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?

RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you are ok with the hassle, the risk and possible consequences, they do whatever you want.

  But this is not a fix to the issue broadly, and just boycotting stuff will most likely not work as well, to change the situation.

  So the only effective way would be changes in law and government incentives. So propably start being politically active and push for these changes.

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  • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    hassle? what’s easier then search, click and play

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  • Decompose@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you have a plan in mind? Or is this the classical “daddy government should solve all our problems”?

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      UBI + artist collectives making free media

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      • Decompose@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        UBI? What are you, 12? I don’t believe there are still dumb people who think UBI would not cause economic collapse. Don’t we have enough inflation yet?!

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    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good question. Not OP DVD I think there’s a better chance of independent films being shared on free platforms than the government doing a better job at providing an equitable solution. I’m sure there are models out there that would apply to filmmaking that could replicate the success of say, Mark Normand releasing a special on YouTube instead of going with a paid app.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The National Film Board of Canada pretty much only does 100% funding for animation and documentaries, but they do offer them all for free online. I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t extend that to regular features as long as they had the budget. The budget is the problem.

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• bighatchester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m with you my Plex Library is growing alot lately. I’m not paying for 10 different streaming services. I limit myself to one and anything else not on it is getting downloaded. At lot of the movies I have I have also paid to see in theaters. Some even more than once like across the spider verse and the barbie movie .

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• phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On a macro scale, they’ll stop making those movies if they aren’t financially viable. Cheap lowest common denominator shit will be all we get.

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• Ghostmetre@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean the streaming services will keep increasing their prices and actors / staff will see less profit as a result of lack of active users…

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