Netflix was hacked and the new season of Orange is the New Black was held for ransom. Netflix refused to pay, and the eps were apparently put on line. The organization is threatening to do the same with other network shows.
Question is: would you watch stolen shows or not?
I won’t, as it amounts to abetting a crime and is against my personal code. You?
No, why?
Then netflix goes out of business, and what? you have to watch stuff from some shady site with an iffy at best delivery model etc.
And, it’s stolen content, so no one that should be getting paid is
Nope.
No I won’t, but then I don’t watch any new TV shows from legitimate sources either.
Nah. I can wait.
Putting aside the moral issue, I’d be hesitant to go to a website that was operated by a bunch of cyber-criminals. Or even one that just had a lax enough attitude towards cybercrime that they’d allow the stolen shows to be posted on their site.
Y’know, when I don’t think too hard about it, I find that I hold a pretty naive, romantic idea about the sort of Robin Hood hackers that make media available to wider audiences. I haven’t partaken (with the possible exception of ignorantly watching readily available Youtube videos which were subsequently removed), but I like the idea that such things are available for people who would otherwise be effectively barred from enjoying various media.
Even people who do whatever browser magic they do to watch out-of-region Netflix shows, I can get behind.
This isn’t that. At all. Netflix is a part of the solution, not the problem, IMO, and these assholes are targeting a decent company for no good reason.
And I’m further personally annoyed that OITNB, and whatever other shows they release, will inevitably be spoilered for me.
I’d probably only do it if Netflix was refusing to “air”—well, “make available for viewing by paying customers.” Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, sadly—a produced show, or had pulled one, for some stupid reason. Like a censor got cold feet after they’d already filmed something, or some Protest Group™ threw a fit and demanded something be taken down For Great Justice, or some kind of weird political incident came about.
None of these seem especially likely, in regards to Netflix. But, hey, contingency planning. And…I have to admit, while I have the service, I don’t actually watch any Netflix original shows. None of 'em really appealed to me, is all. I’m just old and unhip.
Why would anyone watch it there? If you’re not a Netflix subscriber, you’re 4 seasons behind, and if you are a Netflix subscriber, you’ll get it all soon anyways.
Watching pirated shows makes sense if there’s no other way to legitimately see them, or if the cost is prohibitive, but in this case? Anyone who wants it can see it with virtually no effort, and entirely legally.
One of the reasons Netflix went global was to stop piracy. I have little sympathy for companies crying over so called millions of lost revenue. Yeah pirated content was seen in a market where it was not released and had no plans to be so released. No loss at all. In this case, it’s basically extortion. No way would I watch it.
Meh.
Netflix already has my money so whether I personally watch or not is irrelevant and quite frankly the people who will watch the pirated version probably would never have signed up for Netflix anyway.
Now, just to be clear, I’m not saying pirating is OK or inconsequential. I’m saying in this particular case the pirates have vastly overestimated the size of the sword they hold over the head of Netflix and may very well have bought themselves a world of shit. I’ll be curious to see how this plays out…
Hence why I am forced to find “ALL IN THE FAMILY” online, from less than reputable sources, otherwise an episode here or there is on, always when I am at work.
Nah. Even if it were a show I were into, it would be easy to wait. I don’t even have time to watch all of the shows I want to that I have legitimate access to.
When it comes to watching TV via other means I am far from innocent. But this seems a step too far and unnecessarily vindictive towards a pretty decent TV network. I won’t be supporting that, even though in the grand scheme of things I’m part of the problem.
If it is a choice between leaping through some online hoops in order to watch it NOW! or waiting a few weeks to get it through a stable, one-click, downloadable platform like Netflix, Amazon or iPlayer…I’m choosing the latter. I’m just not in that much of a rush, it isn’t like I’m short of other things to watch.
I want Netflix to prosper. I wouldn’t want to miss out on Stranger Things and Altered Carbon and the like. But since we already subscribe to Netflix … hmm … how long is it supposed to be until Netflix releases the episodes? Fortunately, I stopped watching this show after season 1 (I just never got back around to it when the new seasons came out) so I don’t have to resist the temptation.
No. The likelihood of being discovered or punished has no bearing on my decisions about theft. I don’t do it, period.
Blackmail is repugnant and a crime. No, I wouldn’t watch such pirated shows.
Also, what was mentioned up thread - why would I trust a website that dealt with such criminals? What next, when you go to watch the stuff they download ransomware to your computer and then hold your stuff for ransom? Fuck that.
I like Netflix. Although I’m eager to see the new season, I’ll do it on Netflix’ terms. (Netflix’s?).
There have been rumours that content owners have in the past purposely allowed their stuff to be leaked. Some of it is credible.
In this case, I have to wonder, is there any possibility Netflix trying to get into China, the one place where they don’t have a presence. And see this as an arrow to so get in?