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General / Off-Topic Game of Thrones : The season 7 was pirated a billion times.
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Piracy will only be stopped (well, made residual) when the regular distribution media moves out of the XX's century and starts providing a better service than the pirates. I remember the time when you bought a DVD and were forced to sit through lengthy anti-piracy adverts, plus annoying menus etc, while if I had a pirated copy I just had to click "play" and start watching.
Meanwhile the times changed, but the "normal" media means are, liek always, slow to move on.
Netflix managed to do it, to some extent. I gladly pay for netflix, to get rid of lenghty ads intervals, but especially to be able see what I want at the time I want to see it. Netflix's own productions even release all episodes at once, which is bloody awesome.
Regular TV will only survive in thew long run if they start providing a similar service. Get rid of schedules, let people see what they want when they want. And get rid of the whole "1 episode per week" bullpoo.
Meanwhile the times changed, but the "normal" media means are, liek always, slow to move on.
Netflix managed to do it, to some extent. I gladly pay for netflix, to get rid of lenghty ads intervals, but especially to be able see what I want at the time I want to see it. Netflix's own productions even release all episodes at once, which is bloody awesome.
Regular TV will only survive in thew long run if they start providing a similar service. Get rid of schedules, let people see what they want when they want. And get rid of the whole "1 episode per week" bullpoo.
The idea that it comes down to distribution or availability is just laughable. The majority of people who pirate simply don't want to pay, they would rather spend their money on seedboxes or vpns or site perks where they can get all want for free.
I belong to a couple of private sites and you'll see people downloading things like humblebundle games where you can pay what you want, a single dollar for 3 or 4 games. It's not about the money and it never has been. It's majoritively about being part of a clique, about sticking it to the industry suits, about being rebellious and getting stuff completely for free.
Surprised to see GoT downloaded that many times though.
I belong to a couple of private sites and you'll see people downloading things like humblebundle games where you can pay what you want, a single dollar for 3 or 4 games. It's not about the money and it never has been. It's majoritively about being part of a clique, about sticking it to the industry suits, about being rebellious and getting stuff completely for free.
Surprised to see GoT downloaded that many times though.
I love netflix, it's cheap and I can watch most of my beloved series, then there is the "alternative" option for the others.
I pirated it too, but I will buy it when it is available on blue ray where I live.
I pirated all game of thrones seasons and bought them all on blue ray when they came out.
Same for Breaking Bad, first pirated, bought when released.
House of Cards. Same thing. First pirated then bought on blue Ray.
I think I'm not the only one.
These movie companies have a lot to thank the P2P network for.
I wonder what makes them more money... someone paying a few bucks to Netflix or someone buying the entire series on Blue Ray.
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respectfully disagree, I think the reasons are many and not just "we don't want to pay".
Obviously there are more reasons, and actually bigger reasons.
In my country, TV is for free (most of it). So in the case of TV Shows it's not a matter of not wanting to pay. It's a matter of:
1 - Not wanting to wait. Simple as that. Piracy allows viewers to see what they want when they want, not 10 months later, or "next tuesday at 10pm".
2 - Choosing what we see. I don't want to see whatever crap they are running now on TV (and man there is a serious amount of crap on TV), I want to specifically see show/movie "X" now. Simple as that. Piracy provides this. Regular TV does not. If regular distribution networks provide me the same service as pirates at a reasonable price I would gladly pay (like I pay for netflix) just to get rid of the hassle of manually hunting down daily torrents while manually keeping tabs with when does each show or movie airs, and then finding decent subtitles.
Netflix for instance allows me to see what I want when I want (up to a point) with subtitles already included. That's why I gladly pay for netflix and my TV has been gathering dust for years now (I only have it because the TV service comes bundles with the internet service). This is the future. No "schedules", no seeing whatever crap they serve on their platters, no 10 month delays before the same show that ran in the US can now run on country "X". People must be able to choose what they watch and watch it immediately. If TV doesn't go this route and keep buried in the past, they will become the next radio: obsolete.
"They just don't want to pay", is a lame excuse that tv networks (and other similar industries equally stuck in the past) use to keep their heads buried in the sand and refuse to move on from the XX's century.
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I can't agree that all media companies sticks to the last century. I'm not a fan of all the things Sky does in Ireland/UK, but series like GoT are made available to subscribers right after it's aired on the late-late-late night showings here, at the same time as it's aired in the US. They're doing that with a lot of shows these days as so many of us are tired of having to dodge internet spoilers until the next week's local showing as it used to be.
I feel sorry for all those poor people who doesnt have money to pay for HBO. Their lives must be miserable..
Often people get richer by not paying for a lot of things