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For years, I've tried to "do the right thing". Buy my music. Buy or rent the videos I view. Safari subscription... The last few days, the Roku is rebooting
by pasbesoin 13y ago
For years, I've tried to "do the right thing". Buy my music. Buy or rent the videos I view. Safari subscription...
The last few days, the Roku is rebooting multiple times per show. Content seems to be disappearing from Netflix streaming more rapidly than its appearing -- and no, I'm not interested in the episodes of yet another faux-reality TV show.
Although its not impacted titles I particularly care about, there has been a slowly increasing trickle of emails from Safari regarding titles "no longer available".
The cost of the pipe I'm viewing some of this over continues to rise far in excess of inflation. And the moment I stop paying my several monthly fees, it all "goes away" for me.
As much as anything, these and other limitations now primarily serve to get in my way.
So... look out, government-granted and ever-extended monopolies. "The People" are, I increasingly suspect and directly experience, about to tell you to go stuff it.
P.S. And on the other end, many of the people I care about seem to be ever more marginalized. Songwriters and musicians I both enjoy and can actually afford to see, who all have to hold down one or multiple day jobs. Special effects artists who, directly or indirectly, win Oscars while losing their jobs. Writers who... well, "writers" is a broad category, but there have always been plenty of good ones who live economically marginal lives.
The status quo is a money grab for entrenched interests. I no longer identify with those.
P.S. I get physical discs from Netflix, as well. Measured against my viewing habits, they make plenty off of me.