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Apple Struggling to Keep Up With Increasing Piracy of Apple TV+ Content
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They are two different types of business, with different markets. Movies/TV and music are truly not comparable other than they are meant to entertain, and they're different even at that.
And yet Apple won't create a cheap stick AppleTV device or allow a Google Chromecast app, which would allow more people access to the content even if they have a subscription. I can watch pirated AppleTV+ content on all my devices but only watch it on an AppleTV or the AppleTV on a firestick.
I watched the first one and knew at best the series would be a binge watch later.
Consumers: We want a-la-carte. Please unbundle all the content channels so we can pick the ones we want.
Those who understood what that means: Um... no. That will be very, VERY expensive!
consumers: Bah... it will cost like $5 max per channel. Shut up we know what we are taking about.
Studios and content owners: Ok here you go. Now create your own bundle.
Consumers: There are too many choices. We want the bundle from before.
I have Prime, but not for the video part of it. I have Netflix, but now that they've raised the price again, I think it may be time to finally toss it.
Movies I care about, I own. The Dollars movies, too.
So you mean consumers can't wait until the season is finished and watch all episodes n one month and cancel until the next season? Will they wither and die if they wait?
This is a tough line to walk, because piracy is illegal and I am absolutely not condoning it, but nonetheless I find it harder to condemn pirates in light of Hollywood’s unreasonable actions.
There is a ridiculous number of streaming services, and even if you subscribe to every one of them, you still have to pay even more on top of that for features like “premium access” - and even if you do that, there is still no way to watch movies like Free Guy, No Time To Die, or Spider-Man No Way Home.
Going to movie theaters is still a health risk (in addition to all the problems it already had before). I think it is unconscionable to force people to go to theaters for these movies.
There is a ridiculous number of streaming services, and even if you subscribe to every one of them, you still have to pay even more on top of that for features like “premium access” - and even if you do that, there is still no way to watch movies like Free Guy, No Time To Die, or Spider-Man No Way Home.
Going to movie theaters is still a health risk (in addition to all the problems it already had before). I think it is unconscionable to force people to go to theaters for these movies.
Probably an extension of FOMO and the fact that people want everything now. I still remember when I had to wait months for a movie or series to be released on DVD/VHS and then lay a stew price for it.
Really, the correct answer is, not to play. Otherwise, you're just an enabler. I've come to realize that it's just TV, and who really cares? Pirating stuff is too much effort for schlock.
Wait... people pay for 5 or 6 different streaming services? Each with hundreds or thousands of programs?
Who has that much time to watch TV anyway?!?!?
I can see both sides of the TV/film streaming coin....
O1H, I've known whole families who subscribe to 6 to 10 different streaming services at a time. For one of them, they get Hulu (with ads) for free since it's part of a T-Mobile offer. When that expired, they just registered with a different email (the daughter was wondering why she all the sudden had Hulu
). When you have 3 to 6 members in a family who are into streaming, it can be difficult to coordinate a yearly schedule where "These months are for HBO Max. The next few after that is Disney+. Our Netflix subscription is until it ends 10 months later, and we'll do Hulu if we can get a discount". It can be money better spent when multiple people are using all the services.OTOH, I'm by myself, so I don't need to coordinate any variety, and the quantity of content is harder to traverse with just myself. Timewise, I'm in a good place where I can stream stuff, watch others on YouTube, some video gaming, and "essentials" (e.g. work, get enough sleep, exercise, cook, etc.), so I wouldn't want more than a few streaming services at the same time.
Being by myself, I can easily just cycle between services. I'm currently doing AP, Hulu, and Curiosity Stream. AP is "half and half". I hardly buy stuff anymore on Amazon Prime and only kept it for the AP Video portion. However, if my time gets too much of a crunch, I could consider putting this subscription on hold. My $2 a month Hulu promotion is ending. If I can't renew at that rate, I may as well either do $12 a month for with OUT ads (the price difference isn't enough to save the money otherwise), or just mix things up and switch to something say, Disney+ (in the meantime, I can wait for some shows to flesh out). Curiosity Stream is only $20 per year, so I don't mind holding on to that.
The books are just talking. This could be why the show is boring. They should just take the overall message of the book and make something more exciting.
I am watching and enjoying Tv+ as part of Apple One, and there’s a fair bit of content that I am enjoying at the moment.
Every Friday, I get 5 new shows.
1) See
2) Truth be Told
3) Morning Show
4) Ted Lasso
5) Foundation
Enough to make it worth my while for the moment at least.
Shiver me timbers. I see several here walking the plank of excuses for piracy. You'll be fish food me mates.
Now there's something I'd never subscribe to. None of those services are worth the asking price.
I imagine some people at Apple would be shocked that their content isn't even worth pirating.
You know that’s where it will go, because why not? The system is already in place anyway.
That’s what I was hoping. The show is more exciting than the books but so far has mostly just been bland sci-fi.
They are being shut down fast too, it’s just piracy site owner is very determined and they have ample time and enough of other resources to keep their site online for as long as possible.
And btw, Parler shutdown isnt that fast imo.
Actually... Netflix is spending $17 billion.
But yes I agree.
Netflix Reveals $17 Billion in Content Spending in Fiscal 2021
Netflix will spend $17 billion on content in 2021, a notable uptick from the streamer's 2020 budget of $11.8 billion.
variety.com
But most streaming services are auto renew, so if you don’t explicitly cancel then you are on the hook for another month. The old book and music clubs did the same thing-if you didn’t tell them that you DIDN’T want this month’s selection then you automatically got it. You may only screw up occasionally but take that times a couple of million accounts a month and you are talking a lot of money.