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Movies and TV need a Steam alternative. I used to steal every single game I played. Even games that had online play, I would play on cracked servers. These da
by shocks 14y ago
Movies and TV need a Steam alternative.
I used to steal every single game I played. Even games that had online play, I would play on cracked servers.
These days I buy every single game on Steam, and if it's not on Steam I still buy it on Play.com. Steam is easy, fast, convenient, and simple. Games are one click away. My Steam account contains over £2,000 worth of games.
It's easier than stealing.
- ericcholis 14y ago"It's easier than stealing" is practically the Steam business model. This is also why iTunes and similar services "won" the music piracy race. Not to say that music piracy is gone, but it's been largely dwindled due to the low barrier of entry for obtaining music.
- danieldk 14y agoActually, iTunes and the Apple TV did this for me for movies. At some point I started downloading movies from Usenet, for various reasons: - Annoying unskippable 'don't copy this disc' messages. - Movies are sometimes not available at the local rental or retailer. - High prices of Blu-Rays. - Downloading is legal in my home country. - Downloading from Usenet was less effort. iTunes solved most of these issues, and made it easy to 'impulse rent' movies. Nowadays, we just rent movies via iTunes, since it is less effort than verifying/extracting/converting movies and finding subtitles. Also, it feeds the makers.
- TobbenTM 14y agoThis may work for people with Apple products and/or people in the US. For us in (Northern) Europe this is not good enough. (Yet)
- danieldk 14y agoWhy not? Renting movies via the iTunes store works fine here in The Netherlands... Haven't they added most European countries by now?
- motdiem 14y agoin France, the iTunes selection is pretty poor if you're looking for English content with subtitles. Most of the catalog is available dubbed in French - which is a pity, especially for TV Shows where dubbing is really poor.
- MrKurtHaeusler 14y agoIt's useless in Germany. It is just the same overdubbed stuff you can see on TV, several months too late.
- speleding 14y agoThe selection of iTunes movies in the Netherlands is a few months to half a year behind what you'd find on pirate bay though.
- jerf 14y agoI iTunes on Windows reasonably well. (I typed "just fine" at first, and that's not true. It has been a bit crashy and clearly a second-class citizen. But it works.)
- myko 14y agoiTunes feels this way on OS X Mountain Lion for me as well.
- stinos 14y agoThis is not exactly the same. If you get a game via Steam, you get the exact game. If you however get a cd via iTunes, you get a compressed version of the original (at least last time I checked, not sure if this changed, and cannot find any prove it did). Close, but not exactly the same.
- MrDOS 14y ago256kbps AAC (comparable to, if not slightly better than, 320kbps MP3). Close, but no cigar.
- shardling 14y agoThe one time I bought a TV show through iTunes, it wouldn't let me pipe it from my computer to the TV. So I still pirate TV shows as they come out, even if I could buy them on iTunes. (I quite often buy the DVDs later.)
- shocks 14y agoStill suffers from region locks, inability to get it on my TV easily, late release times, and all those other things that are made so easy when you download TV.
- sadris 14y agoWhat is your home country?