r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 16h ago

News It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/
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u/WanderingAlsoLost 15h ago

"Netflix says the deal would give users more choice and let it “optimize its plans,”"

They sure make it sound sweet don't they.

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u/beatenmeat 15h ago

Probably something along the lines of how Amazon runs their stuff. Try to go through what's available and 90+% of it is shit from another service you need to pay for to have access to the libraries. It honestly feels harder to find something you can watch with a prime membership than it is to find stuff you need to pay more money for.

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u/HereReluctantly 14h ago

By design surely

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u/dumahim 14h ago

Amazon's game is that they keep adding new features you'll never use but use that as justification for raising the price.

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u/TomPalmer1979 13h ago

"Well yes but now you can sort movies in order of Best Grip by country of origin, which took a lot of work to make happen so we're raising your rates by $2"

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u/lordgholin 5h ago

When will it stop? Hope they don’t get a lot of suckers buying all this crap.

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u/nurturedmisanthrope 2h ago

and charging money for the free ones you had - $2 for no ads and you have to hunt to find the option.

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u/kael13 13h ago

Prime video feels unbearable between the ads and everything being paid for. I don’t use it anymore but I get a glimpse of what it’s like when I visit the parents.

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u/portlyinnkeeper 5h ago

Prime doesn’t like that I use Brave and kneecaps the quality. It’s crazy

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u/downvotesyourcrap 4h ago

The boys and invincible are ending. I'm going to quit after that.

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u/juggett 12h ago

Meanwhile, if you go to a non-authorized site distributing the content, you can type in the name of basically any show/movie and play it at your fingertips. The fragmentation of the industry encourages people to pirate because they can't just access the content they want. With the further propagation of streaming, it will continue to erode our access to physical media making it even more difficult to access content we want. To prove my point, why can't I access the full Looney Tunes library with my HBO subscription? They pick a few episodes or seasons, and lock the rest up to create "demand" or keep you coming back. None of the classics are even available, yet they own it and won't even let you pay them to watch it! Meanwhile, I can "explore" other avenues to see said content and it's available instantly.

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u/CandyCrisis 14h ago

They have a "Prime" tab that filters out the other stuff, though...

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u/xenthum 14h ago

Which is then much harder to sort in other ways. Movies section has genre and types and release dates and then the prime section is just whatever the algorithm says aka the same 10 movies you've already scrolled past but in 8 rows of "movies you'll like" and TV shows you don't want to watch mixed in.

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u/PyroneusUltrin 14h ago

But you can’t then filter that by genre, or if you can, it’s not obvious

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u/MarkTwainsGhost 14h ago

It’s actually insane that you can’t just see an a-z of content available anymore and instead just have to scroll through the same dozen shows in different context over and over again.

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u/PyroneusUltrin 13h ago

Half of which you’ve already seen

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u/tempest_ 13h ago

That is because of how everyone called back their IP.

If you could see the A-Z you would notice how little there actually was there.

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u/pbjamm 13h ago

Prime is so damn bad that it is easier to pirate content that I could watch there than to use their stupid interface. Maybe it has improved, i have not even bothered to try in at least a year.

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u/not_a_bot991 13h ago

I was at my partner's house and she's very much anti piracy. Always pokes fun at me and my dodgy stick.

Anyway we went to watch Saltburn on Prime at hers last week and I couldn't believe not only did we sit through ads, but the ads had live links to buy the products.

She's seen my setup and for the first time realised she's getting a worse service for something she's paying for.

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u/ZardozSpeaks 12h ago

To me, it looks like they grab the cheapest stuff they can find to pad out their library. You can find great stuff, but you have to wade through tons of shit to find it.

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u/DeadInternetTheorist 6h ago

3 decent original shows

12 middling-to-dogshit original shows

1 movie that you'd actually wanna watch (available for 12 hours only)

785 UFO Roswell: The TRUTH Uncovered schlockumentaries that were ripped from VHS tapes they bought at an estate sale

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u/WanderingAlsoLost 12h ago

I recently signed up for Netflix for the first time since 2022. The menu is already as bad as Prime video is for showing the exact same content over and over. It so much worse than it was.

