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Originally Posted by Blaster86
And the streaming services are ridiculous if they think that this latter comment isn't going to feed right into the former.
I am not dropping Netflix. I may, MAY, add a second service but I am not going beyond that. What I am hoping happens is Disney's push falls flat and other companies contemplating similar moves opt to just stick to producing content for other services. May as well make some money as opposed to just having all your content put up on torrent sites for free. If Netflix at its height proved anything, it's that people won't pirate if there is an affordable choice with good viewing options.
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I pay a crapload for cable, and have Netflix. If I can't find it there, ya, I "borrow it form the big library". If these media folks can't find a way to legally get my aprox $200/month of media spending, that's on them. I'm not paying for every service. I have my limits. I even paid for HBO for Game of Thrones last year so I could watch it at 7, instead of downloading and watching at 9. Joke was on me, they delayed the broadcast out west, becuase screw customers.
Honestly I'd rather have either a micro-transaction PPV, or a flat media rate per month that goes to whoever made what I watched based on timed percentage. So say I pay $200 per month, I watch Princess Switch(yah, right!), and that takes 0.5% of my total monthly time watched, the Princess gets $1. Maybe have quality tiers as multipliers or something, so Guy's Grocery Games is only worth .2 of Star Wars. We've got the tech now to do stuff like this, they should be exploring other models.