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Re:Netflix Removes “Basic” Ad-Free Plan in U.S. and U.K by unsupp0rted on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:20PM (#36788895)
That way there's a financial incentive to make content easier to get by paying for it than by not paying for it.

E.g. Spotify.

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Re:Netflix Removes “Basic” Ad-Free Plan in U.S. and U.K by rhino369 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:34PM (#36789175)
Apple TV, google play, Amazon, and all the other video stores are no harder to use than Spotify.

You don’t use them because it costs 6 bucks a pop.

That’s a price motive not a service issue.

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Re:Netflix Removes “Basic” Ad-Free Plan in U.S. and U.K by dns_snek on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @01:11PM (#36789814)
> That’s a price motive not a service issue.

I think anyone who has tried to figure out which movies & series to watch where and how to line up the billing cycles to move to the next service when you run out of content, will disagree.

This is fundamentally a service issue, providers aren't competing on price or the quality of the service, but by monopolizing the availability of content which makes the user experience objectively worse.

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Re:Netflix Removes “Basic” Ad-Free Plan in U.S. and U.K by cabalamat on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:03PM (#36795690)
Even if these services were free, I would still prefer BitTorrent. Why?

- It has a wider selection of content. I don't have to faff around looking for which content is available on which service.

- There is no DRM.

- Do these services even work on Linux? I know BitTorrent does.

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Re:Netflix Removes “Basic” Ad-Free Plan in U.S. and U.K by lockhouse on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:26PM (#36789012)
The Spotify model doesn’t work for video content. A movie or even a TV show is way more expensive to produce than a song.
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