Well hey, that's what happens when you turn streaming into <i>cable</i>.<p>I had Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu subscriptions last year.<p>Today, I have none of those, except for one or two video purchases I made on Amazon.<p>Now I'm supposed to have Disney+, CBS All Access, HBO Max, Peacock, etc., and that list will probably grow. <i>And</i> we're at a low point in what we consider entertainment. It's bread and circuses up the wazoo. <i>And</i> now I'm apparently supposed to pay more(I heard the Netflix subscription increased again).
Movie industry: we're not going to give a bunch of people any way to pay us for our content.<p>Also movie industry: why are so many people watching our content without paying us for it?
Time for the Movie industry to move to the Patreon model. They have more than enough fans to support them. Why can't i watch a movie in the app of my convenience (e.g. Popcorn Time) and still be able to pay for it? Why is there no such "virtual ticket" option. I know they want to package their products in specific ways, but they demand that the entire internet infrastructure bends to match their favourite way and that's just insanely egocentric. Hollywood is not the center of the universe anymore.
Honest question, why does region locking exist?<p>Usually it's all about money, but what is such a strong incentive that makes it sensible to decline getting money from customers?<p>Laziness? Local laws? Some complicated scheme where it costs more money than it makes?
VPNs and Tor: Movie Industry Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms<p>e: I do love that ThePirateBay is still sailing around the internet. The middle finger that could.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They had a good thing going for a while, and it looked like Netflix and Amazon were headed in the direction of the music-streaming landscape -- basically all the providers have pretty much all the content -- but then greed took over and the current "exclusives"-situation is veering back to the cable-tv structure.
This is the problem with modern copyright. Content creators needs to be paid, but they should not be in control of what the public can do with their shows. We need a standard price to pay for a standard license.<p>Heck let them set their own price, but any special deal should be considered a breach of the monopoly they have been granted - no more favoring one streaming service over another. No more region or geolock.<p>Since they are so happy about tell us that we have brought a CD, not its contents I should be allowed to get that content however I want and pay a standard fee in a standard way.
It's not just the movie industry. It's also the sports tv industry.<p>I'm ok coughing up the money required for the NHL subscription for the season, but I still can't watch my hometown team live without a blackout.<p>And you wonder why people VPN.
Has anyone actually ever succeeded in streaming anything over tor? It’s usually so slow that ordinary html pages take several seconds. I can’t imagine streaming would work...
Part of me wishes that the film industry's initial resistance to home video and streaming platforms had succeeded so that COVID-19 would have buried the entire business.
>However, they can use tools such as VPNs to access them in locations where the platforms and content are not licensed.<p>>For example, if Netflix is not available in country X, people could use a VPN to make it appear they come from country Y, where the service is legally available. This is a problem, MPA notes, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<p>Hmmmmm....well maybe the idea of region locking and licensing content to specific regions in a world where everywhere is instantly connected to everywhere else is for lack of a better word...completely fucking idiotic.
Industries that rely on TV are a cancer refusing to die. People here are forced by law to pay more than 200 EUR per year to the national TV broadcaster even when they don't own a TV. The reason? They still receive the signal, thus they <i>could</i> watch TV if they wanted. BS. /rant
Well if you want to stop vpn services stop doing region locked content.
In this day and age region locking isn't really feasible. Vpns are a solution to your crapy business practice not a problem.