It's a sad reality that streaming services are deleting original films from platforms - here's everything that's disappeared from Disney+.

It’s a sad reality that streaming services are deleting original films from platforms - here’s everything that’s disappeared from Disney+

It’s too long to abbreviate here. It’s quite surprising what they’ve deleted.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Narco Wars is available on ABC or whatnot. All the services are basically treating licenses like trading cards

    disney fucking OWNS ABC. there’s no fucking excuse for this, it’s not like netflix having to let go of certain things when the shitty licencing agreement ends.

    source : worked on streaming video site, our services were worse than porn sites because of the shitty licencing deals

    • _bcron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      I’m not saying there’s an excuse for this, I’m just pointing out that these services are encouraged to do this. You notice a show you like isn’t on Disney+ so you get a subscription to some other service Disney owns in order to watch it, and maybe it dawns on you 18 months later that you never cancelled that other one, and Disney effectively made something like 120 bucks off of one show when the box set probably costs a third of that. And by that time they’d probably have traded the rights to Amazon in exchange for Fallout.

      Buy the box sets or set sail on the high seas, fuck these guys

        • _bcron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          For real. If you’re mostly into watching series and stuff I highly recommend box sets and highly recommend thrifting. I usually scout out thrift stores in upper middle class places, check how many fondue fountains are in that thrift store, and if there are a decent amount of fondue fountains I know it probably gets good shit dropped off at the regular as duds from estate sales and I add that to my roaming grounds. The ratio of fondue fountains somehow correlates really really well to the quantity of unopened box sets (also really good art, but that’s a different subject, look behind it and see if it has tags from getting cleaned or reframed, that’s a good painting)

          Edit: my latest great haul was 2 weeks back, 2 marble lamps with original shades for 80 bucks. Retailed 600 bucks new each, trust me on the fondue fountains lol