Comment on Opinion: It's time for a proper Steam-type service for TV alongside streaming exists.

• memfree@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  From Steam founder Gabe Newell, 2011:

  We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy," Newell said. "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24/7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country three months after the U.S. release and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.

  The same can be said of movies/tv – except Steam saw the issue before EA and everyone made their own streaming stores, whereas all the video distributors have splintered into their own services.

  I’m not sure where/why Hulu failed to gain the sort of share Steam attained. It existed early on and had … at least 3 big networks (iirc, not cbs? but abc, nbc and fox – then nbc dropped out to just do peacock, I think). Perhaps hulu didn’t pay enough for rights or perhaps Apple, Netflix and Amazon represented too many other players to make the equivalent arguments as Steam made.

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  • Skavau@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, I mean ultimately muh rights issues aren’t the consumers problem. If the networks and streamers don’t make a TV series accessible on day 1, the internet will.

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• Skavau@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You would have two ways to watch a show.

  1. Get the streaming app and sub to it and watch it on there.
  2. Buy it on the steam store, and Apple/HBO/whoever takes a cut.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’re talking from the viewer’s perspective. Why should the company share their profits?

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    • Skavau@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well, okay, they could sell it like that on their own platform then. But they don’t.

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Rights issues are complicated and not solved by creating another platform, unfortunately.

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