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Solution: create a common platform for all online services (Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Warner, ...) and have EVERYTHING there, even old movies and not often seen ones.
And you know what would be good? Your subscription money will be divided equally between everything you watched that month.
If they want your money, they better make high quality show that's actually interesting.
Let them fight each other for our subscription money.
It's the exclusive deals that fuel the fragmentation. If you could watch the same content on any streaming service, you wouldn't need to subscribe to a half dozen (or turn to piracy).
Of course that's exactly why Netflix, Prime, Apple, et al started making their own exclusive content that they totally control.
And also remove Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)
Yeah, but they all want to be the one to run it.
In the meantime, there's Jellyfin.
So basically just cable but for the internet age.
Can we have a la carte payments back? I don't pirate movies/tv because I barely watch any movies/tv, but the only time in the past year I paid for one was when I could rent it for 48h for $4. I hate subscriptions and would rather just pay once per every time I watch.
I've got a platform like that!
like socialism.
I'm always surprised when people propose monopolies as if a) they're good, and b) that's not what everyone in the game right now is trying to provide.
Everyone wants to be the one collecting the subscription fee. No one wants to be the one trusting the guy collecting the subscription fee to give them a fair cut.
I'm always surprised too. At least the market is sorta working.
In a lot of ways Netflix won. Many people aren't going to bother pirating their content and would rather just pay or at least subscription hop. We're in the greed portion of streaming where everyone wants a bigger and bigger slice. If Netflix did not create original content, I'm not sure they'd still be around.
I don't propose a monopoly but a common platform. The platform doesn't create content. The creators don't fragment the market.
And I say this as an answer to the problem content creators have. Not from the user POV.