Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action * TorrentFreak
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The MPA has submitted its latest overview of piracy threats to the European Commission with a focus on the role of third-party intermediaries.
    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      28·
      2 months ago

      Especially suck less.

      If they sucked less, they’d have broader appeal, meaning more consumers so could potentially, maybe, not be so overpriced vs their value.

      Oh, who am I kidding? Hollywood has been a bunch of arrogant asshats forever.

      • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Studio heads with no film background make decisions based on spreadsheets. Those people shouldn’t be in the industry… yet they remain.

    • CmdrShepardEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      Remember when Netflix first started raising prices claiming it was all going to go toward new content that people would be excited for? That was years ago now and we’ve seen additional increases, along with ads, and blocking account sharing and their content still sucks for the most part.

    • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      One or the other. Quality tends to cost more money. Fast food is cheaper than fine dining, but you can tell the difference in quality.

      Problem is the Studios charge a lot for crap.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        Fast food used to cost less than fine dining. I discovered last week that my local Italian place is now cheaper than a meal for four at McDonald’s.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Well that’s the second stage isn’t it.

          Start off by being the cheap and cheerful option, then raise prices and justify it by diversifying into more high quality products, and actually do that, create better quality products so people think the price increase is actually acceptable.

          Then slowly cut back on the higher quality products and go back to your basic service but don’t change the price.

          You see it in food, you see it in streaming services, you see it in video games. Remember when Call Of Duty was actually good?

          • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Yeah but they’re all so currently remodeling their dining rooms for second time since COVID.

            And also I think they forgot to do the part about the quality products. The The quality went down in 2019 and it has never come back they Jack the hell out of the price and keep going.

            It’s like they think the reason people aren’t going there as much as they used to is because the dining rooms aren’t pretty.

      • endofline@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Preferences are debatable and some people actually like that crap you don’t. F.e. I never understood American hype on “superhero” movies. I’d sooner watch American wresting which may be more plausible than any modern superhero movie

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    Over the past two decades, online piracy has proven to be a massive challenge for the entertainment industries.

    Really?

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      No, not really. Sales go up every year in legitimate sources. Piracy isn’t for the normies, they get to pay.

  • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Next time an artist makes a big deal about being ripped off I’m going to contrast “working hard and then getting ripped off” with “underregulated industry manipulating society for profit” and probably just pirate.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Netflix didn’t have this problem when only Netflix existed. Then they started removing content from their platform and pissed everyone off so people started pirating because they wanted their content back.

    Then a bunch of other streaming services started and Netflix didn’t really do anything to make their product more attractive, so those streaming providers ended up getting more content. Then Netflix cut back on their own unique content, which was their main drive in the first place (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, And yes I know it was terrible, but Discovery). So now I have to have 35 different subscriptions if I want to be 100% legit.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      They won’t, it’s just they’re so used to getting their own way with the government in the US that they think that this will cause the EU to do anything.

      Privacy is already illegal, technically, it’s just no one really enforces it, mostly because the law is so vague it’s hard to work out if anyone has actually broken it. They’re not going to start enforcing it just because Hollywood wants them to.