why streaming is becoming cable again 

Everyone should note that Will is an actor and his responses seemed canned and rehearsed.

@@Morisato13 nah dog that’s just how I feel

Pirate is better. Dah. Its free

This is essentially what RU-vid's trying to be, they're trying to be the everything platform, except recently they seem to be piloting and idea to get rid of well RU-vidrs in general, basically this incentivize people who create content in favor of their RU-vid premium service which is basically cable TV in a nutshell, and I'm not sure they're going to be able to do it right given how their platform works, although they are the most capable company in the world to do something like this because they are the biggest and they've been doing it for like roughly two decades, they've got the most large server base or videos that were made two decades ago are still being preserved, although I would imagine some of those would be completely erased at some point because RU-vid wants to change the website and just turn it into a Cable website basically. Sadly this is where RU-vid gets most of its money, so it doesn't exactly make a whole lot of sense to destroy the creators in this sense, RU-vid despite their war against ad blockers are making a fuckload of money through ads and it's through people who use Roku or use the general RU-vid app, I mean they're war with ad blockers is so silly because less than 1% of the user base uses them, where everyone else uses at least 99% of that on RU-vid's actual programs without an ad blocker.

I mean sure people could also pirate stuff too, but the average person doesn't know how to do that and they're afraid to do that because of viruses and various other things and they're not ready for, so that's also one of those less than 1% of people do this thing, so I think it's funny that they're going after the ad blockers when they're like not even a threat, but whatever treat everyone as a threat meanwhile make it so creators don't want to create stuff anymore because they're getting burnt out and try to turn RU-vid into RU-vid premium which is essentially cable, but I'm not sure their deal is good enough, see other competition of theirs roughly offer the same things and they have better shows too so I'm not sure RU-vid can compete in that arena, also their price is way too high, I think they want you to spend like $80 in full, that's just not going to happen now I understand that people are getting sick and tired of going to Netflix going to Hulu going to all these different stupid services they want to purchase their entertainment in One Singular location and that's the one smart thing RU-vid is doing, but I just don't think that what they want to do is going to be what everyone else wants to do, the funny thing is Amazon started doing this like 3 or 4 years ago, of course they had dog shit TV shows and movies to watch, most of them are just throw away shows it's just having shows on their website that people can watch but they were just all trash, the only good shows were the ones that were behind a paywall, what's this so funny because Prime membership is a pay wall itself just to get into the membership but it was a good deal because not only were you going to get slightly cheaper items online and you get free shipping and handling but you also have this added on effect of you can watch shows and movies and listen to music since then they have changed the music and separate it into its own paywall and nobody fucking uses it anyway call me you might as well just go to Spotify for that because it's free, and continue using your ad blocker that's the quiet part out loud.

Fr. I’ve seen a lot more ppl pirating these days whether it’s out of affordability or boycotting certain companies. And I get it. I stopped all my subscriptions and just watch RU-vid bc it’s all just too much money. And the fact that you don’t own anything!! I paid for a show on Amazon but since they no longer carry the show I just…. can’t watch it??? I literally paid for it wdym?!! So I totally get why people don’t want to pay for shit they don’t even own

No it wasn't. How could it. The pirates could simply copy the Netflix service. This is the tension between "information wants to be free" and "information wants to be expensive."

@@PvblivsAelivs What pirate site could you stream any movie reliably at good quality back then?

@@craigmcpherson1455 Maybe not stream, but you could easily find and download any movie for free.

@@craigmcpherson1455 popcornflix?

You pay your dentist for services, but you don't "own" him. Strawman argument. Made in good tongue-in-cheek fun, I presume.

But if u pay for prime for example, ur paying for the service of the streaming site. If u purchase a movie on top of that, and you continue to pay for ur acccess to the service, they shouldn’t be able to take away the film u purchased. Yes you pay your optometrist for checking your eyes, and then you pay on top of that for your glasses. You bought the glasses, they can’t take them away.

@@annachen6562 exactly, apparently Sony, Discovery AND Ubisoft seem to disagree.

Ohh, good one. I looked up the definition: "That which is stolen; stolen property: used chiefly in the plural: as, his stealings amounted to thousands of dollars." If its not property, its not stolen. i know, IP, IP, but Philips, I don't own it, Aaron Paul doesn't own it, doesn't get paid, its not property in my mind.

​@@capitalofTXSony and discovery ran that back I believe.

That didn't last for long ahaha. Companies figured they could keep them in.

