Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
by imglorp on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:13PM
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I've been tagged for torrenting things which were broadcast over the air. The way I saw it, there was no way to get the show on my device and on my schedule, and the content provider was actually getting someone watching their program--with ads intact--for no additional effort or expense on their part. Financially, they won. They didn't see it that way :)
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
by sosborn on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:08AM
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Financially they lost. They can’t sell advertising based on the number of people who pirate the show. Yeah, the advertisers made out (assuming you didn’t skip the ads) but the content producer did not.
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:23AM
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This was their choice. They could have simply made it available for streaming during or after the show was broadcast, adverts and all. It isn't like most folks I know sit there and watch adverts on "regular" channels anyway. They can offer an ad-free service for a charge. When they don't offer such things on a fairly broad (global) scale, I don't see how they can be surprised when folks watch it illegally. And I seriously don't understand why the courts aren't asking the providers to do such things.