Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi...
by mi_z on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:21AM
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You wanting everything for £30 is just not a sustainable cost though. They would lose money like that.
Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi...
by loloquwowndueo on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:39AM
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That’s their problem though :) bet they lose more money from the $0 they get from pirates - or so they whine.
Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi...
by maccard on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:00AM
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Replace 30 with 60/80, whatever. The entire rest of the post is my point, not the specific number.
Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi...
by josephg on Monday February 05, 2024 @04:00PM
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Why? If I watch 2 shows from Netflix, it costs $10. If I watch 2 shows from Disney, it costs $10. If I watch a show from Disney and a show from Netflix, why should that cost $20? And if I pay $10 for that, why would that be uneconomical?
The way licensing and streaming costs work is super arbitrary and wacky. There’s nothing fixed and eternal about it. If the fee structure isn’t working (and it’s not) then it should be changed.
The movie industry can get a reasonable amount of my money or none of my money. Their choice.
Most people are honest, and will do the the legal thing when faced with two equal options. If the choice is between that UI but it's illegal, and a reskin of that UI but it's £30/mo, I'd pay.
But it's not, as the other comments here said. It's a choice between that for free and a limited catalog of region restricted, ever changing, poor video quality streams spread of multiple services, and given the choice between paying 4 providers for a poor service and getting a good service from one location, people will pick the latter.