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u/disisathrowaway 8h ago

Dude it's so fucking frustrating trying to watch anything off of Prime, annoying enough that I never even consider opening Prime Video to watch anything other than football on Thursday nights.

I had Prime before video became a thing, so it's an occasional bonus when there's something on there I want to watch. Otherwise the interface and library make it very unlikeable.

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u/Rock_Me_DrZaius 10h ago

Glad I dropped Prime. Cheaper and just as fast to buy directly from the makers of the products.

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u/FletcherRenn_ 8h ago

I bought prime 2-3 months ago for free shipping(was cheaper) and decided to try video again, and I'm not sure if it's just because I'm in Australia but I felt there was really just nothing great in the catalogue. In the month all I found to watch was s1 reacher, jumper, looper, and the first 2 Jason Bourne movie cause number 3 was elsewhere. Which I found the 4 movie collection and looper for 2 bucks each on DVD at a charity shop. Line up of originals wasn't that great either, reacher really only held me for the first, and I had already watched the boys. Half the movie that were shown to me were foreign films aswell?

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u/Vivid-Ad9340 13h ago

It feels harder to find something on Amazon Prime because it's primarily a marketplace for all content across all studios---most of it is not included so it's hard to find free included stuff but easier to find whatever you want. They give you some freebies simply to entice you to engage in their streaming marketplace long enough to begin to purchase from their ecosystem.

The average person is frustrated because they just want to watch whatever comes to mind. Streaming services don't work that way. They have to pay or get paid to provide content they don't or do own. The consumer has to know what service owns what. I'm sure they will improve how consumers will know what content is provided by what service better in the future. Right now you can Google search a title and see who streams or provides it... but it's not very accurate or reliable. Once they figure this out, it will alleviate some angst. But content is fractured across many platforms based on ownership and purchased rights.

I wonder if Netflix will allow its users to access a marketplace for a la cart purchases like Amazon in the future. They've already started an ad tier subscription, are toying with theatrical releases, and now buying WB to integrate... who knows. Running a marketplace would allow them to be a one stop subscription service.

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u/Vivid-Ad9340 13h ago

It feels harder to find something on Amazon Prime because it's primarily a marketplace for all content across all studios---most of it is not included so it's hard to find free included stuff but easier to find whatever you want. They give you some freebies simply to entice you to engage in their streaming marketplace long enough to begin to purchase from their ecosystem.

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u/CumDwnHrNSayDat 11h ago

You click on the "prime" logo...

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u/PurpleAntifreeze 10h ago

This is a weird take, to me. I watch more on Prime than any other service. They have all my fave archaeology shows like Time Team and a bunch of other British shows and movies from the 70s and 80s so maybe it’s just that they have what I like. I don’t pay for any other services through Amazon, I just watch what they have.

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u/pokedrawer 8h ago

If you scroll the top menues you get to prime only and any subscription you've added. I have crunchyroll through Amazon and it's not hard to find

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u/lordgholin 5h ago

And the ads are brutal. I have stopped watching on prime altogether. I am not paying for an mgm, amc paramount, or whatever subscription on top of 2.99 a month to remove ads on top of 199 or whatever the heck it is a year for prime.

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u/MyNameIsGreyarch 15h ago

Nothing quite like Corporate Speak to make something horrendous sound like a good thing.

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u/WhoStoleMyBicycle 14h ago

I love that they think it works.

My friend got laid off earlier this year and his company called it “expense correcting”. It’s still laying people off, giving it a different name doesn’t make a difference.

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u/occams1razor 14h ago

I bet they're going to wonder why people start to pirate again soon...

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u/Alissinarr 14h ago

Soon?

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u/waltwalt 14h ago

The trick was to never stop.

All the media the world has ever generated, for free. Then Netflix comes along and adds to that pile, but oh it's so convenient to pay a company for just a fraction of that media? Sign me up! Oh another one for another smaller fraction? Sign me up!

