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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)

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[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 91 points 1 week ago

Its almost like its unecessary shit made up in order to keep profits away from working people artificially

[-] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago

Yeah its almost like if we didn't keep extending copyright protections a bunch of stuff would be in the public domain and any streaming service could offer it without having to deal with licensing.

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

I mean that's all well and good, but then how would the very deserving shareholders get dividends?

Won't somebody think of the shareholders!?

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

PLS KEP LNE GOE UUP

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Take over a failing company
Hold a shareholder meeting
Show the line going down
Turn the chart upside down
Become a hero to the shareholders

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

maybe if they actually invested some money somewhere they would make some money for once.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago

It's true that Hollywood is corrupt and csuite pay is absurd, but those deals are the only mechanism by which ANY money makes it to the writers, actors and staff who deserve it

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

It's the exclusivity bullshit that gets me.

It could be: New movie is released! Anyone who pays the price tag gets to stream it!

But no, we must bidding war gouge.

On top of that, X Y and Z services exist in America, but not in other countries, so in this other country, everything is on Netflix, while I had to jump between three different services at one point just to watch Stargate

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hey, you're just salty that you didn't get in on the ground floor when Stargate was being exclusively streamed in a dedicated Stargate streaming service

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Stargate+ Maxx Ultraviolet

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