Comment on Anon gives a piracy history lesson

• InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s remarkable how people can see right past what was actually happening and only see what they want to see. Netflix was never trying to be the good guy. Netflix didn’t offer low prices out of the goodness of it’s hearts. It doesn’t have a heart, it has a ledger. The reason why Netflix offered a lot of content for a low price is because the company was trying to disrupt traditional cable. It was always the plan to increase prices, Netflix didn’t become greedy, it always was. It’s just that for a time the companies greed aligned with the publics greed. Once that relationship was no longer beneficial to Netflix it raised the prices, that was the plan all along.

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  • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But that’s a zero sum argument. Every company is evil following that logic. No company does anything except for money.

    You can make that argument, but it isn’t unique to Netflix.

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    • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re getting there! Just a little further, now.

      There certainly are some companies that seek to do good, or are run by good people. Arizona Green Tea is the current favourite but there are for sure others. The thing is though that there’re huge incentives to being greedy and awful, and a distinct lack of punishment for that behaviour, to the point where so fucking many of these companies are either evil or committing enough evil actions that it doesn’t matter at all the difference anymore.

      Also they weren’t saying that the argument is unique to Netflix but ok then.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s not overcomplicating it. That’s the exact impetus for Netflix to make their own movies (nothing premature about it).

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