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Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy (www.abc.net.au)
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[โ€“] David_Eight@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it though?

[โ€“] Hycer@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Not really. That's a different media and format. (But before you say that you can technically stream it on DirectTV too, that's owned by AT&T, who also owns HBO)

But sure, I'll accept that Westworld wasn't a great example for my analogy since I was only considering streaming. A better example might be Final Space Season 3. The third season never got a physical media release (any you find are homemade copies) and the entire series is unstreamable (save for s2e1 on Amazon prime for purchase....for some reason).

This is going to be a growing trend. If they ever decide to pull streaming rights for Barry s2-4 or Stranger Things S3-4, they also don't have physical media available currently.