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Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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Another way to look at this, is that we were all shoved in to a society with a financial system that basically requires the expenditure of money to get along. If I'm not entitled to the media, why are they entitled to my money? At the end of the day, none of us asked to be here. Since the dawn of time, people have been taking what they've wanted and what they've needed--be thankful we're in a phase of society that were taking pirated media and complaining about pricing, instead of taking eachothers lives for survival (which isn't even universally true yet lol). I would also argue, but not with any conviction, that we need to consume at least -some- of this media to be able to participate maximally in society. Everyone loves movies and media, and if you're the one person not consuming it, you're an outcast. Outcasts proverbially die alone away from the warmth of the communal fire. It's just human nature, tbh
They're not entitled to your money.
Yeah. The risk of piracy is just the cost of doing business, imo. If you want less piracy, all they have to do is improve price and ease of access. But they've already run the numbers and determined that the current price point is where they will see maximum profit. It's like they've approved the "theft" themselves haha