Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US
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Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US
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#2I don't find this surprising. "Piracy" is the expression of a market that is unserved, which is to say that a product is offered at price X, the consumers price is Y which is The MPAA and RIAA and a bounty of plaintiff lawyers are trying to increase the cost of the risk, and people like Netflix are getting the price paid by the consumer below X.
When the inequality ceases to hold, people switch into being paying customers.
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#3Makes sense to me.
If you torrent a movie, you have to find it from a decent place (otherwise it could be a completely different movie, shitty release etc) then you may need to find captions for it, if you need them. This kind of thing isn't actually easy for non-technical people.
However I think it comes down to the fact: most people want to pay but shit is just so expensive otherwise.
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#4The article doesn't actually offer any evidence, apart from the fact that Netflix has doubled its subscribers.
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#5I don't find this surprising. "Piracy" is the expression of a market that is unserved, which is to say that a product is offered at price X, the consumers price is Y which is The MPAA and RIAA and a bounty of plaintiff lawyers are trying to increase the cost of the risk, and people like Netflix are getting the price paid by the consumer below X. When the inequality ceases to hold, people switch into being paying cust…
Actually, I dont buy this due to the fact that piracy is largly around fresh content, where netflix movie library is fairly old.
Sure, it is getting better titles all the time - but given the fact that hollywood thinks that paying $30 to see a movie at home after it has been in the theatres for 60 (or was it 90) days is a viable price - You will always see piracy of the latest content.
Further - given the quality of many of the movies that get released it is even more reasonable to expect this to continue.
What will be interesting is when we see the first ever movie exclusively made for netflix streaming.
That will denote a new era.
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#6Easy trumps free.
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#7From personal experience, this is only partially the case. Netflix IS more convenient and the cost is minimal, but their library is limited. I can download any movie/show I can think of via "alternative" means. That's not the case with Netflix, especially when dealing with foreign media that requires subtitles. Netflix still has a long way to go before I no longer have uTorrent running 24/7.
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#8When I want to watch a movie, the first place I go to is netflix. I won't tell you the second place I go to.
I'd pay an extra 5 bucks a month if it could increase the rate at which netflix lets me "play now" movies. Yes, some movies I specifically want to get on bluray, but there are plenty of others that video quality matters very little to me.
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#9I don't find this surprising. "Piracy" is the expression of a market that is unserved, which is to say that a product is offered at price X, the consumers price is Y which is The MPAA and RIAA and a bounty of plaintiff lawyers are trying to increase the cost of the risk, and people like Netflix are getting the price paid by the consumer below X. When the inequality ceases to hold, people switch into being paying cust…
Actually, I dont buy this due to the fact that piracy is largly around fresh content, where netflix movie library is fairly old. Sure, it is getting better titles all the time - but given the fact that hollywood thinks that paying $30 to see a movie at home after it has been in the theatres for 60 (or was it 90) days is a viable price - You will always see piracy of the latest content. Further - given the quality of…
"Actually, I dont buy this due to the fact that piracy is largly around fresh content, where netflix movie library is fairly old."
Do you have a citation for this? All of the places where people put numbers to piracy that I've seen (like the lawsuits against various anonymous folks) seem to span a whole range of content from older stuff to newer stuff.
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#10Easy trumps free.
Flat rate also trumps free. That's why Netflix is better than Comcast on-demand (at $1 to $5 per movie) -- I want the ability to turn off a movie after 20 minutes if it is junk, without feeling like I just wasted a couple Washingtons or a Lincoln.