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Let's get a P2P network started. Americans get BBC and HBO, we get Hulu and Netflix
by codesuela 14y ago
Let's get a P2P network started.
Americans get BBC and HBO, we get Hulu and Netflix
- antihero 14y agoWe already have one of those, except everyone gets everything.
- jrockway 14y agoLetting people access content they want to see is killing the industry.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoWhy would I care about industry? If something would be killing me, would "the industry" care? They provide the product, I pay; they don't, I'm not paying; and the package never includes caring.
- jrockway 14y agoThat's a fine attitude. My comment was mostly sarcastic: pirates already provide everything for free, yet the content creators refuse to let people pay for their product (country limitations, format limitations, drm, etc.) Then they whine about how they're losing money and blame the pirates, when it's really their fault for not selling their product at all.
- kierank 14y agoThey do let people pay to access their content - it's just done in a price discriminatory fashion. If they started offering content online they'd lose cable customers who pay more than casual web users.
- baddox 14y agoIf only there was already some P2P network that facilitates the illicit sharing of multimedia content.
- slurgfest 14y agoIf you cannot convince some American company to stream to you (which is a matter of that company's choices, not some sort of national content embargo) then why not create your own companies and your own content? Then you also have the option of exporting that service elsewhere, which would give you a competitive advantage over companies which only serve a domestic market.
- illuminate 14y ago"If you cannot convince some American company to stream to you (which is a matter of that company's choices, not some sort of national content embargo) then why not create your own companies and your own content?" Because I don't have enough handpuppets to recreate Game of Thrones. Seriously, what a silly person.