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>I have bad news for them: you're going to lose. People don't want to go back to paying $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows a

>I have bad news for them: you're going to lose. People don't want to go back to paying $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other "channels" have. No. That's not the correct way to think about this. You are dreaming if you think media and production companies are going to leave $90/mo on the table. You will see prices rise. You will see multiple streaming services. You will see bills in the same ballpark as those of cable/satellite ... because that's about the sweet spot for people willing to spend monthly for media content. >We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. You won't get it. Nobody is going to let anyone control all media distribution. >So I have to pay an addition $7/month to watch a single show? Yeah. Or you can just pass on that single show. >Off to a torrent site or asking around to see if someone has rips or a box set. I have better things to do with $7 like buy dinner. Age of piracy is going to end as well. And by the way, you are free to go and buy dinner and read a book. Nobody needs to watch the latest season of GoT - its not a human right. Talk about entitled!

DrJaws 8y ago
some poeple will just go back to p2p and there is nothing they can do.
- macspoofing 8y ago
  I think you'll find avenues for piracy are going to be limited. Even now piracy isn't quite the same as it used to be.
  - LeoNatan25 8y ago
    Easier than ever to get season packs, rips, remuxes. And that’s downloads. If you want to stream, it’s even easier.
  - freeone3000 8y ago
    You're right, instead of getting a XDCC link from a listserv, you now buy a modded HTPC off Craigslist. It's way easier to pirate things now. People are pirating music. Off youtube. ACCIDENTALLY. To the point where there's an elaborate automated filtering system. It's not even viewed as piracy!
paulie_a 8y ago
Then fuck it, I will pay for some cheap streaming services and pirate the rest.. And pirating content is not going to end ever. If anything it has become easier to do. And lately easier to do than use the legitimate streaming service. I've actually was trying to watch a movie through a paid service this weekend and basically said "fuck it" watched it on a copyright infringing service within 45 seconds. I honestly no longer care about copyright or piracy. I simply will do whatever is easiest. The greed of the entertainment industry has made me not give a shit.
- vlozko 8y ago
  > The greed of the entertainment industry has made me not give a shit. > I will pay for some cheap streaming services and pirate the rest. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the hypocrisy here.
SimbaOnSteroids 8y ago
>Age of piracy is going to end as well. I don't know how to break this to you but as long as there are more than one country there's going to be one that will not hunt down the privateers of the other. >You are dreaming if you think media and production companies are going to leave $90/mo on the table. You will see prices rise. Then so do my sails >Talk about entitled! Not really, I'm willing to pay you something for it, just not the scalpers price you want me to pay to test the waters. If a show is really good I buy it on blueray because I value the show and want more of it/want to reward the quality of the show. If studios weren't greedy and produced objectively garbage content I would buy a product on faith but in a world where there are how many Pirates of the Caribbean movies, I'll be more skeptical.
- macspoofing 8y ago
  >I don't know how to break this to you but as long as there are more than one country there's going to be one that will not hunt down the privateers of the other. Ok. Piracy will be made harder and harder, to the point where it will be inaccessible to mainstream. This also means that the tech savvy pirates will be more exposed. >If studios weren't greedy and produced objectively garbage content I would buy a product on faith but in a world where there are how many Pirates of the Caribbean movies, I'll be more skeptical. That entire paragraph is weirdly nonsensical. You don't have an ineliable right to watch movies, you aren't the universal judge of movie quality (lots of people like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies), and you aren't entitled to dictate how you want the business of media to operate (i.e. you get to pick how much or how little you pay). It's one thing to pirate, it's another to think you're a 'good guy'.
  - jacoblambda 8y ago
    I'd like to hear how you think piracy will be made more difficult. I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I am just curious as I have only seen the piracy community grow in recent years.
    - Crespyl 8y ago
      It's not so much that the act of fetching and viewing pirated content will become more difficult, it's that rightsholders will continue to apply more and more restrictive techniques and outright deny content to paying customers. See the new DRM features in Windows 10 and the way the Windows Store version of Netflix interacts with perfectly legitimate screenshot tools, or the way Netflix simply refuses to provide 4k content to any other platform.

DrJaws 8y ago

some poeple will just go back to p2p and there is nothing they can do.

macspoofing 8y ago
I think you'll find avenues for piracy are going to be limited. Even now piracy isn't quite the same as it used to be.
- LeoNatan25 8y ago
  Easier than ever to get season packs, rips, remuxes. And that’s downloads. If you want to stream, it’s even easier.
- freeone3000 8y ago
  You're right, instead of getting a XDCC link from a listserv, you now buy a modded HTPC off Craigslist. It's way easier to pirate things now. People are pirating music. Off youtube. ACCIDENTALLY. To the point where there's an elaborate automated filtering system. It's not even viewed as piracy!

paulie_a 8y ago

Then fuck it, I will pay for some cheap streaming services and pirate the rest.. And pirating content is not going to end ever. If anything it has become easier to do. And lately easier to do than use the legitimate streaming service. I've actually was trying to watch a movie through a paid service this weekend and basically said "fuck it" watched it on a copyright infringing service within 45 seconds. I honestly no longer care about copyright or piracy. I simply will do whatever is easiest. The greed of the entertainment industry has made me not give a shit.

vlozko 8y ago
> The greed of the entertainment industry has made me not give a shit. > I will pay for some cheap streaming services and pirate the rest. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the hypocrisy here.

SimbaOnSteroids 8y ago

>Age of piracy is going to end as well. I don't know how to break this to you but as long as there are more than one country there's going to be one that will not hunt down the privateers of the other. >You are dreaming if you think media and production companies are going to leave $90/mo on the table. You will see prices rise. Then so do my sails >Talk about entitled! Not really, I'm willing to pay you something for it, just not the scalpers price you want me to pay to test the waters. If a show is really good I buy it on blueray because I value the show and want more of it/want to reward the quality of the show. If studios weren't greedy and produced objectively garbage content I would buy a product on faith but in a world where there are how many Pirates of the Caribbean movies, I'll be more skeptical.

macspoofing 8y ago
>I don't know how to break this to you but as long as there are more than one country there's going to be one that will not hunt down the privateers of the other. Ok. Piracy will be made harder and harder, to the point where it will be inaccessible to mainstream. This also means that the tech savvy pirates will be more exposed. >If studios weren't greedy and produced objectively garbage content I would buy a product on faith but in a world where there are how many Pirates of the Caribbean movies, I'll be more skeptical. That entire paragraph is weirdly nonsensical. You don't have an ineliable right to watch movies, you aren't the universal judge of movie quality (lots of people like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies), and you aren't entitled to dictate how you want the business of media to operate (i.e. you get to pick how much or how little you pay). It's one thing to pirate, it's another to think you're a 'good guy'.
- jacoblambda 8y ago
  I'd like to hear how you think piracy will be made more difficult. I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I am just curious as I have only seen the piracy community grow in recent years.
  - Crespyl 8y ago
    It's not so much that the act of fetching and viewing pirated content will become more difficult, it's that rightsholders will continue to apply more and more restrictive techniques and outright deny content to paying customers. See the new DRM features in Windows 10 and the way the Windows Store version of Netflix interacts with perfectly legitimate screenshot tools, or the way Netflix simply refuses to provide 4k content to any other platform.