Corporations: hey guys, let's unionize so the government doesn't exploit us.
Employees: hey, can we als...
Corporations: NO.
Collective action for we, not for thee.
I just bought 16 TB to expand my media server :)
You must have a lot of Linux ISO backups. Doing your part to preserve open source software history.
Just call it what it is: bribing power
Pretty sure it's more or less a cartel at this point.
streamers are currently being forced to reckon with their profitability — or lack thereof.
Netflix's 2023 2nd quarter revenue: 8.1 billion dollars BTW
Brace yourself for a tidal wave of corporate apologists rushing to point out that “revenue isn’t profit!,!”
The number you're looking for is $1.49 billion in net income for Q2 2023.
See? Clearly not profitable, need more ads
What's that? You want to share your four-screens-at-a-time account with three other people outside your house?
Fuck you, pay us more.
Profit is the portion of revenue that is stolen from workers and given to shareholders. Profit is bad. Revenue is good.
Unless you use that revenue to do stock buybacks, then it’s not considered profit but you still get to steal it from the workers. That way you can cry about unprofitability while all your shareholders and c suites crank up the exploitation of workers and consumers chasing “profitability” until the business collapses.
On a tangent, and nothing to do with you, but I don't like how these streaming companies are being called "streamers". Streamers are those people streaming on twitch, not a company like Netflix damnit.
The slow march back to cable is unstoppable.
Pirate everything. Share everything.
Piracy is an access problem, not a consumer problem.
dismantle capitalism. I bet in like 24 years some disruptor is going to come along and buy up rights to the shit thats on peacock Hulu etc now and offer 9 bucks a month to stream it to you. rinse repeat. fuck this corpo nightmare.
If I’ve learned anything about corporate lobbying groups it’s that they only exist to fuck you and ruin any legislation that attempts to protect you from them.
Eat shit SIA.
Corps form "unions" and use money gained by preferential treatment by government to create propaganda shitting on unions.
Funny that.
No wait, infuriating. That's the word.
Get rid of them. Socialize their service. Host all content at media.gov and take costs out of taxes. We could pay artists more, have 0 ads, all for like $15 per paycheck. Those taxes would fund grants for artists and cover platform costs. No ads. No corporations.
P.S. you already pay taxes on media through various 3 letter institutions and licensing. It's not different from what we have other than eliminating the things we all dont like.
Watch the video. Benn Jordan has done a lot of the heavy lifting for us. This lobby exists to stop that from ever happening and nothing more. Fight them to the death.
Could they, instead, band together to offer a service that’s more user friendly than piracy? I suppose bribery is cheaper and easier.
They did, it was called Netflix.
Then the Netflix rates went up while everyone pulled and splintered content onto their own services and then started shuffling it around.
Lobbying should be fucking banned.
It is far more likely that remarks against lobbying will be banned, because someone would lobby for that.
Streaming has ultimately taught me how little I 'need' to watch since it trains you to really only seek out a couple things per service. I've also become very advertisment sensitive being blessed with tools to avoid that and companies honeymooning people for a while with fewer ads compared to what cable did.
Obviously, the dipshits are springing their 'trap' but I'm not bullish on the strategy of forcing consumers to suddenly tolerate a return of ads everywhere and always on entertainment. I just see folks running away again/further disconnecting from traditional media.
"Guillotine sales soar as citizens band together for lobbying power"
One can dream
It felt inevitable at some point this was going to happen after they got caught off guard by the strikes to make sure that it never happens again, but the fight is not over yet.
It's more important than ever then for you guys to support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, fight for workers, and fight for unions.
Otherwise, they'll just keep squeezing and squeezing, until there is nothing left.
Laws like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which features overly broad definitions of the platforms it targets and has troubling privacy implications thanks to surveillance requirements, could sweep companies like Netflix or Disney up into its dragnet.
Streaming companies are usually pro-net neutrality, and that’s been a difficult concept for lawmakers and regulators in DC to fully grasp.
For those that read just the headline. Not everything is black and white.
Every now and again, their interests align with the average person.
But make no mistake, the companies forming a coalition like this for one or two good causes won't make up for the long term damage it will no doubt cause.
Hello https://jellyfin.org, transmission, radarr and sickbeard
I think this is why net neutrality is so important. Back in the days the electromagnetic spectrum was not as heavily regulated as it is now. Technically anyone with the technical know how could set up a broadcasting station. Then CBS, ABC, NBC all got together and did exactly what these companies are doing. They banded together to make it harder for the average person to get access to technology. This is their primariy goal. To give their companies priority at the network level (seconds matter) and also, most likely what they want is to 1. Find ways for their content to be regulated differently and be sold as network packages 2. Probably allow their content to be delivered through means that require people pay THEIR ISPs. Now, i will be honest. I have not read the article but i knlw this has been the intended goal for many years.
That's cool, I've kicked them all to the curb over the past two years.
Checkout streamio
You'll definitely stop paying these streaming giants.
It's almost never a pricing issue, but a service issue. They can band together in their bullshit campaign all they want. They're still not getting my money, because I'm not paying 15 a month, to watch one movie with 7 ads, after which they'll also sell my data
Incoming attempts to legislate recordless VPN bans and over the top piracy mitigation strategies instead of attempting to provide better services to their users
Netflix and others look for power in number$.
Welcome to the United $tate$ of America, people; Where money is the only thing that matters
That's called a cartel
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
You don't need a union, we are all family here.jpeg
This can only be a bad thing.
They will win and like live nation, will merge with more well placed companies until they are printing their own money.
The new group is led by two former policymakers acting as senior advisers: former Republican Rep. Fred Upton and former Democratic Federal Communications Commission (FCC) acting chair Mignon Clyburn.
Source: https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/streamers-launch-first-official-trade-group
Mignon Clyburn is Jim Clyburn's daughter. SMH
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