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like a rash that just won't respond to medication internet piracy is one of

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those things that will never go away completely but for a time it seemed like

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the movie and music industries had found a pretty good way to reduce it

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everyone and their dog had a low cost

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convenient subscription to netflix for tv and movies and to spotify for music

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and times were good but recently piracy

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is suddenly back on the rise why i mean it's not like the streaming

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services themselves are becoming less popular in fact last year netflix usage

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overtook cable tv subscriptions as it was estimated that 76 of us consumers

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were subscribed to netflix compared to only 67 percent on cable but at the same

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time traffic on bittorrent has surged

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and while there are uses for torrenting other than piracy

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let's be honest it's been one of the go-to services for people sharing

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content illegally for quite some time so what's behind this then well funnily

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enough the streaming services are currently in the process of making the

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exact same mistakes that the cable industry did in years past ever since

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valve launched steam for games it's been widely accepted that the surest way to

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curb piracy is to make paying for content affordable and more convenient

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than stealing but here's the rub when you pay for a streaming subscription

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you're not just paying for the small handful of shows or movies that you

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actually want to watch you're paying for that service's entire catalog and part

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of the reason that people have been abandoning cable is that they don't want

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to pay a hundred dollars a month for 200

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channels that they don't care about now your average streaming service is

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only 10 or 15 bucks a month and with the

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variety that they've traditionally provided people found them much more

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palatable and their popularity exploded the issue now is that both affordability

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and variety are under fire

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the reason is that content producers don't want to share their revenue with a

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third-party platform and while netflix is known for producing its own catalog

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of original shows most of its offerings

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are still from other rights holders that have licensed netflix to carry their

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shows and movies with netflix getting a cut of the profit so recently many

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license holders have said to themselves hey

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why are we giving netflix a cut when we could just launch our own streaming

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service and keep all the revenue for ourselves and you know what yeah i can

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see why that might be enticing after all if the customer paid 10 or 15 bucks to

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watch movies once why wouldn't they do it again and then again

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and then again well therein lies the issue this

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approach has changed the streaming marketplace to one dominated by netflix

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and to a lesser extent hulu to one where tons of services are popping up with

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rather popular exclusives only available on one first party platform want to

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watch game of thrones well it's an extra 15 bucks a month for hbo now even if

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game of thrones is literally the only thing on the platform you care about fan

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of the grand tour better get that amazon prime video star wars fan don't miss

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disney's upcoming disney plus so then with all of these options you

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can see how easily 10 or 15 dollars a month can turn into 60 or 75 or even

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more depending on how many of these fragmented streaming services that you

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need to subscribe to in order to see all your favorites

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and then at that point we can see why people might begin to explore other

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options the cost is now getting close to

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a cable subscription and a freaking tivo box what here is it and as for the

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convenience well that's where we can see how going back to piracy could certainly

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seem appealing even if you can afford it

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keeping up with all those different services can be a massive pain compared

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to having one site that's your one-stop

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shop with larger media companies seeming to be mostly on the cut out the

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middleman train it looks like the only thing that might reverse this trend is

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them taking an actual hit to their bottom line so i'm going to be

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interested to see how the next couple of years play out

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until then it might be worth putting an extra few dollars a month in the cookie jar if you

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really can't get enough of stranger things

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