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Libra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoStreaming was different for years and years. But then people got greedy.
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fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the exact same thing cable did when it came out.
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, cable was commercial-free when it first came out just like streaming was. They repeated the ota signals for the broadcast stations which of course contained commercials, but extremely similarly to streaming they started out with a quality and ad-free pitch and wound up pivoting to screwing over the customer any way possible.
Libra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
No, but companies are made of individual people who get more or less greedy with time, like most other attributes of people. Which is why I said ‘people got greedy’.