At least streaming seems to be remaining a VOD service... Just wait until a streaming provider comes out with an 'Ad Supported/LINEAR Programming' tier! It would be a streaming 'channel' with ads every few minutes, but instead of VOD it would just show a constant feed of the most popular content on a 24hr loop. ;)

nothing like ads slowly sneaking in. Same with RU-vid where ppl just put in commercials within the video which also make premium subscribers watch them

@@abe9560that’s is my least favorite thing about the internet right now

​@@abe9560 those are bad, but the absolute worst is when RU-vid gives me those 45 minute to 1 hour "commercials"

We're going back to buying DVDs

I never stopped buying DVDs. Got fed up with them taking films away online.

I've been sailing the free cyberseas since Netflix made DVD rental and streaming two separate things ...

I remember loving downloading music in early 2000’s and I never thought I’d just stop but just did. I think partly because I’ve always bought most of my music and the movies I did download, was often rubbish. Even though Netflix and Amazon are rubbish, I’d rather stick with them and find the odd show/movie/series that I really like, rather then downloading loads of torrents. I just wish Netflix would stop with the 90% absolute trash . Cut the shows by half and give us something decent.

Exactly

I streamed because I could afford it and I might as well support the creators and stream services. I’ll be going back to pirating like I did when I was a teen

​@@TadanoCandyit didn't even support creators, just their owners

Nail it

Like diamons lol....piratings forever forever ever

@Silver77cyn until those sites have paywalls,been on a cartoon/anime site for years and what do they do? paywall trash now,all cause they have everything,cartoons,anime,movies,shorts

I’m always amazed people can’t mentally tune out ads like back in the tv days before the internet. It’d be go get a snack time or take a leak time.

Totally what ruined RU-vid.

That is just one of the published steps of enshittification.

@@Bonanzaking I used to just straight up not watch tv because of ads. I just watched movies my dad pirated or got movies from the video rental store.

@@BonanzakingWe do. We just don’t want advertisers censoring art

Welcome to capitalism! Everything else is merely a symptom of the larger disease that is capitalism (and every other predatory system before it - no, not communism/socialism, sit down child)

I'm guessing not the pirate bay

physical media still exists, except the forced trailers when you first insert some disks, no ads and you own it for the life of that polycarbamate disk.

Right! It’s wild how almost every streaming service makes you pay even with adds and without adds it’s like almost $20 a month 😭wtf ?

Yep you're a Lil one. A young pup if you will Lol👍

Streaming has been around for a long time now, almost 20 years.

@@KrolKaz that is precisely why that comment aged me so much 😂

I know right. I remember it being exciting and new, just as DVDs and CDs were against tapes

Yes i nearly choked when he said that!! It made me feel old as ive only been streaming since my 30s and im not that "old" 😂😊

But first we have to go through the "streaming services suing everyone they can find" stage first. And that's an UGLY stage. And pirating doesn't actually fix the underlying issues (inventing a new technology that skirts around the existing regulations, which other people start pirating because they're not protected by the new systems).

What about the crime of them exploiting us? That should be a crime.

@@educationalthoughts6152 I sure do ;)

Piracy is not a crime in a world where buying is not owning.

@@educationalthoughts6152do you mean might as well?

You should have gone back to the late 2000s instead and gotten a Bluray player. Why would you even admit to buying a DVD player in 2024 when Bluray players (all of which can play DVDs better than most DVD players) cost 15 dollars at your local thrift store? At least you're on the right track. Are you using DVD as a shorthand for optical media in general, or did you actually buy a DVD player?

@@awesomeferret The one I got is $25 and ultra slim, fits under my TV. But you’re right, I should have been eco-friendly and gotten a $5 one at the thrift store. Hard to find time to thrift :/

@@awesomeferret nothing wrong with DVD player, especially if they don't have any Blu-rays or interest in Blu-rays

Wise choice, if you can get them but I've found a lot of the new stuff isn't on DVD or Blu-ray.

​@@craftyhobbit7623 then this stuff doesn't exist. What a freedom! No need to buy it. OK, I can imagine that you want to know how a story continues... But guess what, the writers just make the story as they want to. It can be any storyline, it doesn't matter. Your imagination is as good as theirs. And it just doesn't matter. It's an imaginary story anyways.

I just started a plex server and have been borrowing friends and coworkers dvd/bluray collections. Yeah not all the latest stuff but a lot of goodies and eclectic stuff.

