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While those problems are real, they are also self inflicted by the movie industry. I don't agree it's about money. Recently Netflix became available in my count
by jules 11y ago
While those problems are real, they are also self inflicted by the movie industry. I don't agree it's about money. Recently Netflix became available in my country (the netherlands) and many people I know stopped pirating content. It simply was not available legally before Netflix. You had to wait two years to watch a TV series and then you had to watch it at a time when some TV station decided to broadcast it. It was the same for games. When steam came lots of people stopped pirating games. Same for music.
For some it's about money yes, but for lots of people it's about the user experience or simply about availability in the first place.
- ascagnel_ 11y agoNetflix, Amazon Instant (both Prime and the store), Steam, GoG, etc., are all slippery services. If they have a particular piece of content available, it's easier to consume it on their services than it is to pirate. That's really what Hollywood needs to focus on.
- rhino369 11y agoAmazon instant has damn near everything. Hollywood does provide it. They just can't compete with free. PC game piracy proves this. Games on steam get pirated in large numbers even when the pirate copy is harder to download, install and use. And often it has reduced functionality.