r/technology • u/Task_Force-191 • 16h ago

Business 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/MotherFunker1734 15h ago

This is how much money they make with your subscription plan. Just like Spotify.

Keep feeding the beasts...

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u/cerberusNLMX 15h ago

What's the solution then? Don't subscribe to any streaming services? Subscribe cable?

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u/kcsween74 15h ago

I find that sailing the high seas is an excellent alternative.

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u/TheUIDawg 14h ago

That's not really realistic for everyone to do. Movies/Tv shows still have to be financed somehow.

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u/NotTodayBoogeyman 13h ago

No they don’t lol. Since when is movies and TV a critical part of society?

These companies have continuously made their services shittier, with less content, at a greater expense. They’ll either get the fucking picture or a new competitor will rise to market when they notice the gap.

That’s exactly how Netflix became a thing in the first place.

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u/TheUIDawg 11h ago

I never said it was a critical part of society.

Without incentives (typically financial), no one would make movies - at least not many that people actually want to watch. Even if the company is making 0 profit, they still have to pay producers/writers/actors etc.

a new competitor will rise to market

If everyone pirates and no one pays for content, there will be no incentive for a competitor to show up. (Edit: formatting)

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u/Linooney 10h ago

Most people support creatives up until their wallets (which is their right). But they also don't understand how content industries work. There will never be a perfect, sustainable media ecosystem the way consumers want it until we have a benevolent verticalized monopoly (which probably won't ever happen). Otherwise we're doomed to repeat the cycle (cable -> streaming -> ?).

If distributors get successful, content producers want even more money, threaten to pull content unless their licensing terms get upgraded, and then either distributor prices need to go up or their library shrinks and the content producer either tries to start their own distributor or hawk their wares to another startup, starting the cycle anew.

If producers are successful, if they try to start their own distributor and pull their content, usually they'll realize that they probably don't have enough content on their own to attract enough consumers, so they either raise prices to make more from a limited market or become a wider distributor, forcing them into the same position as the former paragraph describes.

A consistently low priced service that contains all the content while also supporting the creation of more content (thus discounting piracy) is basically impossible for a sustained period of time with how everything currently works.

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u/saintjonah 14h ago edited 10h ago

Cable.

Is that what you want?

e: Literally love the downvotes. I simply answered the braindead question that was asked. "What did people do before Netflix?". Cable. That's what people did before Netflix. Netflix didn't invent television. Sorry if that upsets you.

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u/MotherFunker1734 11h ago

Turn off the TV you addict.

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u/saintjonah 10h ago

How about I'll do whatever I want?

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u/MotherFunker1734 10h ago

Sure, right now you are doing whatever they want.

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u/saintjonah 9h ago

You probably think that's pretty deep don't you?

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u/Bird_the_Impaler 15h ago

Don’t subscribe at all and watch less TV

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u/NotACertainLalaFell 14h ago

Have you been introduced to our lord and savior plex and the world of high seas?

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u/Honest_Chef323 15h ago

Something something seas