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102 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 14 Aug \ on: Impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy - Guardian alter_native

“Piracy is not a pricing issue,” Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve, the company behind the world’s largest PC gaming platform, Steam, observed in 2011. “It’s a service issue.”

Based.

I haven't kept up but I know they were working on torrent streams. I wonder if that ever materialized.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 14 Aug

Yeah, the idea that people really just want to watch/listen/play what they want, and don't want to navigate access, seems like it would bode well for lightning payments. But, also: Amazon does single rental for many titles that show up on a variety of streaming platforms, but this doesn't seem to be a solution.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 14 Aug

The pricing for a single rental is too variable ime, TV episodes are often overpriced relative to movies, and it's rare I want a TV episode a la carte unless I'm testing a series out.¹

Apple got it right when they mandated $0.99 mp3s. Then again, we went on to stream those too for the most part.

I think my ideal streaming platform let's me watch the first 20% of a movie or TV series season for free, then lets me pay a fixed price for the other 80%.

This is interesting to think about in the context of SN. ↩

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