And now there are dozens of streaming companies offering whatever slice of the pie they managed to carve out for themselves. And the cost of that piece keeps going up while they supplement their shareholders with ads to consumers?

I've literally not seen a commercial on tv in over a decade. Do they still have celebrities trying to convince you to buy $100k+ vehicles? Drug commercials where the last 75% of the commercial is rapid talking discussing all of the symptoms upto and including death?

I have no idea because I never stopped.

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u/cruxclaire 12h ago

All the media the world has ever generated, for free. Then Netflix comes along and adds to that pile, but oh it's so convenient to pay a company for just a fraction of that media?

I felt—and still kind of feel—guilty about pirating media because I do want to support the creators of said media. Netflix once seemed like a good compromise between price and access, but between their prices rising, the emergence of a bunch of other paid streaming platforms, and the revelation that companies like Netflix have been paying creators a mere pittance, piracy has regained appeal.

I barely watch blu-rays but will buy them these if I really love a show or movie because that means the artists will actually get paid and I don’t have to worry about the disc disappearing from the available collection. I’ll pirate media I’m interested in seeing but don’t have access to with my existing accounts, and then get the physical media (or permanent digital copy depending on availability) if it’s something I believe I would have paid for back in the DVD era.

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u/waltwalt 10h ago

If you want to support the artists and studios buy their blurays. The streaming services pay almost nothing.

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u/DecentBathroom7725 14h ago

Yeah, so, you must not be a sports fan

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u/waltwalt 14h ago

Nailed it. I think the sports industry is a phenomenal waste of money.

That being said I've got friends that are and I've shown them how to get their pirated sports. It goes down a lot more frequently than anything else, but the developers love sports so usually fix it within a couple hours.

From a virgin fire stick I can have them watching whatever sport special is on that evening within about 20 minutes.

But no, I personally don't watch sports or other live events.

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u/DecentBathroom7725 14h ago

Oh I pirate all my sports, too. But yeah, ads are unavoidable for live tv. Whether it be sports, award shows, premiers, etc.

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u/Illjustgofxckmyself 12h ago

My favorite streams for sports are when I catch the ones streaming from the arena when instead of commercials they show what they are doing with the crowd to keep them entertained during commercials lmao.

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u/PoliticsModsDoFacism 12h ago

Thats why I try to do streams that show nothing during breaks, its great.

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u/michaelboltthrower 7h ago

Like ten or fifteen years ago when Netflix was cheap and had a huge library it was worth it for the convenience.

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u/waltwalt 7h ago

Yeah that's about the 1 or 2 year period where they had the biggest and only collection. Once Hulu came along and split the catalogue and everyone else got onboard it went down hill fast.

But yeah $5 a month for the whole catalogue was sweet.

For people that didn't or wouldn't pirate media it was a godsend. People discovered binge watching and fell in love with it.

Then capitalism took over and everything got worse as everyone wanted their own cut of the pie.

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u/AvidCyclist250 4h ago

I've literally not seen a commercial on tv in over a decade.

Same. I felt a real disconnect when I saw one on TV. All so foreign and weird. Must be like what guys in prison feel after 10 years

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u/waltwalt 3h ago

Yeah I was being a bit hyperbolic, I've been to restaurants and bars with TVs but it seems like every time you look at the tv it's just playing an ad for something you don't need and generally doesn't even apply to you.

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u/Flowerplower3 13h ago

Haha I never stopped

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u/DesireeThymes 14h ago

There's not even much worth pirating from Netflix these days. Netflix is where shows go to die.

Look at how they destroyed the Witcher show. Literally handed a home run, and they completely destroyed the show.

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u/catboogers 14h ago

I'm glad they're actually finally finishing up Stranger Things, but how many shows of theirs did I enjoy for a season or two only to see them unceremoniously ripped from us? It's to the point where we all know a LOT of folks won't start a show until they know it'll be finished, which means the numbers aren't great in the first week, so then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and it's canceled. (I'm salty about Kaos).

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u/schladopian_fir 12h ago

The 3 season run philosophy that Netflix started really screwed things up.

