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> I cannot pay for Marvel movies without paying for Alladin and Little Mermaid (Disney+) Lol yes you can. > Netflix had promise. Netflix was the Spotify of vi

> I cannot pay for Marvel movies without paying for Alladin and Little Mermaid (Disney+) Lol yes you can. > Netflix had promise. Netflix was the Spotify of visual content. My one place with simple good interface that I can find all the content available, or at least good 80-90% of the middle of bell curve. The one monopoly I wholeheartedly desired to remain a monopoly. No, it didn't. Netflix never had anything like this. Netflix never had even a tenth of modern, mainsteam content. Not even close. Never in it's entire history. It just used to be aimed more at Hacker News typical audience demographically.

scarface74 4y ago
Netflix streaming never had the majority of video content available like Spotify has the majority of music available
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  But that was the promise and hope. Or to put it another way - myself and everybody we know would prefer if Spotify for video content existed. The proliferation of services that are removing content from Netflix so they could host it on their own crappy system and app is purely bad for me with no benefit. Just like I don't want Spotify to suddenly become Columbia+ and bmg all access and whatever million music publishers there are each with their own crappy service.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    No one who knew how movie licensing work with the various release windows thought that was possible. It worked with DVDs because of the first sale doctrine.
  - Mindwipe 4y ago
    > But that was the promise and hope. There was no promise, no sign of this ever happening, and no chance of it ever doing so. There is no economic model that makes sense for it - music is licensed collectively because the economic cost of producing music doesn't vary that dramatically (and the difference has shrunk dramatically since the advent of Spotify et al). That's not true for AV, nor would it ever become so.

scarface74 4y ago

Netflix streaming never had the majority of video content available like Spotify has the majority of music available

NikolaNovak 4y ago
But that was the promise and hope. Or to put it another way - myself and everybody we know would prefer if Spotify for video content existed. The proliferation of services that are removing content from Netflix so they could host it on their own crappy system and app is purely bad for me with no benefit. Just like I don't want Spotify to suddenly become Columbia+ and bmg all access and whatever million music publishers there are each with their own crappy service.
- scarface74 4y ago
  No one who knew how movie licensing work with the various release windows thought that was possible. It worked with DVDs because of the first sale doctrine.
- Mindwipe 4y ago
  > But that was the promise and hope. There was no promise, no sign of this ever happening, and no chance of it ever doing so. There is no economic model that makes sense for it - music is licensed collectively because the economic cost of producing music doesn't vary that dramatically (and the difference has shrunk dramatically since the advent of Spotify et al). That's not true for AV, nor would it ever become so.