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ViacomCBS pulls Discovery from Netflix
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I've just been reading that ViacomCBS has pulled Discovery from Netflix just days before season 4 launched. It will now only be available on Paramount+ which won't even be available in many countries including the UK until next year, and even then we'll have to subscribe to yet another streaming service to see it. I am irked. Not so much because of Discovery (although also because of that) but because I'm expecting the same thing to happen with Brave New Worlds and possibly other shows like Lower Decks or Prodigy. I've got quite enough streaming subscriptions as it is and I'm not too keen on taking out any more. Is there anything else even on P+ to make it worth the money?
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I don't pay too much attention to who makes the shows. Is there anything in particular on there you would recommend?
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And they paid quite a sum on money to Netflix to do so as they want to grow their own international arm for their streaming platform.
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I guess we're back to the 90s-2000s era where we have a lot of channels to pay for and international audiences still have to wait anyway. It's just on Internet now and you have to pay for each channel individually and either install something or have multiple accounts.
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All these production houses wanting their own streaming services is going to only end when enough of us decide we aren't going to allow it. If I have to draw the line somewhere... drawing it on not subbing to some service for discovery is acceptable to me. (oh man that was /discohate level 0.5 I tried)
And you still have to wait half a year between a season ending and it being available on DvD/Blu-ray...you'd think with everything being digital now, that would take far less time.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
I've always known this would be how things went when people first started "cord cutting". People have always complained about the cost of cable TV, but the primary reason for the price is because of how much the networks charge to carry their channels. Networks still want their money, so it's only natural that they've all invested in creating their own separate streaming services.
I do think pulling Disco at the last minute was a horrible decision though, I doubt international fans are going to wait so they'll either be pirating it, or if CBS is lucky they'll instead choose to use a VPN and sign up for the American version of Paramount+ for now. They should have waited until they had the international version of the service up and running before buying out the Netflix contract.
They do that for the same reason that Microsoft is only allowing one interpretation of the TPM 2.0 standard (a lot of the machines people own will not be able to run Win11 due to having a different kind of TMP 2.0) and that is that it gives the companies the maximum amount of control over what you can and cannot do with your machine when you run their proprietary IP content. If it was just for system security and stopping malicious software then any version of it would do.
Their goal is to make it impossible to pirate anything by putting their software in charge, and even to sneakily deny the user any chance to actually exercise the legitimate fair use rights that media companies tried (and failed) to eliminate from a legal standpoint.
In the case of Paramount+, they seem to be convinced that they are being swindled out of a large revenue stream by people using VPNs (another thing that those companies want to outlaw or otherwise destroy) to watch the Netflix hosted episodes instead of paying for the CBS hosted domestic stream. That is in addition to their trying to expand into other markets (and I still think the "Netflix exploit" thing is BS, though they might actually be believing their own rhetoric).
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#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
But that's probably some fiscal-quarter thing, if they don't get the subs in the first 3 months on release, then someone won't recieve their bonuses.
Last time I checked Canada is part of the Globe.
I believe it's because CBS values the alliance its forged with Bell far, far too much. Bell owns Pinewood Studios were Discovery shot. Plus Bell is stupidly powerful up here in Canada (it's a bigger company then CBS), you don't want to TRIBBLE Bell off, they own key bureaucrats and politicians here.
The next episode of Prodigy is on the 6th of January as well. I think that's what I'm most looking forward to :-)
Hmmm, that is odd, I heard CBS spent money to build their own independent studio, still need the labor, but they wanted to their own. How did Bell get, wait---did they partner up on the cost?
When S-T-D was on Netflix...the US side ended their contract at the end of Season 2, the international venue carried on with Season 3.
CBS has the old Desilu studios (which were called the RKO Pictures studios before that) which was bought out by Gulf+Western and renamed "Paramount TV" (as opposed to Paramount movie division which have their own studios called "Paramount Pictures"). CBS-Viacom also has several more in LA and one in New York, but none of them actually make DSC.
While CBS Television Studios is in technically in charge, that is only on paper. For production they subcontract it to Secret Hideout Productions entirely and they do not use any of the CBS-owned studios for that. Instead, they use Pinewood Toronto Studios.
Sorry, I meant the studios in Canada, by the second season they were moving out the production to a new location. It was to cut down costs, despite the fact Kurtzman went on a spending spree and bought a lot of studio space for several years of use from 'Pinewood'. (Instead, he has sublet them now to other companies) CBS was not happy with that.