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Re: Netflix layoffs have started

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Post by dehrmann »

scelerat wrote: post #26

For you kiddos and newbs to startups/corporations out there, nothing anyone says is worth anything unless it's in a legally binding contract. When your boss says, "your department is super important to our company," that is effectively meaningless. I take it back; it has meaning: it means you should wonder why the boss has raised the issue at all.

This is true, and the what the former employee tweeted was somewhat unprofessional, despite the fact that it feels like the rug was pulled out from under you.

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Post by kikoreis »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #28

I wonder if Netflix should leverage same day delivery and start doing more physical copies again. Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.

But what would regular people use to play these DVDs?

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Post by PolygonSheep »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #28

I wonder if Netflix should leverage same day delivery and start doing more physical copies again. Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.

> Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.

I'm not an IP law expert, but does anyone know why fragmentation isn't such a problem with music? You never hear someone complaining that they have to subscribe to eight different music streaming services to hear all the popular songs. It seems the big music streaming services all have pretty much all the popular artists.

Why isn't it this way for video content?

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Post by PolygonSheep »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #28

I wonder if Netflix should leverage same day delivery and start doing more physical copies again. Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.

> Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.

I'm not an IP law expert, but does anyone know why fragmentation isn't such a problem with music? You never hear someone complaining that they have to subscribe to eight different music streaming services to hear all the popular songs. It seems the big music streaming services all have pretty much all the popular artists and you can just pick one and listen to all the hits, regardless of which label they're on.

Why isn't it this way for video content?

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Post by el-salvador »

lampshades wrote: post #2

Interesting that they're laying off writers seeing as the American public has been pretty unhappy with Netflix quality (whether the actual content or the idealogical pushes). I know a lot of people personally that cancelled their Netflix accounts after Cuties and even more for similar reasons as time continued on. I wonder how much of their subscriber-ship was impacted due to things like this and if it's a non-minor…

> Interesting that they're laying off writers seeing as the American public has been pretty unhappy with Netflix quality

I'm not sure if I'm phrasing this right. But I've felt for the past three years Netflix's US' content has become like the Hallmark Channel for U.S. progressivism. Too sterile, too formulaic, too forced. (Or could it be the algorithm that is recommending me the same content over and over?)

I'm sure someone could come up with a "Generic Netflix TV Show" video like this one:

* Dissolve - This a Generic Millennial ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG_i7oWzTyU

* Dissolve - Generic Brand Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M

I still keep the subscription for some Asian and European content though.

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Post by dharmab »

PolygonSheep wrote: post #34
mensetmanusman wrote: post #28

I wonder if Netflix should leverage same day delivery and start doing more physical copies again. Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.

> Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos. I'm not an IP law expert, but does anyone know why fragmentation isn't such a problem with music? You never hear someone complaining that they have to subscribe to eight different music streaming services to hear all the popular songs. It seems the big music streaming services all have pretty much all the…

There are only three companies that control distribution of almost all popular music. (Universal, Sony and Warner) Once you get outside of artists and genres published by these four (e.g. smaller foreign artists, very small niche genres, small indie artists) streaming options decrease.

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Post by CamperBob2 »

PolygonSheep wrote: post #33
mensetmanusman wrote: post #28

I wonder if Netflix should leverage same day delivery and start doing more physical copies again. Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.

> Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos. I'm not an IP law expert, but does anyone know why fragmentation isn't such a problem with music? You never hear someone complaining that they have to subscribe to eight different music streaming services to hear all the popular songs. It seems the big music streaming services all have pretty much all the…

Video is much more expensive to produce than music. That leads rightsholders to want to exercise more control over distribution, even though doing so paradoxically decreases their market share.

You also get a lot of productions that are financed in-house. Few HBO properties are going to be available on Netflix and vice-versa. The filmmakers had no choice but sign with someone, giving them access to a particular subscriber base at the expense of the broader market.

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Post by agensaequivocum »

martinky24 wrote: post #3
lampshades wrote: post #2

Interesting that they're laying off writers seeing as the American public has been pretty unhappy with Netflix quality (whether the actual content or the idealogical pushes). I know a lot of people personally that cancelled their Netflix accounts after Cuties and even more for similar reasons as time continued on. I wonder how much of their subscriber-ship was impacted due to things like this and if it's a non-minor…

Source on "know a lot of people canceled after Cuties"? Or just anecdotal stuff? I never saw data on that...?

I shared a password with my parents at the time. My wife and I stopped using Netflix entirely because of Cuties, and I think my parents also canceled.

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Post by truffdog »

OrangeMonkey wrote: post #12
pythonic_hell wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you watched the movie? At its core it’s a story about how vulnerable children are and how society sexualizes children.

That they showed by sexually exploiting children in the filming. There is no excusing this - forget about the 'message' - one is watching children in sexually explicit situations and trying to say 'the artistic direction excuses it.' I think I'm going to sit far far far on the other side of the overton window.

This is a pretty standard film criticism- you can't make a movie about something bad without glorifying it. Scorcese comes in for that a lot, Fight Club, people reading or watching Liar's Poker and feeling inspired, the list goes on.
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