Honestly, for all the objections I have when people decry modern TV and the golden age as ending, TV copying film and becoming bogged down in spin-offs and sequels will start to hurt the industry in terms of quality
I really hope we don't see a glut of spin-offs across the streamers. People should be less credulous.
The world is already somewhat 'consolidated' right now via services like Netflix, Hulu/Apple, Amazon content that mostly drops everything they make or commission internationally on day 1.
The point is that this all derives from a fundamentally archaic worldview. It's utterly absurd that I can't legally purchase or stream shows like Dummedag (an example) because I don't live in Norway. My only option in many cases is piracy. Do some of these studios not want people to purchase their content?
Here's my solution to this, the EU should've said: If you refuse to make your TV show legally accessible either to stream or to download for a certain country, piracy of that show within that country should be legal.
I would support the end of all geoblocks, or the legalisation of piracy for shows unaccessible to particular countries (for the citizens within)
I’d be interested if people in Europe find the current system to be a significant hassle or not.
It just means people pirate. This really should've been solved some time ago. A TV show being accessible does not inherently mean that it must be streamed, it could be a digital download. This is why a Steam storefront-type setup should exist for TV with no blocks. You can buy any TV show you like, £10-15 a season (prices could vary obviously) and it's yours. Netflix and Amazon and Disney etc would exist alongside it as streamers. Or the EU should've thought about a pan-european streaming service.
The European Parliament should've just alternatively done this.
If you refuse to make your TV show legally accessible either to stream or to download for a certain country, piracy of that show within that country should be legal
Update: https://twitter.com/tvmojoe/status/1734388030721646697?t=WcCUbPGdzqa92sHXwmGgkQ
Tech glitch, apparently
Although I no longer regard it as near my favourite: The Walking Dead.
Somewhat. Try "Falconer". They have a sound a bit like this.
I'm pretty good at this lol. I know what I like, and I use sites like rateyourmusic lol
Federation has its downsides though, there's less cohesion across the board. A lemmy/kbin platform may have 20,000 users (an example) but most of them might end up with interacting on instances outside of the one they signed up on. Whereas everyone on Discuit, for instance, will be only interacting on Discuit. There's something to be said for how a userbase is spread, not just the amount of users. If Kbin wasn't federated and its own thing, its user trajectory and interaction could've been different - although having only recently arrived, I understand that features had stalled for a long time.
I think the long-term trend of federation is smaller instances simply shutting down due to lack of interest/money in maintaining it without any noticeable growth and a small bloc of highly used instances dominating, one main one, and probably some politically charged ones orbiting it. Yes, anyone if they're annoyed with a particular instance can just down their tools and migrate to another instance - but if you've got or run communities on that instance, it is a downside.
Although in Discuits case, yes, it is really, really basic - and that more than anything likely stopped it growing before anything else. There was also administrative problems and other issues that drained users. It hypothetically federating wouldn't help it at all. Their users would just stop using Discuit and use the larger communities all across Lemmy.
I'm mostly into serialised content. I don't especially care for anthological shows, classical westerns or episodic procedural "monster of the week" formats (which was the prevailing style of TV up until the end of the 00s). I like 'long-form' high budget or at least mid budget serialised content with between 8-12 episodes a season that is now dominant. I also like primarily speculative fiction: sci-fi, dystopian, fantasy, post-apocalyptic settings that were much less common until the end of the 00s. I also like to see 'grit' and 'grimdark' settings, and it's undeniable that TV is now more risque, with more violence, nudity etc than it was then.
I also like to see non-American content, and in the 60s and 70s it was pretty much ONLY american and UK content (mostly American) that existed that was any worth. There was no Korean, German, French, Swedish etc dramas of any worth at all.
https://deadline.com/2023/12/warrior-canceled-max-netflix-picks-up-non-exclusive-rights-3-seasons-1235643240/
"Warrior is expected to debut on Netflix in February 2024. If it does well, Netflix could presumably order a new season of the drama based on an original concept and treatment by Bruce Lee, sources tell Deadline exclusively."
There's some hope, at least.