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It has been like that for a long time. The non-skippable intro screen warning viewers of the evils of unlicensed copying was only ever seen by people not watchi

by krylon 5y ago

It has been like that for a long time. The non-skippable intro screen warning viewers of the evils of unlicensed copying was only ever seen by people not watching an unlicensed copy. FWIW, I think movies need to take the same route music did. Ever since I found out I could just buy DRM-free high-quality audio at a reasonable price, I have happily paid for the music I like, because it was so very convenient. If it was as convenient to legally buy copies of movies / TV shows, I'd be happy to spend some money for that.

stilisstuk 5y ago
Where do you buy audio? I don't use apple (itunes) and only some stuff is on bandcamp...
- krylon 5y ago
  Mostly on Amazon. When possible on bandcamp.
- l72 5y ago
  Primarily bandcamp, since I can get flac and support artists directly. But I also use 7-digital for more mainstream releases (they also offer flac and some releases as Hi-Res 24-bit flac if that is your thing)
netcan 5y ago
Netflix & Spotify are currently worth $275bn & $45bn. I think it's quite unlikely that such results would be achieved with a pay-x-get-y store model. Even Disney & Universal, themselves enormously valuable companies, are greedily eying the platform model. It has everything they want. Recurring revenues. Content pushing abilities, which is usually the most strategically important asset. Platform monopoly potential, where most artists/studios take your take-it-or-leave-it terms. They don't hate you. They just do whatever is most valuable to them. They don't care about you. They may or may not value your custom, but that's about it.
- ipaddr 5y ago
  275 billion? Seems overvalued as we enter a new cycle of more services going online.
  - outside1234 5y ago
    You are probably right, but remember that Netflix is essentially a worldwide leader in producing and distributing movies - something we really haven’t seen before.
- wbsss4412 5y ago
  You’re severely discounting the value Netflix and Spotify provide in discovery and ease of access. I vastly prefer those services because I don’t have much interest in managing my own library.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    >You’re severely discounting the value Netflix ... provide in discovery and ease of access. What the what? Discover on Netflix? If you mean accepting what they think you want to watch based on their curated lists of what they want you to watch shoved into your face in their carousels of boredom, then I'm going to have to disagree with you.
    - wbsss4412 5y ago
      You don’t have to like Netflix, but as far as the UI goes, where are you finding better content discovery for shows and movies?
      - dylan604 5y ago
        They all suck. Look at each platform's verion of "Trending Now". It's just a rehash of titles in the other categories prominently displayed in "Just Added" or other some such listing of 10 to at most 20 titles. Of course those are trending because discovery of titles suck and people just give up and choose something that's right in front of them. I want to "discover" by browsing not the most current titles available in this current licensing window. I want to be able to browse from the evergreen catalog. I want to see the things that don't have a high dollar marketing campaign guaranteeing prominent placement. Maybe these platforms don't have a large inventory of evergreen content??? There are times I want to find some title that is older. The content that wasn't along the outer walls of Blockbuster.
gwbas1c 5y ago
Not sure if this is what you want, but I occasionally "buy" a TV show from Google Play. There's no forced ads. I mostly do it because it's cheaper than a cable subscription, and the player is easier to use than Kodi.

by krylon 5y ago

stilisstuk 5y ago

Where do you buy audio? I don't use apple (itunes) and only some stuff is on bandcamp...

krylon 5y ago
Mostly on Amazon. When possible on bandcamp.
l72 5y ago
Primarily bandcamp, since I can get flac and support artists directly. But I also use 7-digital for more mainstream releases (they also offer flac and some releases as Hi-Res 24-bit flac if that is your thing)

netcan 5y ago

Netflix & Spotify are currently worth $275bn & $45bn. I think it's quite unlikely that such results would be achieved with a pay-x-get-y store model. Even Disney & Universal, themselves enormously valuable companies, are greedily eying the platform model. It has everything they want. Recurring revenues. Content pushing abilities, which is usually the most strategically important asset. Platform monopoly potential, where most artists/studios take your take-it-or-leave-it terms. They don't hate you. They just do whatever is most valuable to them. They don't care about you. They may or may not value your custom, but that's about it.

ipaddr 5y ago
275 billion? Seems overvalued as we enter a new cycle of more services going online.
- outside1234 5y ago
  You are probably right, but remember that Netflix is essentially a worldwide leader in producing and distributing movies - something we really haven’t seen before.
wbsss4412 5y ago
You’re severely discounting the value Netflix and Spotify provide in discovery and ease of access. I vastly prefer those services because I don’t have much interest in managing my own library.
- dylan604 5y ago
  >You’re severely discounting the value Netflix ... provide in discovery and ease of access. What the what? Discover on Netflix? If you mean accepting what they think you want to watch based on their curated lists of what they want you to watch shoved into your face in their carousels of boredom, then I'm going to have to disagree with you.
  - wbsss4412 5y ago
    You don’t have to like Netflix, but as far as the UI goes, where are you finding better content discovery for shows and movies?
    - dylan604 5y ago
      They all suck. Look at each platform's verion of "Trending Now". It's just a rehash of titles in the other categories prominently displayed in "Just Added" or other some such listing of 10 to at most 20 titles. Of course those are trending because discovery of titles suck and people just give up and choose something that's right in front of them. I want to "discover" by browsing not the most current titles available in this current licensing window. I want to be able to browse from the evergreen catalog. I want to see the things that don't have a high dollar marketing campaign guaranteeing prominent placement. Maybe these platforms don't have a large inventory of evergreen content??? There are times I want to find some title that is older. The content that wasn't along the outer walls of Blockbuster.

gwbas1c 5y ago

Not sure if this is what you want, but I occasionally "buy" a TV show from Google Play. There's no forced ads. I mostly do it because it's cheaper than a cable subscription, and the player is easier to use than Kodi.