Netflix failed to pay enough to make everyone in the world happy to use them as their streaming platform. Fair enough. They were smaller then and probably couldn’t. If they had become the end-all-be-all same probably be sitting here complaining about their monopoly and yearning for a world with multiple independent services we could subscribe to at will.
If it was like game consoles, where there were 3 or 4 streaming services that shared 90% of the same shows and each had a small number of exclusives, I doubt it would be a problem. That’s not the situation… there’s tens of streaming services each with their own completely proprietary library, and all of them want $15-$25 / mo. It’s cable TV all over again. Cable TV got away with it because the alternative was video rental stores, though. Now, we have plenty of less scrupulous options.
Netflix failed to pay enough to make everyone in the world happy to use them as their streaming platform. Fair enough. They were smaller then and probably couldn’t. If they had become the end-all-be-all same probably be sitting here complaining about their monopoly and yearning for a world with multiple independent services we could subscribe to at will.
If it was like game consoles, where there were 3 or 4 streaming services that shared 90% of the same shows and each had a small number of exclusives, I doubt it would be a problem. That’s not the situation… there’s tens of streaming services each with their own completely proprietary library, and all of them want $15-$25 / mo. It’s cable TV all over again. Cable TV got away with it because the alternative was video rental stores, though. Now, we have plenty of less scrupulous options.