• Four_lights77@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The pendulum is swinging back towards the monopoly model that destroyed cable. Time to dust off the old Jolly Roger and teach streaming an old lesson of what happens when you price gouge people.

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      1 year ago

      I keep saying, we already fought this war, we already won.

      Fuck around and find out 🏴‍☠️

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      People were obviously pissed off at cable’s fragmented model, but what killed it was the existence of video on demand services over the internet. The fact that at a certain point Netflix had everything certainly helped in adoption, but the biggest factor was not having to view at a specific time.

      There is no such killer improvement on the horizon. All there is is the fragmented streaming market, or piracy.