• macniel@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    Way too accurate. Netflix, when it was the sole main provider, was super good. Then the other companies realised the big bucks they could get from streaming/peddling their own shit.

    Thanks to this meme, I killed my netflix account. Nicotine is fine :D

      • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        The whole idea that competition is good is a total libertarian lie. Cooperation leads to the best results. It’s just impossible under capitalism.

        • vithigar@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 year ago

          It is good, if the competing products/services are interchangeable and they need to compete on factors such as price, convenience, or reliability. For example, competing grocery stores, all of which offer by and large the same products. Or competing mechanics, all of which can perform service on your car.

          Streaming services don’t do this. They have carved up the market and “compete” by making you choose which products you want more.

          Imagine two grocery stores, one of which had all the ice cream, and the other had all the chocolate, and neither could carry things that the other stocked. That is what streaming services are doing.

          • AngryMulbear@lemmy.ca
            1·
            1 year ago

            Modern copyright law is essentially a state sanctioned monopoly.

            Rights holders should be forced to license the content to anyone that wishes to distribute it. As it stands now, they can lock it in a vault for generations if they wanted.

  • 8tomat8@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve just finished my setup with Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyfin, qBittorrent and nzb360. I’ve paid 120€ for proton vpn for 2 years, 200€ for m2 ssd for 4tb and a few bucks for domain to access my setup from anywhere. Also, I have a 1gb internet connection for 65€ pm…

    So, I’m willing to pay… I don’t want to spend all this time configuring scripts and integrations(though it was fun 😁)… But paying for Netflix, Prime, HBO, Disney+ and not being able to watch everything I want, simply makes me angry and miserable.

    Duck them all. Arrrrr