My idea for the movie industry's piracy "problem"

Another example. I'm not cherry picking btw, I can give you 100s.

True Detective 2 starts tomorrow night. It's on Sky which I don't subscribe to simply because I don't watch TV.

Ok, let's say I pay xxx amount and lock myself up in a 12 month contract, purely to watch one series. That wouldn't be enough as I now need to buy an extra package as it's not available on the standard package. So now I'm paying (in NZD) 60-70 a month just to watch a series.

What do you think I'm going to do when I wake up tomorrow and it's sitting on a torrent site, freshly baked in 1080p?

Honestly man, make it available sensibly and people will start spending money
 
FoxEye said:
I wait until games are £5 or less before buying. Why not? They all inevitably end up that price.

I would not throw away £30 on a videogame. Madness.
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£30 is nothing if the game is really good and keeps you entertained for hours or even if its a shorter game is a great experience, too many games are barely worth £5 but I like to support people who make games I do like.
 
Switzerland commissioned an independent study on the influence of purchasing piracy has on the market.

They found people who pirate, tend to buy more than people who don't.

So Switzerland made downloading legal... guess what... the industry isn't suffering in that country ;)
 
Eulogy said:
I for one would be happy to pay £15 a month to get a service that could let me watch shows/films as they are shown (in the case of films parity with BR release not cinema), offline cache everything (or stuff I choose), and doesn't have ridiculous licensing issues.
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A certain large cinema chain provides a "watch as many films at our cinemas" for £14.60 per month!
 
Ace Modder said:
A certain large cinema chain provides a "watch as many films at our cinemas" for £14.60 per month!
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I did this when I was young, free and single. (It was only £10 a month back then).

Now if I want to take the family to the cinema, it's nearly £50 in tickets alone. Add on the ridiculously priced concession for 5, and you're looking at nearly £100 for a family night out!
 
Ace Modder said:
A certain large cinema chain provides a "watch as many films at our cinemas" for £14.60 per month!
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Yeah, assuming though that there is one closer to me, then it wouldn't really be a like-for-like replacement. I head to the cinema probably once every month or so on average, but I watch a lot more TV shows than films, and obviously I prefer watching stuff from the comfort of my own home the majority of the time.
 
fatiain said:
Now if I want to take the family to the cinema, it's nearly £50 in tickets alone. Add on the ridiculously priced concession for 5, and you're looking at nearly £100 for a family night out!
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This to be honest.

Visiting the cinema in no longer a "cheap family night out", even if you take your own sweets and snacks (which we do) it's not cheap!

Our youngest is two so unfortunately "cinema nights" are now indoors with the projector and home made popcorn and snacks, to be honest it's a much nicer experience!

Now if I could get an "streaming" service for £20 a month that gave me access to the latest cinema releases I'd be in their like a shot, unfortunately they film industry wants to keep their strangle hold on "the channel" for their new films.

If they gave people a legal way to view "new releases" as home for a reasonable amount of money then they'd make lots of money, unfortunately they can't give up their "strangle hold" which I feel is pretty short sighted.

Lots of people find it really hard to "go to the cinema" but would love the opportunity to watch new releases at home but they can't.

HEADRAT
 
HEADRAT said:
This to be honest.

Visiting the cinema in no longer a "cheap family night out", even if you take your own sweets and snacks (which we do) it's not cheap!

Our youngest is two so unfortunately "cinema nights" are now indoors with the projector and home made popcorn and snacks, to be honest it's a much nicer experience!
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We have to put up with a 55" council-house, plasma telly. :(

I'd love to get a projector (next purchase maybe...), I'll convince the BOH that the kids will love it.
 
The producers of movies should just stream them for the quid or so they get after costs and cut out all the costs and middlemen, it's all the middlemen, storage, transport and retail that put the price of the product so high that people end up copying.
 
I go to the cinema rarely - only for the big releases and only to get the 'cinema experience'. The likes of Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy etc.

The rest i d/load to watch when it is convenient for me.

Another issue is, i will only watch it once - ie Breaking Bad, Walking Dead - i'll watch each episode, but i will never watch them again. Gone are the days of collecting boxsets dvds etc - everything is neat and ordered on a media player.

Also, the same for my dad - i was buying from Amazon and sending direct to him to watch. For instance Taken 3 - £15 delivered, he watched it and will never watch it again, he gave the dvd to his mate in the pub (and he did this with all the dvds i sent up). Now he gets a a d/load DVD/R delivered to his door from me.

I don't know what the answer is to stop movie piracy, but until something better comes along this is what i do.
 
stopper said:
Because they earn billions licensing their music to the movie industry, TV, radio channels etc.
The consumer market is quite a small part of their income.
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http://www.ifpi.org/facts-and-stats.php

Nope. This stuff really isn't hard to find. Before proposing 'solutions' to problems maybe do the most basic research to see if it is in any way workable.

If we take this thread to represent wider opinions then it's not really surprising that this problem hasn't been solved - we've gone from people saying that movies need a Spotify-like model on page 1 to suggesting that all music should be free, games are worth a maximum of £5, and new cinema releases should be available to stream at home for £20 a month by page 3. If you keep telling yourself that you will give up pirating content when it can meet those sorts of price / convenience points then you're going to be justifying it forever.

In reality the argument for why a large number of people pirate content is "because if I can get it for free, I will". And that's a totally valid argument, just don't pretend that you wouldn't find a reason to carry on doing it even if Netflix/Prime etc. started to meet the demands that you've laid out here.
 
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Chris1712 said:
For those wanting to stream cinema movies at home, just stop being a cheapskate!

http://www.primacinema.com/

Only 35k for the box then 500 a film. Alternatively you can get a Dolby server for I think 10k a month. Amazingly there are people who actually own these.
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Hehe, liking their marketing;

'Imagine the ability to watch a film anytime you want'

Uhm, I can.

'Imagine having control over your film going experience'

Eh? I don't have control?
 
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