@@meatpopsicle6244 I've resisted plex for many years due to (what I feel are) excessive, and obtrusive licensing practices. Jelly fin isn't quite there yet, so I'll probably do some local media server thing too. Buying physical media isn't a bad idea either.

@@craftyhobbit7623 most of the new stuff is junk or woke rubbish though lol

Exactly, especially depending on franchises you like. Lotta stuff I watch and play? Zero official avenues to consume them, so I have have rely on it. Even if I pay for Hulu there's gonna be those days they don't offer what I wanna watch. Am I gonna pay Prime's ridiculous fee or find it on some free movie site? I wanna play a Ubisoft game w/out Uplay bogging my system? They kinda didn't give me another choice.

For a time I heard people apply Gabe's quote to Netflix (Netflix was so popular because of its convenience that people didn't mind paying), but content were split so much now that it became inconvenient, pushing people back to piracy.

I presume you love that quote because it is a total sham. Unless you are putting anti-piracy technology, in some form or other, to work, "what they're receiving from the pirates" is your service. Anything that stops people from getting _your_ service from the pirates is anti-piracy technology. If you want to give people a better service than what they are receiving from the pirates, you have to stop the pirates from being able to copy your service. Anti-piracy technology is basically a must. The hard part is keeping it from degrading the user experience. But everyone who quotes Newell knows it's a sham.

In an australian perspective , we are 2 % global population, yet we had access to freetv , so video pirates as tourists could go to australia , tape a movie / tv show , and /or sell it back home, this was happening in australia as well, movies recorded in france or germany from 2003 til recently, the issue was raised by Disney , who solved this by having no sales of dvd since 2022 , only pay per view , also as of 1 January Disney gained access to every australian tv , computer tablet, phone data about why we are not watching disney or paramount or cbs or why we watch tv from youtube or tictoc to get entertained, sometimes a movie is not even in english , but we like that too, just as long as disney bots see we watch 1000 youtube shorts a day,

@@chucheeness7817 it WAS that, it definitely started out as a service that WAS better than dealing with torrents and ad ridden websites. but these companies CANT STOP. they just have to keep making more, and more, AND MORE. the piracy will never stop being an option. and it will always fill the void. basically, rip greedy idiots, we will find another way.

Driving a more polluting vehicle is not solving modern issues lol.

@@masonpalmer6490 yes it does, when the issues are that modern cars are unnecesarily complex, expensive, and can't be maintained by their owners

@@eduardotrillaud696 When a car is more fuel efficient and clean that is not "unneccesarily" complex. It's complex for a clear reason- more drive time and a better carbon footprint.

Now that’s the good way to live! I have an MP3 player and I pirate my music (I swear there’s no good place to buy music these days).

@@masonpalmer6490Tesla cope is real.

Well NBA2K has actual ads and ad breaks.

I just lost a couple of my "purchases" on Amazon. I knew it was possible, but now I just feel like a jerk. Should've just bought used DVDs. It cracks me up to read stuff like "get with it Boomers. Get rid of those DVDs and start streaming." Oh well to that. Think I'm going back to physical media and reading. Screw it.

That's a bit of an exaggeration. I currently pay $10.99 a month for Netflix with no ads. My most expensive subscription is RU-vid Premium, at $16.99 per month.

​@@dianevanderlinden3480You should definitely consider buying a DVD/blu-ray of any movie or show that you know you'll want to return to repeatedly. I have a number of shows on DVD that are simply not available anywhere online anymore. But I guess one day even those will become obsolete once DVD players are replaced with other technology. 😒

all you people do is complain when you can just make a damn list and track shows/movies and watch it also in 1 month and pay that fee once even if its not convenient otherwise pay for your comfort... thats how you show these companies that its ridiculous to pay a subscription every damn month for access

@@dianevanderlinden3480 Never trust a service to "hold" your media. Always have it on media YOU control.

It's the same for streaming. I might watch a half dozen shows vs. the hundreds of offerings.

The ads were what I hated and more then half the time I didn’t care or need or want what they were advertising

This is false economics. Yes with cable you subsidise channels you don't watch, but other people are subsiding the channels you're watching. ESPN charges $6/mo, HGTV charges 30 cents. But ESPN has 20X the viewership. Now every bit of content you watch is on a different service with less subscribers overall so they have to charge more.

