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That's not a move of a company that thinks it can still grow. That's a Netflix "we have 90% of the market, let's squeeze them" move. This is the beginning. We
by andsens 9mo ago
That's not a move of a company that thinks it can still grow. That's a Netflix "we have 90% of the market, let's squeeze them" move.
This is the beginning. We have all seen this pattern over the last 5+ years. You know their next few moves.
- groundzeros2015 9mo agoThe Netflix one worked
- qoez 9mo agoWorked for them not for the consumers
- praveenperera 9mo agoshort-term maybe, but piracy is making a come back
- jmkni 9mo agoIt never left
- array_key_first 9mo agoIt actually kind of did for a lot of people. Streaming was cheap, available, and convenient. Now it's none of those three. Once again, choosing not to pirate is just an objectively wrong choice. It's a worse experience, with worse quality, worse availability, and at a higher price tag.
- molave 9mo ago> Choosing not to pirate is just an objectively wrong choice. It's a worse experience, with worse quality, worse availability, and at a higher price tag. Choosing not to pirate and not to consume simultaneously is not necessarily a wrong choice. A difficult one? Yes. But I propose that it could be beneficial for your mental (and maybe physical) health.
- array_key_first 9mo agoThis is the approach I took with most things, so you're right. But still, TV can be some of the highest quality and engaging media you can find. I mean, it's not short form slop or thinly veiled advertisment... If you look in the right places.
- donatj 9mo agoI went almost 20 years without sailing the high seas. It was the death of DVD Netflix that really did it for me. With DVD, Netflix if something I wanted to watch wasn't on any of my streaming services, it was almost guaranteed to be on DVD Netflix. That fallback doesn't exist anymore.
- estimator7292 9mo agoYeah, once I grew up and started making money, I quit pirating. Just didn't have a need for it anymore. But when streaming started to really go down the toilet I already had a homelab so I spun up radarr and Jellyfin behind seven proxies for family-scale piracy. It's wonderful. This is a new golden age for piracy.
- Izikiel43 9mo agoNetflix is looking out for Netflix shareholders, not for consumers, like any other public company.
- azemetre 9mo agoPerfectly good excuse to make society worse for people. Oh wait, what's that? It's not a good excuse? Oh okay.
- almostgotcaught 9mo ago> Perfectly good excuse to make society worse for people What an incredibly silly accusation to make of a company/service that streams movies and television. Like you understand it is possible to dilute the concept of civic responsibility right?
- Izikiel43 9mo ago? Companies don't care about society, unless it affects profit. Companies are not people, they are cold machines that through different means try to reach the same purpose, make more money. No one should anthropomorphize companies. They might look like they have human qualities, same way like the T800 in the Terminator looked human.
- groundzeros2015 9mo agoNobody needs a Netflix subscription. You can just stop paying
- vkou 9mo agoIt worked to push me to unsubscribe.
- rssoconnor 9mo agoI also unsubscribed, but even with you and me out, from what I read, it was a profitable move on Netflix's part. I guess I can't fault them.
- luma 9mo agoThe first stages always do, that's why corporations keep pulling the enshittification lever.
- bean469 9mo ago> The Netflix one worked Did it, though? User frustration seems to be growing, people are already seeking out alternatives