Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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!

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • selflock@lemmy.world
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          1 year 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.