The real price consumers paid was their precious time invested sitting through all the commercials cable showed on top of the bill. The time ads up, time consumers will never get back! I counted 8 commercials 20 years agoin a 2 hour movie. It was a cable trial deal, it was so annoying, I canceled the next day and never touched cable again!

and every time it stormed, you watched nothing

😂 “Remember when you hit that pedestrian with your car? Pepperidge Farm remembers…”

Rented I never does it parents buy some VHS dvd we watch them all the time 😂😂😂

Still got vhs tapes hahaha

I still buy DVDs.

Lime and frostwire were my whole childhood

VHS tapes are my favorite, and HD vhs tapes should come back I think. Dvd's are nice, but can get scratched

Netflix was literally steam before steam except for movies.

Arrrrrr

but hey, at least netflix now has money to add more ideolo movies and shows that reek of modern issues such as whats in your pants, and how you like to use it and how everyone is equal... as long as that person with low melatonile levels doesnt have dangly bits.

@MrDeothor ...how is this at all relevant to anything in the video or the comment you're replying to dude. have you considered that maybe, if you feel the need to bring it up all the time, you might be the one who's obsessed with race and gender?

@@hellothere9520 weird deflection mate. Why do i bring it up? Because It's an endless money sink, a black hole for money. They are literally taking all the money and just can't wait to throw it into fire. And on top of that it's disgusting ideolo propaganda. Also what's up with this "if you need to bring it all the time" are you spying on me or just wanted to add the extra "i am talking with crazy person" to your wonky argument?

I'm so glad I kept my collection, I've ditched Netflix after the password sharing clampdown and prime has cancelled itself, I now just buy the odd £4 Blu-ray at cex if I want something different.

Please, get into Bluray instead. There's no reason at all to get into DVDs unless you are into really niche movies that are stuck on DVD.

@@awesomeferret DVDs still command half of the physical media market, it's not a zero sum game, my 400+DVDs aren't going to prevent you from owning one Blu-ray

@@RandallStevenson I can't tell if you're trying to mess with me or not. The heck? 😂 Are you a bit drunk or something? Why would I, a person who is asking people to buy Bluray, think that you buying DVD has any impact on my ability to buy Bluray? I'm asking you to buy Bluray because it usually costs the same (or less) for a disc that's much more durable than DVD and has much better audio and video quality. It's really strange that you replied in the way that you did.

@@awesomeferret your attitude, I took a guess. your response, guess confirmed

I don't think any of the dozens of streaming destroyed anything.... plenty of DVDs to buy at the store and online, plenty of cable companies to pick from, and even still got dish receiver TV to pick if you really want that. The only thing it did was give people more options and made a bunch of crybabies

And of course, capitalism. If growth is necessary and expected, they WILL start becoming shittier the nanosecond they reach market saturation and can no longer attract more customers by offering a good product.

now? they've always did this

Been this way since the 1980s. It's what Sony did with video tape players versus betamax. Then Bluray versus HD-DVD.

I think you just described the history of capitalism?

yea youtube seems to be trying its best to get there and has been trying since its conception. I mean youtube is free with ads but from the place it started too now youtube has been on the forefront of whats acceptable for streaming services to pair with a video. they have also changed how the user can manipulate those adds and skip them. I remember the days when the videos showed yellow bars that indicated adds and you could que them up to bypass them. On the other hand at least your cable(television) company doesn't charge you for the amount of data you transfer in a given month. $70 and you can leave the thing on all day without worry about how its going to change at the end of the month or become more expensive. 4k for a week and then 480p for the rest of the month because you are being throttled for using too much.

@@deadbeatonthemooneatingkfp8500 Commercials are evil and data caps are equally as evil. My wife doesn't mind watching live TV with commercials but it drives me nuts. When we first dropped cable, I subscribed to Hallmark Now for her. A 2 hr movie, is actually only and 1:20 to 1:26. I've never been tolerant of commercials during movies. When I was younger, I had premium channels HBO and Showtime and sometimes others, too. I would record them on VHS and DVD. Then I just started renting DVDs then Blurays and copying or pirating. I also have purchased my favorites on physical media, too. I prefer to stream it for free before buying, though.

When I was young I never understood why there were some "cuts" in cartoons. Later I realised those "cuts" were made for the US television to insert more ads.. way more Ads then what we got in Europe

@@matklm Yea, US TV is basically unwatchable to me. pretty much half the time you're watching ads. Here it's maybe 10 minutes of ads total over a 40 minute show

@@deadbeatonthemooneatingkfp8500 Well not enough people want to give RU-vid alternatives like Odysee a chance. Dailymotion is a junkyard. Everyone is whining about what YT is becoming but nobody's supporting the alternatives.

