I just read that and other articles on Torrentfreak, did that site slowly become an industry mouthpiece lol?
Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms
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#12It's not just the movie industry. It's also the sports tv industry.
I'm ok coughing up the money required for the NHL subscription for the season, but I still can't watch my hometown team live without a blackout.
And you wonder why people VPN.
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#13We should let their obsolete business models fail instead of writing new laws in defiance of the reality of digital communication.
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#14Movie industry: we're not going to give a bunch of people any way to pay us for our content. Also movie industry: why are so many people watching our content without paying us for it?
I live in the nordics, and I can't show my kid Netflix kids' content in my native central european language because only nordic languages are licenced here.
If you don't want me to get smart on using VPN's, maybe it's time to evaluate your licensing system first..
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#15Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They had a good thing going for a while, and it looked like Netflix and Amazon were headed in the direction of the music-streaming landscape -- basically all the providers have pretty much all the content -- but then greed took over and the current "exclusives"-situation is veering back to the cable-tv structure.
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#16Honest question, why does region locking exist?
Usually it's all about money, but what is such a strong incentive that makes it sensible to decline getting money from customers?
Laziness? Local laws? Some complicated scheme where it costs more money than it makes?
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#17This is the problem with modern copyright. Content creators needs to be paid, but they should not be in control of what the public can do with their shows. We need a standard price to pay for a standard license.
Heck let them set their own price, but any special deal should be considered a breach of the monopoly they have been granted - no more favoring one streaming service over another. No more region or geolock.
Since they are so happy about tell us that we have brought a CD, not its contents I should be allowed to get that content however I want and pay a standard fee in a standard way.
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#18Honest question, why does region locking exist? Usually it's all about money, but what is such a strong incentive that makes it sensible to decline getting money from customers? Laziness? Local laws? Some complicated scheme where it costs more money than it makes?
Because some countries don't allow certain types of media to be accesses/broadcasted/consumed. If a streaming/broadcasting business wants to operate in that country they will have to follow the local laws.
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#19Well hey, that's what happens when you turn streaming into cable . I had Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu subscriptions last year. Today, I have none of those, except for one or two video purchases I made on Amazon. Now I'm supposed to have Disney+, CBS All Access, HBO Max, Peacock, etc., and that list will probably grow. And we're at a low point in what we consider entertainment. It's bread and circuses up the wazoo. And n…
"A la carte" was proposed for a long time as "here's what's wrong with cable" and overall it's definitely better now. I pay less for a few services, and can switch them in and out, than I did for cable.
But people got unrealistic expectations of total price from the first few years of Netflix and Hulu prices + library. That stuff was always gonna get more expensive as the market moved to streaming.
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#20You guys could accept, or I can go back to torrent. Your choise.