Why the era of cheap streaming is over

cancel them all and sail the high seas!

Cable pushed people to piracy. Streamers replaced cable. Go figure.

No doubt that within the next few years, some of these companies will enforce minimum subscription length requirements or a forced break after cancellations.

This video just seems unfinished like it just ended without a proper conclusion in my opinion

If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing

This video has a major flaw and completely ignores the fact that piracy exists. If things get too expensive and shows people wanna watch get split between multiple subscriptions, it's easier to just pirate it. Its not always a factor of money, but if a subscription to one service costs 100 a year, people will put up with it, if you need 10 subscriptions over different services, not only will it cost 1000, its also way more inconvenient. There's also the fact that subscription services make zero promise to keep their products up, which can lead to lost media.

"Password sharing" is a poorly defined term by NETFLIX. Many people have kids in college, for example. It is the same household where members do not share the same address all the time.

“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

Streaming stopped Piracy. But greed brought it right back

Love the 'solutions' posed to the problem: 1: i just keep paying 2: i just keep paying...sometimes

this guy just said paying for all the streaming services at the same time is an "investment"

I feel like the main problem is that you have to subsidize a lot of content you don’t need or want. With cable, you could pick your selection of channels, but now you also get Netflix’s ridiculous reality shows and gazillion of lookalike TV shows with repeated storylines. Maybe they should make less content and prioritize high-quality stuff? Here in Europe I can get a cinema subscription for $20 and gladly pay for it, as well as occasional cinema tickets when something is not screened with my provider, but I am sailing the high seas for TV shows at this point (I actually pay about $10 to a service provider for that because I can stream all high-quality TV shows with them with a convenient interface, so that money would have gone to Netflix or HBO if they offered a wider range of things to watch).

why didn’t this video talk about piracy? seems like a giant piece of the story that was completely left out

Subscription fatigue is also a thing. Whether it's playing online, doing office work, reading an article, watching TV - (even cars are starting to do this), there's an ever growing list of companies that want more and more of your money. It's death by a thousand cuts.

What bugs me is that you pay for each streaming platform and then they STILL put commercials inside the episodes. Like, why am I paying for this? It’s like watching free Youtube at this point…

Public libraries and their free dvds and even library apps like hoopla are always an option. Most underrated public service imo

I pirated in the early 2000's because streaming didn't exist , then happily payed when that was available , now there is 50 different services, they all cost more and have a worse product I've started to pirate again, shrug , if its too annoying to pay I just wont...

Ahoy maties, tell me what seas we be sailing today??

In short, it's the same reason everything else goes bad. It had to find infinite growth from a finite resource, so of course it had to put the squeeze on existing customers eventually.

The frustrating part is we had a solution to the problem until last year. The disc rental service from Netflix had most of the history of film and TV available all for one monthly fee that cost as much as one or two streaming subscriptions. Much of the library was available on Blu-Ray which has higher picture and audio quality than streaming too. There are a few alternate disc rental services available. I'm not sure any have the same size library, but I've thought about trying some of them out.