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Everyone is blaming Netflix, but it’s not their fault.
It’s the fault of the content owners. Disney, fox, paramount etc…..
Rather than make a little money off of Netflix, they decided they could scam more money by launching their own competing service
It's less Netflix fault than others' fault.
I probably wouldn't have cancelled Netflix if it weren't for their password policy change. That's Netflix's fault, but the content wasn't great, so it made it easier to pull the plug.
Exactly same here. Even with the loss of content, I was happy to carry on as I wanted 4k so had to take 4 screens, but shared with my sister and mum. In exchange, my sister bought Disney plus so was a good arrangement. When they took away sharing, 4k was not worth it. What am I going to do with 4 screens when I don't even have that many people in the house! Now we buy neither service and sail the seas. I'd rather pay for Usenet or Debrid than these jokers.
Also, it got annoying that half the decent TV shows ended after two seasons. You get invested and then bam, you'll never see it again.
Both of these are purely Netflix's decisions.
Please elaborate...
They all collectively and individually enshittified until it became worthwhile to pirate again.
They can point fingers all they want, or change their attitudes for longer-term gain.
The problem is, of course, their shareholders who are pushing for maximizing short-term profits, and then shareholder primacy, meaning they are legally obligated to obey their shareholders, even at the cost of business collapse.
Let them die.
Being first does not make you the legitimate proprietor of a flawed system.
The greatest flaw in the system is the fragmentation and consequential cost - when things were consolidated under Netflix, things weren't perfect but it can't be said that they weren't far better.
The true underlying flaw is capitalism, but isn't it always?
Netflix has become as bad as any of the others. Its all shit. ⚓
In the 90s, my cable company kept adding new channels but the price didn't keep shooting up.
Yeah it did, they just weren’t upfront with you about it. They just billed you at a higher rate
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/19/your-cable-bill-has-increased-188-since-the-mid-90.aspx