I'm not picking a yt link, but just replying to the title: streaming wasn't a mistake. Price creep and content fragmentation (needing a subscription for every studio out there) was the mistake

[–] Bitforce@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah piracy more or less died down when Netflix blew up, made it available and easy to stream things legally and they had tons of content.

Now there are 50 services with its own subscription fee and their own library, and they pulled their content from Netflix so no service have a decent library.

So you either have to hop between subscriptions as you watch series and movies, or you pirate.

I don't pirate music because Spotify is good enough for me, but I guess it's just a matter of time before all the big record labels start their own shit service to stream their music.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Plus, if you don't watch on the right device and browser, you get shit quality.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

original hulu was great because i could just catch up on literally all the shows the next day and not have to worry about cable