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Piracy would not be an issue in other countries if these countries too had access to Netflix, Hulu, Crackle (Sony stuff), TV.com, CBSnews.com/video and the othe

Piracy would not be an issue in other countries if these countries too had access to Netflix, Hulu, Crackle (Sony stuff), TV.com, CBSnews.com/video and the others. Though there is justin.tv and youtube, but both are not marketed and cant be marketed as a place to watch copyrighted material.

watty 15y ago
It may not be as large of an issue but it would still be an issue. I know several people who no longer rent movies due to how easy it is to pirate and watch (before it even comes out on DVD).
- choko 15y ago
  I know a ton of people that used to pirate, but since netflix and hulu became fairly decent, do not anymore. Most people don't want to pirate, but do so when there is no reasonable alternative. Yes, you will always have people that pirate. A lot of them do it for no good reason too. I know one such person that has gigs and gigs of movies he has never watched and will never watch. I think a lot of those people wouldn't have paid even if there were no alternative.
  - cabalamat 15y ago
    > Yes, you will always have people that pirate. A lot of them do it for no good reason too. I know one such person that has gigs and gigs of movies he has never watched and will never watch. Sounds like that person was motivated by as compulsive desire to collect things rather than a desire to watch movies.
    - JonnieCache 15y ago
      Progress bars are a cheap dopamine hit.
      - Blarat 15y ago
        http://progressquest.com/ http://progressquest.com/ maybe this should be a better "hit" than pirating then :P
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    - paul9290 15y ago
      I know i use to horde media for the purpose of hording I guess. I would just have to have the latest media released on sharereator.com and suprnova.org(dating my downloading habits to circa 2002-2006). Overall all that crap I collected most I never watched and it ended up getting hosed from the various hard drives stored on. Even had them backed up on multiple hard drives, yet I don't know why? A year or so ago I saw an episode of The Office on Hulu where the character Andy was like Im cool I got the latest movies in the theatre right here on my computer. You will like me and think I am cool because of this please watch with me. Yeah I am cool! Thankfully years later Im no longer Andy ... are you?
  - ChrisMac 15y ago
    Yeah that's me. An insignificant monthly cost to watch movies from the comfort of my couch, all with a handy recommendation system to turn me on to things I never would have found otherwise vs. the comparative hassle of having to hunt around streaming sites, or waiting for giant downloads to complete.
stephen_g 15y ago
I agree... I'm Australian and can't access any of them, and even some things on YouTube come up with a message telling me "This content can't be viewed in your country". If we had access to these sites, and/or they brought shows out on TV here within a few days of the US release, then there would be a many times less unauthorised viewing. A good example of how bad it can be is NBC's Chuck, which is a great show. The fourth season just ended a couple of weeks ago in the US - but as far as I know not one episode has been on free-to-air here. They did start showing the first season of it on cable about when the third season aired in the US (about a year and a half late) if I remember correctly...

watty 15y ago

It may not be as large of an issue but it would still be an issue. I know several people who no longer rent movies due to how easy it is to pirate and watch (before it even comes out on DVD).

choko 15y ago
I know a ton of people that used to pirate, but since netflix and hulu became fairly decent, do not anymore. Most people don't want to pirate, but do so when there is no reasonable alternative. Yes, you will always have people that pirate. A lot of them do it for no good reason too. I know one such person that has gigs and gigs of movies he has never watched and will never watch. I think a lot of those people wouldn't have paid even if there were no alternative.
- cabalamat 15y ago
  > Yes, you will always have people that pirate. A lot of them do it for no good reason too. I know one such person that has gigs and gigs of movies he has never watched and will never watch. Sounds like that person was motivated by as compulsive desire to collect things rather than a desire to watch movies.
  - JonnieCache 15y ago
    Progress bars are a cheap dopamine hit.
    - Blarat 15y ago
      http://progressquest.com/ http://progressquest.com/ maybe this should be a better "hit" than pirating then :P
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  - paul9290 15y ago
    I know i use to horde media for the purpose of hording I guess. I would just have to have the latest media released on sharereator.com and suprnova.org(dating my downloading habits to circa 2002-2006). Overall all that crap I collected most I never watched and it ended up getting hosed from the various hard drives stored on. Even had them backed up on multiple hard drives, yet I don't know why? A year or so ago I saw an episode of The Office on Hulu where the character Andy was like Im cool I got the latest movies in the theatre right here on my computer. You will like me and think I am cool because of this please watch with me. Yeah I am cool! Thankfully years later Im no longer Andy ... are you?
- ChrisMac 15y ago
  Yeah that's me. An insignificant monthly cost to watch movies from the comfort of my couch, all with a handy recommendation system to turn me on to things I never would have found otherwise vs. the comparative hassle of having to hunt around streaming sites, or waiting for giant downloads to complete.

stephen_g 15y ago

I agree... I'm Australian and can't access any of them, and even some things on YouTube come up with a message telling me "This content can't be viewed in your country". If we had access to these sites, and/or they brought shows out on TV here within a few days of the US release, then there would be a many times less unauthorised viewing. A good example of how bad it can be is NBC's Chuck, which is a great show. The fourth season just ended a couple of weeks ago in the US - but as far as I know not one episode has been on free-to-air here. They did start showing the first season of it on cable about when the third season aired in the US (about a year and a half late) if I remember correctly...