Piracy

22989 readers

1 users here now

Welcome to /c/piracy

No netflix or streaming services landlubbers allowed, this is pirates territory.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Why aren't streaming media contracts negotiated like 'you will provide us the 4K copies of the entire series; we will stream it forever and you will get X% of the profit..margin...etc in perpetuity' (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

rather than this stupid fucking snip snap game where, instead of, as a user being able to buy into a company that's building a massive, marvelous, library-of-alexandria-core archive of every good show ever made, you're paying into some shitty ephemeral bullshit made by stupid greedy dickheads who have no fucking sense

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

Because nobody knows for sure how much a show will be worth in the future and everyone is afraid of losing or wasting potential money.