I've always maintained that people who pirate are generally lazy (including myself) but avid entertainment fans. Piracy offers me convenience, I can sit down and have a film going on my TV within about 15 minutes of opening the torrent
As soon as the entertainment industries cotton onto the fact that people demand content that's cheap and convenient to access, I think you'll see a drop in piracy rates. Netflix streaming is a step in the right direction but a very slow one.
In fact I'd say that the rate of my nefarious pirating ways has dropped considerably just because Netflix is quicker than pirating and I'm more than happy to pay the subscription fee to get that level of service
I keep wondering why good quality content producers don't come out that distribute content only on the web.
There are a few on youtube, but they don't produce enough content for avid or even normal customers.
Maybe we need a better platform than youtube? Something that is able to extract at least 0.10 $ per each customer that whatches the thing. This would bring roughly 100 k to movies/series that are watched by 1 M people. It looks pretty doable for a good quality movie or serie.
I've always maintained that people who pirate are generally lazy (including myself) but avid entertainment fans. Piracy offers me convenience, I can sit down and have a film going on my TV within about 15 minutes of opening the torrent
As soon as the entertainment industries cotton onto the fact that people demand content that's cheap and convenient to access, I think you'll see a drop in piracy rates. Netflix streaming is a step in the right direction but a very slow one.
In fact I'd say that the rate of my nefarious pirating ways has dropped considerably just because Netflix is quicker than pirating and I'm more than happy to pay the subscription fee to get that level of service