That is a bad news. If the movie industry succeeds in getting rid of privacy, the prices of Netflix subscriptions, BR disks, movie tickets, etc. will go way way up ... And those money won't go anywhere near the artists and other content producers. Plus ppl will be unable to use free software like Linux and Firefox to watch movies.
Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US
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#92When oh when will I finally be able to become a Netflix customer in Germany without having to deal with proxys, VPNs, etc?
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#93And yet, there's still nothing in Europe that has "all you can eat" streaming, just $7.50 movie rentals for movies from 2006...
Well, we can access everything through http://www.unblock-us.com/ for $55 a year and the US has been kind enough to provide an USD:EUR exchange rate of almost 3:2 so for the price of a single movie you can get a month long subscription to Netflix.
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#94The article doesn't actually offer any evidence, apart from the fact that Netflix has doubled its subscribers.
The correlation is relevant. Compare to claims that piracy decreases sales.
But they don't highlight any correlation. A correlation requires two trends, but they only describe one. Is piracy going down? They don't say.
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It could be a network issue - but one that has followed me through two apartments, three routers, and four computers. The only constants in the equation have been Time Warner Cable and me. No matter what the cause, however, the fact is that streaming media is vulnerable to network issues, and downloaded media is not. It may take longer to get, but once you have it, you know you have it. I think your point about slopp…
Well, Time Warner Cable is a terrible network. So I think his point still stands. It might not seem like a big deal but IMO, the difference between occasional High speed internet and Actual High speed internet is huge. I am literally willing to pay several hundred a month extra to have an apartment connected to FIOS on top of what FIOS actually costs.
I've got TWC (Milwaukee area) and only very rarely have I had a movie hiccup on Netflix. If I do, refreshing the page usually fixes it.
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But I'd be much faster to pay 15-20 than 65+(15 to 20)=80+ and watch 5 channels + HBO.
I think cable misses an opportunity by forcing you to have a heap of channels you don't want just to get the stuff you do. I'd pay somewhere around $20 a month to get the probably 5 or so channels of any interest.
So.. what opportunity are they missing? The opportunity to get less money from their customers? Doesn't sound like much of an opportunity to me.
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#97Correlation != (causation || identity).
For all we know, bittorrent rates could be falling for another reason and American consumers could be responding to this by opting for netflix.
Come on... everybody should know this...
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Yeah, and the studios just gave up 60% of their profit. They'll never sign that deal.
20c then. That is still more than they get if we just forage the movie.
You're forgetting to factor in how much money they lose if the people paying $200 a month for PPV and premium channels just switch to paying $15 a month for Netflix.
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I think cable misses an opportunity by forcing you to have a heap of channels you don't want just to get the stuff you do. I'd pay somewhere around $20 a month to get the probably 5 or so channels of any interest.
So.. what opportunity are they missing? The opportunity to get less money from their customers? Doesn't sound like much of an opportunity to me.
The opportunity is that they could have more customers. Many people are canceling their cable subscriptions because the price is too high for the value it offers. If cable companies allowed customers to have only a few channels that they cared about for a lower fee, many of these people would keep some level of cable subscription.
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#100The article doesn't actually offer any evidence, apart from the fact that Netflix has doubled its subscribers.
That's one of the reasons I've never liked torrentfreak as a news source. A lot of their writing is also just focusing on worst-case scenarios. If you read torrentfreak daily you'd probably believe the internet is about to collapse as we know it any second.