But then they'd have to compete on features and usability, and no company wants that. They prefer to set up roadblocks and extract tolls.

Back in the days there was a law that movie studios couldn’t also have movie theaters to avoid this specific issue. Now they found the loophole.

I think we should make publisher/distributer combos illegal, that'll solve the problem real quick.

Want to run a streaming platform? Great, you just can't be a publisher too

Want to make/publish content? Great, you just can't run your own streaming platform

It's how it used to work for the longest time until Comcrap bought TW (Or was it TW buying Comcrap?)

Woah there! Having the privilege to choose a streaming service that has a show you want. Those are some bold assumptions. We over here at anime land have former illegal streaming services with exclusive global licenses, even though they only operate nationally. Pirates overseas can't watch their favorite anime of the season legally. They must either use a VPN to pay for a service that'll ban them for VPN usage, or pirate the anime.

And pretty much none of the services are the better product.

isn't about choosing the better product, but on which shows you have.

But you can argue that part of what makes a streaming service a good product, is the literal product they produce, their content.

they actually do produce some good content it's just rare sadly and it's getting more rare

What do you mean, they have lots of good shows that get cancelled after one season with the story on a cliff hanger

Like the other replies said, it's Viaplay. I don't know about other countries but it's fairly common here in Sweden.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaplay

I had no idea either, had to look it up through image search.

Viaplay. In my country (the Netherlands) the only reason anyone's heard of them (AFAIK) is that they have the rights to broadcast Formula 1 races here so they get a lot of signups at the start of the racing season, and a lot of cancellations at the end of that season.

I use to not pay for anything, that's how I was raised, then I learnt why, so fuck em a pirate's life for me too.

It's okay. I didn't want to watch Infinity Train again anyway. 😭

Same, never betray those who are always on your side

These media can be found, yarrrr

Step 1: Get a reputable VPN.

Step 2: Install uBlock Origin.

I spent years building a 20tb media archive. I got paranoid I might get caught so I turned my back up drives into encrypted Veracrypt volumes. Before I had a chance to transfer my stuff to them my piece of crap QNAP NAS died and I couldn't decrypt their proprietary RAID encryption.

Go open source kids!

I did it just because my wife and I are brats. We didn't want to rely on Netflix's whims to carry our content of choice, so now we have all of it on our server.