[jforberg]

Spotify did it right; they managed to put together a service that is actually better than piracy in the ways that matter to a typical consumer.

The movie and TV industry have instead put great effort into building services that are significantly worse than piracy.

And nobody can understand why movie piracy is still rampant, while music piracy is receding.

[anonoholic]

It's not as if Netflix isn't trying, it's just that the movie industry as a whole is determined not to cooperate.

Can you imagine a music industry where, in order to listen to new releases, you are required to go to "listening parlours", or wait for radio, CD, streaming release|?

[cptskippy]

Honestly I feel like Netflix has given up and just joined the crowd. As they lose non-original content they're slowly morphing into a cable channel like Bravo.

They no longer listen to customer feedback. Their categorization and search get worse by the day. They refuse to add an option to disable the autoplay previews that no one likes.

That'd all be ok, albeit disappointing, if they were still charging $8 a month. But they keep raising prices like Comcast or AT&T each year while the quality declines or stagnates.

[ludston]

It's pretty typical that bands will perform a peice in concerts before creating a recording so yes.

You aren't wrong though.

[Nition]

There still isn't a movie streaming service with as much selection as an old video store. Meanwhile Spotify has just about everything.

[pmtarantino]

The problem for me isn't the old ones - is the new ones. I want to see the new movies at my house. Yeah, there are films that I'd like to see at the cinema, but those are less than 5 per year. But if I could pay to watch a new film in the comfort of my home, I'd do it. As I can't, I'll probably download it for free.

[docbrown]

Criterion’s streaming service covers this pretty well. Kanopy — if you have access via your local library — also has a large selection of lesser-known and older films.

[task_queue]

> Spotify did it right; they managed to put together a service that is actually better than piracy in the ways that matter to a typical consumer.

I disagree. As a listener, Bandcamp and Soundcloud fulfill my needs better. Artists are more willing to put their work on those services than they are with Spotify, and it's entirely understandable. With Bandcamp, there is a link to buy albums at their asking price while listening. Spotify listens will pay out fractions of a penny. The result is that other platforms will have new music that suits my tastes, and I will be lucky if rights holders will put the same content on Spotify within the next 5 years.

[nixpulvis]

NO, Spotify is a radio service with 0 promise to save your music over time. I use streaming services and have been hit by this issue frequently. It's tragic.

Now I'm stuck paying for all the music I've been paying for again. Or something else...

[lagadu]

I disagree with your second assertion: if the streaming services go bad, the alternative isn't paying for all the music you've been paying for again; the alternative is pirating it all of it for free.

That's the beauty of the services: they have to compete with free and to do that they have to provide a superior enough experience to the user. If that ends, the music industry is the loser.

[chrischen]

You mean by making it free?