I don't like monopolies, but I also don't like the inconvenience and cost of dealing with more than one streaming provider.
I want a unified, customizable interface where I can queue and watch stuff from any provider, and which automatically takes my fee and splits it up between those providers based on how much of each I've watched that month. Like federation, but with payment distribution.
@eishiya this is how spotify works (mostly), so there is no technical reason why we shouldn’t be able to have this for films/series
@szbalint That's what Netflix was, but then publishers decided to make their content exclusive to their own services instead.
I guess Netflix's licensing was done differently though, perhaps if Netflix explicitly paid based on relative view numbers (especially if per-account rather than aggregate) instead of a fixed amount based on perceived value at the time of renewal, other companies would be more on board.
Spotify and Netflix are centralized though, I'd prefer less of that xP
