Unless, everyone gets so used to pirating things that they ignore the evolutions in pricing models and find it easier to just pirate content.
Unless, everyone gets so used to pirating things that they ignore the evolutions in pricing models and find it easier to just pirate content.
If I'm not doing something active now and I just want to sit - I read the funny pages (reddit), I read hacker news, I find questions in my mind to research, I play video games, read a book, start a side-project and/or listen to some music.
My wife still watches all sorts of garbage TV and if not for her I'd have cancelled cable a long time ago.
I feel much happier paying a handful of content creators via Patreon than spending money on a cable or streaming service subscription.
There would be a lot more work to do if I wanted to "product-ize" the tool, and periodically youtube breaks it by adding a new feature or moving something around. For personal use, though, it's very needs-suiting. The whole approach is also less of a tempting distraction than browsing youtube itself, so it's easier to manage how much time I spend watching videos. If I ever run out of content, I just go for a walk, or read a book!
Then I just have a setup in plex for youtube videos and I have plethora of content to watch when I have time.
Its jarring to use "normal" youtube now and all the ads after using this setup.
Also really nice for archiving channels and/or preparing for when youtube randomly decides to throw strikes on videos and not being able to see them anymore or people setting things to private etc...
1. Sharing account details. eg four people in a circle of friends, one will have Netflix, another Prime Video, someone else will have Now TV and so on. And each of them will use the others account so all of them get access to all of the services.
2. Some of the more well off individuals or less socially connected will sign up to two or three services and pirate everything else.
Whichever way you look at it, basically consumers have gotten fed up with the vendor lock ins and have gone back to sharing content.
It has always been this way though. Even when VHS's were a thing, you'd get families which would share videos with each other. Sometimes those films and TV shows were just recorded straight off the TV. This is also why I think there is a culture where people don't care about downloading content because there has always been an understanding that it was fine to record stuff on the TV and radio for personal consumption back before the internet was in every home. The daft thing is the TV and film industry had a massive opportunity to disrupt this culture but instead their own greed has just encouraged people back into old habits.
I know regulation isn't a popular topic on here but I do wonder if it's time someone stepped in and said "You guys need to start cooperating together!"
Sadly Disney is now lobbying to make that a crime
Corporations will get involved, jack the prices up, throw in ads and try to invent cable again.
Repeat.
When Netflix streaming (and Spotify, Steam) became popular it made consuming your favourite content easy, cheap and decent quality.
Now, with so many competing platforms, watching your favourite shows is more expensive and more difficult (having to have loads of accounts and remember which show is where, etc). Piracy will bloom.
Out of curiosity I looked to see if there were any bootlegged Beauty and the Beast (original) available for my kids to watch. Couldn't find anything that (1) worked and (2) worked with Chromecast.
Case in point: all I want right now is to stream the award-winning film “Give me Liberty”. It is over a year old and available precisely nowhere.
And when it comes available, the chances are high it’s not on one of the several competing services I pay for on a monthly basis.