The cost of having the show is already sunk, right, now that they're already performing why shouldn't I be allowed to just sneak in to watch for free, it doesn't take anything from them materially
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I mean, I think this is a totally backwards. Steam and Netflix and etc. are DRM’d but their success doesn’t come from them being huge pains in the ass to get around; they’re successful as services because they offer a big convenience gain over retail outlets.
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They're a convenience gain BOTH over retail stores they were competing with AND torrenting They have to beat both, because they're competing against both
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People are trying to reconstruct the Old World and I think the old school crusaders trying to put a stop to it - "When did you all accept you don't really own the data on your device?" - are spitting into the wind as much as people who hoped the Internet itself would go away
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I mean, at this stage the solution is pretty much just Patreon right? The model is basically provide for free and hope that one in ten of your customers voluntarily pays ten times more than what it would have cost them paid.
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I'm not entirely sure that Netflix is long-term profitable, but we'll see how it goes. On the other hand, broadcast television was always free and ad-supported.
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