there are some things happening, that made me think about...property and ownership.
first. hbo basically deleting all of their looney tunes related content for no real reason. and then announcing new movies with the looney tunes for 2026 (maybe they need to evade more taxes like they did by canning the coyote movie until they were able to sell it to actually get profit from a tax evasion scheme.)
second. the ps store's constant hackings (when it something happens more than once, it's a constant, even if it happens only twice) basically blocking the access to the store, and the games you paid for.
third. nintendo removing games from their virtual console library...just because, i mean, HOW MUCH SPACE CAN FREAKIN SUPER TENNIS OCCUPY ON A SERVER???
then came some questions:
what about the people that got into hbo max and paid their monthly fee...JUST TO WATCH THE LOONEY TUNES SHORT ON DECENT QUALITY?
what about ps4/ps5 owners who own digital only games...AND CANT PLAY THEIR GAMES CUS THE PLATFORM IS DOWN BECUAE A RUSSIAN HACKER JUST WANTED TO HAVE SOME FUN FOR THE LOLZ?
what about the people who REALLY ENJOYED SUPER TENNIS? yes, there are fans of those games, all games have fans.
they paid their monthly fee, and all of a sudden, the content they enjoyed, sometimes enjoyed the most, is simply gone, or unable to access to...is that the future? TO HAVE ALL AND OWN NOTHING?
and let's not forget some amazing moments like:
ROCKSTAR DELETING THE ORIGINAL VERSIONS OF THEIR GTA GAMES TO FORCE PEOPLE TO BUY THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION...YOU KNOW, THAT DEFINITIVE PIECE OF SHIT THAT even today looks like wet ass and plays barely ok? YES, THEY BROUGHT BACK THE OLD GAMES...but only because of the backlash. not because they realized they made a mistake.
anyways, my point is... ARE NETFLIX, HBO, SPOTIFY, DISNEY PLUS and all those streaming service really providing a good service? i mean...you may end paying up to 100$ a month if you own all those platforms, if we include paramount, Hulu and so on, so on... are those 100$ a month, worth NOT BEING ABLE TO WATCH ANY MOVIE OR SERIES, WHEN YOU WANT TO, WHERE YOU WANT IF YOU DONT HAVE INTERNET ACCESS? EVEN IF YOU ARE PAYING FOR THE SERVICE?
is it ok that you pay for Disney plus, and then THEY DECIDE WHICH EPISODES OF BLUEY OR THE SIMPSONS YOU ARE ABLE TO WATCH BECAUSE THEY BASICALLY CENSOR CONTENT? is it ok to pay...for censored or deleted content?
is it ok that the money we invest, as users of these platforms, is used to make TERRIBLE MOVIES AND SERIES WITH LOADS OF POLITICAL AND UNPOPULAR THINGS LIKE RACE SWIPE AND GENDER CHANGE OF CHARACTERS. and remakes of series and movies we never asked for? WE PAID NETFLIX TO MAKE THE COWBOY BEOP LIVE ACTION SERIES, WE PAY THEM TO MAKE RED ONE, DEATH NOTE LIVE ACTION, ONE PIECE LIVE ACTION...these guys found a way to make us pay...FOR MEDIA WE DONT WANT OR LIKE.
and the, it hit me. STREAMING SERVICES USE THE SAME BUSINESS MODEL AS DRUG CARTELS. STREAMING PLATFORMS ARE ENTERTAINMENT CARTELS. lemme explain.
a drug dealer gives you the first dose for free, NETFLIX GIVES YOU THE FIRST MONTH FOR FREE
once you are hooked and addicted, the drug dealer is able to raise prices for the same stuff, or even lower quality stuff, NETFLIX RISES PRICES ANYTIME THEY WANT, AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE NEW OFFERS, IF YOU THINK YOU ARE GETTING 4K OR ACTUAL HDR CONTENT FROM NETFLIX, THEN YOU ARE KINDA DUMB, MY FRIEND. make a simple test, play a 4k Blu-ray movie on a player, and then watch that same movie on 4k via netflix, NIGHT AND DAY DIFFERENCE. THEY ARE SELLING YOU POORLY UPSCALED 4K AS HDR...and you pay for it, cus they are sure you are too hooked to quit. the same way a drug dealer is sure he has a junkie hooked and addicted.
