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Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn't easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of your monthly plan is likely to keep rising.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've no problem with paying for good services, but when I get a better service from a random pirate streaming site than I do from Amazon Prime, why would I continue paying for that?

I'm just sick of things either being exclusive to one service even though they're decades old, or just plain not available.

Oh, and if I'm paying, I don't want ads. Not ever.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’ve no problem with paying for good services

Exactly. It used to be that netflix was all you needed to get most quality content, and it was a fair deal for customers: you pay a reasonable monthly amount, and you and your family gets convenient access to most streamable movies and TV series.

Now that quality content is spread out and locked out over half a dozen other streaming services, and subscribing to them all is not just a hassle but also incredibly bad value compared to the original offer.

In a healthy competitive environment, you would expect companies to counter reduced value by increasing customer value in other ways or by reducing prices, but instead we got price hikes, lots of low quality filler content, crack downs on password sharing, advertising, various unpopular UI changes and other service reductions decreasing value even further.

To solve this, I think the content producers and streaming services should be split up, because right now they're not really competitors in a true sence but small monopolies who each clutch the keys to their own little franchises. It should be noted for example that music streaming works a lot better: there are various competitors that each hold a viable content library on their own, so you don't need more than one music streaming service. IMO that's because Spotify, Tidal, YT Music, etc. are merely distributors and not the actual producers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the music industry finally got their shit together and made something that was more convenient than just nicking it online. Took their sweet time over it, but I think they realised that it was taking like a minute to download a whole album by that point.

It's really the model of how to do it well. Very little in the way of exclusives locked to one particular service. Occasionally an artist kicks up a fuss over something and pulls all their stuff from one of them, but it's rare enough that I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Being totally serious, you should copy and paste your comment and email it to your local US Representative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah some of the arr software is pretty fucking cool for being entirely free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Source on better pirate streaming service?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any of these will do. Prime is not a high bar to get over. Some may work better than others, and I think it's down to where you are and time of day than anything else.

https://fmhy.pages.dev/videopiracyguide/#multi-server

It's not as good as downloading yourself and running Jellyfin, but it's convenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Many thanks kind stranger!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have a problem paying for DRM. I want to use open source and DRM is the opposite. I like (and buy sometimes) Creative Commons music/audio-books just because it tastes better when artist isn't supporting restricting me. Cory Doctorow is a creative worker who lives and breaths anti-DRM, if you've not explored this. I recommend his old talk "The Coming War on General Computation".