No, I think the hate and rage were good. Let Sony, Columbia, Netflix, and all the other production and distribution services know that we're fed up with their consumer-hostile licensing and distribution models. Netflix is valuable to us precisely because we pay one fee per month, and can see a huge number of movies, from a wide selection of distribution channels. They'd prefer it if we paid that same fee once to each distribution channel. That's 10x the money, after all. The obvious end-case of this kind of degeneration is pay-per-view, which they love. No more movie ownership, just paying $10/person/view like at the theater. With targeted ads. Preferably with you locked in the seat for the ads, and your eyelids glued open.
“Getting too close completely blurred what we saw to the point of incomprehension, but again, this shows a whole heap of potential that's fascinating to us.”
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So all the hate and rage last week was all for no reason at all.
No, I think the hate and rage were good. Let Sony, Columbia, Netflix, and all the other production and distribution services know that we're fed up with their consumer-hostile licensing and distribution models. Netflix is valuable to us precisely because we pay one fee per month, and can see a huge number of movies, from a wide selection of distribution channels. They'd prefer it if we paid that same fee once to each distribution channel. That's 10x the money, after all. The obvious end-case of this kind of degeneration is pay-per-view, which they love. No more movie ownership, just paying $10/person/view like at the theater. With targeted ads. Preferably with you locked in the seat for the ads, and your eyelids glued open.