I'm dealing with that right now. Started watching Star Trek Voyager, and the ads aren't even put in during the times the show was originally edited FOR ads. They always start a few seconds early, often in the middle of a sentence or even a word. 🙄

​@@taurengraybeard218I'm so sad to hear all the Treks have ads now, even with the paid service! 😢😭

@@cassettetape7643 I would never watch a tv show with ads.

Welcome to George Orwell's future vision of 1984 in 2024 and the movie They Live by John Carpenter combined so we can be flooded with ads containing subliminal messages to obey, no independent thought, have no imagination, watch tv, conform, stay asleep, do not question authority, buy, and consume. Do any of you get the picture of what's going on ? People need to learn how to read between the lines. Ignorance is not bliss because it can eventually get you deleted and put you at the pearly gates earlier than expected.

@@i.k.8868 somebody was born in the new millinium

Dummy does not support illegal activity but does understand in the abstract how piracy is incredibly ethical and based

"Spotify didn't eliminate piracy, it privatized it" as the saying goes

@@testdummymedia "Dummy is Pro-Piracy."

​@@1000huzzahs🙄 youtube mp3

@@testdummymedia bootlicker

once you know about hollywood, that's a wrap. you cant unsee or unknow. it tarnishes and ruins it. but this is a great thing.

Exactly.

I'm the same way, I used to use Netflix and hulu but when the 10 other streaming services came in and fucked up everything, I just stopped watching movies and TV shows altogether. The only thing I pay for is youtube premium, which just went up in price for me this month for the first time since 2016.

That's definitely not the only reason to continue using physical media.

You are right entirely. However I'm speaking as the one kid that played the Free Willy DVD mini game for a long while

The DVD extra content existed for a few reasons: More storage room than VHS The need to justify the expense over VHS The need to differentiate the new media from the legacy format. One comparison is VHS vs Laserdisc. Laserdisc offered no real advantage over VHS other than the possible usage of existing LP storage instead of shelving. No extras to speak of. So laserdisc never became the dominant format.

Same here, especially the James Bond series. Their modern DVD and Bluray libraries are PACKED with deleted scenes, 45 minute docs on each movie's production, commentaries from the crew and cast, sometimes even music videos of the theme songs. On Prime they don't offer any of that. And now that Amazon owns MGM and physical media's dead, these movies are essentially dead to me outside the library I own. Not that the newer Bond movies had special features on their Blurays anyway, but the idea of this franchise becoming Prime-streaming only makes me wince.

That touches on my issue with the lack of historical preservation involved with streaming. You don't get to see storyboards, hear the actors' experiences on-set, or learn how practical effects were accomplished. Those extras were a way for the show's creators to speak directly to the audience.

Regulatory capture is a huge problem but it's not absolute. Regulations can easily be passed that solve these problems in spite of lobbying. Look how close California got to regulating Uber, which took millions in lies to accomplish.

Careful what you wish for, you get more and more politicians involved you always lose. The government is not the answer. the politicians get richer and the people get screwed. I am sure Nancy P. will be first in line to cash in on any new policy or regulation

...Arcades...

​@@AutoCannonSaysHihave to fight against constant licensing and "always online" issues. Even retro arcade cabinets have to find a way to dump ROMs for preservation otherwise when the ROM battery runs out it becomes a paperweight

Oh yes, saying "You should get comfortable in not owning your games" right after delisting a game, like the writing wasn't freshly painted on the wall.

The Crew is 95% singleplayer with multiplayer sprinkled in, yet we have to be connected to servers to leave the main menu. Ubisoft, wtf? This is the only game sold as a good (like every other game, and with a perpetual license which doesn't expire, unlike a subscription) that I know of that isn't F2P with MTX or a subscription service that can be just taken away from you like this. Every other game in existence is still playable after servers are gone, because they're just needed for the online stuff, not for the singleplayer. Ubisoft deliberately did this and it's genuinely frustrating.

You will own nothing and be happy!!

welcome to late stage capitalism my friend

Welcome to capitalism! All roads lead to profit!

@@spaceghostmiid Why does everyone append/prepend qualifiers to 'capitalism'? It's just capitalism. This is the cycle of capitalism. The same predatory system we've had since before it was even called "capitalism" heh

​@@3nertiaIf you do not like capitalism you are free to move to some country with a different system. Cuba, for example.

@@fsaldan1 Why do you think no one has moved to Cuba and alike countries yet? Why do capitalist countries impose embargon on it? And why do people criticize the fruits of capitalism despite living in it?

