Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy
I thought this was a pretty good article and largely states what I believe is going to happen as well. I know we have talked in the past about how all these streaming options will cost just as much as cable or satellite in the end. Who wants 5+ streaming services that you have to buy to watch what you want?
These media companies never seem to learn. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...blivious.shtml Quote:
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Or smart people will just subscribe to a different service each month, watch what they haven't seen, then switch to the next one.
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I watch and listen to EVERYTHING I want to online for free. Sports, movies both old and new, music and TV series.
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How do you watch new movies for free? What site?
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So first people were screaming for the option to watch what they want to watch without paying $150+ a month for 1000 channels they didn't want.
Now the argument is that content has been splintered to the point that if you want "everything", it costs more than it used to? It was never going to get cheaper for access to the same amount of entertainment. But the progress in in the fact that you can now pay for only what you want. |
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NEVER, EVER, EVER DOWNLOAD ANYTHING NOR SIGN UP---YOU DON'T HAVE TO! There are ALWAYS pop-ups and new tabs that launch. Just close them down. https://putlockers.city/ https://www6.fmoviesfree.net/fmovies-is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nflstreams/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MLBStreams/ https://www.dailymotion.com/movieshere ( not as expansive as others but they have TV shows and movies) They move the servers and URL frequently to avoid prosecution but they always have the name in them. Sometimes with Putlocker, they have a new tab open to the LEFT of your open tab when you click the arrow button to play and they slide your open tab to the right. Shut the tab to the LEFT that you don't see at first. Hope that helps. |
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But sometimes that is true. At the height of the VHS video rental market, you could go to Blockbuster and rent any major Hollywood movie a few months after it was released at theaters. And most cities would also have a few specialty rental stores with a really large selection of art house and foreign films. They might require a credit card number for a deposit but you didn't need no stinkin' monthly subscription. At one point in time, Netflix served the same market. Yes, it was a subscription but it was pretty cheap and the movie list was really huge. I used to rent a lot of art house, old films and foreign films from Netflix. It used to be rare that I searched for a movie that Netflix didn't have. Those titles are gone. I had a movie list of a couple hundred titles on my Netflix account. At one time, probably 90% were available. Now that is maybe 20%. Some films are available as a one-off such as the $3 or $4 purchase on Amazon, but a lot of titles are not. I watch one or two Disney films a year. I'm not going to sign up for a monthly charge to the Disney channel to watch that, even if I have the option of cancelling after just one month. So I wouldn't call the option of being able to sign up to just the Disney channel in order to watch a single film, being able to pay for just what I want. I understand why Disney would rather have people directly subscribe as oppose to license their titles for rental on Netflix or rental/sale on Amazon. It still sucks. I'm not currently pirating any film watching, but I would certainly consider it just to give the industry the finger. If sites like Disney allow one time watching for a few bucks, I will withdraw my complaint. Until then, screw 'em. I am happy with Youtube TV allowing me to watch the NBA, Monday night Football, Hockey, and Kansas basketball games for a not outrageous fee. And sometimes technology does make it cheaper for the same amount of entertainment. In the 90's you would pay $15~$20 for an album that maybe had a couple of songs you liked. Outside of a very few, music artist can no longer get wealthy on album sales. It is all about live shows. Since you can legally get the songs far cheaper than that now. Stream free with ads or stream without ads for a pretty minimal amount. At least until every other artist decides they are going to have their own, separate, subscription site... I don't think the cable/entertainment streaming industry is going to maintain the same level of revenue. We'll see. |
As someone who has pirated almost every piece of media he has laid his hands on for the last 15 years, I'd just like to thank all the stupid people who pay for all this stuff. It's true that 99% of the crap churned out today isn't worth stealing, but I truly appreciate the suckers who fork over their hard earned cash to megacorporations who occasionally, almost accidentally, produce something worthwhile.
There should be no restrictions on the spreading of knowledge and art. You are conditioned from birth to follow rules created by the powerful that, coincidentally, keep you under their heel. You only live once; enjoy every song, every movie, every book, every bit of wisdom, and every bit of life that you can lay your hands on. Don't trust people who tell you it's good for you to eat shit your whole life because there will be pie in the sky when your dead. |
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I have heard other people suggest that, saying they binge watch what they want and move on. You know HBO probably has that happening alot when GoT starts then watches as their subscribers fall off the cliff after the season is over. I wouldn't be all that surprised if they try to force people into a long term subscription plan in order to watch GoT. |
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A pretty easy way to prevent a lot of that would be to not dump the entire series at once. Sure some people will wait until the season is fully available, but a lot won’t and will feel forced to maintain that subscription for a few months. |
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