Take my money, HBO

Post by gizzlon » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:40 AM UTC

waterlesscloud wrote: post #228

masklinn wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Watercooler discussion is the rationale now? No, it's an argument . And it's got nothing to do with "watercooler discussions", people can talk without involving you, people can talk at the bar, people will talk, art is not just a personal experience it's also a social one and the social part is actually important — hell, there are a number of cases where it's fundamental. It's especially the case for TV series (wit…

So you want the experience without compensating the people who made the experience possible. It's entirely possible to compensate them if the experience is valuable to you. Not doing so is wrong. Sorry, but that's how I see it.

Post by Jabbles » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:45 AM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #22

dfc wrote: post #6

As an American I'd rather sign up for "Take My Money BBC."

Would you pay $225 a year? That's how much it costs a Briton. ("The annual cost of a colour TV licence is £145.50")

Post by gizzlon » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:50 AM UTC

cremnob wrote: post #235

trotsky wrote: post #107

I worked on several commercial digital music projects in the time span between early napster and entrenched itunes. One regularly repeated meme of the era was that people didn't want to pirate music, they just wanted it "as easy" or "no drm" or "ala carte" or "all you can eat". While statistically these were all guaranteed to be true for at least some users, in aggregate they were red herrings. The industry was in th…

I think people have an entitlement attitude about digital content (movies, music, software, games, etc) that doesn't exist for other tangible products. And I think this entitlement has come out of being able to get away with stealing the content easily. Many people can't afford/don't want to pay for a Rolls Royce, they aren't their target market, but they don't feel entitled to drive one. So they don't go out and ste…

Post by masklinn » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 11:26 AM UTC

waterlesscloud wrote: post #228

masklinn wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Watercooler discussion is the rationale now? No, it's an argument . And it's got nothing to do with "watercooler discussions", people can talk without involving you, people can talk at the bar, people will talk, art is not just a personal experience it's also a social one and the social part is actually important — hell, there are a number of cases where it's fundamental. It's especially the case for TV series (wit…

So you want the experience without compensating the people who made the experience possible. It's entirely possible to compensate them if the experience is valuable to you. Not doing so is wrong. Sorry, but that's how I see it.

Post by antihero » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 11:28 AM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #60

jquery wrote: post #15

I pay $30/month to watch Starcraft 2 tournaments on GomTV.net. I pay $0/month to watch Game of Thrones, Veep, Girls, and True Blood. I will continue to pay $0 until there is an option that does not involve enriching evil cable executives. Your move, HBO.

How can you possibly claim some sort of moral high ground when you're saying "I like the content you produce but don't agree with the methods you use to charge for it so I'm going to steal it!". If you don't agree with their distribution methods then DON'T CONSUME THAT CONTENT.