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I do. There needs to be one international company who is co-owned by all these media companies. They need to "nationalise" streaming amongst themselves. That w

I do. There needs to be one international company who is co-owned by all these media companies. They need to "nationalise" streaming amongst themselves. That way users only have to pay one streaming service, the content is available in every country, the rightsholders are paid fairly by the content consumed instead of these never-ending monthly fees for one show and ignoring the rest of the library. If they don't do this, piracy again becomes the best option and media companies will only ever get stupid disengaged customers and that's a bad business model because those people eventually leave. The time of predatory streaming service bullshit is over. Provide a service which puts customers first or they'll all go back to piracy. They already are.

mdavidn 3y ago
That is exactly what Hulu tried to be initially.
kmeisthax 3y ago
Nationalization is too extreme. What you want is compulsory licensing where the government sets some price by which any streaming service can pay to license the content. How that price gets selected is... complicated and easy to fuck up[0], but I can imagine some metrics that could be used to target prices. e.g. the compulsory license cost must not exceed some multiple of the average negotiated rate. [0] Notably, radio has a compulsory licensing scheme, but the government turned up the license cost on Internet radio so high that nobody can make a profit unless they sell their soul to the RIAA ala Spotify.
- suprjami 3y ago
  What is "the" government? The reason I put "nationalise" in quotes is because any such partnership needs to be a global commercial partnership between companies. It can't be actually nationalised by any country because then it would focus only on that country and that place's copyright laws (and potentially censorship or content laws). This garbage of the same streaming service in different countries having different content also needs to stop. People can torrent any show anywhere and they'll do that if it's not available on a reasonable streaming service. If which there are few or none anymore.

mdavidn 3y ago

That is exactly what Hulu tried to be initially.

kmeisthax 3y ago

Nationalization is too extreme. What you want is compulsory licensing where the government sets some price by which any streaming service can pay to license the content. How that price gets selected is... complicated and easy to fuck up[0], but I can imagine some metrics that could be used to target prices. e.g. the compulsory license cost must not exceed some multiple of the average negotiated rate. [0] Notably, radio has a compulsory licensing scheme, but the government turned up the license cost on Internet radio so high that nobody can make a profit unless they sell their soul to the RIAA ala Spotify.

suprjami 3y ago
What is "the" government? The reason I put "nationalise" in quotes is because any such partnership needs to be a global commercial partnership between companies. It can't be actually nationalised by any country because then it would focus only on that country and that place's copyright laws (and potentially censorship or content laws). This garbage of the same streaming service in different countries having different content also needs to stop. People can torrent any show anywhere and they'll do that if it's not available on a reasonable streaming service. If which there are few or none anymore.