Yea, I can pay 7 different services 10$ a month just so I can keep access to the tv shows I like. And pay another 10$ a month per service if I want it in decent quality. And install 7 different slow af apps to use them... and I'll have to hope they just darn cast to the tv this time.

Aw dangit my show isn't on Netflix.. Hulu? no, amazon prime? ah Disney+ perhaps? Ow wait no I have to sign into the tv for that one, where's the darn remote. Oh man, they discontinued one of my shows, I was halfway through!

Oh hey, totally_royalty_free.mp4 is on this 2nd result on google. Adblock does it's job, nice. I wish Netflix was still this convenient. Why can't billion dollar companies work together?

[–] PremiumNick@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gabe Newell said it best

"Piracy is almost always a service problem & not a pricing issue"

Though today, It's definitely a pricing issue with streaming companies getting super greedy

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd say it's a service issue. I can see a trailer for a movie and have no idea where to watch it. And there's a tonne of places to check where it might be. And even then, they all have their own app? building? payment plan? device requirements? style?

Then there's the seven seas, nice and consistent

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Try Justwatch you see where movies and shows are available (if anywhere).

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have Netflix, and some shows you can actually still buy episodes of. Which is what I prefer. I don't like this subscription model, or losing access when the WiFi stutters :/

[–] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

I just answered the question you had.

[–] Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Agree on everything, except

They do work together, just not publicly.

Looks bad when all the banks, supermarkets, insurance companies, oil and gas cartels set their own rules in mateship. So its purposely hidden, oh yes we are definitely in competition when its a duolopy/oligarchy *wink wink

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago

Damn, that does make it a rough situation for the consumer

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But piracy is a product of their free market, don't they want their mythical free market to be a free market?

Or maybe that was always just bullshit and they rely on using their money to suppress competition while they deliver a terrible, inferior product.

[–] Mondez 2 points 2 months ago

The whole idea of copyright is a granting a state backed monopoly which is the antithesis of a free market as I understand it.

[–] Wanderer@r.nf 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Piracy is a byproduct of a bad service. If I pay for a product I shouldn't be locked to a specific hardware or operating system and those issues are resolved with piracy.

They probably blame piracy again for their loss in profits instead of throwing out those woke activists and listening to what their actual customers want.

[–] roboto@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Agree on the first part but what on earth do „woke activists“ have to do with there being 10 different streaming apps that provide shitty service?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Still paying for my Spotify sub. Not my absolute favorite service (that's jellyfin) but very convenient.