I got a call from Comast about a SPECIAL CHEAP DEAL!! of $70 a month for cable and internet, which then goes up after six months. I couldn’t even imagine paying that much for cable anymore. We just use Hulu and Netflix.
But if Hulu goes through with this plan we’ll cut that out, as well.
I don’t have an issue with torrenting, per se, but I won’t due it. I want Archer and Community to have my money. I had the season pass for Archer from Amazon and the day after the episode aired it’d be pushed to my Kindle Fire. It was worth it.
I’ve already bought an episode of Community (Pillows and Blankets. My favorite episode), and if Hulu cuts I’ll buy more. I really only watch a very few tv shows, so it isn’t going to hurt financially.
I agree with the OP that this is more likely to cause the death of Hulu than a big surge of cable subscribers. “Cord-cutters” aren’t suddenly going to be ok when their hulu bills jump by $100 a month to prop up failing technology.
This articlemakes it sound more like cable verification would be for those who watch hulu for free right now and/or for those who get next-day access for free. It also makes the change sound less imminent.
I’ll be pissed if they do restrict all content to cable subscribers, but it will not be enough to make me go back to paying exorbitant amounts of money for cable. If I could pay for only the channels I’ll watch, then I’d consider it, but I don’t like the cable companies’ pricing system, and they can suck it. Why should I pay for shopping channels and 67 news channels when all I want is Discovery and Comedy Central?
I already watch a lot less TV than I was watching a couple of years ago, and that’s probably a good thing. I choose what to watch instead of mindlessly letting the TV chatter away while I flip channels. If the few shows I still watch suddenly become unavailable to me, well, I guess I’ll read more books, while I wait for my shows to become available on Netflix. Until, of course, the inevitable happens and Netflix jacks up their rates and/or the big media companies stop giving them rights to stuff.
It already irks me that cable companies hock their wares as such a deal just for basic channels, including NBC, FOX, ABC, etc. Ooh, such a deal! What? I get those for free. FREE. WTF do I want to get a good deal on cable or dish when I get that shit in high def over the air? I ditched cable back in 2006 or so, and hell will freeze over before I go back. I’ll just - stop watching stuff.
No one else is at all concerned that the link provided is from bangstyle.com… a hair styling site? We all know the most accurate news comes from the beauty parlor.
I did a search, and found one other report on EW (Entertainment Weekly) that had basically the same report but with the addition “… Eventually.” The other was about a Time Warner Exec who thinks this is a good idea to consider.
I think I’ll panic later (ok, not really, I have my internet and tv through cable so it won’t affect me at all).
This quote may be helpful…“Bewkes was responding to a question on rumors that Hulu will start requiring users to prove that they have a cable TV subscription before using its service.”
And please don’t post ridiculously simple minded rationalizations for breaking the law and ripping off content creators that have already been debunked on countless other threads here. Yes, we get it, you’re a parasite who doesn’t care if the people creating the things they watch (listen to/play/etc.) won’t be getting any money for their hard work. No, that doesn’t make you more intelligent or “crafty” than anyone else. That just makes you a thief, and a sadly deluded one at that.
You can’t “steal” a copy. People can make illicit copies, and even break the law in so doing, but that doesn’t make them “thieves” because they aren’t taking anything–they’re making a copy. And there’s already a useful term for people who do this, namely “pirate.” And calling pirates thieves is reactionary knee-jerk bullshit. Overstating your case isn’t likely to win it.
You can call it whatever you want and write long posts proving those who pirate are directly causing the death of small puppies, won’t change a thing in the long run. Most people crave ease of use, they would rather pay a friendly merchant a dollar for a sandwich rather than walk ten miles to get a free one. But make that sandwich merchant the soup nazi and charge a grand for it and that long walk starts looking very attractive. You can bleat but its wrong, no one cares.
They’re stealing intellectual property, as well as future revenue for the copyright holders.
Your attempt to yoke the argument with semantics about word definitions is doomed to failure. The word ‘thief’ has been applied to these types of crimes almost as long as they’ve existed. Only recently, however, have thieves attempted to abrogate themselves of culpability by changing the definition of the word. It wasn’t a convincing argument when it first began to circulate, and it’s not a convincing argument now. IP thieves can fill a library with their ill-formed, prejudicial, and bullshit claims about what constitutes theft. It doesn’t matter. The law recognizes it as theft and so do the people who control the English language, which is everybody who speaks it, basically.
So until you can convince the world that IP theft isn’t theft, color me unimpressed with your pedantry.
Oh no they might have to start making TV shows that only cost $1 million USD per episode! :eek:
At this point the TV industry and media industries as a whole are so set in their ways and locked down in commitment to failed methods that it will probably take a total implosion(which will probably never happen) to restore some sanity and new thinking into the industry. Until that time comes they are ALWAYS ALWAYS still of the mindset they can win somehow and go back to 1980, they have never embraced the new reality.
To me hulu was a rip roaring success, it got people who were using torrents and providing no revenue aside from word of mouth to actually watch ads, but the industry has done nothing but bitch. They have done nothing but bitch and hike rates for Netflix which was one of the few companies smart enough to move into the brave new world of the 00’s, they should be thanking Netflix. Oh and if you’re outside the USA and get that “sorry no ads for you” message well WHY AREN’T THEY FINDING ADS IN EVERY COUNTRY? No its easier to bitch about the good old days.
Funny thing is people don’t NEED the latest show about doctors fucking in broom closets, its a fun diversion but its not needed. And you make the terms too onerous and guess what? People will just pirate or not care at all, they aren’t going to die without soap operas and cheesy sci fi. I think the industry should tread lightly.
It doesn’t matter whether it convinces you. That is what the people who do this believe. Putting your fingers in your ears and shouting “Thief” isn’t going to make them stop.
The world already believes that “IP theft” isn’t theft. That’s why people do it. :smack: Sitting back as you do with your moral superiority isn’t going to change anything any more than abstinence-based sex ed will keep teens from catching STDs or having babies.
And the idea that it’s always been thought of as theft shows again how off in your own world you are. When you made mix tapes as a kid, did you think about how you were stealing the songs? When you recorded them off the radio? Heck, when you go to a library, do you think about how you are stealing the author’s intellectual property to their story since multiple people are getting it out of the same book?
Sorry, but people don’t think of intellectual property the same way as they do real property. And all the whining about how people should isn’t going to change that.
But, go ahead. Keep on attacking the very people you are trying to convince to not do it. See how well it works.
Hell the media companies have never learned this lesson, and anytime it looks like they might be making progress they reveal another childish attempt to strike once again :rolleyes:
When your opposition is inherently evil and wrong you tend not to make progress in negotiation.