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>They made it difficult to buy their products and a lot easier to pirate. And now they're the ones paying for it. Historically, yes, but this has changed, hasn
by bduerst 11y ago
>They made it difficult to buy their products and a lot easier to pirate. And now they're the ones paying for it.
Historically, yes, but this has changed, hasn't it?
You can typically purchase or rent a major movie through a variety of streaming-capable channels and mediums. I just rented Room on Google play and streamed to my TV over the weekend. If I bought it, I could download it to my devices for offline viewing.
- jameslk 11y agoYes the industry has started to catch up, but they're still playing games that keeps piracy relevant. For example, unless I'm not aware, movies that are still in theater or shortly after still are unavailable to stream. Yet they're usually available on torrent sites. Another example is content filtering by region.
- belorn 11y agoIf you live in the US, then some of the channels are getting close to be more convenient than go to a website designed in early 2000, figure out which link has the content, download a program that handle BitTorrent protocol, install it, wait for the content to download, figure out how to make a player play it, and then watch it. If you don't live in the US, the typical case is instead to go to the store and look in the bin and hope to find something from two years ago, or go to the cinema and chose one of the 10 shows available this month. The streaming services has something like 1/10 of the lists available in the US, if they offer anything at all.