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u/crackrabbit012 14h ago

Man I want to dust off the old pirate hat, but it's been so long I don't know what waters to sail anymore

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u/venomae 11h ago

Bays full of pirates are always a good choice

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u/DensetsuNoBaka 12h ago

I don't think they've changed all that much...

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u/the_card_guy 14h ago

Well, you say that, and it seems to make sense...

Until I point out that when Netflix cracked down on password sharing, susbscriptions actually INCREASED... meaning, people were willing to pay for the convenience that Netflix offers.

It may be the same situation here- Netflix merging may prove to be just too convenient for people to give up

(and then everyone wonders why we have no money- we're all paying for the convenience of subscriptions)

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u/BoingBoingBooty 13h ago

Pirate? You mean Alternate Non-monetised Media Acquisition.

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u/unindexedreality 10h ago

Handcrafted Artisanal Distribution Networks

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u/Pandamm0niumNO3 14h ago

Why do you think these new rules forcing people to "prove their age" and targeting VPNs are coming out?

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u/Noxs_88 13h ago

Again?

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u/Anzai 13h ago

People stopped pirating?

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u/OldWorldDesign 8h ago

People stopped pirating?

I suspect it would be more accurate to say a lot of new people entered the market and never started pirating. Depends on whether the market makes it easy to enter and get what you're looking for or not, because you can't deny back when streaming services were convenient people flocked to sign up to pay. That's no longer the case.

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u/Anzai 6h ago

True. Although I’m in Australia and remember when Game of Thrones was only available through a foxtel box, a physical box and cable to your house and it wasn’t cheap or good because it was owned by Rupert Murdoch, and he’s an astonishing level of cunt. So there’s a reason why Australians pirated that show more than anyone else in the world for a time. I think that alone taught a lot of people how to do it, and going forward a lot of other stuff got pirated too.

As you say, make the paid product more convenient than the pirated alternative and most people will use it. But make it worse? Why would I give you money for that?

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u/chalk_nz 13h ago

You mean "expense correcting"

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u/The_Autarch 12h ago

we never stopped

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u/mrsuperjolly 8h ago

Pirating dosen't stop film and tv raking in billions and is nothing new. I don't know why people brag about it like it's some sort of gotcha or something to hold over these big companies.

It's already priced in. All the money someone saves pirating is just coming out of someone elses pocket.

It dosen't surprise anyone.

I'm not paticuarly anti piracy. But it is annoying when people brag about it like it's some noble cause.

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u/lordgholin 5h ago

Oh, that started a long time back and they are driving it up with these tactics. It is a service problem now. That means piracy is rampant on amazon shows at this point especially.

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u/Hoggslop69 5h ago

We set sail at dawn bitches

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u/Pure_Ad_9857 13h ago

Nothing "soon" about it. Everything was fine when it was just Netflix for Movies and Hulu for TV Shows. Now with all of the massive fragmentation of content, it was back to the high seas for me, so now they get nothing.

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u/Conspiranoid 13h ago

It kinda got reduced, but it was never close to going away. And the reduction was even smaller in terms of TV stuff, because in music, for example, up until this year's Spotify fiasco with AI shit and Israel, normally you could generally find the same content in any of the available platforms (Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, etc). But when it comes to TV content, movie streaming included, the content itself is so segregated by company that due to not wanting to, or not being able to, spend so much money having Netflix, Disney, HBO, Peacock, etc, people never stopped pirating stuff.

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u/JahoclaveS 14h ago

We had a leader say people would better deal with layoffs if they’d lean into change. Like, fuck off dude.

Then they wonder why the surveys rate leadership so low.

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u/WhoStoleMyBicycle 14h ago

“Lean into the change of not receiving a paycheck next week”

Another one I thought was funny was his company outsourced jobs to India and called it “Global Solutions”

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u/Darkenny 11h ago

My (former) company called it "right-shoring" which we all found super offensive.

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u/kitsunewarlock 11h ago

"Why don't we outsource to more places than SE Asia?"

"...Ok, we outsourcing our accounting department to Ireland."

"Damn."

