Sounds weird. I started pirating again because the companies are fucking greedy. So nothing they do will make me pay again, until they stop being so greedy - if they all consolidate into one streaming service for a price of like $10, I’ll probably stop pirating again, because at that point it’s easier to not pirate.
Thing is, you’ll talk to people about the shows and movies you liked. You’ll recommend them. You’ll discuss them online. Maybe just upvote a post talking about them, make it more visible.
And someone who doesn’t pirate will see that, and pay to watch it. (And, in turn, also promote it like you did.)
If the product is good enough (and if people are pirating it it probably is), piracy is free publicity.
And if it’s not good enough, people won’t be pirating it anyway.
So, given that you wouldn’t have paid for it anyway, it works out that piracy provides a net benefit for the producers… and for society as a whole, since it incentivises them to make their products good enough to attract pirates, thus raising the average quality of entertainment.
EDIT: also, for the same reason they should be giving their product for free to reaction channels and even paying them (like game companies — Nintendon’t excluded — already do with YouTube reviewers), since it’s cheaper and more effective than normal advertising.
If they consolidated it all into a streaming service that was 30, even 40 bucks a month, I’d seriously consider it. Provided it was ad-free at that price point.
Sounds weird. I started pirating again because the companies are fucking greedy. So nothing they do will make me pay again, until they stop being so greedy - if they all consolidate into one streaming service for a price of like $10, I’ll probably stop pirating again, because at that point it’s easier to not pirate.
Thing is, you’ll talk to people about the shows and movies you liked. You’ll recommend them. You’ll discuss them online. Maybe just upvote a post talking about them, make it more visible.
And someone who doesn’t pirate will see that, and pay to watch it. (And, in turn, also promote it like you did.)
If the product is good enough (and if people are pirating it it probably is), piracy is free publicity.
And if it’s not good enough, people won’t be pirating it anyway.
So, given that you wouldn’t have paid for it anyway, it works out that piracy provides a net benefit for the producers… and for society as a whole, since it incentivises them to make their products good enough to attract pirates, thus raising the average quality of entertainment.
EDIT: also, for the same reason they should be giving their product for free to reaction channels and even paying them (like game companies — Nintendon’t excluded — already do with YouTube reviewers), since it’s cheaper and more effective than normal advertising.
Ppl that pirate are prob more vocal with their opinion online
If they consolidated it all into a streaming service that was 30, even 40 bucks a month, I’d seriously consider it. Provided it was ad-free at that price point.
Yeah, my main motivation in setting up Jellyfin was to have everything in one place.
No more having to check which service has it, only to find that 20 year old movie can only be rented for £6.99.
I’d probably pay the cost of 2 streaming services, in order to have a single service that has literally everything on it, and keeps it on it.
even if they conslidated, they cycle stuff in and out and some stuff never gets cycled in