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They all got greedy. All of them. We wanted a streaming service to watch our shows and movies on, and they all decided to pretend that what we really wanted was a return to paying $100+ a month for a collection of channels with content that we mostly don't watch on them, only this time with a bunch of additional apps you have to install for each one, most of them remarkably shitty. Like cable, but stupider.
Remember when the streaming setup was simple? There was basically just Netflix, it paid for licenses to content from Disney, Paramount, etc., and provided guaranteed income for those companies. Small income, sure, but steady.
Then each of them said, "Hey, why don't we replace Netflix, only all we'll stream is our own stuff! And sure, most of it's trash, but people will stick around for the good shows!"
No. No, they won't. They'll go back to pirating it. No one is paying for Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Paramount+, Max, Peacock, AppleTV, ESPN+, Prime, and whatever other shitty "exclusive" streaming service pops up.
I don't think that content producers should be able to have their own streaming services. Similar to how movie studios couldn't own theaters or whatever until lobbyists killed that too.
If politicians didn‘t have their own horses in this race to the bottom of costumer satisfaction those anti trust laws would have been expanded on 100% but unfortunately we got a corrupt pile of crap.
Or follow the one good thing the music industry does.. allow music across different platforms. I can listen to the same songs on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple, etc. none of this “get the XYZ app to listen to a band, and another app to listen to others”.
Prime is like: you know that service we sold you that played movies without commercials? We're putting commercials in it.
I'm like: Bye felicia. I'll be fucked to pay more for data transit in 2024 than I paid before, the movement of bits and streaming of bytes have not gone up fuckwits. And I don't need the rest of the amazon trash either. Thanks for making it easy!
"Oh, and 2/3 of our content is only available via 'channels' which require an additional monthly subscription almost as much as the subscription you're already paying for."
Amazon, you literally own MGM. No I am not paying you even more money to watch MGM content, you greedy fucks.
Also that movie you want to watch? You gotta rent it. Fuck your subscription.