Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced.
We’ll also examine each streaming platform’s financial status to get an idea of what these companies are thinking (spoiler: They’re thinking about money).
Netflix starts killing its cheapest ad-free plan in June
Sony bumps Crunchyroll prices weeks after shuttering Funimation
Peacock is raising prices
Fubo cuts 19 channels
In a seemingly desperate push, many streaming services prioritize revenue and profits ahead of building the best streaming service for customers.
We could go on about how this might force people to reconsider their subscriptions, but we should publish before another service makes yet another policy change.
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And that’s how it’s been for every company in any industry.
Fucking. Shareholders.
They let people believe that streaming is cheap, but it is not. A server can send streams to many people at the same time, but not so many as it seems and sever up time is a cost, in terms of energy and in terms of sysadmin time. Maintenance of the network is also expensive, especially in the US where most of the people live in low density neighbourhoods.
To that you have to add the cost of the big data servers that check everything people look at and profile their customers.
The dirty cheap subscriptions were meant to attract new customers, the service was heavily subsidized. The companies looked profitable just because other companies bought more ad space than necessary. Overadvertising is the preferred method to give stealth subsidies, but it is a cost for the other businesses of the network. After a while they have to shift those costs to the customers.
Those poor multi-billion dollar…
Nope, I cannot even finish typing that sentence.
Fuck 'em.
Stop giving these clown your hard earned money… They don’t respect the paying customer.
And yet they’ll be scratching their heads trying to figure out why more people are returning to piracy.
No, they know why, what they’re trying to figure out is how to easier detect and punish those who pirate for “stealing” their hard purchased profits.
We could go on about how this might force people to reconsider their subscriptions…
That’s one way to put it lol.
ref. Sony/Crunchyroll/Funimation – Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”
And this was exactly how they had it designed.
We all thought we were free from the burden of cable television.
But we should’ve known that while Netflix was doing it’s song and dance having been the cheapest subscription for years, everything was gearing up to be exactly like cable television.
I would enjoy PlutoTV and Tubi while you can, if I were you if you’re not already. You never know when they’ll start having to unroll tier systems or just drop out completely.
I’ve cancelled Netflix. Just wasn’t using it enough for the price. Instead I will entertain myself by downloading Linux distributions on BitTorrent.
Awesome! But I hope you aren’t using the actual program “bitTorrent” cause that shit had a litany of privacy and security issues that I don’t even know where to start describing. A good one nowadays is qBitTorrent
I exclusively use qbittorrent to download Linux distros.
Don’t forget to upload some ISOs as well! Keep the network healthy and happy :)
cause that shit had a litany of privacy and security issues
You don’t solve that by using another program. You try to reduce the damage by using the torrent client in a dedicated virtual machine and reset the machine to the original image at regular intervals.
Yeah or you could, you know, just download a program that isn’t problematic.
I had to upgrade the 4x8TB drives in my Synology NAS box to 4x12TB to hold all of the extra Linux ISO’s I was downloading.
Got a recommendation for a Nas? My 12tb is getting so full of Linux distros, I have to expand faster than I thought
Synology’s smaller units are great and with a few docker configs you are ready to go.
There are just so many distributions.
You’d think management at Netflix would look at the effect their changes have had on income, and uh, take that in to account planning future changes. Or something, right?
Apparently their income has increased so as far as they are concerned they are.
Amusingly my wife is ready to cancel because she got an add for one of their shitty mobile games instead of end credits while watching on her tablet in bed
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Where the fuck is this all heading? There isn’t any new medium to deliver media to people that will revolutionize content delivery. It’s already delivered directly to the device its viewed on. Back to $20 per individual movie like DVDs were before streaming took off? Except 10 more steps away from actual ownership of what you buy?
I just started using the public library apps this week. Piracy has gotten too difficult for me recently.
Stremio and realdebrid just google those together and I promise you’ll be happy you did!
Thanks very much. Looks interesting.
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Unironically, yes. Everything we had 20 years ago, but worse.
It has lead me back to having a media tower and using Jellyfin to keep track of where I was.
I honestly think they offered good deals for a couple of years to lure the new generations into a false sense of security and make them forget how to pirate :D
Seven seas Renaissance
They absolutely did. I used to pirate all my media 20 years ago, but then streaming became so convenient and relatively cheap that I just didn’t bother with it anymore.
Now, they’ve pretty much pushed me back out to sea with their ever increasing prices and decreasing content that’s worth watching. I’m not paying $15-20 per service, when they insist on fragmenting it to hell so I’d need 3-4 subscriptions to watch the things I want.
So, who wants to help a landlubber learn to sail the high seas?
