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Solution: create a common platform for all online services (Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Warner, …) and have EVERYTHING there, even old movies and not often seen ones.

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And also remove Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)

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They had piracy all but beat. It was their insatiable greed that drove people back to the sea.

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One should acknowledge that this is not on Netflix alone.
Other media companies pulling their content to set up their own streaming services has fractured the market and made each individual service much worse in the process.

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Oh no!

Anyways

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2013 Netflix competed just fine. Piracy was mostly dead back then

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But 2013 Netflix didn’t have to compete with Prime Video, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, HBO Max, Apple TV, Hulu, Peacock, or any of the million “add-on” channels that Amazon uses as an excuse to paywall you off from the content.

The fact that they all run in their own UI, desperate the shove the next instalment of mediocrity down your throat, means that I’ve gone back to piracy. It’s just much easier to type what I’m after into Radarr or Sonarr than it is to go through the services to see what’s available. Sure, I can use Justwatch, but 80% of the time what I’m after isn’t on anything I have.

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More competition should mean lower prices. How is competition diving prices up? Seems rigged.

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Same amount of content, more players, outbidding each other, passing on those lovely reverse savings.

See if it was like music, with a massive back catalogue available to everyone, you’d have four or five services competing on price. But it isn’t. And it will suffer for that.

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