[s0l1dsnak3123]

The answer to this nonsense is quite clear to me: we need to build a federated media platform instead of building silos that create negative outcomes for the customer and perverse incentives for the distributors and producers. We need to homogonise the pricing just like cable bundles do, but without locking the customer into products they don't care about. Spotify, while having many issues of their own, have more or less managed to do this - you don't pay extra for categories of media you don't care about, like you do with cable TV.

The problem is and always was the so-called "rights holders", who are just another form of landlord, looking to milk their licenses for as much as we can bare. Their power needs to be diminished. Whoever cracks that nut will revolutionise the media industry in my opinion.

[avidiax]

I think what the industry needs is a fixed royalties regime like recorded music has.

Spotify has the whole catalog, and the rights holders can't stop them. But Spotify does have to pay a certain industry fixed royalty per play.

The trick will be that movies & TV have wildly different production costs and replay value vs. music singles, so the scheme would have to account for this in a way that is fair.

[hattmall]

It was piracy that really cracked the nut of the music industry though. They simply couldn't fight it so they had to offer an alternative. Video media hasn't gotten to that point with piracy and for the majority of people it's easier to pay for content.

[vel0city]

> The problem is and always was the so-called "rights holders", who are just another form of landlord

Since you seem to think the content has nearly no value, go ahead and populate your federated world with your own content.