Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber.

[haste@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan We’re also updating our user agreement (which you do not need to agree to). Effective immediately, each member of your household must purchase a seat in order to view our content. Briefly walking past the screen on the way to the kitchen now constitutes one use of our service.

This change is retroactive. We have used AI to estimate how many people live in your house, and how many infractions you have likely committed (rounded up). A partner collections agency will be in touch shortly.

[buck@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Always a great day to board the Pearl!

[oclsc@mstdn.ca]

@good_dog_rex @Daojoan I read lots of books too, always have. But I also borrow DVDs and CDs from my local library, buying stuff I like enough or that the library doesn't have. Lots of stuff there that's hard to find streaming, especially older stuff; certainly more than enough for the time I want to spend watching or listening.

[hugoestr@functional.cafe]

@Daojoan This sounds like Netflix

[defractal@infosec.exchange]

@Npars01 @Daojoan Eventually, viewers will need to develop software to coordinate pooling funds and hiring SAF-AFTRA members and other cast directly.

[joe@beige.party]

@toplesstopics @Daojoan I get $1 every time someone posts this exact thing. I've made $4,028,298

[joe@beige.party]

@deFractal @Npars01 @Daojoan I hope PBS would facilitate this - we'd happily like crowdfund George Clooney doing history shows

[joe@beige.party]

@grudge @Kimota94 @Daojoan these are not answers

not for nothing, PBS is $5

[defractal@infosec.exchange]

@joe @Npars01 @Daojoan I envision something a bit bigger: like a federated Kickstarter replacement for much larger projects requiring collectives creative professionals and allied trades, where we (the audience, collectively) could hire the entire cast for a feature film or TV series directly.

It would take a lot of work, and would probably require a membership-based nonprofit as the legal entity to sign the contracts and disperse the funds, but in principle, the technical pieces we need to cut the studios and networks out entirely already exist.

All that remains required is a lot of organization, a little software, and a lot of software security review.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@Daojoan Ps. This is all due to financing arrangements that allowed us to run at a loss for 15 years, tricking you into believing the price you signed on with was reflective of the costs we actually accumulated, and now we need to get all that back. But we also bought up everything else, so now you don’t have any other options left.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Daojoan

I would like to think a lot of people would get themselves a nebula subscription or join means TV

[billmcguire@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan

It's okay, I read a lot of novels.....

[de_minimis@infosec.exchange]

@Daojoan Pay for a streaming service? That be cray-cray.

[mast0d0nphan@beige.party]

@Kimota94 @Daojoan You can also torrent for $Free.99. Or you can pay for RealDebrid and connect to it via Stremio, Plex, Jellyfin, Nuvio, etc for just $34/year.

[dazzr@social.tchncs.de]

@Daojoan No streaming service, no subscription plans - whether media or software. If I want it, I buy it - just not from the little anthrophomorphic rocketman (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/20/jeff-bezos-rocket-design-an-inquiry).

Corporate accountants may love subscriptions, TechBros may fancy to monetise my life. I don't appreciate either. Rot in hell, and GFY (go fuck yourself, for speaking out loud).

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

Piracy still gives them social influence - problem is, barely enough people are willing to boycott media entirely

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@Daojoan
Maybe we could interest you in our new and improved Piracy Plus service at a cost of nothing.
@oblomov

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@gimulnautti @Daojoan Funnily enough I was explaining the internet of the 1990s to my First Born yesterday.

Like how fast Altavista was and how easy it was to find useful stuff.

Also about companies with an idea who managed to secure venture capitalist funding, implemented the idea, built up the user base with no clear plan as to how to fund the company when their seed cash pile ran out.

And there were twenty other companies with the same idea.

Then, the dotcom bubble burst.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan I have to post this again.

The Ensh*ttificator

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Read more on: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree The movie is produced by NewsLab: https://www.newslab.no/ Script & direction: August Jorfald Photographer: Alexander Herlev Christoffersen The Norwegian Consumer Council is an independent, governmentally funded organisation that advocates for consumer’s rights. It should be easy for consumers to make sustainable choices every day. Consumers have the right to be protected against exploitation – both financially and digitally. To ensure this, we work to provide easy access to information, enforceable rights, and sufficient redress options when something goes wrong. #internet #news #consumer

Vimeo (vimeo.com)

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@Haste @Daojoan A few years ago MicroSoft patented an idea where a smart TV, IIRC via a camera mounted facing the audience could count the number of viewers in front of the TV.

Then the TV would inform the company providing the content if the number of people watching was high enough to classify it as a public viewing event rather than just a family watching a film at home.

Thus the fee due for the viewing of the film could then be adjusted accordingly.

#enshittification