like a rash that just won't respond to medication internet piracy is one of
those things that will never go away completely but for a time it seemed like
the movie and music industries had found a pretty good way to reduce it
everyone and their dog had a low cost
convenient subscription to netflix for tv and movies and to spotify for music
and times were good but recently piracy
is suddenly back on the rise why i mean it's not like the streaming
services themselves are becoming less popular in fact last year netflix usage
overtook cable tv subscriptions as it was estimated that 76 of us consumers
were subscribed to netflix compared to only 67 percent on cable but at the same
time traffic on bittorrent has surged
and while there are uses for torrenting other than piracy
let's be honest it's been one of the go-to services for people sharing
content illegally for quite some time so what's behind this then well funnily
enough the streaming services are currently in the process of making the
exact same mistakes that the cable industry did in years past ever since
valve launched steam for games it's been widely accepted that the surest way to
curb piracy is to make paying for content affordable and more convenient
than stealing but here's the rub when you pay for a streaming subscription
you're not just paying for the small handful of shows or movies that you
actually want to watch you're paying for that service's entire catalog and part
of the reason that people have been abandoning cable is that they don't want
to pay a hundred dollars a month for 200
channels that they don't care about now your average streaming service is
only 10 or 15 bucks a month and with the
variety that they've traditionally provided people found them much more
palatable and their popularity exploded the issue now is that both affordability
and variety are under fire
the reason is that content producers don't want to share their revenue with a
third-party platform and while netflix is known for producing its own catalog
of original shows most of its offerings
are still from other rights holders that have licensed netflix to carry their
shows and movies with netflix getting a cut of the profit so recently many
license holders have said to themselves hey
why are we giving netflix a cut when we could just launch our own streaming
service and keep all the revenue for ourselves and you know what yeah i can
see why that might be enticing after all if the customer paid 10 or 15 bucks to
watch movies once why wouldn't they do it again and then again
and then again well therein lies the issue this
approach has changed the streaming marketplace to one dominated by netflix
and to a lesser extent hulu to one where tons of services are popping up with
rather popular exclusives only available on one first party platform want to
watch game of thrones well it's an extra 15 bucks a month for hbo now even if
game of thrones is literally the only thing on the platform you care about fan
of the grand tour better get that amazon prime video star wars fan don't miss
disney's upcoming disney plus so then with all of these options you
can see how easily 10 or 15 dollars a month can turn into 60 or 75 or even
more depending on how many of these fragmented streaming services that you
need to subscribe to in order to see all your favorites
and then at that point we can see why people might begin to explore other
options the cost is now getting close to
a cable subscription and a freaking tivo box what here is it and as for the
convenience well that's where we can see how going back to piracy could certainly
seem appealing even if you can afford it
keeping up with all those different services can be a massive pain compared
to having one site that's your one-stop
shop with larger media companies seeming to be mostly on the cut out the
middleman train it looks like the only thing that might reverse this trend is
them taking an actual hit to their bottom line so i'm going to be
interested to see how the next couple of years play out
until then it might be worth putting an extra few dollars a month in the cookie jar if you
really can't get enough of stranger things
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