Netflix used to make some really great stuff. Now it’s just execptionally woke at the expense of good writing.
The only good stuff on neflix is the foreign stuff.
Lol Netflix has always being what you called “woke”. Nothing change its just that now people have a name for it.
This Just In: Corporations Succeed In Ripping People Off Because People Are Fucking Lazy and Piracy Is “Too Hard.”
How is asking people to pay for the service you’re providing “ripping them off”? Netflix is like 10 euros a month. You can’t literally buy even one DVD with that.
I haven’t ever used Netflix, nor any other streaming service except for Spotify, but I find it absolutely incredible how people are complaining for not getting this all for free. Why would anyone create new tv-shows and movies if it’s not going to make them any money? It’s crazy the mental gymnastics online pirates do to justify their behaviour. I’ve always used adblocker and have pirated my fair share of content but I’m not kidding myself about it being anything other than stealing. I’m taking a product and not paying for it. We’re just as greedy as the people we critizise.
How is asking people to pay for the service you’re providing “ripping them off”? Netflix is like 10 euros a month. You can’t literally buy even one DVD with that.
This is a dishonest argument. People were glad to pay for netflix when it was 2015. Guess what? It’s 2024 now and there’s competition in town and you better compete or be called a rip-off.
Besides I haven’t ever used Netflix, nor any other streaming service except for Spotify, but I find it absolutely incredible how people are complaining for not getting this all for free.
Spotify is good unlike netflix.
Why would anyone create new tv-shows and movies if it’s not going to make them any money?
The problem is not making “any” money… the problem is the greed of executives and shareholders who demand exponential growth.
It’s crazy the mental gymnastics online pirates do to justify their behaviour.
If the economy is good and people on this god forsaken planet can afford stuff without signing away their souls then you have a point.
I’ve always used adblocker and have pirated my fair share of content but I’m not kidding myself about it being anything other than stealing.
You’re a fool if you think businesses haven’t stolen anything.
I’m taking a product and not paying for it. We’re just as greedy as the people we critizise.
Speak for yourself. You will change your mind when you sit next to a VP when he talks about letting go of employees like cattle just because his numbers don’t look good over the next quarter for a company that he is bailing out off in the next 6 months, collecting his multimillion dollar compensation.
Wanting to pirate Barbie is NOTHING compared to the levels of psychopathy of an exec in a company.
Shame on you for comparing us with psychopaths.
You’re a fool if you think businesses haven’t stolen anything.
This is just whataboutism. Two wrongs don’t make it right. The only reason stuff like streaming services, movies and tv series still exists is because there are people paying for them. Piracy is just freeriding. We let others do the dirty work and then demand our share that we don’t deserve. These things are not binary. It’s not either - or. It’s still wrong to steal from your neighbour even if they’re an asshole.
If you don’t like Netflix then stop using it and subscribe to their competitor. If you want it both ways then atleast be honest about it.
Also, no one is demanding exponential growth. Do you even know what that means?
Not so sure about that. I’m actually surprised at the number of people that I would never have imagine, that have started to pirate. Maybe it’s just anecdotal, but I have a feeling that we are going to start to see updated versions of " YOU WOULDN’T STEAL…" PSA ads for the cloud era.
Does it? Is there proof this time? Last time the media jumped on this narrative, it turned out Netflix had lost subscribers in western nations where they’d cracked down, and simply added users in cheaper emerging markets.
The fact that they are adding pro wrestling to the channel does not bode well for their future. It’s what cable networks did when they started hemorrhaging users (see SyFy).
Netflix is also getting rid of their cheapest plan. Another sign they aren’t doing so great.
These articles are written by the subjects. I used to think they had to at least take the journalists out to a nice lunch or something, but in fact there are no actual journalists involved. Sad
The media takes a press release, signs off on it and releases it usually word for word a lot. They’ll put their name and brand on it, but that’s a honest to goodness press release.
This article might be a blend, strange that at least on mobile I can’t find an author for this one.
SyFy also did the same shit as Netflix and cancelled all their shows after two seasons. I liked a lot of their shows but after a while SyFy became synonymous with “no point in getting invested” which is where Netflix has been for a long time for me. I dropped it long before the password crackdown crap. Hoist the sails, me mateys!
I have Peacock for the PPVs, that’s as far as I’ll go. I have no problem downloading RAW or Smackdown the next day and watching without commercials.
Netflix will never get my money for the amount they charge. Fuck Netflix in the ass with a cactus.
I am going to get downvoted for this but yeah, this is kind of expected. We think that they will lose customers. Yeah they will lose us but they don’t care. We’re not part of the market that they’re building on. Their markets are those who depends on them, those that can’t live without them. And they don’t care about about our generation that much because we are part of the experimental generations when they tested the market. The new generation are their targets because that’s are what they’re exposed to when they grow up.
Google is a good example as a case study. They took really long time to figure out how to make money. Instead of using ads banners like its counterparts during its time, it stayed on providing free services, Gmail, maps etc, so that we’ll get hooked to them. It’s only once we’re hooked to them that they start changing things leaving the next gen with no much choice.
Dude, if you don’t agree with me, at least you can attack my arguments by stating your counterarguments. I believe that’s much more useful.
Anyway, I am part of the quite early Internet Netscape, geocities, excite, Hotmail, Google etc generation, if you understand what I mean. Quite possible, I’ve lived through the whatever 4 generations you’re talking about. But it’s not useful for me to talk about that. So I stop at that.
lol sure it does
