Anon gives a piracy history lesson (lemmy.nz)

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[-] Godort@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 hour ago

The order here is a little wrong, but it's mostly correct.

Production houses started to see Netflix raking in cash hand over fist and decided that they could do that too and started pulling their shows.

This made Netflix need to pivot hard into in-house content in order to not look like a barren wasteland.

[-] OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I watched so much scifi on Netflix back in the day. It was really an end of an era moment when they lost Star Trek and Stargate.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 1 points 36 minutes ago

Yeah I was about 5 seasons into stargate when it left. Later added it to Jellyfin, ezpz. You can go pretty far with a library card, or a vpn, or Usenet, or…

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