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Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices (finance.yahoo.com)
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Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn't easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of your monthly plan is likely to keep rising.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am actually curious. We like to laugh at the obviously anti-consumer practices these streaming services are pushing, saying they'll end up losing their customers to piracy, but the point of the article is to illustrate that just isn't happening and most people will suck it up and pay more for less. Look at how much Netflix gained by killing off password sharing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, but the point is that at each level of abuse they impose to their customers, more and more will leave for piracy, and you don't need to go far. A jailbroken firestick with plex installed and a friend who is technically savy and has his own plex server when one can see a bunch of movies (not to mention the free ones on plex)