but hey, it's not like you can...you know, GO AND BUY PHYSICAL MEDIA, GAMES AND MOVIES, IT'S NOT LIKE THEY ARE SUPER CHEAP ONLINE, AND I MEAN, RIDICULOUSLY CHEAP. as for a player. dude, A PS3 IS ONE OF THE BEST BLURAY PLAYERS EVER MADE. and every console with a Blu-ray unit today, can read 4k Blu-ray with ease. at least i think they can. also, Blu-ray players are cheap as well.
and, before you use the WARNER BROTHERS DVD ROT, DISCS GET SCRATCHED AND DAMAGED bs, first...you have to be a very caveman mindset person to treat a Blu-ray disc not as delicately as you must, i mean, come on, EVEN CDS WERE MORE DELICATE and can be saved with tooth paste (the only real method) also...you can take all those movies and series on DVD and Blu-ray WHICH BELONG TO YOU AND YOU OWN AND CAN WATCH WITHOUT INTERNET and back them up on an external drive, or even pen drives! so, you can preserve the original discs and watch the content on any platform with an usb port. and the best part is...
YOU CHOOSE THE CONTENT YOU WATCH, YOU CHOOSE THE CONTENT YOU WATCH!
streaming services do not give a flying rat's ass if you enjoy the movies or series they choose to share with you, THEY WANT YOUR ADDCITION, THEY WANT YOU HOOKED, NOT ENTERTAINED.
are streaming services a bad idea? NO, THEY ARE NOT, THEY ARE ACTUALLY VERY GOOD, WHEN USED PROPERLY. i could mention tubi. it's free, yes, it has ads on android, and needs vpn to watch out of united states, but man, their catalogue is so my cup of tea. and the quality is not 4k...but at least they don't make you pay to make you believe it's 4k, when it actually is barely and poorly upscaled hd.
WHAT'S THE POINT FOR PAYING MONTHLY FOR THOUSANDS OF SERIES AND MOVIES, OR GAMES, when you actually watch the same movies you love, the same series you love, and play the same games you love? we don't need those huge catalogues, thousands and thousands of movies and series we will never watch, and games we will never play, and music we will never listen to. i had a collections of over 1000 DVDs in Venezuela, movies, series, anime. i had over 400 cd's the music i loved. and they were mine, I ENJOYED THEM WHEN I WANTED TO.
and that's the main point of this text wall of a rant, WE LOST PROPERTY OF THE THINGS WE PAY FOR. WE DONT OWN OUR GAMES ON STEAM, OR PSN, we don't own the music we pay for on spotify, we don't own the movies and series we pay for in netflix or hbo...WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT, BUT WE OWN NONE OF THEM, streaming services made us forget the concept of property...and last time i checked, WHEN ONE SINGLE ENTITY CONTROLS THE ACCESS TO MEDIA AND TELLS YOU WHAT YOU CAN WATCH, OR WHEN AND HOW YOU CAN WATCH IT...yeah, that's basically authoritarian mindset...the way streaming services own and control us by administrating the daily doses of dopamine we can consume is Orwellian in nature and scary in hindsight.
we need to recover property. we need to own what we pay for, we need to re-learn the meaning of the phrase MY MONEY, MY OWN.
sorry if this rant took so long, and god bless you for actually reading it, and since i know the subject is tricky, PLEASE, IF YOU MUST COMMENT, DO IT ON A POLITE AND MATURE FASHION, i have zero tolerance to non polite arguing. and i will exercise the proper measures lack of maturity in commenting carry on. I WILL REPPLY TO PROPER CONVERSATION AND CRITIQUE. so, feel free. that's what the comment box is for :)
