Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms

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Re: Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms

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Post by solatic » Wed, Nov 04, 2020, 11:33 AM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #41

solatic wrote: post #27

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Basically because of the division between publishers and distributors. Publishers make deals with different distributors in different countries, and some (many) of these distribution deals are exclusive. For example, Universal signs a deal with a UK channel that includes the exclusive right to distribute in the UK. These exclusivity deals are mutually beneficial - Universal has less deal-signing overhead in dealing w…

I think it's because of price discrimination. Same reason why there are "international" versions of text books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination If you have a good whose marginal costs is very small, then once it has been created, the optimal method to sell it is to sell it to each person for the maximum amount they are able and willing to pay. Obviously, people in poorer countries aren't able to pa…

The original exclusivity deals between publishers and legacy distributors, of course, are not for standard prices. Different distributors in different regions are able to pay different amounts - largely, the distributors in richer regions are able to charge more and pay the publisher more than distributors in poorer regions.

Regardless, streaming distributors still need to work within the framework of the pre-existing deals that the publisher has already committed to.

Re: Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms

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Post by syntheticnature » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 9:21 PM UTC

freeflight wrote: post #55

nostromo wrote: post #31

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> Now I'm supposed to have Disney+, CBS All Access, HBO Max, Peacock, etc., and that list will probably grow I honestly don't see why anyone needs more than maybe two streaming services. Do you really need to see everything ? Even during the pandemic, two seems to be plenty for most families. Imagine arguing that movies are too expensive now because you have to see a movie every day. The obvious solution is to priori…

> Do you really need to see everything? It's not about seeing everything , it's about seeing what's good, and how that's scattered across a dozen or more services where it's buried under mostly mediocre/bad content. Sure, sometimes there's an option to just rent/buy digitally, but often that ends up being way more expensive than just buying a physical blu-ray version. Case in point: If I wanted to stream Battlestar G…

The virtual version doesn't take up space. Physical items occupy space so after a while they want to discount them to since that's costing them money to store. Digital items won't go away even if they put them on sale, and hard drive space is cheap.

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