LOL.

We pay for 4K, but we don’t get more than 720p unless we use some proprietary shit hardware and agree to their super-invasive “privacy policy” - and they expect people to NOT set sail in the high seas? GTFO…

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    I can easily say that the amount of my friends and family that have become interested in my Emby setup has expontentially consistently increased every round that these streaming providers have increased their rates.

    The experience of launching 7 different streaming apps to find something, content constantly vanishing or moving platforms, and just an overall poor user experience coupled with doubling/tripling of each platforms costs…

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      The companies have almost successfully re-introduced the very problem that streaming originally solved.

      It’s like this dipshits don’t want our money. I’ve always been firm that any content removed from streaming services is a message from that content company that they don’t want the money of the customers subscribed to said service and thus are okay with those people pirating it instead.

      If they cared about the money, they’d had left the content there.

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        But realistically even if pump and dump schemes like this make the customers hate them, it might still make more as a total sum - and if so as a cooperation they’d almost have to take the shitty route (or be surpassed by someone who will).

        Yay capitalism

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          Yay capitalism

          Lol, you think greed won’t exist under socialism? Greed is why communism fails every time. People are inherently greedy in a world where scarcity exists.

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            Luckily, we don’t live in a world where scarcity exists, just one with a resource distribution problem.

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              we don’t live in a world where scarcity exists

              Wrong, there’s a distinct scarcity of logic in your arguments.

              “Scarcity is so fundamental to economics that scarce goods are also known as economic goods. In economics, scarce goods are those for which demand would exceed supply at a price of zero.” https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/scarcity.asp

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            Uh no? I don’t think I really implied it wouldn’t either, nor even that I’m a socialist tbh

            something something manufactured scarcity changes things