I bet Netflix would absolutely love to provide all of these movies. I don't have any insider knowledge, but given their past behavior, I cannot help but think the content providers (of which a lot are owned by cable cartels) are preventing this. They are either prohibitively pricing the movies or are trying to dictate too many terms under which viewers have access to the movies. Then there's the fact that some of these movies didn't exist in a "streaming" world and so their licenses (for the music, etc) don't take this into account and so all that has to be renegotiated (which goes back to the prohibitive pricing, surely).
Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List
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#272It sucks that Netflix is pushing their own content as a solution. Don't get me wrong, some of their own content is great, but I don't want to subscribe to 10 different streaming services that all have their own original content, I want to subscribe to one. Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again.
What are they supposed to do?
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again. Lawyers are the primary reason why Netflix is becoming less convenient, and by pure coincidence, lawyers will benefit from an increase in piracy. Money talks.
So why doesn't this happen in the music industry? And a few exclusives here and there doesn't count. Spotify / Apple / Amazon / Tidal / Deezer have 99.9% of the same content with a few high profile albums that are only found on one or another service.
The main reason is that licensing works totally differently for music. For music, you go to a central licensing source and pay for the license. They will license to anyone with money.
For movies, you have to negotiate separately with every movie producer for every title.
In other words, to start a music service, you need money. To start a movie service, you need money and connections to every Hollywood studio.
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#274Meanwhile in the warez land everything is just 1 click away, hassle free and non-DRM encumbered.
Or you can pay a reasonable price to rent on iTunes and Amazon Prime. Stop pretending that you pirate because it's a "better experience". You pirate because it's cheaper to steal other people's hard work than to pay a fair price for it.
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#275And of these 31 remaining almost half are missing in the Swedish Netflix: 5. Back to the Future 6. Gladiator 7. Sunset Boulevard 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. Django Unchained 12. Reservoir Dogs 13. Braveheart 17. Amadeus 21. Trainspotting 24. There Will Be Blood 25. Spotlight 26. The Princess Bride 27. Zootopia 29. Jaws 31. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl And yet Netflix want the same monthly cost for…
To be fair, you can find the vast majority of the 250 movies on the first or second page of Google if you type in "MovieName streaming". uBlock and Privacy Badger extensions recommended of course. Also torrenting is available if nothing else.
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#276I find it strange that Spotify is able to list almost any band and music out there, and streaming video providers not. They are even forced to create their own content. Seems that the music industry has a better separation between content creators and providers than the movie and series industry.
The music industry also went to DRM-free several years ago (all the stores sell unencumbered MP3 or AAC or some lossless codec); video content has not yet caught up.
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again. Lawyers are the primary reason why Netflix is becoming less convenient, and by pure coincidence, lawyers will benefit from an increase in piracy. Money talks.
Are you joking? Lawyers don't originate and decide the negotiations. The value of streaming rights have increased as streaming has become more popular, so Netflix cannot afford to keep as broad of a portfolio. Especially as the value of content is currently quite ambiguous, due to the early stage nature of stream, and the amount of competitors experimenting with building their own streaming services (their willingnes…
Who do you think does the negotiations? It's lawyers on both sides.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
He didn't spend 35 minutes getting a refund. He spent 35 minutes trying to resolve the problem.
Spent 35 minutes trying to find a resolution and didn't get one. So they should expect to pay money AND time to watch content legally?
It would be ideal if they wouldn't have to spend time, but just because things don't work it doesn't mean you're now entitled to take something you didn't pay for.
If the blender I bought doesn't work I should be able to take it back to store and get a refund. But just because I spent 30 minutes driving back to store, that doesn't mean I can just take another one from the shelves and walk out without paying.
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Robotguy12 did not describe a UI problem. First there was a licensing problem, then there was a technical playback problem. The movie was nominally legally available, but it might as well not have been, for how hard it was to find and then playback. The technical problem is relatively easily fixed and probably just an isolated local issue. The licensing problem is a bigger one. For rentals, you have the problem of ha…
Parent said "UX" not "UI" problem. UX broadly encompasses all aspects of the experience, not just the UI. Sucky licensing hiccups, buffering, etc. all lead to poor UX.
Yeah but you really don't need "UX designers" to tell you any of that, nor can UX designers fix it.
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Another sub-aspect of the poor implementation is oppressive DRM and player restrictions. Netflix and Prime are finally acceptable on Linux thanks to Pipelight but that solution's not for everyone. If you want a single settop box, you might run PI with XBMC/Kodi but you can't get DRM'ed things on there. So you need a Roku or AppleTV for your DRM, a chromecast for things coming from a PC, and you still need a Kodi for…
There's a lot of fragmentation, but things are getting better. You can do all that with a FireTV stick for $40. It runs DRM apps, has a Kodi fork MrMC in the store (or you can sideload Kodi), Miracast for general screen casting, apps for other casting protocols, a YouTube app for Google content. Against Balkanization, Fan.TV and other guide apps combine all your streaming sources and antenna TV into one. And everythi…
This is what I use, and I love how responsive the Amazon FireTV remote is. I have the FireTV hidden behind my TV and the remote works from anywhere in the room regardless of if I'm pointing it at the device or not.