Me pirating tv and movies is 100% a service problem.
I don’t pirate music (outside of a few albums I really want in super high quality even though I can’t hear the difference) — music streaming is still ok value for the service it provides and while I know the artists don’t get a lot, at least they get something. 1 service means all* the music.
I don’t pirate videogames — steam and other storefronts make them easy to buy (and own “forever”), and have discounts all the time. I’m ok waiting. And I don’t need 10 services to get all the games I want.
But tv and movie streaming is a PITA. It’s expensive, the libraries are small, I sure as shit does not contain everything I want to watch, on one or even all of them. I would pay 40/50 a month for a tv/movie streaming service that had the same level of content completion as music streaming. But no, I need to pay 30 x 5 services to get 50% of what I want to watch. Fix the model and I’ll stop pirating. Until then I try to find other ways to support the content I enjoy.
Me pirating tv and movies is 100% a service problem.
I don’t pirate music (outside of a few albums I really want in super high quality even though I can’t hear the difference) — music streaming is still ok value for the service it provides and while I know the artists don’t get a lot, at least they get something. 1 service means all* the music.
I don’t pirate videogames — steam and other storefronts make them easy to buy (and own “forever”), and have discounts all the time. I’m ok waiting. And I don’t need 10 services to get all the games I want.
But tv and movie streaming is a PITA. It’s expensive, the libraries are small, I sure as shit does not contain everything I want to watch, on one or even all of them. I would pay 40/50 a month for a tv/movie streaming service that had the same level of content completion as music streaming. But no, I need to pay 30 x 5 services to get 50% of what I want to watch. Fix the model and I’ll stop pirating. Until then I try to find other ways to support the content I enjoy.