The new group is led by two former policymakers acting as senior advisers: former Republican Rep. Fred Upton and former Democratic Federal Communications Commission (FCC) acting chair Mignon Clyburn.
Source: https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/streamers-launch-first-official-trade-group
Mignon Clyburn is Jim Clyburn’s daughter. SMH
Who’s that?
It’s almost never a pricing issue, but a service issue. They can band together in their bullshit campaign all they want. They’re still not getting my money, because I’m not paying 15 a month, to watch one movie with 7 ads, after which they’ll also sell my data
It especially doesn’t make sense when you can stream most things for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/
All you need is uBlock Origin.
The Expectables.
Arrr matey, it be lookin like time to raid an pillage
Ha hoy capt’n!
If I’ve learned anything about corporate lobbying groups it’s that they only exist to fuck you and ruin any legislation that attempts to protect you from them.
Eat shit SIA.
Corps form “unions” and use money gained by preferential treatment by government to create propaganda shitting on unions.
Funny that.
No wait, infuriating. That’s the word.
Wait, what? What corporations form labor unions designed to undermine labor unions? Are you calling a lobbying group a union? Are you using terminology creatively or is there something I hadn’t heard about? EDIT: I guess I never get to find out. :(
Sorry for the late reply, I’m not on all the time.
I was using it creatively which is why I used quotation marks. They act as a collective for their own benefit as a union does.
Cool! Thanks for the update.
They cry about the “free market” and then run to the Government to ask for “protection”.
I wish I had never gotten rid of all my dvds
Just get a VPN and download them for free.
You can do with a better medium that is less bulky and less prone to damage.
Buy em back! DVDs are dirt cheap right now (sometimes $1 a pop at flea markets, garage sales, and thrift stores)
This is honestly what Google should’ve done with Fiber.
Big tech’s lobbyist dollars would have beaten Comcast’s with ease.
Great, now let me pay a single fee for the SIA, and be able to watch anything on any of those channels. I’d happily pay a higher amount for that privilege.
That’s not likely to happen, but if it did, it would be much more expensive and include ads. We’re not returning to cable benefits without plenty of the downsides (and, no doubt, some new ones).
Checkout streamio
You’ll definitely stop paying these streaming giants.
Is it legal? I don’t want to go getting into illegal stuff
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You probably unknowingly break multiple laws a day settle down
Let’s call it “Grey area”. If you know what you’re doing.
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Its still illegal. Don’t pretend your actions hold some sort of moral high ground. If you disagree with the law go change it.
I’m fine being on the low end of the moral scale “stealing” from the rich lol.
But why respect a stupid law that isn’t really enforced anyway?
You don’t have to respect any laws. That’s your progitive. However, don’t claim a moral high ground
I see what you’re getting at, but I think ‘moral high ground’ might not be the phrase you’re looking for.
Laws and morals are explicitly different. That’s why juries exist, so that a law may be put against the morals of a situation and the morals may prevail if need be.
Breaking the law isn’t necessarily immoral. It’s just illegal. So it isn’t like someone breaking the law is seeking to take the moral high ground in the first place, nor does that mean that someone who only ever follows the law always has the moral high ground. Lawful-evil does exist.
I mean, what kind of immoral bastard would let their donkey sit in a bathtub anyway?? https://americanbathfactory.com/blogs/news/crazy-bathtub-laws
Your argument falls though when you start personally benefiting from you pirated media. If you don’t want to support companies don’t watch or use there products and don’t give them your money
I don’t care about the moral high ground. Large corporations can go fuck themselves, seeing as they fuck us every day.
Dude everything on that site was pay for or made you go different apps and pay subscription. Streamio is BS.
Streamio is not for regulars.
I’ll give you a hint- torrentio
Thanks, going to check this out.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
I’m such an apathetic consumer of media nowadays… it’d suck if we all just started going outside again, yknow?
The mall and downtown are dead
That’s fine, the people in the mall were dead to begin with. Just another outlet for zombie consumerism. There are better places outside.
“Guillotine sales soar as citizens band together for lobbying power”
One can dream
What’s the famous quote? Something about how a capitalist will sell you the rope from which you plan to hang them? Something like that?
Kind of lobbying I can get behind.
Laws like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which features overly broad definitions of the platforms it targets and has troubling privacy implications thanks to surveillance requirements, could sweep companies like Netflix or Disney up into its dragnet.
Streaming companies are usually pro-net neutrality, and that’s been a difficult concept for lawmakers and regulators in DC to fully grasp.
For those that read just the headline. Not everything is black and white.
Every now and again, their interests align with the average person.
But make no mistake, the companies forming a coalition like this for one or two good causes won’t make up for the long term damage it will no doubt cause.
It doesn’t matter; they’re controlling media and entertainment and that makes them always bad regardless of any extenuating circumstances.
All of those problems can be solved by breaking apart all of those corporations, putting all modern franchises in the public domain and legalizing pirating. Change the law solely for our benefit and not theirs. If they don’t make content anymore, great; we’ll shut off their shitty AIs and make shit ourselves like we were supposed to be doing the whole time.
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.
Yo ho.
Any port any storm.
Batten down the hatches! KEEP THAT POWDER DRY!
Is good to see the US us finally embracing unions ❤️
