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Apple Struggling to Keep Up With Increasing Piracy of Apple TV+ Content
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Companies need to stop using IP-controlled content. If you are a Netflix, Hulu, Disney member you should be able to watch the same content around the world at the same time. Otherwise, we go to the piracy sites or use VPN and enjoy it there.
Corporate greed and control is so outdated in these modern streaming times.
Corporate greed and control is so outdated in these modern streaming times.
I think the claims of the impact to industry are over-inflated. $71B is a huge figure. I can understand that if every view was paid for, that might be the equivalent value, but the reason people do this is because they don't want to pay. If piracy websites and options did not exist, the net gain to industry would probably be a small fraction of that figure. Maybe on the order of $1B. Those people who pirated would probably just watch whatever else is available for free, thus only generating ad revenue like the $18M that the piracy website earned.
That's not to justify piracy, but I think a douse of reality helps when discussing this.
That's not to justify piracy, but I think a douse of reality helps when discussing this.
I mean, I sign up and cancel every one or two months. It literally takes me less than a minute.
The true % of viewership that is derived from torrents vs paid subscription is not even comparable. Not to mention many people torrent content simply because it’s there and being seeded. Many who torrent content regularly would not otherwise pay for a subscription to view the content, like myself they torrent the content because it’s available and trending. Meaning that one cannot so easily consider it lost revenue, because many of those who downloaded would have simply gone without had a torrent not been available, and not become paying subscribers to any service.
I vowed years ago never to give another dollar to Netflix because of various stances the company has taken over the years on political issues. However not through lack of resources but out of principle alone did I recently seek the series ‘Squid Game’ through torrents rather than give a host company like Netflix a single dollar.
Torrenting has been and remains a sort of middle finger to the “Digital Corporatocracy” that want their real-world monopolies extended to the online world and do their best to limit our ability to freely share 1’s and 0’s with each other, unless it goes through their digital middle-men so that they can collect their fee.
Digital theft as concerning media copied for personal consumption is not comparable to stealing, despite any coherent intellectual-property argument that can be made.
The original vision of the internet was that 1’s and 0’s would be able to be shared between humans without inhibition or limitations. Somehow we allowed capitalism to fragment this system and well, thus this article..
Long live torrents and may they become further decentralized and untraceable.
I vowed years ago never to give another dollar to Netflix because of various stances the company has taken over the years on political issues. However not through lack of resources but out of principle alone did I recently seek the series ‘Squid Game’ through torrents rather than give a host company like Netflix a single dollar.
Torrenting has been and remains a sort of middle finger to the “Digital Corporatocracy” that want their real-world monopolies extended to the online world and do their best to limit our ability to freely share 1’s and 0’s with each other, unless it goes through their digital middle-men so that they can collect their fee.
Digital theft as concerning media copied for personal consumption is not comparable to stealing, despite any coherent intellectual-property argument that can be made.
The original vision of the internet was that 1’s and 0’s would be able to be shared between humans without inhibition or limitations. Somehow we allowed capitalism to fragment this system and well, thus this article..
Long live torrents and may they become further decentralized and untraceable.
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Strange isn't it that people were trying so hard to cut the cable but may end up in effect going back to exactly that.
Exactly....it takes more effort to pirate music now than just pay monthly. I can immediately have a song I like especially if it's a specific remix or something without having to search and deal with annoying sketchy sites or find the latest pirate site because my "go to" was taken down or something.
Microsoft Office for Mac use to be no more than $150. AND OUTLOOK for Mac was included in this price.
NOW! recently they make you pay $250 for Office for macOS WITH outlook. $150 WITHOUT OUTLOOK.
$100 more just for outlook.
Word and Outlook are the 2 most used programs in office.
NOW! recently they make you pay $250 for Office for macOS WITH outlook. $150 WITHOUT OUTLOOK.
$100 more just for outlook.
Word and Outlook are the 2 most used programs in office.
Ideologically I agree, but my understanding is that they can't really release a worldwide catalog due to different laws (including copyright and distribution laws) in different countries.
The cost of producing a TV series such as Game of Thrones, or even Ted Lasso, far exceeds the cost of producing an album. You're basically asking for a $200/month service.
In the case of NBCUniversal (Peacock) their parent company (Xfinity/Comcast) gets to have its cake and eat it too. They own the whole chain from the studio, to the streaming platform, to the internet access that brings it into your home.
I’ll piggy-back on your rebuttal a bit. There are non-negotiable services that are not able to meet your strategy though. In our household that’s
Prime (for shipping)
AppleOne (AppleTV+)
Hulu/Disney/ESPN (They come on my Verizon account for free)
Netflix (my wife won’t let us cancel it)
So my ‘optionals’ are
HBO Max
Peacock
YouTube.TV
MLB.TV
MotoGP
CBS All Access
Twitch (their ad-free Turbo service)
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For me, I actually don’t like monthly subscriptions so I paid for HBO, MLB, MotoGP up front for one year. Peacock I’m only using because Amex gives it to me for free as a ‘digital streaming credit’
So to your credit, CBS and YouTube TV are ‘optional’ i can just drop when I want and I have in the past.
Some consumers do what you say and cycle subscriptions but I think these companies are banking on people not doing that and more of an issue isn’t turning on and off subscriptions. I think the biggest issue is ‘family sharing’ where I agree to keep Netflix active and you agree to keep MLB.TV active and we share passwords. Everyone is paying about $20 a month but 6 or more people are sharing passwords which I think is a bigger threat than people who know how to pirate content.
Or a $100 a year for the entire office suite and you can share it with five people,
where's the effort? In clicking "Subscribe" and "unsubscribe"?
(obviously mine was an example I don't watch that many shows in a month).
They love to make those bogus number so they could charge those uploaders millions of money they could never get. Call it industry afraid of losing their big pie.
That’s why device like Xiaomi TV box, or Mi box, is very popular in China or Asian countries. It aggregates all movies, tv shows, and live tv from all over the world and let you stream watch them for…free! You might argue that people will watch that because it’s free, but the one single streaming source is very convenient
I did forget Prime on my post. I do pay for Prime, mostly because I buy lots of crap on amazon and not for Prime Video. However, Prime Video has many old noir movies which I do watch.
Well, I don't disagree with any of what you just wrote, but that's exactly what it is: your requirements. It's certainly not the streaming services fault that you have non-negotiables, and want to pay for certain stuff.
Seriously? You’re trying to argue that nobody should have ever thought of using the internet for profit? Lol
There may be too many streaming companies, each one with its own system, not available everywhere... but there is also limited time available to watch everything that is available on these services.
And there are still movies that are not available on any of these services (I am a fan of Italian movies from the 50's-70's, I did not find any service for this while I was able to rent these on DVDs 10 years ago).
And there are still movies that are not available on any of these services (I am a fan of Italian movies from the 50's-70's, I did not find any service for this while I was able to rent these on DVDs 10 years ago).