• Dogyote@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    To those complaining about streaming services, I’ve been using free alternative streaming websites for years and haven’t had an issue.

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      1 year ago

      Right, but isn’t that what also causes these shows getting cancelled? You watching it on a non legit platform means you didn’t watch it at all

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        No, because the market has become so fragmented, no streaming services are profitable, so there’s no show on one that will ever last. Average shows last on TV channels because of ads. A medium performing TV show can last forever on TV with ads. A medium performing TV show on a streaming service gets canceled after a couple seasons to transition resources to a new show. They’re looking for that next big flashy thing to draw subscriptions.

        In the current broken system, the only options are to continually churn shows, or push ads on streaming services. Both are happening.

        So, if you pirate a TV show today, you aren’t killing it, and you aren’t part of the problem. Paying for the service won’t keep the show around, and not paying for it won’t kill it either. The show is already dead, you’re just not forking over your hard earned cash for a bite at its dead corpse.

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        1 year ago

        This interaction reminds me of an Always Sunny episode. The gang are mad because their favourite movie franchise sold out and got bad, so the whole episode is about them complaining with the movie execs about how the changes made to the movie (to attract different audiences in order to try to make the franchise profitable again) all suck, and what they should be doing differently. But the punchline of the episode is they have all along been streaming the movie series and not paying to watch it, so they are part of the problem.

        Never expected to see it played out IRL though, and the fact you’re being downvoted makes it all a bit less funny…

        E: and now me :D maybe the dissenters would like to enlighten us as to how piracy doesn’t affect capitalism?

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          Most people don’t want to be pirates they just don’t want to pay for an inferior service. You want people to pay then make a product worth paying for that’s prorated by country, and they gladly will.

          As an example of just how bad it is, pirate streaming sites have sort by date, country, IMDb score, genre, etc. but most paid services don’t have any sort feature beyond genre. This effectively makes paid services unusable for a lot of people.

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            Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-piracy by any means, and I’m as bothered by the changing of services as the next person. I just found it amusing that people seemed to disagree that pirating would have an impact on the bottom line of the execs, so that life was imitating art.

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              Because you’re pretending like pirating is any different to the bottom line than not buying the product.
              There is no difference. They’re going to make a marvel movie next year. If I don’t go see it did the company lose any money?
              No.
              Same if I pirate it. Whether or not you actually watch the movie is irrelevant.

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                If you want to see a TV show, but pirate it instead, did the company lose any money*? Yes.

                This thread is hilarious.

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                  1 year ago

                  No, dude whether or not I watch a movie has NOTHING to do with the movie company’s income.

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                    1 year ago

                    Stay in high school then once you get past learning basic economics, have another go at thinking.