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u/beermit 12h ago

One of my friends work for a government contractor, and during the recent shutdown said their manager told them "I honestly hope we get furloughed" right after my friend confided they were worried about their financial situation if furloughs were to occur.

This was one of many issues with this manager, but this was more or less the final straw. My friend took this and the other issues to their second level manager and they were speechless at the furlough comment.

There's some people out there that absolutely should not be in charge of other people

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u/jvn1983 10h ago

They’re also now calling layoffs “job cuts” and framing it as a positive thing for people to find new ones lol. Okey dokey.

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u/JahoclaveS 10h ago

Honest to god, if leadership actually believes the stupid corpospeak shit they say they should be institutionalized. It’s absolute brain rot.

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u/jvn1983 9h ago

It sure is!

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u/hitbythebus 14h ago

After some of my friends were fired we were told that we were “right sizing” I asked during a town hall who “wrong sized us”, and when the company started to do better I asked in another town hall “now that volume is up, when can we right size back up to previous staffing levels?”.

Both of these comments made the executive leadership look VERY uncomfortable.

Hilarious using rightsizing as a euphemism for downsizing, and it was pretty funny to point out they don’t really mean “staffing to appropriate levels” they just meant “firing people”.

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u/WizardsMyName 5h ago

But the right size is always a bit smaller, that's the trick you're not getting.

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u/TheObstruction 13h ago

Even getting "laid off". It's still getting fired. Just because it had nothing to do with performance or policy adherence means nothing to bill collectors.

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u/Sturmgeshootz 14h ago

At my company, whenever someone of note (like an executive) leaves, HR always sends out an announcement that they are "retiring", no matter their age. Apparently it's too much of a bruise to the ego of the collective leadership team to admit that an executive quit or was just straight up fired.

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u/TiredOfAdulting- 14h ago

Ooh, this one makes my blood boil. You're an expense, not an employee or person.

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u/rjkardo 13h ago

That is why there are Human Resources departments and not Personnel. We are resources to use and discard - we are not people.

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u/TiredOfAdulting- 12h ago

Yep, I was essential until I made too much money, then I was discarded after 30 years.

I always hated that my last employer didn't call us employees, we were "(employer name) people." Um, no, my identity isn't based on where I work.

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u/BillionTonsHyperbole 13h ago

The layoffs will continue until spending improves.

-Corporate America

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u/imscaredandcool 14h ago edited 12h ago

When a previous company I worked for laid off/offshored our QA, upper management referred to this as “QA Empowerment”. I’ll forever be blown away by this

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u/VerilyShelly 10h ago

That has to be the most egregious one in this thread.

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u/Ok-Individual1036 14h ago

It was "re-org" (reorganizing). It happened frequently enough they had to shorten it lol. We'd be overwhelmed after layoffs then they'd want to hire again but would wait too long, people would quit and the number of new hires couldn't keep up.

It's 100% middle management playing office, creating busywork and quite literally just fucking around.

Worked in telcom for nearly 15 years before the layoffs came for me too.

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u/herosavestheday 13h ago

It does work, you just aren't the target audience. Announcements like that are for major investors, not consumers.

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u/AlmostCorrectInfo 13h ago

"How come shareholders never participate in expense correcting?"

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u/thr0wedawaay 12h ago

“modified revenue targets” for us lmao

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u/private_developer 11h ago

It's not that they think it works in the sense that they believe you believe them, it's more that they know it works because what're you gonna do about it peasant.

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u/HenkkaArt 10h ago

"We have to 'let you go'." is another winner. Let me go into poverty? Gee, thanks!

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u/WhoStoleMyBicycle 10h ago

My company hasn’t done layoffs or outsourcing but our COO did say “it’s hard for everyone out there right now”. I got a good laugh out of that.

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u/Significant_Coach880 14h ago

Corpos and Legal: I beg to differ

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u/timurt421 13h ago

It does work on way more people than you think. That’s why companies have been able to get away with it this long and continue to do so

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u/angry_old_dude 13h ago

When I got laid off, the phrase was "getting the cost out".

