I think Cottle means all the engineers at Meta have good intentions and I believe him. Its not the engineers whom I doubt its the managers, MBAs and CEOs I don’t trust.

True I start a new movie or a series but can’t see it past a few minutes.

I forgot to add

14. Removing content when it is not making enough money.
15. Ads

The article wonders why would anyone pirate, let us give him the reason:

1. Ads
2. Multiple streaming services costing many times more than food. With nothing to see except for re runs and rehashes of old content.
3. Ads
4. Rising prices for poor service and shit content.
5. Ads
6. Geoblocking
7. Ads
8. Low quality videos even if you are willing to pay just because you don’t wish to use their specified player or browser. Why can’t I stream it to VLC player without the overhead of a browser.
9. Ads
10. All the while the CEO and the executive of the companies raking in billions on the money they are saying charging us for the artists.

Stock market is dependent on news rather than actual business. Good news is difficult to develop and requires actual work to be done.

Bad news travels faster, produces definite effects and gains immediate response and profit.

What’s the worst that could happen, a company would go under. The vultures have already eaten their share and have made a killing in the death of the company.

Who cares about the losers the consumers and the workers.

The only good thing one can hope is for increased support for open source alternatives which are just there but not good enough for production.

If you have seen three Stooges, that is what LTT videos are for me. No other value other than entertainment.

But after the thread by Madison it is getting difficult to support them for even that.

Well they said let good people leave the company and then the company to go to hell.