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by phreack 1811 days ago
It's Gaben being proved right over and over and over again. Piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem.
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billytetrud 1811 days ago
To be fair, I think it's both. They're over pricing pay per view content, which drives people to subscription services. The problem is that subscription services are filled with low quality content. They need to stop being tricky and just sell this stuff for what it's actually worth. Paying $4 to watch a single movie one time is absurd when you pay $10 to watch unlimited content in a month. Pricing is very out of proportion too.
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eurasiantiger 1810 days ago
The ”premiere” fee for streaming the new Avengers movie was over 20 dollars, supposedly due to ”exclusive” access.

And you don’t even get to keep a copy.

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saiya-jin 1811 days ago
Well, you get the crappy channel subsidized with adverts, otherwise it would either be too pricey or server just utter cheap worthless unwatchable trash (mostly).

Would you like to pay say 1 dollar per movie and watch significant amount of ads during it?

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eurasiantiger 1810 days ago
If the ads appeared in-world instead of replacing the program material, I would have no problem with this.
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TheSpiceIsLife 1810 days ago
Advertising in movies and tv series is huge. I hadn't really noticed smoking on screen much at all in a decade or so until I got Netflix.

Netflix has a massive cigarette addiction.

The other two things I notice a lot are cars and phones / computers.

It has been projected that 11.44 billion U.S. dollars would be spent on product placement in the United States in 2019, up from 4.75 billion in 2012 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/261454/global-product-pl...

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billytetrud 1811 days ago
> Would you like to pay say 1 dollar per movie and watch significant amount of ads during it?

No I wouldn't.

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