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If anything these media companies should all have learned the obvious lesson from the last 10 years. The lesson that Gabe Newell put so succinctly years and yea
by Oddskar 5y ago
If anything these media companies should all have learned the obvious lesson from the last 10 years. The lesson that Gabe Newell put so succinctly years and years ago:
"Piracy is not a pricing issue, it's a service problem."
And yet they keep making this mistake over and over again. They have to make it convenient. Because what they're really competing against is a ~3 USD/month VPN subscription that lets me watch anything I want in HD quality.
- iso1210 5y agoIn the 90s in the UK we couldn't watch DS9 at the same time as the US. The Season 7 finale was June 1999 for example, but the earliest we could watch in the UK was November, by buying the episodes on tape. After that they came out on Sky ("cable tv"), and eventually reached normal TV about 4 years later. I bought the entire of season 7 and most of season 6, at the (inflation adjusted) price of $16 per episode, or about $400 per season. I have no problem with paying, but Paramount don't want my money. As such I watched Discovery Season 4 Episode 1 thanks to piratebay, which meant having to work out how to watch that on my TV. That minor hurdle has now been surpassed, lowering the barrier to acquiring any episode or film without cost.
- dan_hawkins 5y agoAppleTV + VLC. VLC can access network shares (NAS, computers, etc.)