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I just can't sympathize with the giant content monopolies until they stop with the bullshit. A lot of content is region locked, so you can't even stream it at a
by rhinoceraptor 7y ago
I just can't sympathize with the giant content monopolies until they stop with the bullshit. A lot of content is region locked, so you can't even stream it at all without a VPN or good old-fashioned piracy. They regularly pull content from one streaming service once the contract expires, and it gets moved to yet another streaming service.
I think making moral arguments about piracy is a mistake. If these companies really cared about it, they would make it more convenient to stream than to pirate. And it was going in a good direction with Netflix up until everyone decided they needed their own streaming service with exclusive content.
- kkarakk 7y agoBingo - every argument about a company's right to money falls through when companies simply don't care about consumers being able to consume their content in a reasonable manner. For eg - instead of making a website available directly to people overseas they instead license to a local monopoly that puts it on inferior systems that are mega overpriced simply because the content is not "local"