Not Even Free TV Can Get People To Stop Pirating Movies and TV Shows

[Anhur]

Beyond people being cheap. Some folks want to see a movie when it’s released without having to go to the cinema.

Hollywood needs to appreciate that the cinema racket they have isn’t sustainable and make movies available on demand from the initial release.

I hope they take your advice
I won't have to watch people speaking Russian with Chinese subtitles anymore.

 

[Take It In Blood]

People are poor


fuk them rich cac tv excecs


They not worried about the hood eating, so the hood shouldn't care about them

 

[Dr. Acula]

I'll be honest, I havent pirated shyt in a long time.

You'll never get rid of it, but paid streaming services probably has cut into the possible piracy to a large degree. For me, unless its a live event or something I really want to see and can't find it via other means, I don't really pirate anymore. I imagine its mostly broke asf teens who do now.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

MF'ers refused to offer al a carte service so fukkem

 

[Robbie3000]

I don't pirate. Not because i'm more pious than the next man, but i just want these people to keep making great products. I don't want movies and great t.v shows to become disposable and devalued like music.

I still go to the multi-plex once every couple of weeks....the cinema experience is something I hope never goes away. But I do say this as a single dude, I understand how expensive a night at the multi-plex can be for the average family.

 

[el_oh_el]

I want to see how these revenue lost figures are calculated. Most if the time they assume that pirates that view something would have paid to view it if it was not available thru pirating..

This is one of those areas where government should be more active, and of course it isn't. Protecting intellectual property is as important as physical property.

 

[Starman]

I want to see how these revenue lost figures are calculated. Most if the time they assume that pirates that view something would have paid to view it if it was not available thru pirating...

Yup, people watch things for free that they would never pay for. So the lost revenue figures are questionable in that regard.

 

[Huellz Santana]

Since the internet made it easier to illegally download and stream movies and TV shows, Hollywood struggled with people pirating its works online. About $5.5 billion in revenue was lost to piracy globally last year, Digital TV Research found (pdf), and it's expected to approach $10 billion by 2022. Streaming-video services like Netflix and Hulu have made it more affordable to access a wide-range of titles from different TV networks and movie studios. But the availability of cheap content online has done little to curb piracy, according to research published in Management Science (paywall) last month. Customers who were offered free subscriptions to a video-on-demand package (SVOD) were just as likely to turn to piracy to find programming as those without the offering, researchers at Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics and Carnegie Mellon University found.

The researchers partnered with an unnamed internet-service provider -- in a region they chose not to disclose -- to offer customers who were already prone to piracy an on-demand package for free for 45 days. About 10,000 households participated in the study, and about half were given the free service. The on-demand service was packaged like Netflix or Hulu in layout, appearance, and scope of programming, but was delivered through a TV set-top box. It had a personalized recommendation engine that surfaced popular programming based on what those customers were already watching illegally through BitTorrent logs, which were obtained from a third-party firm. The study found that while the participants watched 4.6% more TV overall when they had the free on-demand service, they did not stop using BitTorrent to pirate movies and TV shows that were not included in the offering.

Not even free TV can get people to stop pirating movies and TV shows

This is the part everyone is missing. of course people are going to pirate shows that weren't included in the offering. It's not like they gave someone HBO and they STILL decided to pirate GoT. That would be crazy​