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Amazon CEO Asks His Hollywood Studio to Explain Its Big Spending

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Re: Amazon CEO Asks His Hollywood Studio to Explain Its Big Spending

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Post by lockhouse »

Arkhaine_kupo wrote: post #45
lockhouse wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Everything else, I will pirate without guilt. Are you unwilling or unable to pay for the remaining content you plan to consume? I’ve never understood how flippant HN is about piracy. The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property.

> The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property. The entire tech industry is built on free proyects, open source and collaboration. Modern tech is all about walled gardens and patent rent seeking because most modern tech leaders are awful. See the always relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Open source licenses are still grounded in intellectual property laws.

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Post by hgdfhgfdhgdf »

malchow wrote: post #46
hgdfhgfdhgdf wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately, capitalism ensures you will have other choices besides Amazon.

Or the choice to buy no tv content at all, a choice that our less-capitalist forefathers in the UK do not have !

It is indeed quite telling that our less-capitalist forefathers in the UK do not produce streaming services like Netflix and Amazon.

Re: Amazon CEO Asks His Hollywood Studio to Explain Its Big Spending

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Post by Plasmoid »

lockhouse wrote: post #8
purpleblue wrote: post #4

I'm at the precipice of getting rid of most of my streaming services. I only keep Amazon video around is because it's free. The only show I watch on that is The Boys. I'm waiting for Netflix to ask me to purchase a second account for my sibling who I share my Netflix account with, and when that happens I'll immediately cancel it. There's nothing there I watch anymore. Disney+ has a slew of failed Marvel shows and I c…

> Everything else, I will pirate without guilt. Are you unwilling or unable to pay for the remaining content you plan to consume? I’ve never understood how flippant HN is about piracy. The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property.

I don't mind paying for content. You made a thing I enjoy, so I will compensate you for it.

However, I am not a pawn to be jerked around. Content comes to me, I don't go to it. I'm not going to search a dozen streaming sites for the thing I want. I'm not going to follow you to another streaming site because you wanted to segregate New Star Trek and old Star Trek into different platforms.

I have paid accounts with streaming sites. If your content isn't on it, that's on you for opting out of being paid.

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Post by rglullis »

lockhouse wrote: post #8
purpleblue wrote: post #4

I'm at the precipice of getting rid of most of my streaming services. I only keep Amazon video around is because it's free. The only show I watch on that is The Boys. I'm waiting for Netflix to ask me to purchase a second account for my sibling who I share my Netflix account with, and when that happens I'll immediately cancel it. There's nothing there I watch anymore. Disney+ has a slew of failed Marvel shows and I c…

> Everything else, I will pirate without guilt. Are you unwilling or unable to pay for the remaining content you plan to consume? I’ve never understood how flippant HN is about piracy. The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property.

> The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property.

That's absolute bullshit.

Companies used to provide detailed schematics. Source code was shared freely by manufacturers. Micro-soft (when they had the hyphen) was one of the first to push for this change and responsible for making things "closed", writing letters to people asking them to stop making unlicensed copies of their Basic compiler.

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Post by jncfhnb »

nullindividual wrote: post #28
afavour wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Going forward, I'm expecting cheaper content Netflix's proliferation of reality TV (Love is Blind etc) felt absolutely jarring to me at first but it's just the tip of the iceberg. We're going to look back on the era of prestige TV fondly.

> Netflix's proliferation of reality TV (Love is Blind etc) felt absolutely jarring to me at first but it's just the tip of the iceberg. This should be seen as a death-kneel for any channel/service, yet those cable channels keep going after decades of truly terrible TV. I wonder what kind of person these shows pander to.

Pretty much everyone. You might not seek it out, but if someone else is watching you’ll probably be suckered into some kind of emotional response. A lot of cynics watch and say it’s dumb and fake and vain and overdone; and it is. But it doesn’t take long for them to fall into the trap of exclaiming how dumb a character is, or what have they should have done, or why someone deserved a punishment and then bang. They got you. You felt a glimmer of empathy for the folks on the screen, even if it’s contempt.

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Post by xur17 »

lockhouse wrote: post #8
purpleblue wrote: post #4

I'm at the precipice of getting rid of most of my streaming services. I only keep Amazon video around is because it's free. The only show I watch on that is The Boys. I'm waiting for Netflix to ask me to purchase a second account for my sibling who I share my Netflix account with, and when that happens I'll immediately cancel it. There's nothing there I watch anymore. Disney+ has a slew of failed Marvel shows and I c…

> Everything else, I will pirate without guilt. Are you unwilling or unable to pay for the remaining content you plan to consume? I’ve never understood how flippant HN is about piracy. The entire tech industry is built on intellectual property.

My problem is that I get treated like a criminal despite being a paying customer. For example:

* Purchasing a show on Google grants me a license to stream it from their servers using their clients. If they ever lose the license, I lose access to my content. For some reason I can't just download an mkv file with the movie I purchased.

* If I stream Netflix, I am limited to 720p on linux (drm)

* Netflix only works at 1080p on my 4k TV because it doesn't support the latest form of DRM

In all of these cases I am being given a sub-par experience despite trying to legally acquire the content, and for what gain? The content is still getting pirated..

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Post by blarghyblarg »

iamleppert wrote: post #50

It’s about time that tech companies go in and clean up Hollywood. There needs to be a year of efficiency imposed on these spendthrifts. The Hollywood elite needs to be held accountable, if they are not delivering ROI and maximizing shareholder value. It should not cost so much for a TV show or movie. YouTubers with more views are producing hit after hit with nothing more than an iPhone these days. Directors should st…

I honestly can't tell if you're an arts supporter writing satire, or a bean counter who is serious.

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Post by Apocryphon »

iamleppert wrote: post #50

It’s about time that tech companies go in and clean up Hollywood. There needs to be a year of efficiency imposed on these spendthrifts. The Hollywood elite needs to be held accountable, if they are not delivering ROI and maximizing shareholder value. It should not cost so much for a TV show or movie. YouTubers with more views are producing hit after hit with nothing more than an iPhone these days. Directors should st…

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Post by Plasmoid »

andsoitis wrote: post #41
theonlybutlet wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes the tech industry is built on intellectual property but the movie/TV industry is built on false scarcity. The music industry used to follow this model until the advent of Spotify. We had a brief time at the advent of streaming where it looked like Movie/TV was going this way, but they reversed course. I have a Netflix subscription, if you want a cut of that subscription, by all means show your content on Netflix…

> the movie/TV industry is built on false scarcity What is the “false scarcity”?

Think of it as the Spotify model vs the Netflix model.

In the music world, basically all music is available on all platforms. I can listen to basically anything on Spotify.

In the Netflix model, it's all exclusives. Everything is spread all over the place.

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