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I don't think that content producers should be able to have their own streaming services. Similar to how movie studios couldn't own theaters or whatever until lobbyists killed that too.
If politicians didn‘t have their own horses in this race to the bottom of costumer satisfaction those anti trust laws would have been expanded on 100% but unfortunately we got a corrupt pile of crap.
Or follow the one good thing the music industry does.. allow music across different platforms. I can listen to the same songs on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple, etc. none of this “get the XYZ app to listen to a band, and another app to listen to others”.
Prime is like: you know that service we sold you that played movies without commercials? We're putting commercials in it.
I'm like: Bye felicia. I'll be fucked to pay more for data transit in 2024 than I paid before, the movement of bits and streaming of bytes have not gone up fuckwits. And I don't need the rest of the amazon trash either. Thanks for making it easy!
Also that movie you want to watch? You gotta rent it. Fuck your subscription.