nostr:npub15zu89j2k6sja8qgcs5qdu2pfra5kemhlgeern2cpcw2svkuvkudqu3s7lx You know, the whole "promise" of streaming was that it would generate payments that properly rewarded individual artists for exactly the amount of streams they generated (even if it was only one) but, instead, because they're often owned by Big Entertainment they funnel all the money back to Big Entertainment. The ultra wealthy will never let the rest of us be free or even get access to the money we're generating that they scoop up while burying us. 

In the case of streaming videos, Big Entertainment tried to break writers and actors then, when Big Entertainment finally had to acknowledge they need writers and settle, they started with "cost cutting" and taking their revenge on all the workers in the entertainment industry. They pretend it's about "share price" and so on but they're not cutting any massive CEOs salaries (and the CEO is likely doing this because the only thing he's interested in is making his bonus by providing the illusion of profitability).

My big hope is that we'll see a rise of independent production houses who actually care about movies (be they trashy ones or high art). We deserve better movies than Big Entertainment wants to give us. We deserve niche movies, strange movies, local movies, etc as well as "blockbusters."