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Netflix should've realised this would be the end result. The moment you needed 5-6 different streaming platforms to watch all the movies and tv shows you want, was the moment it became easier and significantly cheaper to pirate the content.
None of the big companies that decided to cash in ever stood a chance.
I find that sarcastically interesting.
I initially signed up for Netflix all those many years ago because it was finally a solution that was easier than piracy.
Didn't take long for them to completely fuck me and the service over, and I left to go back to piracy and I'll never look at Netflix again.
I wouldn't mind paying for netflix if I didn't have to pay extra to not get ads, and if I didn't have to use a "smart" tv to actually get uhd, and if I trusted them with the data that they would get from that tv, and if I could share my account with my family in different cities, and if they had shows I actually wanted to watch and probably some other stuff too, but i stopped caring.
Cable TV 2.0: "Boohoo, pirates are eating my profits!"
..If you are expecting wild profits, year after year, ever increasing. Turns out that's unsustainable.
Make Netflix more convenient than my ARR setup and I'll happily come back.
When Netflix was under $10 I stopped pirating and just watched stuff on Netflix because it was worth it for the convenience at the price point.
That is how they solve piracy. Everything they have been doing over the last couple of years is the reason for the increase in piracy.
Netflix: “Should I get short term profits by price gouging and forcing commercials on people (thereby driving people to piracy) or should I forgo year over year profit increases by continuing to provide decent tv with no commercials and no price increases and delivering consistent profits?”
Also Netflix:
Honest question: could some of Netflix's enshittification be because of the media industry, and not their fault? The fragmentation of streaming was the opposite of what they wanted. So maybe his point is that it's impossible to compete because the industry is so powerful and greedy that they couldn't hold onto their monopoly. Spotify has been able to hold onto theirs because record labels hold less power and don't want to get into the streaming business.
CuriosityStream: “In light of the compelling consumer proposition, piracy services are subject to rapid global growth”
They really are just copying this statement lmao, I actually did try to find their content elsewhere since there's no way I'm paying for a streaming in USD, but couldn't, don't remember which documentary it was.
Jellyfin / self hosting is so great. You get the experience of a good streaming service and you can share with your friends and family, and there is no risk of a DMCA other than the initial seeding.
Unless you are friends or family with one of the Disney execs.