That’s exactly what the long game is. Pay for just good enough content in an ad delivery service.
Cable sucked for other reasons and I sure wouldn’t have ever really called it cheap. There’s a reason people wanted to get away from it in the first place. I’ve been seeing a lot of pro cable nonsense going around and it would be such a pity if the streaming situation devolved back to putting up with the predatory nature of cable-like services.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You forgot the part where they try to kill off piracy, because if they charge more then more people pirate, but if they prevent people from pirating then they can charge a whole lot more.
Piracy actually keeps prices down.
Thrashy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think OP is referring to the original streaming audits quo, where Netflix was the only game in town, it cost under 15 bucks a month, and everybody licensed their back catalog to them rather than developing their own competing platforms.
glockenspiel@programming.dev 8 months ago
It was illegal for companies to fully vertically integrate by owning production and distribution back then. A corrupt judge struck it down several years ago which put us into this mess. That’s why theaters hadn’t been owned by studios for a long time.
Also why Hulu had all that content: no one owner could run their own service explicitly.
Misconduct@startrek.website 8 months ago
Ahhh, the good old days