Submitted 11 months ago by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
More competition… =Prices increase.
This is not the outcome I was told would happen.
Wait, what else was I told that never came correct.?
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… I’m beginning to think all of society, in it’s entirety, is just one big grift.
No matter what they say capitalists do not actually like, or benefit, from competition.
They actively kill competition for a reason.
It’s not competition if everyone has exclusivity contracts on all the content. Take Spotify vs Netflix for example. Spotify will have mostly the same base content as Apple Music, Deezer, what have you. With Netflix… You don’t get any Disney movies, no game of thrones, you have to buy all of the services to get access to even just the content you want.
I’ve never felt I was missing out on anything with Spotify, as I likely wouldn’t with YouTube music either. Maybe some have less but it’s at least a very comparable catalogue across the board.
Weird thing about music streaming in comparison to video streaming is that music streaming services are all third parties. There’s little to no exclusivity in that market because the streaming services all license from the same sources. The big music publishers haven’t gone and created their own streaming services, but are (more or less) happily working with Spotify, Apple Music etc.
That’s simply not happening in the video streaming market.
More competition == price increase
Less competition == price increase
This is the way
Is it really competition when for example Disney has a monopoly on Disney Streaming Content?
What do you mean, there are other streaming services aren’t there?
That possibly would’ve worked if the platforms all had an agreement to share the same content and not monopolize exclusives. If that were the case you’d choose the one with the best price and the best features.0
Just gonna re-post my own comment from another thread in this community, relating to a similar article, because it’s just as applicable here:
This is honestly hilarious to me. The streaming companies actually had it right to begin with. They delivered on-demand content at a much lower cost than DVD distribution, without having to negotiate with cable companies to deliver it. They had a working system that delivered value for money, and kept the profits in their own pockets.
Then they shit the bed. Classic case of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. Greedy dickheads.
Be nice to the goose.
Nice summary!
some of the big studios are starting to not do discs releases here in Australia as well. If I want an archive copy of a movie (for the months I dont feel like shelling out for streaming access), I can’t even fall back to disc. The high seas is already the only place to get some content, when its not on disc and no one has purchased the digital rights
That is the bed they made and now the studios must lay in it.
I don’t care if they start distributing microSD cards, there MUST be a physical distribution format that is not linked to an online subscription.
I’ve always been surprised its remained optical media for so long. I’d have bought a USB drive with a season of television on it. No doubt they’d fuck it up with another DRM scheme.
I’m resigned to the fact that if there is no offline distribution in the not too distant future, I will still build a library of the media I want from other sources.
Pre-emptive reminder that piracy is illegal in Australia, so please don’t share any links to pirated content or it will be removed in accordance with Rule #5
No need. There are plenty of places here in the fediverse to find out about piracy.
Just thought I’d get ahead of the curve because these kinds of posts tend to attract a wider audience from outside this instance who might not be familiar with our rules. I’m not saying I agree with copyright law - I think it’s stupid and in 100 years time we’re going to be laughed at for it. I just don’t want and I doubt anyone wants this instance to be associated with crime
Yep.
I heard there are full piracy themed instances, with guides and wikis for all that
For me, it’s the decision fatigue. The content is so fragmented across so many services and it’s constantly getting worse. The rising costs adds to the fatigue because the fragmentation is less manageable now with all the services raising prices and cracking down on password sharing. I just feel like I have to think about it too much now.
I mean, there literally are complex websites created just to help people find and filter for streaming services that serve a movie or a series under what conditions or prices and the results are so fragmented and unsatisfying. Hell, so often a simple classic movie is on none of the streaming services or just on one on which you even then have to pay even if you are paying for a subscription (looking at you, Prime). So what the f, how should I happily decide for a subscription if the next day I have to yet pay for another one just because a effin movie is on another platform? Streaming has become a damn chore.
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Was 20 years between sails. 56kb dialup that could hardly get an album down in a couple of days to self hosting a server that I don’t even consume the content of.
Seed. That. Shit.
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Can’t wait for Christmas money to build a home server and doing (amongst other things) exactly that.
In the meantime, you might find Real Debrid useful, combined with an app like Weyd, Stremio/Torrentio, Syncler, etc. You can immediately stream torrents without having to download them, since Real Debrid caches them on their end.
Currently, you will run into far fewer issues and limitations if you use Plex.
The only problem is that I can’t convince my friends/roommates to embrace the media center piracy box. Literally the smallest level of extra work is too much. I’m not sure how to make it easier
What’s a media center piracy box and how to setup one?
I’d imagine it’s a more generic term for a small PC (or maybe an Android TV box) running something like Kodi (home media centre program), and Kodi would have access to a drive (usually a network drive) full of pirated MP4s or whatever. I’m sure there’s even more elegant solutions out there, but you get the gist.
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Yeah if the mainstream media could shut up about piracy that would be great.
This is how takedowns happen
I have always been a sailor but did pay for Netflix for 6-7 years mainly to share the account with others. When content evaporated I dropped it. I paid HBO streaming to support Game of Thrones and then dropped it too. I always watched WEB-DL even when paying for a service because of quality
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never left tbh programming-communism
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Digital piracy is the act of illegally copying or distributing copyrighted material, such as music, TV shows or movies, via the internet.
Associate Professor at the RMIT University School of Media and Communication Ramon Lobato said piracy levels were related to a number of different factors, including disposable income, willingness to pay, users’ digital skills, and the availability and convenience of both legal and pirate services.
It is important to note data on piracy cannot be drawn as entirely conclusive as it relies on self-reporting and information availability is limited due to its criminal nature.
Dr Lobato said delayed releasing of movies and TV shows has historically been a driver of piracy in Australia, but the studios and distributors have worked hard to reduce this in recent years.
The Attorney-General 2022 Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement, which has the latest official Australian data, showed an increase in piracy across the music, movies, TV programs, video games and live sport compared to the year prior.
The most popular form of unlawful consumption was paying a small fee to access one or many subscription services through a shared or unknown account with 16 per cent of respondents using this method.
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With how garbage the Star Wars stuff and Marvel stuff has been it sucks we can’t get a refund out of Disney yet they think they deserve more money. The only real pull they’re getting is Doctor Who, which they don’t even make, and hopefully will have no influence over. But it sucks if that’s all yoi want to watch on there and that kt used to be free through ABC
Ahoy captain! Lets sail on the high seas!
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
It is simple really.
People stopped because the steamers made accessing media easier than piracy at a reasonable price.
Now that the reasonable price part is slipping away, people are re-assessing that decision.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I reduced, but never really stopped, pirating visual media. Entirely because even when Netflix was the only streaming service, there were still tons of shows and movies that weren’t accessible digitally at all.
However I completely stopped pirating music over a decade ago, because everything I wanted was available on Spotify, and the service of discovery is well worth the price. As long as they don’t get greedy and the service cost only rises with inflation, they’ll have my approx $100 annually (2023 baseline) for the rest of my life.
Netflix, Disney, Paramount, etc can eat a bag of dicks though. They’ve each proven they’re nothing but greedy parasites, and the only way I’d stop pirating is with a single subscription that hosts everything for a reasonable price… There’s a higher probability that hell freezes over, so instead I’ll spend roughly $100 a month in computing hardware, internet services, and time, to pirate 90% of my content.
cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Steamers also paved the road to Cleveland
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
Cheers. That is the best spelling correction I have ever read.
rainynight65@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s not just the reasonable price part. It’s the ever increasing fragmentation of the video streaming market. When it was mainly Netflix, and it had a great variety of content, it was easy. Now every major studio has its own streaming service, and it’s all about exclusivity. But you can only get real variety by subscribing to several streaming services.