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This shit just erodes my trust in ALL the streaming services, devices, and companies. I cannot believe regulators aren’t going to use these shenanigans as evide

This shit just erodes my trust in ALL the streaming services, devices, and companies. I cannot believe regulators aren’t going to use these shenanigans as evidence for some future action. Really, the fact that each company abuses leverage in one realm (retail market position, device, services) to gain advantage in another is getting old. Why do I own two copies of The Big Lebowski on iTunes and Amazon? Because of this stuff. Once or twice, and I'll grumble. If I find myself needing to move between incompatible ecosystems regularly, I suspect I’ll just ditch digital streaming.

jasonkostempski 9y ago
I gave up when Disney wanted me to sign up for yet another service and link my old account to the new one so they could transfer movies before they shut down the old one. That would make 3 accounts, old, new and whatever the one is that lets me watch on Roku (4 if you count the Roku account), for access to a single movie.
balladeer 9y ago
And that is why, after trying Netflix and Amazon Prime for few months, I renewed my seed-box VPS for another three years. Yes, I didn't want to do it but the alternative just reeks of 'same old, same old' and I am not willing to subscribe to 5 streaming services (or maybe more). Music streaming services aren't this bad but even those are not an option for me. One service has all the new Western/English songs, another has all the new local songs, and yet another has all the old songs (but not local old songs).. this goes on. No, I am not subscribing to more than 1, thank you very much. Luckily, in my country one song usually costs $0.06 to $0.24 depending upon whether it's an old (local) song or a new song (or a western/English song) and I usually just buy the individual ones and keep it on my phone and laptop (synced by iTunes).
EADGBE 9y ago
This! I always get frustrated that you have to buy into an ecosystem to have cohesiveness. It's so stupid.

jasonkostempski 9y ago

I gave up when Disney wanted me to sign up for yet another service and link my old account to the new one so they could transfer movies before they shut down the old one. That would make 3 accounts, old, new and whatever the one is that lets me watch on Roku (4 if you count the Roku account), for access to a single movie.

balladeer 9y ago

And that is why, after trying Netflix and Amazon Prime for few months, I renewed my seed-box VPS for another three years. Yes, I didn't want to do it but the alternative just reeks of 'same old, same old' and I am not willing to subscribe to 5 streaming services (or maybe more). Music streaming services aren't this bad but even those are not an option for me. One service has all the new Western/English songs, another has all the new local songs, and yet another has all the old songs (but not local old songs).. this goes on. No, I am not subscribing to more than 1, thank you very much. Luckily, in my country one song usually costs $0.06 to $0.24 depending upon whether it's an old (local) song or a new song (or a western/English song) and I usually just buy the individual ones and keep it on my phone and laptop (synced by iTunes).

EADGBE 9y ago

This! I always get frustrated that you have to buy into an ecosystem to have cohesiveness. It's so stupid.