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Post by smugma »

bombcar wrote: post #48
dharmab wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I suspect Apple snapped up some very long rights early on which means they’re not going to bother trying to compete directly as they’d only have their own songs. Same way that a bunch of studios waited for their Netflix/Prime contracts to wind down before opening their own streaming service.

In the US, the music subscription services get blanket licenses (from the MLC for mechanical rights and from the PRO’s for performing rights).

It’s different but similar around the world, but there is no long term rights securitization going on.

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Post by Closi »

blinded wrote: post #16

I wonder if they can sell their video distribution tech as a service? But yes seems like double down on good original context is the best bet.

They could have done that… 10 years ago.

Now lots of other companies are in the marketplace to provide this and Netflix would be a late entrance.

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Post by polotics »

JBits wrote: post #44
WisNorCan wrote: post #27

The most perplexing thing about Netflix is that even though they have a reputation for hiring the best, I can’t think of a single way that the experience is better than Disney, HBO or Apple TV. And this is after 25 years of investing in technology.

For me, Netflix's UI works pretty well while the Disney+ UI is an exercise in frustration. With Disney+, watching the credits required clicking on just the right bit and there's no obvious way to go from the episode itself to the episode list.

Disney+ UI is bad but for me Amazon prime is the worst: the super invasive and spoilery Amazon X-Ray display that keeps popping up will make me just stop the TV. But Netflix is also there with the worst, having for example on Better Call Saul season six a complete spoiler content advisory warning top-left, prominent full time on screen always: "this is how this character's arc from episode 1,2,3 will end, you can stop watching now. Completely destroyed the work of the actors an writers for me, and I don't want to watch the remaining 9 episodes thank you...

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Post by claudiawerner »

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.

I'm curious by what standard the film's production sexually exploited the actors, and it's a serious accusation. On first approximation, having watched the film and due to the fact nobody has been prosecuted by and government for the film, I'm inclined to disagree.

Anorher commenter in the thread called it 'child pornography', which is an even wilder claim, from a legal or moral perspective.

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Post by scrollaway »

erguiqewrugi wrote: post #45
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…

I am virtually certain you have not watched Mignonnes . It is really quite good, and treats its subject matter with care. You have fallen for propaganda. Just watch it. It isn't long and I promise you won't wind up scarred for life. If you hate it, at least you will have come to that decision yourself. Until you watch the film, I couldn't possibly care what you have to say about it.

GP doesn’t have anything to say about the movie, they just said they know people who cancelled their account because of it.

Why are you so defensive about something that wasn’t even sort of attacked?

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Post by [deleted] »

truffdog wrote: post #40
OrangeMonkey wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Post by formerkrogemp »

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…

I've heard people complaining on this site about streaming sites having or not having particular indie and obscure artists. They usually complain about YouTube making videos in playlists disappear as well.

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Post by ThunderSizzle »

version_five wrote: post #9
arrakis2021 wrote: post #6

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I cancelled my account directly because of Cuties. I dont live alone and do not want anyone in my household watching CP disguised as an art house film. I know of at least 1 other person who have done the same.

Anecdotally I think it's the long tail of ideological content rather than the extreme examples that make people leave. But I suppose it could be specific things that push people over the edge. I'm a strong free speech supporter - I'd rather there be lots of things that people find offensive on offer (as long as they wouldn't have been illegal in the year 2000). But having all new content revolve around some aspect of…

Netflix can have free speech. They can make and do whatever they want.

No one should be expected or required to keep paying a subscription when they start disagreeing substantially.

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Post by arrakis2021 »

claudiawerner wrote: post #55
OrangeMonkey wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm curious by what standard the film's production sexually exploited the actors, and it's a serious accusation. On first approximation, having watched the film and due to the fact nobody has been prosecuted by and government for the film, I'm inclined to disagree. Anorher commenter in the thread called it 'child pornography', which is an even wilder claim, from a legal or moral perspective.

The exploitation is on and off camera.

How many audition tapes did they go through in order to choose those 5 girls? 50? 100? Someone sat there and watched dozens of half-nude 11 year old girls twerking on camera. This is disturbing to me. If it isn’t to you then i don’t know what to say.

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