Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”
rtfm_modular@lemmy.world 8 months agoGood concept in theory but consolidation of streaming services to a handful of providers in an $88 billion dollar industry means the reality for most is that you can culturally isolate yourself by not consuming or seek illegal means of getting your entertainment.
Voting with your dollars works for mom and pop shops, but a loss in viewership due to changes in fees was calculated and note in the ledger.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 8 months ago
With that attitude it is, you’ve lost before you begun off you don’t try.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 8 months ago
Considering your attitude is “won’t someone think of the poor corporations” I don’t think you can really judge
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 8 months ago
What the fuck are you talking about?
My whole attitude was if you give up before you start your boycott, You will fail, yes, it may take a while, but if you get enough people They will fail
rtfm_modular@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The point is not to say all is lost so fuck it, but to highlight that maybe there are systemic issues with an unregulated free markets. Networks have consolidated into a handful of streaming services to a point where there are really no other options for consumers.
What are you going to do? Read a book? Go back to DVDs? They can afford the relatively few people willing to take an all or nothing proposition to squeeze consumers for all they got. They are also really good at lobbying to keep the law on their side to keep it that way.