Subj : Re: Ok .. Tyson or Jake?
To   : Nightfox
From : Adept
Date : Tue Dec 10 2024 07:26 pm

 Ni> different services for various things you want to watch.  But I guess in
 Ni> a way, it's the same as it has always been.  With cable TV, companies

I don't think it was the same, when people were getting Netflix DVDs.

Because, if you wanted a movie, you went, "Well, I'll order it on Netflix".

Once Netflix streaming was around, even during the early days when their catalog was at its most impressive, if you were to ask, "I wonder if Netflix has...", the answer was, "no".

It would be nice if we could get to a world where the content producers get paid by streamers, by some legally-required rate (like how music generally is), and the content producers can't control the content once it's released.

Similar to how things work with the first-sale doctrine.

Or, if that's not possible, have a time limit to things, so that something similar goes into effect after 2 to 5 years, after the company should have made most of the money they're ever going to make on it.

And, honestly, copyright could last that long too, pretty reasonably, but that's a whole discussion on its own.

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