YouTube Decides It Doesn't Want to Be Netflix
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They figured out that you can only viably slice that Netflix pie so many ways. With everyone and their dog starting a streaming service, all they've really done is bring back piracy with a vengeance.
The shows I watch are scattered across like 5+ services and cable, I'm not paying for that, fuck you.
At this point just bring back regular cable.
Worst of all: Newer seasons sometimes take years to get uploaded to a streaming service over here in Europe. It's fine and dandy to watch old episodes of something we have to wait a year or so until it's available on Netflix and Co? Screw that.
As always, piracy is an availability issue, not a monetary one.
I don't know how it is in the rest of Europe, but Amazon Prime in the UK and Ireland seems to be super on top of that and has probably the best streaming content platform I've seen. They got the bulk of the streaming licensing for most American shows anyway. Probably has fucked up the licensing for other platforms since it's not a huge one.