So, piracy compelled the industry to provide streaming.
I can now watch most Movies online within a few weeks of their debut in theaters. I can watch BBC and foreign dramas I never new existed. I can go back and watch old shows I’d forgotten about. I can binge watch ever Stargate, Star Trek, The Office, Parks and Rec, whenever I want, wherever I want.
I don’t have to worry about shaky cams, viruses, malware, or other crap from the torrent networks.
THIS is the time to complain about what the corporations have done?
From what I can tell they ignored a market, piracy showed demand, they monetized that demand and provided a better product. Can I watch everything I could possibly want? Nope, I still can’t find Reacher, just the sequel. F you Sony or whoever holds the copyright on that. I guess I’ll watch Taken instead.
How do you take what you’ve presented, or the article, and turn that into some kind of ethical demand for piracy? Oh noes, they are cutting people off after SIX INFRACTIONS. What? SIX? That’s ridiculously generous given their evil corporate nature.
Will they probably trim the fat? Yes. Cut us off at 3, or 2, or whatever? Probably. Maybe then piracy comes into play. Will they over-reach and start doing what Hulu did on their free plan, which was basically turn it into a stream of commercials with clips of your video thrown in? Yes. So switch to Netflix or Prime video like a good consumer and exercise your choice which you now have in the market. Everything has a time and a place. Video piracy today doesn’t make nearly as much sense as before. Between streaming and $1 DVD’s at Redbox, what’s the motivation anymore?
If you want to support Artists, donate money to them. If you want a retirement fund, put your money into the large corporate company stocks and hope that the outrage army finds something other than a mostly healthy and competitive streaming market for videos to protest.
