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by Salgat 2634 days ago
Agreed. I would have no problem paying $100/month for a platform that let me stream any movie and tv show I wanted. Hell, give me packages instead (such as Disney content or Fox). The worst they can do is require 5 different accounts across 5 different services that all provide random content with overlap between services. Do you think folks would be fine with paying for 3 different cable boxes and subscriptions? No of course not, and the same applies here.
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Yup. This balkanization of streaming is really dumb and I believe it will cause resurgency of piracy in the coming years. As a customer, I only want one thing: a hole I can drop money into at regular intervals, and get arbitrary movies and TV shows from it on demand. I don't care about brands, "originals", and other shenanigans - each of them is one more argument towards installing a torrent client again.