4 ms·
I, for one, am very excited for the studios (and the younger generation) to re-discover that piracy is an option, too. The near-disappearance of piracy for man
by klausa 3y ago
I, for one, am very excited for the studios (and the younger generation) to re-discover that piracy is an option, too.
The near-disappearance of piracy for many relatively-well-off people happened _because_ it was in many ways cheaper (in terms of time too) to just subscribe to all three streaming services there were out there.
Now, with... fifteen? or so? out there, if there's a _single_ show out there I'm interested in on a platform I'm not paying for, let me tell you, I will not be subscribing to another one.
- res0nat0r 3y agoThis was always going to be the natural outcome. Each company knows that the IP they own is key, and why Netflix started making originals vs. having to constantly pay higher prices everytime Friends was set to be renewed. Now each service wants to own and control their own content and we have just a new version of cable tv that is streaming based, with less commercials, but is going to cost more overall due to lack of ad revenue subsidies.