More competition... =Prices increase.
This is not the outcome I was told would happen.
Wait, what else was I told that never came correct.?
Student loans Housing Pay raises Protect and serve Self driving cars Pot/Gateway Equal opportunity Meritocracy
... I'm beginning to think all of society, in it's entirety, is just one big grift.
No matter what they say capitalists do not actually like, or benefit, from competition.
I mean, what is competition? The entire point of a competition is that someone wins, and someone loses. When the entire structure is a competition, then if enough time passes most participants will have lost, and only one will stand victorious. The concept of free market competition will always end in monopoly, and every anti-trust mechanism is just a way to slow this down, not an actual solution. Capitalism will never create a solution to this either, as monopoly is the logical goal of capitalism. When monopoly exists, the capitalists have the most power. Of course capitalism will benefit the capitalists. It would be weird if it didn't.
You're forgetting the effect demand has on prices. Studios all pulled their content from Netflix and said "fuck you, pay us". People paid, so here we are. Had people said "No, fuck you! Put the content back on Netflix" then we'd still have $15 for everything on one platform. There was enough demand for companies to sell their products. It's not competition when each service has different offerings.
That possibly would've worked if the platforms all had an agreement to share the same content and not monopolize exclusives. If that were the case you'd choose the one with the best price and the best features.0
Pre-emptive reminder that piracy is illegal in Australia, so please don't share any links to pirated content or it will be removed in accordance with Rule #5
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Was 20 years between sails. 56kb dialup that could hardly get an album down in a couple of days to self hosting a server that I don’t even consume the content of.
Seed. That. Shit.
The only problem is that I can’t convince my friends/roommates to embrace the media center piracy box. Literally the smallest level of extra work is too much. I’m not sure how to make it easier
I'd imagine it's a more generic term for a small PC (or maybe an Android TV box) running something like Kodi (home media centre program), and Kodi would have access to a drive (usually a network drive) full of pirated MP4s or whatever. I'm sure there's even more elegant solutions out there, but you get the gist.
some of the big studios are starting to not do discs releases here in Australia as well. If I want an archive copy of a movie (for the months I dont feel like shelling out for streaming access), I can't even fall back to disc. The high seas is already the only place to get some content, when its not on disc and no one has purchased the digital rights
Streaming services are hard to navigate. There needs to just be one place to stream everything from like music. Then I’ll never sail the seas again,
All The Web is getting too hard to navigate. If it isn’t the layers of layers of ads and trackers making it impossible to read content, or the obfuscation of permalinks, or AI plagiarism of original content, it is the 7 pages of Sponsored Links in search engines, meaning that your eyeballs are going to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile algorithmic curated lists are force-fed to consumers for the sole purpose of manipulating their political beliefs and buying habits, railroading them into making life decisions for the benefit of others.
Just yesterday, I looked for a tool to encrypt files in Dropbox.
I couldn’t remember the name, so I searched “encrypt files in drop box.”
Every single link on the first page was to the official site. I had to guess at the name of the software to find its site.
Now imagine you were a network user who just wanted to know how to configure a Write-Only network folder, or you wanted to find plans for a mailbox with a secure parcel receptacle.
Both of these concepts were historically called a Dropbox, until one commercial company hijacked the name for a Read-Write personal network folder, and corrupted the name by providing Read-Only features to their product.
In fact, I had that issue with something but I’m drawing a blank at the moment. It’s truly annoying.
I have always been a sailor but did pay for Netflix for 6-7 years mainly to share the account with others. When content evaporated I dropped it. I paid HBO streaming to support Game of Thrones and then dropped it too. I always watched WEB-DL even when paying for a service because of quality
With how garbage the Star Wars stuff and Marvel stuff has been it sucks we can't get a refund out of Disney yet they think they deserve more money. The only real pull they're getting is Doctor Who, which they don't even make, and hopefully will have no influence over. But it sucks if that's all yoi want to watch on there and that it used to be free through ABC
