It’s like how steam defined piracy as a service problem. They gave people /usually/ affordable games, made it super easy to get it downloading and play with your friends.
If it was more fractured as it used to be, the marketplace I mean, people will pirate again. People travel down the path of least resistance and if it’s easiest to pirate and all the content is in one place, they would probably opt for that.
I wanted to watch Bob's Burgers, which has been removed from Netflix and put on Hulu. I attempted to sign up for Hulu, but it's not available in Australia. I tried to use a VPN to sign up for Hulu, but they saw through it.
I tried to get the show episodes on Google Play, but they had been removed.
I tried to sign up for Amazon Prime, but the prime registration site kept crashing on me.
Anyway I ended up using a VPN and streaming the show on a dubious Polish website. I was very willing to pay money, but 4 fucking megacorps did not let me. This whole process took over 2 hours. I am still mad. I just want to give the content creators money cause they made a good thing.
We went from hating TV, because of ads, lack of choice, etc, to services that were pretty decent. Now we're going back to TV, but online and more expensive if you want to see various stuff. And yet they wonder why piracy is on the rise again.
If you want to kill piracy in an instant, then create one unified streaming service. Every content creator can put their stuff on there. Charge something like 10-50 bucks a month and give the money to the content creators depending on how much of their stuff was watched. Somebody binge watched nothing but Game of Thrones for a month straight? Money goes to HBO, minus a small portion for server costs. Done.
Who am i kidding though, it's only gonna get worse over the next few years. Suing the people who get caught for piracy is part of the business model.
PirateCopyDetected on December 8th, 2018 at 12:21 UTC »
It’s like how steam defined piracy as a service problem. They gave people /usually/ affordable games, made it super easy to get it downloading and play with your friends.
If it was more fractured as it used to be, the marketplace I mean, people will pirate again. People travel down the path of least resistance and if it’s easiest to pirate and all the content is in one place, they would probably opt for that.
metasymphony on December 8th, 2018 at 14:01 UTC »
I wanted to watch Bob's Burgers, which has been removed from Netflix and put on Hulu. I attempted to sign up for Hulu, but it's not available in Australia. I tried to use a VPN to sign up for Hulu, but they saw through it.
I tried to get the show episodes on Google Play, but they had been removed.
I tried to sign up for Amazon Prime, but the prime registration site kept crashing on me.
Anyway I ended up using a VPN and streaming the show on a dubious Polish website. I was very willing to pay money, but 4 fucking megacorps did not let me. This whole process took over 2 hours. I am still mad. I just want to give the content creators money cause they made a good thing.
LikesCakeFartVideos on December 8th, 2018 at 14:57 UTC »
We went from hating TV, because of ads, lack of choice, etc, to services that were pretty decent. Now we're going back to TV, but online and more expensive if you want to see various stuff. And yet they wonder why piracy is on the rise again.
If you want to kill piracy in an instant, then create one unified streaming service. Every content creator can put their stuff on there. Charge something like 10-50 bucks a month and give the money to the content creators depending on how much of their stuff was watched. Somebody binge watched nothing but Game of Thrones for a month straight? Money goes to HBO, minus a small portion for server costs. Done.
Who am i kidding though, it's only gonna get worse over the next few years. Suing the people who get caught for piracy is part of the business model.