Then floodgates of piracy opened as a means of being with exorbitant prices on music, and then television.
The solution for the industry was to make it more convenient to pay them than it was to steal. Stealing never stopped, it just lessened, because it was more convenient to pay.
Critical mistake, making it difficult for us to get what we want…
The fact that there are 11 quadrillion streaming services now makes me suspect that there actually cannot be a secret cabal of shady business types running the world. Because they are all far too interested in competing with each other to actually notice that if they stop doing that then they’d be better off.
Difficult is an understatement.
I’m traveling overseas now, and my totally valid Paramount subscription doesn’t work in Portugal and I can’t watch lower decks anywhere even if I’m willing to double pay for it.
The irony if that I downloaded episodes to watch offline on plane, they’re literally inside my phone.
Wait till you hear about YouTube premium making it imposible to watch downloaded videos already on your phone unless it can phone home every 3 days. The videos on your phone, you can’t wstc it until you get in touch with daddy google, defeating the point of downloading a video for offline viewing.
This right here. Apple did a very artful job of making everything available way back when on a unified storefront with “everything”. Netflix did much the same, and for a time it was “everything enough” until each studio decided it was a good idea to make their own storefront. The mistake is that they inadvertently rekindled piracy not so much because of the pricing, but due to the convenience factor. Now the piracy is most convenient because it has it all in one spot. People will pay for content, that’s not the issue. It’s the same old adage as going to the same grocery store that just has all the shit you need so you don’t have to drive all over town.
