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by xemdetia 1813 days ago
You need an external list anyway just to keep track of where things moved around to across subscription services. I wouldn't mind the current segmented streaming market as much if the people that are selling their media rights around provider to provider would do any effort to guide your eyeballs to their work, but they don't seem to be incentivized to do that and would rather direct you to a buy/rent situation instead which makes the whole streaming subscription piece redundant. Right now nobody's running the job as the promoter where they do an end to end hype train, it feels like everyone's just leaning on passive advertising and waiting to sell media rights to the next group. With the direct to consumer digital media purchase option only becoming more prevalent it seems like the subscription movies are going to be in purgatory for a very long time.