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CamouflagedKiwitoday at 2:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

I don't know. I never really had a sensible option to watch Game of Thrones legally, it's a little late for that now but presumably this would mean it's on Netflix which would be significantly better for me. (I guess useful for House of the Dragon now). I don't think I care much about the upcoming Harry Potter show but if I did want to watch that, I'm not sure what my options would be, and Netflix seems better than me having to take out _another_ subscription.

Obviously having one monopoly streaming service would be bad, but in the meantime having more of them is also not great for consumers since they each charge a flat fee so you have to pay more to see shows from different studios. The ideal would be something more akin to music streaming where you can more or less pick a provider these days, but video streaming doesn't seem to be moving there in any hurry.


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2muchcoffeemantoday at 2:47 PM

Just have one subscription at a time and then pirate the rest of it.

They all had their chance. They blew it.

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Arainachtoday at 2:19 PM

Far better for consumers to be able to binge Game of Thrones/Silicon Valley/whatever and cancel HBO Max than to have to pay twice as much for a subscription to both libraries to get either.

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skywhoppertoday at 2:23 PM

lol at the idea that Netflix would ever produce something as high-quality as GoT or HotD. Those days will soon be over.

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