Yeah exactly. They’re selling our data to the advertisers and analytics companies *and* making us pay for it. How degrading.

unless you pirate. in which case it's neither lmao.

@@Shodan130 Pirating is the only way we can revert these idiotic moves from the likes of Netflix and Amazon. Just like with the music industry.

@@SapeHallward whether they change or not has 0 impact on me idc

The cycle repeats with every new technology. AI is currently where streaming was 10 years ago - can get everything from one service, high quality content with no ads, lots of innovation coming out constantly. In 10 years AI will be just as shitty as streaming, social media, and every other technology.

This is why I never stopped pirating and downloading stuff. Everyone around me was so happy to pay the $7/month to Netflix. They wouldn't listen to me when I said that Netflix would continually jack up the prices and that eventually they'd add ads. I never anticipated all these different companies starting their own streaming services though. Things ended up even crappier than I expected. Now you've got young people like the guy in this video who has probably never even heard of a torrent in his life. I've had a Netflix subscription for over a decade now but I never use it. I pay for it for my mom but it never has anything decent on it anymore so she always just tells me what she wants to watch and I download it for her and transfer it to the little NAS server I set up for her. She never has to deal with having the show she's in the middle of watching getting yanked out from under her anymore.

@@cinifiendthat service rot is the “innovation” unchecked capitalism brings.

@@thelbtlover I've been pirating since ye olde Napster and Kazaa and OG demonoid days. Pirating has never been better, you've got private trackers for everything under the sun and even with a low amount of seeders, speeds are still good. I do something similar for my mother too, I upload the NYT bestseller book list to her kindle every few months, saves her a ton of money! She also loves the movies and shows I download too, but she still loves her TV for the background noise it provides. At least with that it is a digital antenna and no longer a $100+ monthly fee.

Hmm then don’t watch it?

AYE AYE CAPTAIN!!! 🫡 🏴‍☠ ⛴

THAT shit is driving me insane, fucking EVERY SINGLE PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE uses god awful super shit like 1980s automated operators that ramble incessantly and tell you 48023197391231238291731237219731 times, in EXTREMELY EXPLICIT MASSIVELY OVER-WORDY DETAIL, about their website and "you can maybe solve w.e issue you're having there!" it's like bitch i've been on the phone for 45 minutes now and i've heard about that gd website for 30 minutes of it on repeat... and then like you said the ads oh man.... literally have me considering doxxing at times lmao

Nobody wanted to listen to old man CrashTestPilot until it was too late! 😢

Yea, there shouldn’t be unelected public servants The government should be a tool used by the people, not the other way around The big issue with the weakening of the Chevron Deference is that with an increasingly conservative SCOTUS, things just won’t get regulated And especially considering the political divide in the US, and the fact that a staggering amount of Americans hear “regulation” and “infringing freedoms” interchangeably Just look at the overturning of Roe v. Wade Conservatives were spinning it as “federal choice turned into state choice”, as a good thing, because it was removing regulation In reality, it brought abortion access from a personal choice, protected by the federal government, and allowed states to deny it for any reason Because it wasn’t *Big* government making your choice, there was no complaints

Streaming is fundamentally different than most types of competition, because the companies are greedy af. They all want their own little garden with their own little shows and movies. If I want a car, I can choose from a dozen or more brands. They'll all have some pros and cons, but they'll all have 4 wheels and the ability to take me places. If I want to watch show A or movie B, more often than not I'm forced to pick 1 streaming service. I knew this would happen, so I'm back to using alternate sources.

They all saw how well Netflix was doing when everyone had their library on Netflix, so they all decided to have a go at it themselves so they could stick their hands in the cookie jar. Good ol' corporate greed. So now we have 15-20+ tiny cookie jars to choose from.

The difference here is that many media companies don't actually have enough content to justify their own streaming pipelines, but they all have a couple shows/movies that they refuse to rent to other providers. So they make a lot of shows and movies with low production costs and poorly paid actors/writers as filler.

Because the competition isn't fair, a streaming platforms main product is the way it delivers content, however the main form of competition is which content they have on the service due to exclusivity deals. This means they have no incentive to make a better product than netflix or hulu

@@styrfry Which works quite well, since you can always cancel and resubscibe. Just wait until a service has a handful of shows you want to watch, then hop over. With the amount of content they all have, there is rarely a need to pay for more than one at a time.

