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Pedro Pascal Calls For Boycott of HBO's Upcoming $2 Billion ‘Harry Potter' Series — World of Reel
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Harry Potter is already dead to me. Fuck JKR.
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Well, if I watch it I guarantee I won't pay for it.
Be better. Don't watch at all.
The Last of Us spoilers
What are they gonna do? Kill him off?
!I he shows up throught the second game in flashbacks, I think he will be done after this season, unless they keep bringing him back....but after this? He is 100% gone lol!<
FYI your spoiler tag didn't work on this comment. Also I heard they're adapting Last of Us Part II into 2 seasons of the show, since it's so much longer plot-wise.
Odd, I see it blacked out on my side. Apologies to all.
I don't see Pedro even working for HBO going forward. He is attacking another HBO show, and you know it's all about bottom line. Could be wrong.
Regardless, Pedro is the man.
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I support this man, and his ideas.
I want to see it... But imagine if pirates made it so accessible it was easier to view without buying it. Saturated to the point YouTube recommends the full episodes.
Watching/playing/acquiring media without paying for it only sends the message that the demand is there; it's just that the anti-piracy enforcement schemes haven't been perfected yet.
If 100 million people watch this show on day one, but only 1 million paid to do so, the question is going to be "How can we force those other 99 million people to pay for this?" But if zero people watch this show, the immediate red flag will be "People used to love Harry Potter? Why aren't they watching it now?"
You want to show that Joanne Rowling's bigotry isn't to be tolerated? You don't show her that her content is still wanted; you shut her out completely.
Counter point. If there's a drop in subscriptions and a spike on piracy after they release, they can conclude that the best approach is to drop the show and J. Terf Rowling.
That, and have all the discourse of the show be around her bigotry.
I have to interest on the show
Counter point. If there’s a drop in subscriptions and a spike on piracy after they release, they can conclude that the best approach is to drop the show and J. Terf Rowling.
Media execs don't see piracy as an economics or social issue. They believe it's a technological issue and they just need to find the right silver bullet to force you to watch the content that they know you want to watch (why would you be pirating it otherwise?) while paying them for it.
No corporation has seen an increase of piracy of their content and thought anything other than "We need stricter anti-piracy measures."
The company doesn't care about popularity lmfao. They only care about money
Lots of media are popular that didn't make money, but there's no media that made lots of money that wasn't also popular.
Money directly correlates with popularity when talking about films/books/television. Why do you think, for example, that there was only one Eragon movie despite there being four books? And yet Twilight also had four books, but had five movies made?
You seriously think the suits spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars making movies or tv shows don't care about what's popular? Then why the hell are they remaking Harry Potter?