted, in perpetuity — for the rest of my life. Instead, capitalism chose to fracture all content behind multiple paywalls that don't even host the content I want to watch, or censor/change it so that I can never watch the OG versions I want to watch, so I've instead been spending 50-100 bucks a month on computing hardware to download it and host it myself for over a decade. I'll continue to fucking do it too, because these soulless sociopath leeches don't deserve a cent from me. They don't even fucking pay their content creators or staff a decent wage, and will spend 10x more just to screw their workers. At this point I'd prefer them to fail and collapse, so I'll continue not giving them money — I'm doing my part! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Can we stop over-simplifying corporate greed as "capitalism"? Ten years ago Netflix gave is the solution all of us wanted, and that was also capitalism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] selflock@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago I wholeheartedly agree. Capitalism isn't the issue here, corporate greed and not understanding the market is the issue. A free market allows better solutions to come into play, hopefully driving the price down of a greedy service. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago Don't forget the taxes they surely pay very diligently. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (2 children) I was always 100% on board with paying 50-100 bucks a month for being able to watch anything I wanted, whenever I wanted, in perpetuity — for the rest of my life. Instead, capitalism chose to fracture all content behind multiple paywalls that don't even host the content I want to watch, or censor/change it so that I can never watch the OG versions I want to watch, so I've instead been spending 50-100 bucks a month on computing hardware to download it and host it myself for over a decade. I'll continue to fucking do it too, because these soulless sociopath leeches don't deserve a cent from me. They don't even fucking pay their content creators or staff a decent wage, and will spend 10x more just to screw their workers. At this point I'd prefer them to fail and collapse, so I'll continue not giving them money — I'm doing my part! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Can we stop over-simplifying corporate greed as "capitalism"? Ten years ago Netflix gave is the solution all of us wanted, and that was also capitalism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] selflock@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago I wholeheartedly agree. Capitalism isn't the issue here, corporate greed and not understanding the market is the issue. A free market allows better solutions to come into play, hopefully driving the price down of a greedy service. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago Don't forget the taxes they surely pay very diligently. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Can we stop over-simplifying corporate greed as "capitalism"? Ten years ago Netflix gave is the solution all of us wanted, and that was also capitalism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] selflock@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago I wholeheartedly agree. Capitalism isn't the issue here, corporate greed and not understanding the market is the issue. A free market allows better solutions to come into play, hopefully driving the price down of a greedy service. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] selflock@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago I wholeheartedly agree. Capitalism isn't the issue here, corporate greed and not understanding the market is the issue. A free market allows better solutions to come into play, hopefully driving the price down of a greedy service. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago Don't forget the taxes they surely pay very diligently. permalink fedilink source parent