Comment on Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?

• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨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!

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can we stop over-simplifying corporate greed as “capitalism”?

    Ten years ago Netflix have is the solution all of us wanted, and that was also capitalism.

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    • selflock@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the taxes they surely pay very diligently.

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