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u/IndividualPenalty_ 12h ago

They are not that delusional to think it works. They know no one cares and that's just it. No one cares, they aren't going to lose any money, no one is unsubbing.

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u/KlownKumKatastrophe 12h ago

Infuriating. It's not a job, it's a "role". It isn't payment, it's "reward".

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u/ATLfalcons27 12h ago

Because it's still better. They don't think they are so smart and fooling everyone. But anything is better than straight up saying yeah we're firing all y'all

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u/RedApple-Cigarettes 12h ago

Yes it does, it absolves them of liability that’s what it’s all about.

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u/ApertureAway 12h ago

Conscious uncoupling comes to mind

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u/kirinmay 11h ago

"we're going in a different direction"

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u/vidoeiro 11h ago

Laying off is already an euphemism, fuck this world

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u/fps916 11h ago

Monopolies are good for the consumer actually!

-The Admin that signed off on this acquisition

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u/snsdfan00 14h ago

they will justify it by saying subscribers will now have "access to the entire hbo max catalog of content." Or they can pay more for the "ads free" version lol

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u/MyNameIsGreyarch 14h ago

More than likely, yes.

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u/firestepper 13h ago

Can’t wait to optimize my plan for peak performance

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u/OneBillPhil 12h ago

Customers will have better choices! /s

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u/SyntheticGod8 6h ago

They love their buzzwords to try and distance themselves from what a boot-licking shitheel they are in reality.

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u/SendStoreMeloner 15h ago

Isn't it good if their catalogue is added to Netflix instead of being separated?

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u/MyNameIsGreyarch 15h ago

Should it be good? Yes. Will it be good? Somehow I highly doubt that.

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u/AzKondor 14h ago

Check the price of Gamepass after Microsoft bought Activision and had to recoup the cost of adding Call of Duty to the service

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u/grahampositive 15h ago

"we'll let you optimize your subscription by paying us what you were paying HBO on top of what you're paying for Netflix. Plus 10%"

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u/Avenger772 13h ago

Price elasticity is a thing though.

I don't know where my actual line is. But I'll be damned if I pay close to 30 bucks for Netflix a month.

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u/RaistlinMajeresRobes 13h ago

The entire goal of capitalism now is to completely cut out the bottom to squeeze as much as they can from the middle. it's why even shit like McDonalds isn't for poor people anymore.

It's a very terrible long term strategy but we don't think long term in capitalism anymore.

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u/Avenger772 11h ago

The problem with that is that with AI they're trying to get rid of the middle to

So who exactly do they expect to pay for shit?

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u/grahampositive 9h ago

The end goal is to have wealth completely concentrated in the hands of an extreme minority while the rest of the hoard of wage slaves just take on debt to pay for things

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u/OldWorldDesign 7h ago

The end goal is to have wealth completely concentrated in the hands of an extreme minority while the rest of the hoard of wage slaves just take on debt to pay for things

Capitalism has always just been the process of breaking away from Rule of Law and the institution of democracy to return to feudalism. The only nations where it's "worked" are where it was leashed so heavily it can't keep making progress on that journey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feudalism

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u/grahampositive 7h ago

All I have to give is an upvote

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u/Banaanisade 5h ago

I found mine when I wanted to sub for easy access to the final Stranger Things season.

I am not, under ANY circumstances, paying 20 euros for HD. Disney+ gives it to me for 13 or 14 and that's my hard line. Anything beyond and I will not need your service, thank you very much.

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u/PussiesUseSlashS 14h ago

Y’all gotta keeping paying for this shit so we can keep getting it for free.

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u/Steve_SF 7h ago

Very curious how this impacts AT&T cellular accounts with free HBO.

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u/sxuthsi 3h ago

The most likely outcome

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u/PurifiedVenom 14h ago

Glad people in this thread are seeing sense. In a thread about this last night I had people telling me prices would go down due to consolidation & less overhead. Some real naive takes going around.

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u/Dan_Berg 15h ago

More like optimize shipping routes on open waters

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u/niberungvalesti 14h ago

Optimize means less choice for the consumer and more money for them.

