Legacy media companies employ cheaper, ad-supported models, bundles and more, though price hikes have shown more immediate results toward profitability.
  • huquad@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    The fiber internet connection recently cut out for my neighborhood and I wasn’t able to stream anything! Then I remembered I host everything locally and I don’t give a shit

  • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    I actually consider pirating movies I have the rights to stream just to cut down on advertisements.

    • OppositeOfOxymoron@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Yup, since a specific subscription I already pay for started inserting ads randomly into their programs, I’ve added a second 16TB seedbox to my house. Now if I hear that someone at home is interested in a particular series, or that an old program has been added to the service that someone wants to watch, I just queue it up for download and watch it on the TV using the VLC app.

      • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Literally convenience. Before ads it was just easier to stream the shows.

  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    3 months ago

    Thr first sentence of this article is utter bs. Streaming is *finally starting to pay off for media companies

    It always has, I highly doubt hulu netflix and all the other greedy entities are losing $

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Netflix won’t be able to compete for long though, as Disney is basically buying most of the popular content. The way content licensing works (with exclusives, etc) just doesn’t allow for a free market. The only way to have a free market is if all streamers have the same content library and they have to compete on quality, service, etc.