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>You know whats wrong, you price gouging me for 15 services that are all awful. No one is price gouging. You can easily survive without watching ANY media. Y

>You know whats wrong, you price gouging me for 15 services that are all awful. No one is price gouging. You can easily survive without watching ANY media. You can also easily only pay for the exact media that you want at the exact time you want. You can also easily pay for less than 15 services, even just 1, anytime you want. People seem to like to complain about not being able to afford a luxury, which is more affordable than it has ever been in the history of media. Edit: to reply to comment below, consider the price for 1 month of the subscription to be the price of the media. Edit 2: the root cause of all these complaints is excessive copyright terms. Make copyright expire after 10 years, and there will be plenty of streaming competition.

zer00eyz 3y ago
>> You can also easily only pay for the exact media that you want at the exact time you want. Great where is the three body problem available for its fair market value. Wait it isnt, it's locked behind a monthly subscription. How about the bear... nope locked up in another service. I would happily pay fair value for these items. Marking them up like its blockbuster new release shelf circa 2000 or in 15 different pay per view services is ... dumb. This is why folks stole cable and got cracked boxes. This is why piracy ran rampant in music for so long. Video has yet to catch up and its leading to a new round of piracy... The DOJ went after apple but we cant reflect on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
autoexec 3y ago
> No one is price gouging. You can easily survive without watching ANY media. You can also easily only pay for the exact media that you want at the exact time you want. It's 2024, we shouldn't be content with only what's needed for "survival" and we shouldn't accept being exploited in order to have access to art and culture. With modern technology and nearly free and instant global distribution art and culture should be increasingly made more accessible to everyone, but instead the paywalls grow ever higher and arbitrary restrictions are put in place. Sadly we can't always pay for the exact media that want. The amount of lost works is increasing. Streaming services are pulling content and refusing to release it on physical media making it unavailable, and they are censoring content making unedited works unavailable at any price (at least legally). Expect the problem to get worse.
- lotsofpulp 3y ago
  Agree with everything, but the way to do that is lower copyright lengths. A much simpler, cleaner way to solve the issue across all businesses with minimal government intervention and opportunity for corruption.
  - account42 3y ago
    And the solution to end slavery is to reduce the maximum allowed enslavement length - I man to outlaw it. But in the short term that doesn't mean you shouldn't run away and ensure your own freedom instead of waiting for something that likely won't happen in your lifetime.

zer00eyz 3y ago

>> You can also easily only pay for the exact media that you want at the exact time you want. Great where is the three body problem available for its fair market value. Wait it isnt, it's locked behind a monthly subscription. How about the bear... nope locked up in another service. I would happily pay fair value for these items. Marking them up like its blockbuster new release shelf circa 2000 or in 15 different pay per view services is ... dumb. This is why folks stole cable and got cracked boxes. This is why piracy ran rampant in music for so long. Video has yet to catch up and its leading to a new round of piracy... The DOJ went after apple but we cant reflect on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....

autoexec 3y ago

> No one is price gouging. You can easily survive without watching ANY media. You can also easily only pay for the exact media that you want at the exact time you want. It's 2024, we shouldn't be content with only what's needed for "survival" and we shouldn't accept being exploited in order to have access to art and culture. With modern technology and nearly free and instant global distribution art and culture should be increasingly made more accessible to everyone, but instead the paywalls grow ever higher and arbitrary restrictions are put in place. Sadly we can't always pay for the exact media that want. The amount of lost works is increasing. Streaming services are pulling content and refusing to release it on physical media making it unavailable, and they are censoring content making unedited works unavailable at any price (at least legally). Expect the problem to get worse.

lotsofpulp 3y ago
Agree with everything, but the way to do that is lower copyright lengths. A much simpler, cleaner way to solve the issue across all businesses with minimal government intervention and opportunity for corruption.
- account42 3y ago
  And the solution to end slavery is to reduce the maximum allowed enslavement length - I man to outlaw it. But in the short term that doesn't mean you shouldn't run away and ensure your own freedom instead of waiting for something that likely won't happen in your lifetime.