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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Sometimes I can't tell if these decisions are greed, or just rich people trying to make the world a more miserable place.

There's going to be massive 'attempts' to crack down on piracy soon, because in this economy, a lot of people are going to just stop putting up with this (and when I say a lot, I don't even mean close to the majority,but even optimistically 5% of people dropping this stuff would be huge).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    it's greed. all greed. gotta keep the numbers going up. they've already sucked-up all the interested viewers so significant subscriber gains are out.. only ways that are left is to shed content (which they've done--just flat out delete their own shit and not even shop it around) and raise rates like they do whenever their cfo takes a dump.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The problem is that streaming cannot be profitable at scale. Not for a company that considers it a delivery channel instead of its own branch of tech, marketing, etc.

    And once you can't offset the expenses with the constant increase of user numbers... this happens.

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