My favorite platform is iTunes, because it lets you download the files for offline viewing, and removing the DRM is trivially simple.
My favorite platform is iTunes, because it lets you download the files for offline viewing, and removing the DRM is trivially simple.
You guys are buying shows and movies?
Well, I want them to keep making shows and movies after all…
Well, an EU study a few years back found that online piracy has little affect on actual legal sales, except for newly released movies which took like a 4.4% knock on their box-office sales.
Games apparently see an increase in sales, with 100 illegal downloads spurring 24 additional legal transactions than would have otherwise occurred.
Here’s a link to the study itself for anyone interested in getting into the weeds.
That said, I support studios/musicians/devs that I care about by buying their stuff.
I refuse to subscribe to the 10+ mainstream streaming services, though. I’m voting with my money, and the current streaming landscape is just as anti-consumer as cable TV was before it.
The games stat is because they stopped making demos, so people pirate the game to see if it’s worth spending money on
Literally this. And buying content outright actually sends money to the people who made the show, unlike watching it on streaming.
If the recent strike is any indication, the creators see none of this money.
This is probably true, but it at least tells the people that run the studios that the people involved in that movie are profitable and should keep making movies.