Corporations: hey guys, let's unionize so the government doesn't exploit us.

Employees: hey, can we als...

Corporations: NO.

every pirate related theme song getting increasingly louder in the background

Just call it what it is: bribing power

streamers are currently being forced to reckon with their profitability — or lack thereof.

Netflix's 2023 2nd quarter revenue: 8.1 billion dollars BTW

The slow march back to cable is unstoppable.

Pirate everything. Share everything.

Piracy is an access problem, not a consumer problem.

Welcome back to the high seas mateys!

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If I’ve learned anything about corporate lobbying groups it’s that they only exist to fuck you and ruin any legislation that attempts to protect you from them.

Eat shit SIA.

Get rid of them. Socialize their service. Host all content at media.gov and take costs out of taxes. We could pay artists more, have 0 ads, all for like $15 per paycheck. Those taxes would fund grants for artists and cover platform costs. No ads. No corporations.

P.S. you already pay taxes on media through various 3 letter institutions and licensing. It's not different from what we have other than eliminating the things we all dont like.

Watch the video. Benn Jordan has done a lot of the heavy lifting for us. This lobby exists to stop that from ever happening and nothing more. Fight them to the death.

Could they, instead, band together to offer a service that’s more user friendly than piracy? I suppose bribery is cheaper and easier.

Lobbying should be fucking banned.

The streaming market is splintered to max and oversaturated by content. The bubble already burst and now people are cordcutting again or fleeing to independent content. Absolutely nobody wants ads back and all companies do is push them on users for ever more revenue. The model only worked because it wasn't as inconvenient and full of ads as traditional paytv/cable.

So now we've gone full circle and back to lobbies who at some point will undoubtedly create streaming-packages that will include a certain set of partenered services. Can't wait for the +1000€ per year -T-mobile-package-plan! Apart from Spotify who have kept their "affordable music streaming for 9.99€" promise over the last 10 years....the motion picture models have just become more expensive and user-unfriendly!

"Guillotine sales soar as citizens band together for lobbying power"

One can dream

Streaming has ultimately taught me how little I 'need' to watch since it trains you to really only seek out a couple things per service. I've also become very advertisment sensitive being blessed with tools to avoid that and companies honeymooning people for a while with fewer ads compared to what cable did.

Obviously, the dipshits are springing their 'trap' but I'm not bullish on the strategy of forcing consumers to suddenly tolerate a return of ads everywhere and always on entertainment. I just see folks running away again/further disconnecting from traditional media.

Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.

It felt inevitable at some point this was going to happen after they got caught off guard by the strikes to make sure that it never happens again, but the fight is not over yet.

It's more important than ever then for you guys to support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, fight for workers, and fight for unions.

Otherwise, they'll just keep squeezing and squeezing, until there is nothing left.

Laws like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which features overly broad definitions of the platforms it targets and has troubling privacy implications thanks to surveillance requirements, could sweep companies like Netflix or Disney up into its dragnet.

Streaming companies are usually pro-net neutrality, and that’s been a difficult concept for lawmakers and regulators in DC to fully grasp.

For those that read just the headline. Not everything is black and white.

Hello https://jellyfin.org, transmission, radarr and sickbeard

That's cool, I've kicked them all to the curb over the past two years.

Imagine missing the point so completely. Streaming, what a joke now.

Checkout streamio

You'll definitely stop paying these streaming giants.

It's almost never a pricing issue, but a service issue. They can band together in their bullshit campaign all they want. They're still not getting my money, because I'm not paying 15 a month, to watch one movie with 7 ads, after which they'll also sell my data

Incoming attempts to legislate recordless VPN bans and over the top piracy mitigation strategies instead of attempting to provide better services to their users

Netflix and others look for power in number$.

Welcome to the United $tate$ of America, people; Where money is the only thing that matters

That's called a cartel

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

You don't need a union, we are all family here.jpeg

This can only be a bad thing.

They will win and like live nation, will merge with more well placed companies until they are printing their own money.

The new group is led by two former policymakers acting as senior advisers: former Republican Rep. Fred Upton and former Democratic Federal Communications Commission (FCC) acting chair Mignon Clyburn.

Source: https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/streamers-launch-first-official-trade-group

Mignon Clyburn is Jim Clyburn's daughter. SMH

they have to since they can't make any money in the free market, because their products are total shit illegal sports streaming sites have better performance and usability than official/legal ones. corporate streaming services are a joke