That's not a solution, that's wishful thinking from someone who can't comprehend scale or the tech industry.

Wow so you're telling the world that your aunt commits felonies? You should probably delete that comment before Interpol and the FBI find her.

@@KrolKazit’s not illegal as long as it’s just personal use lmao

​@@Demi_Fullit's illegal but nobody cares except the movie companies, it would cost more to sue her for this than what they could get back so they won't

Your aunt sounds like a G

@@KrolKaz under most jurisdictions, copyright law doesn't give a damn how many copies you make of something, it cares about what you do with them. Distribution, especially for money? Always a no go. Other uses? varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction (for example, in New Zealand (last I checked) you can time shift, format shift, make backups of, and do various other things to anything you have are entitled to have... live tv? timeshift and format shift is fine... though technically speaking once you've watched it once you're Supposed to get rid of the resulting copies (in practice, no one does, but also no one really bothers so much these days so no one cares. Back in the days of video tapes the tape would eventually get reused, but that was it). Got a dvd or music CD? make as many copies as you like! In any format! you're in the clear legally... RIGHT up until you sell or give away the original or ANY of the copies, in which case ALL of the copies must go to the same person and/or be destroyed... otherwise you're engaging in unauthorised distribution, which is illegal (in practice there's a bit of slack there, no one's going to care if you share it with family members in the same house as you, for example). )

Was it free? I only remember being able to watch clips on hulu for free

@@jorrdan. Yes 100% free. Things went up the day after they aired and hung around for a few weeks. That free version ran for like a decade, even after paid versions launched

@@jorrdan. They were free, then added a cheapish plan IIRC to get rid of ads or to let you watch a show as it released rather than waiting. Then the cheapist plan rose in price and the free plan took its place.

It was where I watched the Daily Show

u had to watch ads if u didn’t have it

if you're getting 'bombarded' you're watching the wrong channels. Most that are any good have One, and it's generally either Really Obvious (and thus easily skipped) or they put serious effort into making That part entertaining as well. Sometimes both. This is, incidentally, (at least if you're not dealing with the actually terrible scammy channels), a direct result of youtube's advertising money to content creators being a: a lot less than most people think and b: highly unreliable (youtube routinely demonitises videos for violations that Don't Exist, and for all that this is supposedly to 'protect advertisers', this does not involve Not running advertisments on those videos, just pocketing all the money themselves rather than passing it on to the creator (oh yes, and sometimes the nick the superchat/superthanks money as well. Not usually channel membership money though, as that's not a video specific thing). Generally speaking, sponsorships are a hell of a lot more reliable about actually Paying What They Owe).

You know you can still use ad blockers. Even on mobile, there are options. EDIT: I mean 'mobile' as in 'on your phone/tablet' not 'RU-vid's mobile app'.

Ad within a RU-vid video can be skipped. That's the important distinction

@@georgeandrews1394 Im using said app right now

That's the thing it came to a point where we don't care missing show !

Same here. Only I'm forced to subscribe to RU-vid Premium to avoid their constant ads as well.🤨

@@GeeEee75 Why not just use adblock instead?

@@GeeEee75 I use adblock because I refuse to give google money for youtube

I was thinking of just rotating through the services as needed. Dammit. As I wrote that I just realized they will probably bring back contracts.

and I swear, the more a brand shows up to me the least likely I am to buy

The frequency is greater but the duration isnt. At least no in my country. Here we get about 8 or 9 minutes of commercials for every 30 minutes. In comparison, if you get a 10 add every four minutes in thery minutes that would be about 1 minute and 10 seconds per every 30 minutes. Also, some add can be skipped after 5s so it is still better than cable

@@johanalejandrocazadordepin7225 its really the frequency. Im usually busy doing things when I'm listening to these videos and having to stop what I'm doing every 4 minutes to find my phone and either skip or close out the video is utterly absurd.

The 40 minute ads drive me absolutely insane

Yes. If you want to avoid that, you'll need...a subscription. Only $16.99 a month (minimum, in Australia).🤨

Nah that’s archiving, watching it illegally is the actual piracy.

The Benedict society is an example of that. It was on Disney+ for a short time before they pulled it off the platform. One of the actors in the show had to pirate the show just to be able to show it to her kids when they get older, otherwise its not available at all. Kristen Schaal is the actor if you would like to look up her story.

It also takes up space in your home, can get damaged, lost, and has to be fetched every time you want it. Compare to talking into a remote: "Play Better Call Saul" and it picks up where you left off.

