Splitting services is better for the end user too which means you'll have better content to pirate. Anyone thinking they could get everything under Netflix for a low price was living in a fantasy land. Plus this is what everyone demanded for years. It's funny that we get it and everyone still complains.
You say that as if it's strange for people wanting to have everything in one place, of course monopoly was good when the offer was good...at the same time it's normal it was never meant to last because either the monopoly continued and the prices would have skyrocketed or what is happening now would happen.
That only works if you are willing to pirate though, for the ones who stick to the law even with tenfold the content we have now it would have been better to have that "lesser everything" on Netflix.
You don't have to have all of those, and even if you want all of them, you don't need to have all of them at the same time. I get Netflix once every three months or so. I rarely have more than one video subscription active at a time, and certainly never more than two. Explain how the flexibility there is worse than cable.
Now they can pick and choose what service they want to subscribe legally and then cancel to pick a new service to watch the content there. You're not obligated to subscribe to every service at the same time but you can do that too. It's what people begged for and now we have it.
If i'm subscribed to this HBO Max and watching something exclusive on it and then after finishing an episode i want to watch something exclusive on Prime Video it means that i have to spend more than when both things were under a single umbrella, this is far from ideal.
Splitting content means all content providers will put up as much as possible. Disney is launching Disney+ with thousands of episodes. You would only get a fraction of that if all Disney content stayed on Netflix.
Some of this exclusive stuff you will want to watch wouldn't even exist without the spending these companies are putting up to compete with other streaming services. Competition is good for the customer, full-stop.
You have four choices.
You say that until it's Doom Patrol S2 brought to you by Scott Buck.
- NBCUniversal / Sky service in Spring of 2020 (free for Comcast users).
Heaven for consumers was when you only had to pay that ~10 bucks a month to have almost the entirety of internet video catalog at your fingertips.
This is a non problem because by not existing you don't have the urge to see the content. And i'm not contesting that competition isn't good in general just that we just left a period were it was better than having competition.
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