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Yeah. I see this as being a problem. I was curious how it comes into play.

The popularity of a show really needs to be taken into account.

it’s a ridiculous loophole. They are literally saying, “I have this thing that’s so valuable, but I ‘accidentally’ threw it away, it’s worthless now, I need to mark this down as a loss.” They are destroying their own products for tax purposes.

This. ☝

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If this is accurate, then it would make a hell of a lot more sense. But… it sounds like these “residuals” need to be payed out differently because this sucks for consumers and… honestly… I think for those that poured themselves into making the content in the first place.

But imagine Willow to be entirely Disney. I imagine the tax benefit of cutting it is the best answer to my question, but hell… gah

Please no. Even after ripping all my music, I still have a one foot thick ream of CDs that I wish I could part with but my partner would murder me over.

And this is so true. Both the ripping your own content and then the DRM implications of it all. And all so frustrating.

And here I just want to buy things. And keep them. In my preferred format. Forever. The end.

Yes, this is what I was thinking was the matter. And someone else in this thread posted at a guardian link saying something to the same effect. It’s still mind-boggling to me that to save money the answer is to remove everything completely. It feels like these big production companies are failing people and their use of the tax system is furthering that so they can save money. It just seems strange that they have to axe a show from existence to be able to prove it as a loss to the government.

Hot garbage they spent a whole lot of money on that could still be served without ever showing on the main title screens. They clearly had to have made a determination that the show would cost them more to keep it available, even though it doesn’t entirely make sense to me how that all works.

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This makes more sense if true.

This is what I had heard at some point. It’s a tax thing. Even though there are no details, it makes more sense to me now. Reduced value == less taxes. Would love to hear the guts if this… but also at the same time pulling out hair. So much blood, sweat, and tears going into producing something only having it then wiped from existence. smh.

And I hadn’t realized that Westworld was axed too. For a show that made such a huge hubbub and then to remove it entirely?! Ugh

Not physical media again. Haha. We got rid of all our DVDs to trim down on all the…stuff. No more stuffffff.

But it’s that or someone hosts it, which costs money and circle around again…

Indeed.

Btw, was Scrubs removed or the music replaced? I don’t even know where to find it now.

It’s funny you mention monopoly because I was think that as I was posting. I hate monopolies, but in the beginning Netflix was both affordable and had it all. Now, they are all hiking their prices constantly and completely mangling everything.

Ugh. I used to host my own content for years. I stopped for a number of reasons and I just… don’t wanna anymore? Haha. I host and run enough services as it is.

Like so many folks, I can access any show I want at anytime. This includes Willow mentioned above. And yes, we will still watch it. It simply won’t be via Disnley+ now. Thr point is that I want to to pay for these services and then they make these decisions which make it so hard. Agghhhh. 😖

That last point is especially true for so much business these days. Ugh.

Afiak, storage is actually the cheap part whereas bandwidth is the where the cost resides. If a show isn’t watched much, I’m still not certain why it would cost much. And when a company owns the rights, I’m even more confused as to how licensing can be costly. There obviously has to be way more involved with licensing that I am not aware of. And royalties are only paid when content is consumed, right?

And this is why I’m thinking I need to have sit down with my partner. We are streaming several platform and I think it’s time to start cutting back. Perhaps cycling through different services throughout the year.

I miss when it was just all on Netflix. Way too many platforms now…