There are lots of streaming platforms, but no real competition. Because the studios and networks hide behind the streaming services and price gouge like crazy. They know people will blame the streaming service.
What we actually need is a ban on exclusivity. There aren’t nearly as many complaints about music streaming services because most music is on all of them.
Plus if more TV and movies were on multiple streaming services, they’d have to start competing on service instead of exclusive content and maybe actually improve the experience…
Streaming services did it the other way around. We had one platform for almost everything, and then the studios created their own to get more of the subscription money.
Situation: There are 14 competing streaming platforms.
Ridiculous! We need one streaming platform for all the media licenses.
Situation: There are 15 competing streaming platforms.
https://xkcd.com/927/
There are lots of streaming platforms, but no real competition. Because the studios and networks hide behind the streaming services and price gouge like crazy. They know people will blame the streaming service.
What we actually need is a ban on exclusivity. There aren’t nearly as many complaints about music streaming services because most music is on all of them.
Plus if more TV and movies were on multiple streaming services, they’d have to start competing on service instead of exclusive content and maybe actually improve the experience…
Take a read through https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.
Real shame this was terminated rather than extended to streaming platforms.
there actually is one platform for all the media.
its called 1337x
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Streaming services did it the other way around. We had one platform for almost everything, and then the studios created their own to get more of the subscription money.