Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever.

knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The music industry figured it out: I listen to way more music than ever before and I willingly pay more than ever before

  Video streaming keeps trying to make my experience more frustrating, less value to me. They’re scrounging for dollars is driving me away. I’ve considered my options for making video entertainment enjoyable again, and I’m just tired of the whole thing. I’m spending more time in projects, more time online, more time reading ebooks from my library. I’m watching less video than before, enjoying it less, getting less value for my money and it’s just all not worth it. Their efforts to profit more from my attention are getting them less of it and losing my willingness to pay

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  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The big difference is exclusive content. Music has a few exceptions but in general sign up for one service and you can listen to anything.

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think exclusive content is only a symptom of the larger problem, which is that we’re letting movie production companies run their own (new-fangled versions of) theaters again.

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• Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yo ho ho my friend. Yo ho ho.

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• unreasonabro@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh sure, great idea! Henceforth, actors don’t get paid any more. that’s what the music industry has “figured out”, how to steal all the money and give it to people who had no involvement with actually making the music.

  You should be pirating the fucking music not supporting the pricks who stole everything.

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  • IntheTreetop@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No problem, friend. I have time for both.

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  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Spotify pays more to artists than physical stores selling CDs ever did.

    Sure - if you were one of he top 1000 artists in the world the old system worked well… but those artists are also paid pretty well under the current system (Spotify alone pays millions per year to those artists, and they also get paid by YouTube, Apple, TikTok, etc etc).

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