You can get physical media from the library. Maybe not as convenient, but I loathe commercials.

You sure? Those dvd trailers is not ads?

Toward the end of the VHS/DVD era, non-skippable trailers, and even ads, began showing up on these media. Creeping greed is inevitable, and infinite.

@@aspensulphate The only DVD trailers i accept is the trailers for the movie you are watching and it must be optional.

Get the extension called "sponser block for youtube" and you won't have that issue anymore.

Re-vanc3d comes with sponser block too

I skip thru sponsorship bs in videos. Most of them are very expensive.

@@KristiBranstetter I hate having to waste time skipping at all

@@QveenRex Commercials are one reason I am not a fan of TV. I will happily pay $13.99 a month for RU-vid Premium.

Yeah probably

*cough* Stremio + DB *cough*

@@computernerdinsideDB?

@@RedArrow808 Debrid. Real Debrid.

You wouldn’t download a car would you? I mean seriously, who wouldt download a car if you could. Auto manufacturers became scum too. When piracy offers a better experience than corporations piracy becomes moral and reasonable.

Well imagine being buying a 16 or 10 episodes dvd 🙄

I think if there's a good time for a company like Blockbuster to come back, it'd likely be now. Edit: Holy shit, I didn't expect this reply chain.

​@sarahrean7174 Conveniently, you can fit multiple episodes on a dvd on a single dvd. Not an issue.

And cable!

And not blu rays, since you can save money and just get a dvd player than upscales it to 720p HD or 1080p full hd

While resuscitating piracy back to the mainstream

Bro says it like it's happened before 💀

I have Hulu but ended up watching Freevee more

My crystal ball saw this coming with control passing to the server from the local DVR. And here we are. Tivo and Windows Media Center did not get enough buy in and equipment charges were half the reason for the price shift to streaming. That and al la carte pricing.

the wallmart effect

You nailed my feelings exactly as always

@JoshuaNeeley Exactly, their greed will be their downfall. Streaming could have been profitable if was only Netflix and Hulu and cable, but they decided to get greedy and make watching television unaffordable.

If you're paying for more than one or two streaming services at the same time then you're wasting your money, in my opinion. I keep track of when my streaming services are up for renewal and when they are, I consider whether there's enough content left for me to continue subscribing. If there's not, or if there's a hot new show on a different service, then I cancel and switch to that service for a month or two. There's generally not enough new content to justify me keeping a continuous subscription running to any of them, and if something new pops up that I want to watch, there's always next month.

The Problem is regulations will never "keep" up with technologie and the bullshit the companys pull to save there money!

@@GeeEee75 I bet there are a lot of people that are paying for streaming services that they hardly ever use.

So true

…of capitalism

It is more like you have to pay for nice things.

​@@AQuietNightthat's what we had we could pay for Netflix and have a nice thing, but now theres so god damn many they're trying to milk us dry

*at BK, have it your way*

I also have a huge collection of hard copies... lol I was able to shop blockbuster when they closed. I spend most my time with you tube now. I dropped Amazon, because I WILL NOT pay anything more, after I sign up...FU! I need to find the Gilmore Girls and a few others, I'd be just dandy. 😁

So you just rewatch the same old stuff. That’s fun.

@@ianmason2003 I always have a bunch of new content I’ve never seen. But repeating stuff isn’t as bad as you’d think. I really don’t miss the streaming services I’ve cancelled at all. I’ve had zero regrets about walking away from Netflix or Hulu or Disney+ or Apple+ or whatever. None whatsoever. Quite the opposite. It’s given me more time to do more fulfilling things.

I’m going to start collecting too. I want to own my media, not lease it.

​@@ianmason2003 you want to have sex with the same person more than once? Wow, that's fun.

yeah a lot of disruption is really just opportunism. We'll make this our own and take the cash hahaha

I don’t miss having to watch a program at exactly 8 o’clock or whatever.

for me, my way of fighting is adblock and piracy

Start by switching to Firefox, it's the only browser not based on Chrome

I hit the volume mute during streaming adds, many times fall asleap.

Welcome to George Orwell's future vision of 1984 in 2024 and the movie They Live by John Carpenter combined so we can be flooded with ads containing subliminal messages to obey, no independent thought, have no imagination, watch tv, conform, stay asleep, do not question authority, buy, and consume. Do any of you get the picture of what's going on ? People need to learn how to read between the lines. Ignorance is not bliss because it can eventually get you deleted and put you at the pearly gates earlier than expected.