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The downfall of streaming

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  1. smoontjes
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    In which Mina Le talks about: history/background of streaming free things becoming paid like ex-buzzfeed staff's content large subscription price increases happening, then comparing them to when...

    In which Mina Le talks about:

    • history/background of streaming

    • free things becoming paid like ex-buzzfeed staff's content

    • large subscription price increases happening, then comparing them to when they were labeled unfair when cable increased prices in the 80's

    • a pattern of worse quality of content (and different types) on account of changes to how earnings changed from box office and physical media sales to straight streaming - e.g. Ryan Reynold's Netflix movies that each make him $50 million but they don't exist in the zeitgeist

    • how you no longer own things, and titles disappear entirely and will be impossible to stream anywhere at all

    • black holes in production companies' libraries as they won't spend the money to maintain their large archives of old movies and tv

    The last part in the video, starting around the 30 minute mark, is about content creation and social media which in my opinion is less than interesting and can be skipped over if you only care about "actual" streaming like Netflix, Disney+, Apple, etc.

    Posting to ~misc as I didn't know where else was appropriate? ~tv? ~movies? ~life? Could do with an ~entertainment subgroup!

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