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Just pirate it.
by Touche 13y ago
Just pirate it.
- gamblor956 13y agoDon't be a tool. Just pay for it. It's been available on DVD for years now, is available on HBO Go, and is now available on Amazon for non-subscribers, and has already been available for non-subscribers on iTunes for years.
- Touche 13y agoThe latest episodes are not on Amazon or iTunes (or DVD). Just searched for Game of Thrones season 4 on Amazon and iTunes to confirm. HBO's business model is exclusivity, which in my opinion is anti-consumer.
- untog 13y agoHBO's business model is exclusivity, which in my opinion is anti-consumer. Then don't watch.
- Touche 13y agoWhy? It's readily available on the internet with minimal effort.
- untog 13y agoFor one, because you're hurting your own cause. Watching GOT and talking about it helps to reinforce HBO's position as the a premier programmer with the kind of cultural cache others would kill for. They're still profiting from you, just not in a directly financial way. If everyone without an HBO subscription refused to watch GOT then HBO might actually be inclined to re-examine their subscription options.
- Touche 13y agoI'm not a believer in the "if everyone just did their part" strategy. Not with this, not with the environment, or any other big issue. Market pressure is already pushing HBO towards a non-cable option, they're just moving into it kicking and screaming because the current way has been immensely profitable for them.
- crayola 13y agoYou seem to entertain a rather convenient set of beliefs and opinions. I pay a pretty hefty price because I do not share them (and go out of my way to 'do my part').
- res0nat0r 13y agoThey are able to fund episodes for $6 million each because of exclusivity.
- saturdayplace 13y agoI agree with the thrust of your comment, but it would have been more civil without the first sentence.
- freehunter 13y agoThere are legitimate reasons to pirate, but "I want to consume it but I don't want to pay for it" isn't one of them. That is the mindset of a tool.
- Touche 13y agoThat is not my position. I gladly pay for many season tickets of shows through Amazon, but HBO does not provide this option (or on any competing service).
- res0nat0r 13y agoThey do, you need a cable subscription and HBO Go.
- Touche 13y agoYou need to buy a package of stuff that you don't want and then pay extra for HBO. That is not reasonable.
- res0nat0r 13y agoSure, but that doesn't entitle you to just take it since you don't agree to their terms. Just like I can't demand to drive a Ferrari because paying $200k for a car is out of my price range.
- Touche 13y agoI'm entitled to have a sequence of bits on my computer, and to play that sequence of bits in an application capable of doing so. Since I'm a good person I'm willing to give money to the person/company that came up with the sequence of bits but I don't feel obligated to do so if they make the terms wildly out of my favor, that is I'm forced to also purchase other sequences of bits that I have no interest in. As for your Ferrari example, some day it will be trivially easy to 3D print a Ferrari and we'll be going through the same thing with physical items as we are going through with IP today.
- slowmotiony 13y agoWould you also consider people from countries that have those services blocked, as you nicely put it, tools? Are you aware that there's people outside of the United States?