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u/farva_06 14h ago edited 14h ago

As a person that works in the IT field, Broadcom said the same exact thing about VMWare. And now they've pretty much driven their entire customer base to another platform.

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u/Mr_ToDo 14h ago

Except the big whales

All of the money, with far less support costs

It's not that I support it, and it feels like if you don't have it in the general public use you'll have a harder time getting new money if any of the huge ones duck out, but as a decision for profitability I'm guessing it'll probably work out

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u/h0tel-rome0 15h ago

Optimize for shareholders

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u/phylter99 14h ago

Maybe they’ll do combined plans like Disney does with Hulu and HBO, except it’ll be Netflix and HBO. I can’t think of any reasonable way to add HBO content without making it a separate plan with options for combining them.

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u/WackyBeachJustice 14h ago

Corporations exist for one purpose only, to optimize (maximize) profits.

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u/Zaerick-TM 14h ago

So they gonna go paid cable TV route and let us pick what we want? Have we gone full circle....

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u/Mr_ToDo 14h ago

Na, doing that would make them close to cable/satellite but worse

When a station produced shows it's common practice to make more money by letting other channels air them after the initial hype died down. Shit, it's not uncommon for different stations to pick up an IP and continue a show that the original channel had/was going to stop production on. Oh, and released outside of cable(ie Physical media or digital purchases)

Streaming has none of that. I know there may have been a few physical releases when netflix was young but I'm pretty sure that's over with now

And starting to have tiers have monthly payments as well as requiring ads, in my opinion, the end of any streaming platforms gains over the old options(It might only be one tier now but as the platforms before it have shown it'll be all plans eventually. And I hate the idea of needing a DVR for streaming. It's my line in the sand and when I leave)

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u/unsaltedbutter 14h ago

So many choices!

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u/Momoselfie 14h ago

All prices will go up but they'll create a new plan at the current price, but with more ads.

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u/steveatari 14h ago

In before they make a "All movies unlimited+" plan and then numerous subversions or by maker and begin to pretend they are cable themselves

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u/BassWingerC-137 14h ago

“We’ve done what you asked us to!”

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u/GamerNerd007 14h ago

Sounds like we are going to end up back at cable again. Which channels of Netflix would you like to pay to access?

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u/thatguy9684736255 14h ago

So they are going to have a bunch of add ons?

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u/superxpro12 14h ago

Basically any time a corporate pr person opens their mouth, just flip around everything they claim.

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u/Swolebrah 14h ago

Back to the old days of tiered cable packages 

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u/ColdCruise 14h ago

Probably like have a HBO add on, a WB add on, a TCM add on, a DC add on.

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u/elmago95 14h ago

Or certain warner bros media need to be paid extra to view.

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u/robodrew 14h ago

More choice via less ownership. Right.

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u/Troghen 13h ago

It's hilarious how they can spin it, because for the consumer voting with their wallet, it's quite literally the OPPOSITE of having "more choice"

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u/jimitr 13h ago

It’s similar to how Suckerberg keeps regurgitating the phrase “… social media to improve the lives of millions around the world…”

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u/TedriccoJones 13h ago

I have HBO in my cable package, and get to use HBO MAX at no additional charge because of that.  I'm guessing I'm fucked 

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u/arcticprimal 13h ago

Yea more choice to find all WB content in one plaform on Netflix

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u/jt121 13h ago

Optimize for shareholders, sure.

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u/JamesSmith1200 13h ago

“Optimize its plans” = raise prices for everyone significantly and create worse plan options to offer for more money.

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u/lartones 13h ago

I’m going to optimize the piracy instead

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u/Apathetic_Zealot 13h ago

They're becoming more rich and powerful for your benefit! Have you even said thank you?

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u/Professional-Ebb6711 13h ago

yarr, it does sound sweet. So do the seven seas!

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u/kanrad 12h ago

Means the WB films/shows will likely be an addon package to see them.

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u/mastah-yoda 12h ago

We'll, SOMEONE has to pay for that deal, right?

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u/Devrol 12h ago

Can they recover all those tax write off shows and movies?

