Out of Pod Experience

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/02/technology/game-of-thrones-piracy/index.html?sr=fb040213gameofthrones8p

Some tai-chi would be useful--instead of fighting the momentum, go with it

have a new, relevant show that is totally kick ass and funded by product placement

let them seed

also sell six packs of PLEX

yeah, i know i'm saying for a new show... by someone (anyone)... instead of butting heads over piracy, get the money from the front-end

and also sell PLEX.

ads are paid out by impressions.. . what about per download

I had nothing at all to do with the piracy at all. Not a single thing from my side of the Atlantic that for reasons unknown films it in the UK, yet doesn't broadcast here till later.

It was a good episode though.

The last panel, it had me in stitches.

Looks like HBO are acknowledging that the piracy isn't necessarily a bad thing. It certainly doesn't seem to have affected the BluRay/DVD sales.

Ahhhh ... Good good! ...

Well I have pirated crap since 1999 ... Imagine that feeling you guys up there felt for a single show, now imagine, NOT GETTING ANYTHING at all down here since like ... forever.

We will neve get any of those awesome series, tv shows, movies that give you some form of entertainment in your dreary 9 to 5 , pay taxes, fees and bills existence. Something to disconnect from all of it.

Nope, we don´t get much, except crap local tv, soap operas so convoluted and twisted they are barely understandable filled with plastic surgery addicted "stars" and shows from like 10 years ago. Some channels here even show "Little House on the Prairie" sometimes.

If you get cable you get stuck with the lame localized versions they offer you for Latinamerica plus a bunch of crap channels no one watches and a couple good 3 or 4 channels that are more or less in tune with what is being offered in the north, but I have to pay like 100$ to watch em (in a country where min wage is 400$ a month mind you) ... and well.

People wonder why Latinamerica is a breeding ground for "evil pirates".

Oh well, theres netflix LatAm ... for like 7$ a month I get a ton of movies ... yay! Newest one is from 2009 ... ugh , I also have access to a ton of Mexican movies from the 40´s and the 50´s in black and white ... awesome uh?

Anyway, yep, try to imagine what you felt with Game of Thrones up and there and make it a lifelong feeling of being cut off from the rest of the world, specially if you enjoy certain types of entertainment. (so no British shows either)

No really, I wish they actually streamed free with product placement , I could live with that.

I still can´t force myself to buy movies down here, when local dvd versions are like 240p quality, with no bonuses and sometimes the dvd not even labeled correctly, and I stare at the special editions from Amazon filled with "goodies" and other stuff.

From a pure customer viewpoint, really, it´s easier to just boot up my laptop, open my torrent client and get a good solid tracker and wait for my 1080p or 720p BRRIP movie slowly filling my HD, then I just dump it into my tv with my pendrive and enjoy the amazing sound/picture quality with top of the cream .srt files perfectly synced to add subs in spanish for my family.

I like to buy original games and sometimes original movies, but really, with current standards as they are now, not gonna happen.

the only discs i buy lately are PS3 games and porn DVDs

Well, if I had finished S2 I would most likely have joined the pack as well.



Hah yeah. Sometimes it is the small details that makes comics hilarious.

Exactly. In this day and age, why is all media as such not global ? Seems to all still be modeled on mid-20th Century ideals IMHO.

i think homie in the article sed it rite...

if people would've spent .99c per download, the budget would get bloated, but its not an option....

this may very well be the beginning of future internet sensations... a venture capitalist instead of HBO fronting the money, with no contracts to cable providers to worry over....

you know HBO execs see these articles and think..... I hate comsuck!

still all in all, its just salivating over potential profits.... as HBO ain't been hurting for many years.

Hell, it wouldnt be infeasible for em to just put out a 1.5 hour episode with webercials inserted into the torrent, most people would prolly skip over a couple, but if the commercials were good... some at least would watch and like em.

hell some commercials are really good, with good writers and fancy comedians

Nearly 1 USD per episode is still too high.
Considering a monthly HBO family of channels costs about 15$ at most around the world (actually only about the equivalent of 3$ around these parts, but eh), assuming you watch some HBO programming for about 30 hours a month on average (3 shows and 2 movies per week, which is actually fairly low), the most an episode should cost would be about 0.50 USD in most countries, and as low as 0.10 USD in my country.

And anyway, would you rather get something like an average of about 20 cents from maybe 2 mil people, or 1 USD from 200k people ?


You actually pay for p**n ?