One of my favorite past times is reading people freaking out about the rising costs, while I sit completely unaffected thanks to the high seas.
I’m infuriated by this as it progresses. However, I don’t usually have time to stream anything, so I’m infuriated in spirit.
Aside from the fact that your favorite shows/movies get deleted whenever licenses expire, or at the whim of Netflix’s profitability algorithm, for a hot minute, streaming was everything people wanted back in the 90s. No commercials, a total MSF of about half of what you might have spent on cable if you have every major streaming service, and a trove of shows and movies to watch. Now, they’re about to raise prices and shit out a bunch of bland mid content for dumb dumbs to watch. Forget the era of cheap streaming, I fear this is the beginning of the era of no more quality TV and movies.
I genuinely think that the best remedy to this is to give SAG and the WGA everything they want in negotiations. It would fundamentally alter the economics of streaming if they are subject to the same sort of residuals and writer’s room requirements as traditional media.
If the media corporations have their way, they’re gonna break the strike by outlasting them until they “start losing their homes” from being out of work for so long that they’re forced to acquiesce. Then we’re gonna really get awful content as no one will be able to take any significant risks to write a weird TV pilot or make a unique movie.
That’s the deal for this kind of corporations, they make it cheap until you’re addicted than they try to steal your money “legally”…
Sometimes that’s a tactic, sometimes it’s wild optimism, and sometimes they seem content to make a loss every year and prop it up with investment.
I don’t know about stealing, they stopped taking money when I unsubbed, now I’m watching shit that somebody else paid to make, while not giving them a penny back!
I was worried for some time that piracy would wither in face of cheap streaming options. Luckily I was wrong, or at least the streaming companies didn’t have the stamina to win this war. Arr! 🏴☠️
Never paid for a streaming service, never will (we’ll see if that changes when I get married)
Laughs in onstream.to and bflix.gg
Streaming will become like tv eventually, if it isn’t already: only old and/or simple people are interested in it. Almost all people I know don’t watch tv anymore. And let’s be honest: 99.99% of the streaming crap is the same boring assembly line writing that didn’t work in the 90s and doesn’t work now. And to search for the 0.01% - nah, I’ll rather be in my workshop.
