freitasm: CallPlus just issued this statement:

Callplus, and its subsidiaries Slingshot, Orcon and Flip, strongly believe that access to the internet via Global Mode is completely legal.

The threat of legal action by TVNZ, Mediaworks, SKY and Spark is merely an attempt to restrict consumer choice in favour of their profits.

These companies want to control the internet. They want to restrict what Kiwis can do online.

To claim it’s a business to business issue is nonsense. This is an issue that impacts every Kiwi consumer. These four large corporates want to dictate what you can watch, when you can watch it, and how much you pay for it.

We are in an era of change. The traditional TV model is changing. These companies need to change with it.

Trying to restrict what you do online is old school non Internet thinking, and shows just how out of touch they are.

The Kiwi public are behind us – just look at the comments on news articles over the past days. These companies need to listen to their audience, and work harder to give consumers what they want.

freitasm: This is so funny it hurts. 

wingbat45: Here is the way I look at this.

Say you have a Video you produced and sent to your mate and as a condition of him (or her) receiving the video, they agreed not to share it with anyone.

MileHighKiwi:

freitasm: CallPlus just issued this statement:

Callplus, and its subsidiaries Slingshot, Orcon and Flip, strongly believe that access to the internet via Global Mode is completely legal.

The threat of legal action by TVNZ, Mediaworks, SKY and Spark is merely an attempt to restrict consumer choice in favour of their profits.

These companies want to control the internet. They want to restrict what Kiwis can do online.

To claim it’s a business to business issue is nonsense. This is an issue that impacts every Kiwi consumer. These four large corporates want to dictate what you can watch, when you can watch it, and how much you pay for it.

We are in an era of change. The traditional TV model is changing. These companies need to change with it.

Trying to restrict what you do online is old school non Internet thinking, and shows just how out of touch they are.

The Kiwi public are behind us – just look at the comments on news articles over the past days. These companies need to listen to their audience, and work harder to give consumers what they want.

Wow, that's a big middle finger to the 'establishment', lol. Good on them, they're sticking to their guns and believe they are not breaking any laws.

This is gona get interesting.

Benoire:
Is this something that others can see because it is a worry to me that by allowing access to international streams, you are no longer providing local broadcasters with as high a revenue stream and that could be disastrous for all parties.

Benoire:
The Sky example is fairly obvious (although Sport may still save it), but TVNZ for example has the rights to the Vampire Diaries and so an ad company will be confident of getting a good viewing hit on the ads paid for that show, now if you can get the Vampire Diaries by other means that do not pay TVNZ for their ad time, the ad money received by TVNZ may diminish as the ad companies will no longer be confident in getting a large amount of hits and this will affect TVNZs ability to purchase new content.

richms:

Benoire:
Is this something that others can see because it is a worry to me that by allowing access to international streams, you are no longer providing local broadcasters with as high a revenue stream and that could be disastrous for all parties.

To they can either evolve to deal with the change in marketplace or they can die.

jarledb:

Benoire:
The Sky example is fairly obvious (although Sport may still save it), but TVNZ for example has the rights to the Vampire Diaries and so an ad company will be confident of getting a good viewing hit on the ads paid for that show, now if you can get the Vampire Diaries by other means that do not pay TVNZ for their ad time, the ad money received by TVNZ may diminish as the ad companies will no longer be confident in getting a large amount of hits and this will affect TVNZs ability to purchase new content.

I know how that works in other markets, and advertisers pay based on viewers that see the ad, based on a poll of viewers with equipment that measures which channels they watch and when.

So the content being available in a million other places does not matter if, say TVNZs, viewership keeps up and they watch the same shows.

Competition like Netflix and other VOD services will make it harder to be a traditional broadcaster. What I would expect the TV-channels that want to survive to do is to produce more local and engaging content where people can participate through social media in real time as it happens. (Like X-factor, Idol, and other such programs).

Showing the same series you can get anywhere else will get less and less valuable for traditional TV as viewers get smarter in their consummation of the content. Personally I have been done with having to deal with TV-schedules for many years and couldn't imaging going back to it.

richms:

wingbat45: Here is the way I look at this.

Say you have a Video you produced and sent to your mate and as a condition of him (or her) receiving the video, they agreed not to share it with anyone.

So you are likening netflix with kiddy pron and snuff videos? Ok.

Benoire:  
I guess one of my main fears is that the whole internet TV revolution removes the ease of the TV control for selecting shows and may require individual apps to access content with no central management or remind function... Now, imagine if all these apps where only available on Samsung devices and local domestic programming had nothing so you had to use a webpage... I can't imagine anything worse!