These streaming companies have lost sight of why people switched to them in the first place.
These streaming companies have lost sight of why people switched to them in the first place.
These streaming companies have lost sight of why people switched to them in the first place.
no, it's the other way around, people proved that they wanted to pay for tv all over again but with the convience of it being on their phone. Who cares what the normies waste their movie on, you shouldn't be watching anything in the first place, it's all slop
Hulu is literally Disney they've played this game since the beginning what did you expect.
They won zoomers will pay up
Yarr Harr bitches.
no buddy thats just capitalism
If it was actually capitalism there wouldn't be laws preventing you from setting up your own streaming service that serves existing content
You want Disney to send the death squads?
That's just wrong. capitalists have always believed in IP laws. Create your own or be satisfied with public domain content. You CAN stream public domain content.
right then disney might aswell have own army and bomb you in your "real capitalism" world
Real capitalism has never been tried 🙁
Considering the closest thing to actual capitalism outlasted the closest thing to actual communism, I'd say actual capitalism would genuinely succeed
you can literally do this today you just can't afford to license disney content
Capitalism isn't the same as a free market, in fact it's often the opposite. 'Capitalism' implies that a big player has or will set the playing field to benefit them, because there is no separation of capital and state. Money buys market regulation and benefits. By its very definition, it isn't free.
>capitalism
>no seperation of capital and state
Is this another case of anon calling something capitalism, when it is objectively not?
>meritocracy never turns into aristocracy as the children of the strong grow stronger
>the nightwatchman state never becomes intertwined with capital to backup and legitimize its power
>governments arent market forces
>two societal systems cant ever be intertwined
There's a reason that any anti-capitalist group is either fascist, or is a pale imitation trying it's hardest to imitate the third-positionist perfection, while swearing it's not. Society = state.
"capitalism" does not mean "no government in the economy", that's an amerimutt thing
the problem with capitalism is that it looks great on paper but doesn't work out that way in the real world....
Then why does it rarely if ever fail through its own means?
Let me guess, you are a temporarily disadvantaged billionaire?
>non response
Its okay, commie anony. I still love you even though youre brain dead.
Well put.
commie rhethoric, about as biased as saying 'Communism' implies that there will be mass starvation
it's the sports. that's what is expensive.
come home to piracy, white man.
Not my problem since I pirate everything and host my own media server.
This is why I use FMovies. It has Netflix, Hulu, and just about every classic movie with 4 different cloud hosts and it streams just like YouTube.
Or you could just torrent and not deal with the shitty streaming bitrates. If you want convenience then selfhost a plex or jellyfin server.
but then you get scary letters from your ISP
Not if you use mullvad
Don't you have a shredder?
If the MAFIAA scares you then rent a seedbox, VPS or VPN. With the former (seedbox) you get gigabit speeds and a terabyte or two for the price of half of one normie streaming service.
>VPN
whats a good vpn for torrenting?
PIA
What’s the deal with seedboxes? They’re still linked to you. Are they hosted in lawless countries or something?
Hosts aren't ISPs, they have no obligation to give up user information to the MAFIAA because it would bankrupt them. Plus you're presumably sharing an IP with many different people.
They aren't usually hosted in lawless counties, just semi-sane ones where going after pirates is more trouble than it's worth. I think the Netherlands and Romania are very common locations.
>Hosts aren't ISPs, they have no obligation to give up user information to the MAFIAA because it would bankrupt them.
There is no real difference between host and ISP.
America moment
In the netherlands you don't get it from your ISP but from BREIN where they literally exort you
>t. I'm a baby duck who hasn't done 30 seconds of google searching to figure this shit out
get dud bud.
But why bother when the content is so bad?
>81$ a month
Does that include healthcare insurance?
LMAO what is the point of these streaming services? They cost just as much as regular cable/satellite tv and their extra content/package bullshit did.
Unless you're actually prepared to do something about it then "they" will "get away with it" or whatever schizo rant you're on about. So pick up some Linux admin skills and build your own NAS with the TV & Movies you like. Use >>>LULZ for kino programs if you want to know what to get. Use >>>/t/ to download the movies.
Do this or fuck off with an off topic ban since THIS THREAD IS NOT TECH RELATED JANNIES CLEAN THIS SHIT UP.
>Paying 81 USD to watch brain rot
You deserve it.
>pay for service
>still get ads
Why the fuck would anyone do this?
my parents have Animal Planet included in their package and they have ad breaks but not with real ads, they have ads for their own programs and charity. these same ads are run for like 18 months before a change is made.
pisses me off more than if they had actual ads. stop interrupting programs for literally nothing, i would never pay for that channel.
i dunno man
>lure people in with low prices
>jack up the price once they're all locked in
it's a standard tactic. i don't see how anyone could be surprised
why are you paying for live tv dumbfuck isn't the point of streaming services the on demand part
I ended my adobe sub this month.
At first I had really good price but halfway this year they ramped it higher than the current standard price.
Moving onto the Affinity. That's enough for me to edit my CV and make silly cat memes for pinterest.
>A 4 tb hdd and a VPN already pays for itself after one month, two months if you get a 12 tb hdd.
Ladlubbers need not apply.
>A 4 tb hdd and a VPN already pays for itself after one month
Fucking how
I'm not going to read anon's political economy missives, but
Streaming really is kind of crappy. When I visit family that still has TV I'm amazed how good it looks, never buffers, you never have to click anything and recording set top boxes basically pirate everythibg for you with no legal liability. They even broadcast over the air in 1080p 50Hz these days. It's actually smoother than streaming. I still don't think they do HDR and if you're watching live, there's always commercials. And yuck they're all for drugs and political shit anymore. There's not even campy used car dealer ads anymore.
And streaming has always sucked. When Nerflix first switched from DVDs to streaming, the quality was abysmal, like 248p or something shit like that. The best streaming I've ever had was HBO Max which pretty well streamed 1080p HDR content well enough, but their stupid app refuses to display arbitrary resolutions and it had buffering issues even on 1GB fiber. Hulu was alright for the short time that I tried them. Everything else is bottom tier garbage, hitting levels between 4 and 5 bits per pixel, banding galore, etc.
Better start sending your slave dollars to big Disney bro.