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The Numer of Titles in the Netflix Library Is Down 50% the Past Four Years
- jandrese 10y agoA huge chunk of that is the Stars content that they lost a couple of years ago. I still use the DVD by mail service because thanks to consumer protection laws that don't exist for streaming services they can offer nearly everything on DVD. However, even that has issues, as DVDs go out of print and then Netflix's copies eventually attrition away to nothing from accumulated shipping damage. I knew the content companies would be dicks with the licensing. It's inevitable. Streaming is so damn cheap compared to manufacturing disks and setting up distribution channels and everything that it's inevitable the companies would want to cut out the middle man. Plus they want to be able to charge a lot more money for the content, and you can't do that if it's on Netflix. Streaming laws were written by the big corporate incumbents to protect their revenue streams. They can not stand anything like the first sale doctrine disaster to be repeated on goods that are made out of bits instead of plastic.
- herbst 10y ago"Pirate" Streaming is legal where i live and there is not a single streaming site that has such a low offering as Netflix does. Even thought i think we have the 5th biggest Netflix library world wide. Its really hard to pay for, or so watching movies generally, when the offering is so bad compared to the "free" offers.
- __derek__ 10y agoAnecdotally, I browsed the Prime Video offerings for the first time this past weekend, and I found two TV series and a movie that I've wanted to watch but couldn't because they were not offered on Netflix. Prime also had HBO shows, which I could previously only access via HBO Go.