No, the number is pure fantasy crap. They need to make it look big in order to justify bigger action. At some point anti-theft will be costing more than any real “loss” - probably is alreadyDo you really believe that number is accurate?
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No, the number is pure fantasy crap. They need to make it look big in order to justify bigger action. At some point anti-theft will be costing more than any real “loss” - probably is alreadyDo you really believe that number is accurate?
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Completely agree. I’m not going to make a huge deal about pirating, but I don’t understand arguments like “well they should just make things cheaper or more accessible”
No one is entitled to anything and it isn’t your right to get something just because you want it
For piracy to stop I think two things need to happen.
1. Lower the cost of digital movies and TV shows.
Sopranos box set is currently £80 on iTunes. £80!. Its completely ridiculous. It's cheaper to buy the physical discs which have production costs, shipping costs and will one day end up in landfill. For something that is just sat on a server waiting to be downloaded the cost should be 1/3 of physical media. The same goes for movies. I have a load of movies in iTunes but ive never paid £14 for a single one as its too expensive. Most 4k HDR blu rays can be picked up now for £10 so why pay more for something with no production and shipping costs etc.
You then also have the fact you're paying more for something you can't lend to a friend of even give your kids one day etc.
2. Make everything available in every country.
So much stuff is limited to certain countries and the only way to watch things is to find them illegally. Look at Doom Patrol. I was dying to watch that then discovered there was no way to watch it in the UK when it first started in the US. By time it arrived here they hype had gone and I still haven't watched it.
Many movies have different digital/blu ray release dates by a good few weeks. If something reaches the UK 3 weeks before the US then you're pretty much asking people to go and find it elsewhere.
Piracy was never killed, reduced maybe, but far from killed! But yeah, I see a resurgence as the subscription game has gotten out of hand.Digital music stores + streaming music services killed music piracy. Make it easier and cheaper to consume your video content and piracy will go away.
Bundling your TV channels/content into expensive packages with the exclusion of a few channels/shows that most people want is not the way to go.
He meant priracy, not privacyDid your rush to be a first post just prove you don't take the time to read anything?
"people's salaries are growing slower than inflation" - yep, and the world's billionaires increased their wealth on average by 25% since covid started. Guess who owns the lion's share of stocks in all these streaming services... yep, the billionaires. They are crying about piracy because it's stopping them adding a few more millions to their piles of wealth.Piracy is bad and artists should be paid for their work and unfortunately, so long as corporations are in charge, the artists will always be paid through the corporation which takes their huge cut first. The record labels weren't exactly pioneers but that model is unchanged. I pay Netflix and they pay some money to the people responsible for creating the content. I read recently that Amazon's Direct Prime which allows creators to upload series and collect money on the backend based on views pays insanely low prices - https://videocentral.amazon.com/home/royalty-rates 1 to 12 cents per hour of viewing so if you upload a 1 hour movie to Amazon and 1 million people watch the entire thing, yo've made $60,000 or a paltry $10,000 at the low end. That's assuming you convince a million people to watch with enough production quality keep them around the full hour.
My point is, Piracy is bad but so long as corporations play the crap they're playing now, it's not going away. The $120 Comcast Bill is now the $100 streaming bill with Comcast Internet on top of it.
CBS for $9
Peacock for $9
AppleTV = $5
Netflix - $12
Hulu - $10
Disney - $5
HBO Max - $15
Apple Music or Spotify thrown in for good measure
then every month, the consumers will give Comcast $60-$100 for access to those streaming services and cord cutters still can't watch NFL games on Sunday.
So yeah, of course they're pirating. Instead of giving CBS $10 a month, they're just downloading Picard and instead of giving AppleTV $5, they're going to download See and For all Mankind and probably Netflix doesn't have a huge piracy issue except for countries where its blocked because most people have an account of access a friend's but if you remove Netflix and Amazon Prime from the piracy discussion, I bet the rest of the networks have a TON of their content stolen online because when a huge number of the country is unemployed and people's salaries are growing slower than inflation and phones are $1,0000, cord-cutting is more expensive than just having cable.
Piracy is really bad but the corporations need to stop being so greedy. I have little faith that this will change.
That's a bot.Did your rush to be a first post just prove you don't take the time to read anything?
Exactly! Right now I am subscribed to TV because the TV Internet bundle is cheaper than the Internet and 3 different streaming services I would need.Digital music stores + streaming music services killed music piracy. Make it easier and cheaper to consume your video content and piracy will go away.
Bundling your TV channels/content into expensive packages with the exclusion of a few channels/shows that most people want is not the way to go.
It is 1 more Emmy than I have. I am still waiting for mine to arrive via FedEx.One Emmy constitutes a leading position?
You get out of here with that logic and critical-thinking!They say:
“The goal is to disrupt the piracy ecosystem that harms creators”
so what I read is that they are doing this for the creators.
Then I read:
“with streaming piracy representing 80 percent of all piracy today, costing companies as much as $71 billion annually.”
ahh but if it was all for the creators, why don’t they state what it cost them in lost revenue?
Don't be that guy. don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. As the world of consumers discovered years ago the steaming dream is over. You want one service? Fine, it's not much. You want shows on multiple services? And then add in sports? You'll end up paying more than cable ever was. It's ridiculous. Music piracy effectively ended the day Spotify and others got their act together. Imagine Warner and Sony and all the labels had their OWN music streaming service that they wanted people to pay for. It would be ridiculous.
If these poor big mega rich corporations want to end piracy then they'll need to make it as easy as possible or people to get their products and that includes not each having their own little world. People will do what's easiest. And if that means piracy then so be it.
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It's either a bot, or someone trying to start a brand. It's supremely irritating. Don't mention it though or the mods will delete your posts.
So a “coherent streaming presence” is an effective counter to streaming piracy? Good to know. Thanks for clearing that up.Piracy will never go away. If they focused their efforts on having a coherent streaming presence instead of trying to fight a losing uphill battle while charging an arm and a leg for everything it wouldn't be a problem.
Why does it have to be one or the other?They say:
“The goal is to disrupt the piracy ecosystem that harms creators”
so what I read is that they are doing this for the creators.
Then I read:
“with streaming piracy representing 80 percent of all piracy today, costing companies as much as $71 billion annually.”
ahh but if it was all for the creators, why don’t they state what it cost them in lost revenue?