every pirate related theme song getting increasingly louder in the background

Just call it what it is: bribing power

streamers are currently being forced to reckon with their profitability — or lack thereof.

Netflix's 2023 2nd quarter revenue: 8.1 billion dollars BTW

Welcome back to the high seas mateys!

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The slow march back to cable is unstoppable.

Pirate everything. Share everything.

Piracy is an access problem, not a consumer problem.

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.

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.

Lobbying should be fucking banned.

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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

Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.

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.

Hello https://jellyfin.org, transmission, radarr and sickbeard

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.

Imagine missing the point so completely. Streaming, what a joke now.

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

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

Incoming attempts to legislate recordless VPN bans and over the top piracy mitigation strategies instead of attempting to provide better services to their users

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

they have to since they can't make any money in the free market, because their products are total shit illegal sports streaming sites have better performance and usability than official/legal ones. corporate streaming services are a joke

Wtf is shudder!?

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

Is good to see the US us finally embracing unions ❤️

With our powers combined we are CAPTAIN (old) CABLE!!!!

These fucks never did learn

I wish I had never gotten rid of all my dvds

Arrr matey, it be lookin like time to raid an pillage

Great, now let me pay a single fee for the SIA, and be able to watch anything on any of those channels. I'd happily pay a higher amount for that privilege.

The Expectables.

This is honestly what Google should've done with Fiber.

Big tech's lobbyist dollars would have beaten Comcast's with ease.

I'm such an apathetic consumer of media nowadays.. it'd suck if we all just started going outside again, yknow?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The new trade group should give companies like Netflix and Disney a solid foundation from which to deal with current and future regulation by the federal government related specifically to streaming.

The SIA formed as regulators look for ways to deal with a changing entertainment landscape that increasingly includes content creators on social platforms, which these companies don’t necessarily want to be lumped in with.

In addition to Netflix and Disney, Axios lists SIA members Paramount Plus, Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max, Peacock, TelevisaUnivision, and some small streamers like For Us By Us Network, Vault, and AfroLandTV.

Netflix joined the MPA in 2019 and left the Internet Association, a broader trade group representing Big Tech companies like Google and Amazon that can’t really help streaming video firms with intellectual property fights (and in some cases, could be at odds with them).

Because streaming video companies exist in such a weird limbo between all of these worlds, they could get caught up in legislation that’s intended to target other facets of the internet.

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.

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So what makes it new? Is it just bringing in digital pure plays like Netflix and Amazon into the fold of TV industry stalwarts like NBC, Disney, and Disco/Warner? Is it new working groups that focus exclusively on digital regulation as opposed to legacy over the air and cable TV?

I'm really glad I took the time to set up a Jellyfin server recently.

Corporations: hey guys, let's unionize so the government doesn't exploit us.

Employees: hey, can we als...

Corporations: NO.