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clrmoney
8/6/2016 10:53:01 AM
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Video Piracy and Streaming
Why would the streaming be a problem even thouugh they have over a million subscribers for piracy. I think would is easier and would be a better thing than downloads because sometimes on mobile phones that data speed is slow when you are downloading videos and documents etc.
afwriter
8/6/2016 5:55:30 PM
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Foreign Content
I know it said that the U.S. leads in piracy (Go USA!), but I wonder what the percentage is of people who are streaming pirated content because it is not available or even illegal to watch in their countries.
Adi
8/8/2016 4:39:47 AM
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Re: Foreign Content
@afwriter - I was actually a little surprised to see the US on top, I would have expected Spain or LATAM. But perhaps its the switch to streaming that is creating different patterns, used to be more P2P based in the past. The US, with better network infrastructure, would probably be better suited to streaming.
It doesn't appear that the study looked at the availability of legal streaming servcies, but obviously the US has several, and is still no. 1.
Adi
8/8/2016 4:41:12 AM
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Re: Video Piracy and Streaming
@clrmoney - yes, I think it is that impatience now. Consumers have got used to immediate vewing of content through VoD services, and it's probably driving a similar shift for pirated content as well.
Ariella
8/8/2016 10:39:38 AM
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Re: Foreign Content
@afwriter That's a very interesting question. I also find it interesting that some video streams put up from sites like the BBC are blocked in the US. Once in a while I see a link that doesn't play here, though I 'm sure it does in other places. In those cases, I assume that some providers are seeking to monetize that content and so don't want it available for free.
Access vs. Ownership
It's not actually that surprising when you think about it. Legal viewing of video content, too, tends to be toward streaming rather than "ownership." So too with just about everything else these days in our society where access is deemed much more important -- and even more convenient -- than actual ownership.
Re: Foreign Content
We're Number One! We're Number One! Stealing and shooting -- that's us! ;)
Also worth pointing out: Some countries just make their own (unlawful, permissionless) ripoff of successful American shows. I have a professor friend who used to teach in Russia who told me about a very strange (and clearly unofficial) Russian version of The Big Bang Theory (which, perhaps unexpectedly, was the third-most pirated show a couple years back -- back when GoT was #1 and Dexter was #2).
Re: Foreign Content
@Adi: Interestingly, as virtualization takes off in LATAM and other developing countries with much more market vigor and at much lower cost than in the "first world," we may see this shift.
Unless, of course, the US steals more to make up for it. ;)
Ariella
8/9/2016 8:53:24 AM
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Re: Foreign Content
@Joe some of those foreign versions are comletely legal, though. For example, the British show Doc Martin has a Spanish version through Antena 3. As reported in http://tellyspotting.kera.org/2012/05/13/doc-martin-sherlock-around-the-world/, the station "bought the scripts, recast the series and shot virtually every scene identically from the ITV1 original." Elsewhere I read that the foreign versions have to conform to certain standards set by the show's creators. Also you'd think that because they speak English in a British show that Amercians would just watch the series as is. But there are talks about developing an American Doc Martin.
Re: Foreign Content
@Ariella: Certainly they are legal -- when they are licensed/developed appropriately. (Indeed, one show that's been hot on Netflix: the Colombian version of Breaking Bad, Metástasis.
Others, however, like the example I gave, appear to be blatantly unsanctioned ripoffs.
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