Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

Post by anon84873628 » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 11:12 PM UTC

eadmund wrote: post #274

cortesoft wrote: post #81

I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. Every single service I have subscribed to has way more content that I want to watch than time I have to watch it. I watch maybe an hour a night, and I have a huge backlog of shows I’d like to watch that I slowly work through. Even my current list will take me years, and I have new shows to add all the time. Are these people…

> I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. What is there that is worth watching? They don’t make anything good anymore: no Seinfeld, no Office, no Parks & Rec, no Castle, no Bones, no House. Everything new is terrible, often embarrassingly so. It’s as though sometime in the last decade all the talent and skill left media, and now we have corporations and people goi…

Post by cereal_cable » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 3:25 AM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #282

wink wrote: post #250

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yeah, from the ones I a have used (Netflix, Disney+, Prime, Maxdome) only Prime is atrocious, all others are not perfect but usable.

I found Netflix to be getting worse and worse till I finally cancelled 1-2 years ago. The interface was doing weird stuff, more and more autoplay, weird suggestions, search results turning to shit. They were working towards being as bad as prime, but prime was "free" if you subscribed to at least one twitch channel, and Netflix kept raising prices.

Post by eadmund » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 9:16 PM UTC

anon84873628 wrote: post #281

eadmund wrote: post #274

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> I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. What is there that is worth watching? They don’t make anything good anymore: no Seinfeld, no Office, no Parks & Rec, no Castle, no Bones, no House. Everything new is terrible, often embarrassingly so. It’s as though sometime in the last decade all the talent and skill left media, and now we have corporations and people goi…

If you like those sitcoms then you would probably like stuff on Hulu: Animal Control, Abbot Elementary, Superstore, Only Murders, etc. You can also rewatch Always Sunny, ER, and a bunch more. (Oh and "Dave" which is new and brilliant). HBO's entire catalog is full of bangers, many of which I still haven't seen yet.

Post by john-radio » Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 2:22 AM UTC

jmye wrote: post #174

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I think a lot of people intuitively understand that there's a difference between pirating the works of JRR Tolkein, him being wildly successful and not alive anymore, and doing the same to an up-and-coming author who's eating ramen a lot. There's no difference legally, though, which is a great object lesson in how there are sharp topological differences between the world of ethics and the world of human law. If you p…

> If you pay for Spotify rather than hacking it, you're really not supporting artists financially very much, right? Paying someone a millionth of a dollar to stream their music seems to me like kind of an insult, actually, and recording their song to a cassette from the radio like kind of a compliment. This is absurd. One is paying them, the other isn’t. It’s not a “compliment” to not receive income, even if you thin…

Post by bhelkey » Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 11:17 PM UTC

john-radio wrote: post #286

bhelkey wrote: post #235

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> If you pay for Spotify rather than hacking it, you're really not supporting artists financially very much, right? The majority of your money goes to the artist/right holder, "[Spotify has] an approx revenue split of 70/30 - so that’s 70% to the artist/rights holders and 30% to Spotify."[1] [1] https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per... .

70%/30% doesn't sound bad, if true; that's comparable to what Bandcamp was acclaimed for their fairness in paying their artists, if I recall correclty. I wonder what the "trick" is (if any), because I have to doubt the reality of that number. If you know and talk to musicians, it's almost absolutely unanimous that nobody ever earns a dime from any streams even if you are really popular on their platform.