Because the IP holders don’t want to give out licenses in perpetuity. They want to renegotiate and increase the price.
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BorgDrone@feddit.nl 3 weeks agoWhy do they even have limited time licenses? This doesn’t happen for music streaming services.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Because music streaming services compete (for the most part) based on experience and features not content. This happened after the market plummeted for music sales. TV and movies are still in the stage where everyone is competing with content by having exclusives while their services suck dick with few features, horrible UX, and ads. Im sure at some point they’ll go the route of music and games where youre not forced to sign up to a specific service to see a specific show, but who knows when that’ll happen.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This was reality when Netflix was the only streaming service. We had that already and it devolved into what we have now
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It was still the same back then, it was just done via network TV channels instead of streaming channels.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 3 weeks ago
The number of songs on places that are 'not available in my region' despite being saved previously when played might dispute that.
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
That’s the main reason I switched to Navidrome and downloaded a ton of flacs. No one’s stopping me from drinking whiskey in the bathtub listening to sad music during my monthly breakdown.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The really crazy thing to me is when a game is updated to remove copywritten songs they lost a license for.
That was apparently never a problem back in the days of CDs, but now they have to do that or else the poor music companies will go bankrupt.