• Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    To be fairer nobody asked them to produce content. They decided to create it because it’s cheaper that licensing the actual good stuff.

    • aidan@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      eh some of it is good, I personally wouldn’t want to just watched licensed shows from 50 years ago

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 months ago

        Hence why copyright was originally in the 10-20 year range.

        Movie star isn’t supposed to be a dream job that makes you fabulously rich, but a decent living.

        Interestingly, musical artists who work off the web will do exactly that: Tour and make hundreds of thousands instead of millions (in the aughts and 2010s, so pre-inflation), rather than rolling the dice with the record labels.