The way studios offer their wares to consumers is so outdated and has not kept up with technology, it is surprising that people look for other ways to view content in a timely fashion.
Studios themselves should be offering people the ability to watch a movie on release that is current with peoples needs and wallets. For too long greed and threatening the big carrot has been the way which simply doesnt work any more.
Television is worse, with so many differing world deals restricting watching content so a few elephants such as NZ Sky TV can make even more money. Just how many different subscriptions are we going to have to subscribe in order to see what is on offer. At least the networks are finally getting their acts together by offering current programming. They still have a ways to go.
Key is to make it cheap enough for the world to watch so those with the investment can get their deserved rewards. Even itunes is way overpriced, but the delivery model is at least current with technology and needs.
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Totally this. The ironic thing is that persisting with their old behaviour and continuing to try and force people to only consume content on their terms, following their timelines and with silly regional pricing, the major studios have almost trained a whole generation that pirating is the most convenient and cheap way to get content... If I torrent a movie I get a completely DRM free copy that I can keep forever, format shift as I like, is often encoded and compressed better than the studios manage left to their own devices, and doesn't force me to sit through 10 minutes of scaremongering telling me how I'm like a burglar, car thief or mugger...
(EDIT: I should say I'm not completely against DRM as long as it's unobtrusive and "just works" - unfortunately the two are often mutually exclusive it seems...)
the annoying thing is, is you can buy a bluray, rip it to mkv and do all that, its just work. its so much easier to acquire by other means.
If you were able to buy a movie DRM free (too many devices won't support the DRM, raspberry pi, linux etc), for a reasonable fee ($25 a movie is too much IMO), then I'd happily buy more movies.
Subscription services like netflix is a great alternatives, but often a movie isnt available. I would happily pay 3 times as much as I pay now for netflix if the had waaaayyyy more movies.
I was a bit scared to google the meaning of this in case the answer wasn't family friendly, but it's okay. Sending the evil pirates to Ohakune is a great idea.
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