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Torrents Are The New Black
- zebra 13y agoAnalyzing illegal activity is not illegal. I can't understand what all that fuss is about.
- beedogs 13y agoExactly; this just seems like good smart business on their part.
- lifthearth 13y agoI imagine those who are charged with suppressing piracy are creating a fuss. If they do their jobs right they'll be devaluing the product.
- pessimizer 13y agoCall me crazy, but I assumed that multiple consultancies were doing this already. There's lots of good information for content producers and marketers waiting to be mined from torrent sites.
- graue 13y agoIs there an actual article here? I'm seeing only this pull quote and nothing else: > With the purchase of a series, we look at what does well on piracy sites. – Kelly Merryman, VP of content acquisition at Netflix
- chadwickthebold 13y agoThis shouldn't really be that much of a surprise. To me, Netflix has always seemed to be halfway between purchasing a series and pirating it. It'd be interesting to see someone crunch the numbers and see if releasing a series on Netflix decreases the rate of piracy for that particular property. I have a hunch that it does, and if it does the same is probably true for other digital distribution networks, i.e. Hulu, Steam and Amazon Prime. But what do I know? :)
- SifJar 13y agoSeems like a very sensible thing to be doing.
- outside1234 13y agoThis is basically a non-statement. Are they more or less likely to purchase if it does well on a piracy site?