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What's a reasonable price to you? Can you apply this same value to everyone? Seems like just about anything is easy to access through various services except for maybe some niche stuff. I don't think being "easy" is quite enough. People like getting stuff for free even if they can afford it.
140$ to have all streaming apps, on many different app, is not reasonable.
Do you need all of them at once? It's ok to rotate. I subscribe to different things at different times. I still download stuff if, either what i have access to isn't good enough or if i just can't find what I'm looking for through conventional means.
Needing to rotate just makes it inconvenient. More inconvenient than pirating unfortunately
Dunno. Less than what things cost now? I think knocking down the geographic restrictions and letting people watch it on any device or OS that can connect are likely bigger fights than pricing, if the industry actually cared to solve the problem.
It's not as if we don't have examples of this. Yes, some people still pirate music. Roughly 20 years ago, almost literally everyone with the knowhow was pirating music. (And with services like kazaa, emule, etc, it took very little knowhow)
You know what didn't solve it? Prosecuting consumers, high prices, and DRM.
What solved it was when Apple started selling legit music for 99 cents per track, and keeping album costs reasonable. (Much as I hate to give apple any credit.) Spotify, amazon, etc all got on board, and now almost no one pirates music. (I pre-apologize for whatever detail I misremembered there - that was a long time ago.)
Am I saying that exact model will apply to video streaming services? No, but what's not going to do it is prosecuting consumers, high prices, and DRM. We have decades of proof of this.
Some people will pirate no matter what. You can worry about them, or you can worry about everybody else. At some point (and I suspect we're well past it) the return on investment has got to start looking pretty bad for all the money and technology they have tried to throw at piracy.
Thanks for the reply! Valid points. I was one of the ones that downloaded a ton of music before it was available at all, back in the Napster days. It's harder for some reason with video. With the music they can just throw everyone's stuff on there but video for some reason can only go to maybe a couple of services which really limits what some people have access to.
I don't worry about the ones pirating at all, lol. I'm actually looking into setting up arr apps but my setup is not conventional so it will take some fiddling.
Sorry I didn't mean you personally. I was speaking generally to the content providers. 😁
We managed it for music streaming for the most part.