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@Daojoan This sounds like Netflix
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This exact same business model is killing cable TV.
More ads. More junk content. More manipulation. Reductions in quality programming.
Ever increasing prices sends customers elsewhere.
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@Daojoan That Black Mirror episode becomes more realistic every day.
@toplesstopics @Daojoan I get $1 every time someone posts this exact thing. I've made $4,028,298
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@deFractal @Npars01 @Daojoan I hope PBS would facilitate this - we'd happily like crowdfund George Clooney doing history shows
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@deFractal @Npars01 @Daojoan I hope PBS would facilitate this - we'd happily like crowdfund George Clooney doing history shows
@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.
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Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.
@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.
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Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.
I would like to think a lot of people would get themselves a nebula subscription or join means TV
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Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.
It's okay, I read a lot of novels.....
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Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.
@Daojoan Pay for a streaming service? That be cray-cray.
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@Daojoan As someone who used to have several streamers subscribed to at all times, I’m here to say that you can enjoy life just fine if you only have one going at a time and each one only for 1 month before cancelling it. We save hundreds of dollars per year with this approach and still get to watch everything we want to, just usually a little later than we used to. And we get to feel like we’re telling the streamers where to shove their price increases, as a bonus.
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Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.
@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).
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Piracy still gives them social influence - problem is, barely enough people are willing to boycott media entirely
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Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.
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@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.
@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.
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Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.
@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)
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@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.
@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.
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@Daojoan what is actually contributing to the price
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Thank you for being a valued Streaming Service+ subscriber. Your monthly plan is increasing from $9.99 to $24.99. This price adjustment reflects our continued investment in canceling your favourite shows after one season, removing titles from the library without warning, and building a worse user interface. Note: Your tier now includes ads. To remove them, upgrade to our new Ultra Premium Platinum plan ($39.99/mo). Btw your password can no longer be shared with the people you live with.
@Daojoan hold up, why would the price increase that high?
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@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.
@deFractal
This sounds like something @ajroach42 might have thoughts on getting the ball rolling on, maybe
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