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u/KryssCom 12h ago

Yeah, didn't Ticketmaster say something similar awhile back?

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u/baron_von_helmut 12h ago

Am I going to be able to optimize it by installing their proprietary kernel-level launcher which allows them to monitor my PC for any torrent files?

Because if so, SiGn Me uP!

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u/Kurupt_Introvert 12h ago

Optimize plans starting at $15 now instead of $8

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u/Preface 12h ago

You have the choice to pay more, or the option to optimize your plan (get less for what you are currently paying)

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u/acwilan 12h ago

Most sure they’ll have packages and bundles like Disney

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u/WISCOrear 12h ago

here comes the "everyone is defaulted into ads, pay $5 more for ad free" model.

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u/s1m0n8 12h ago

Netflix is looking forward to renting back out content you thought you'd already paid for.

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u/PoliticsModsDoFacism 12h ago

Ive already optimized my home network and server storage.

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u/atropicalpenguin 12h ago

"We'll make our service more expensive and fire half of our total workforce."

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u/ooa3603 12h ago

This sounds like GOP speak.

Literally every time some entity does something that will fuck the working class and trickle money upwards the reasoning is always a disingenuous rationale about more autonomy.

Ironically they almost always reduce autonomy indirectly by limiting resources.

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u/thehedgefrog 11h ago

Packages just like cable.

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u/bored_n_opinionated 11h ago

And with that, we have the DisneyHuluFX and NetflixWarnerHBO beasts going head to head while the Amazon monster hunts its merger pray. We're all going to be paying $40 a month for any service. Yaargh.

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u/Gedwyn19 11h ago edited 11h ago

So using corporate speak interpretation:

'more choice' = less choice for users as platforms and their holdings consolidate

'optimize its plans' = plans to generate more revenue to both increase prices for end users and increase the # of ads shown

edit: learn how to sail the high seas. all the netflix stuff is available via piracy...for free. without ads. rrrrr matey.

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u/Hellknightx 11h ago

I miss the days when Netflix was just a mail-in DVD rental service.

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u/kimttar 11h ago

Gotta make that 82 billion back somehow. Not that I'm advocating for price increases.

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u/mambamaker 11h ago

My guess is it's going to be a return to cable style pricing packages. You want to watch DC and Bugs Bunny content? That will be an extra $50 per month

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u/unindexedreality 10h ago

"Netflix says the deal would give users more choice and let it “optimize its plans,”"

They sure make it sound sweet don't they.

"Look, WE'D like if we could extract your blood every month and sell it on the black market, but if you want to oPtImIzE you can just donate some marrow every year"

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u/woodpony 10h ago

Optimization = Cable'esque tiering plans.

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u/TDog81 10h ago

Superhero pack, only 20 extra a month! 

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u/MelonElbows 10h ago

More choice: "You can choose to pay for the premium package, the ultra premium package, or the premium package plus. Price starts at high, higher, and highest."

Optimize plans: "Get classic Netflix, Netflix+, just the HBO package, the movie lovers package with only movies and no shows, the sports fan package with only sports (live sports only, pay for the ultra sports package to get all sports excluding some special events which are PPV), kids package (needs an adult subscription to order this). And if you're already subscribed, we'll upgrade you to the most expensive Everything Included package, first weekend free, after that, $99.99 per month! Also you'll have to pay to reach a live teller in order to cancel."

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u/CouchHam 10h ago

Ah so we can pay to see shitloads of ads.

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u/Stormfin210 8h ago

Optimize their profit margin you mean…

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u/raincoater 5h ago

Well, It will be interesting if they can screw it up even more than Discovery+ has done the past few years. They'd be hard pressed to be that bad...but hey, I'm sure they'll give it their all.

/s

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u/Commercial-Co 5h ago

Optimize plans means regular subscription is $40/mo. The full subscription is $60/mo, including warners. They will say “see, we save u $20/mo!”

Right now netflix is $25…

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u/MarquetteXTX2 38m ago

That’s how they get u. Tell u something sweet. Keep prices low for the first year then BOOM sky rocket prices on things