Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
it_is_soup_time@techhub.social 1 month ago@SorteKanin @thirdBreakfast I guess Amazon and iTunes would be the closest thing, but rights expire for TV shows and movies far more often than they do for games. It’s insane that there are shows from 10 years ago that aren’t legally accessible or are straight-up lost media because the rights expired.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Any idea why there is this discrepancy between TV and games?
blargerer@kbin.social 1 month ago
Other comments are wrong, its complicated residual structures on tv/movies.
Bookmeat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Exactly. The licensing and sublicensing structures in TV and film are way more complicated than in video games. They also intentionally license for relatively short durations for tax reasons and other corporate considerations that have nothing to do with the end viewer or consumer.
Bizarroland@kbin.social 1 month ago
Probably bandwidth. You download a game or five and then you're good for a few weeks, whereas if you are streaming media you could run through several gigabytes a day of data per customer in perpetuity.
Obviously, with streaming media there is a continuously refreshing pool of money to cover those costs as compared to games being a one-time purchase, but even with that it would still take quite a while to expend the entire revenue of the purchased game in download expenses and storage overhead.
mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 1 month ago
Money. It’s much better if you can sell the same thing over and over again.