YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals

Post by nailer » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:47 PM UTC

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> Why they don't chuck it on iPlayer is beyond me. Because they would devalue new productions. The more license-payers watch old movies, the less they will watch Top Gear or Strictly or whatever it's supposed to be big now. This would mean less interest in new productions, less stuff sold by BBCWorld (or whatever it's called these days), less money going around... like all companies and organisations, the BBC wants t…

No, I believe it's because it's against the law. They have rules on what they can and can't do because they're publicly funded. It's to allow the commercial operators a way to compete. And even if it's not, they have to operate in a political context, the Tories are always looking for an excuse to shutdown the BBC so their donors can pillage the public commons and eat the corpse.

Post by Spivak » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:49 PM UTC

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Exactly, convenience is the most important part and here is where netflix et al has failed miserably. 1. All clients suck immensely . 2. The catalog is really poor. 3. DRM. I don't think you could describe inconvenient better than with those three letters. If I could pay, say $30 a month, to legally pirate (not from any official source even) any movie/series I want I'd pay that in a heartbeat ($30 is still more than…

I'll grant you #2 since tastes vary and even the catalog varies from month to month. But for the vast majority of people, #1 isn't true, and #3 is irrelevant. Neflix's (growing) subscriber numbers are all the evidence you need for that.

Post by paulie_a » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:54 PM UTC

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How is subscribing to HBO inconvenient? It's a combination of price and convenience. There's some upper limit to the monthly price you (and everyone else) is willing to pay for content.

HBO Now is a much worse experience than torrents. The navigation is slow, the updates to new episodes are poorly placed under a bunch of clicks, there are ads for other hbo shows over and over (even after I watched every single West world episode they still show me ads about a “new show”), streaming bugs (Although this improved quite a bit). It wasn’t the price that moved me away from HBONow, it was their lack of con…

Post by eaenki » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #15

You know what's interesting? A Decentralised media platform used to be huge and actually is still huge: Torrents. There's a huge community that consumes media that's not hosted anywhere particular and there are apps like Popcorn Time that offer viewing experience almost as good as Netflix. The problem, of course, is that up until now there was no way to reward the creators and almost all the media consumed on Torrent…

Post by sparkzilla » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #117

mrtksn wrote: post #15

You know what's interesting? A Decentralised media platform used to be huge and actually is still huge: Torrents. There's a huge community that consumes media that's not hosted anywhere particular and there are apps like Popcorn Time that offer viewing experience almost as good as Netflix. The problem, of course, is that up until now there was no way to reward the creators and almost all the media consumed on Torrent…

Perhaps the biggest problem with Youtube is discoverability. Youtube's algorithms determine what you will see next. How is that solved on the decentralized platforms? How does discoverability work, what assumptions does it make, and can it be "gamed"?