like a rash that just won't respond to
medication internet piracy is one of
those things that will never go away
completely but for a time it seemed like
the movie and music industry's had found
a pretty good way to reduce it everyone
and their dog had a low-cost convenient
subscription to Netflix for TV and
movies and to Spotify for music and
times were good but recently piracy is
subtly back on the rise why I mean it's
not like the streaming services
themselves are becoming less popular in
fact last year Netflix usage overtook
cable TV subscriptions as it was
estimated that 76% of US consumers were
subscribed to Netflix compared to only
67% on cable but at the same time
traffic on BitTorrent has surged and
while there are uses for torrenting
other than piracy let's be honest it's
being one of the go-to services for
people sharing content illegally for
quite some time so what's behind this
then well funnily enough the streaming
services are currently in the process of
making the exact same mistakes that the
cable industry did in years past
ever since valve launched Steam for
games it's been widely accepted that the
surest way to curb piracy is to make
paying for content affordable and more
convenient than stealing but here's the
rub when you pay for a streaming
subscription you're not just paying for
the small handful of shows or movies
that you actually want to watch you're
paying for that services entire catalog
and part of the reason that people have
been abandoning cable is that they don't
want to pay $100 a month for 200
channels that they don't care about now
your average streaming service is only
10 or 15 bucks a month and with the
variety that they've traditionally
provided people found them much more
palatable and their popularity exploded
the issue now is that both affordability
and variety are under fire the reason is
that content per
users don't want to share their revenue
with a third party platform and while
Netflix is known for producing its own
catalogue of original shows most of its
offerings are still from other rights
holders that have licensed Netflix to
carry their shows and movies with
Netflix getting a cut of the profit so
recently many license holders have said
to themselves hey why are we giving
Netflix a cut when we could just launch
our own streaming service and keep all
the revenue for ourselves and you know
what yeah I can see why that might be
enticing after all if the customer paid
10 or 15 bucks to watch movies once why
wouldn't they do it again and then again
and then again well therein lies the
issue this approach has changed the
streaming marketplace to one dominated
by Netflix and to a lesser extent Hulu
to one where tons of services are
popping up with rather popular
exclusives only available on one first
party platform wanna watch Game of
Thrones well it's an extra 15 bucks a
month for HBO now even if Game of
Thrones is literally the only thing on
the platform you care about it fan of
the Grand Tour better get that Amazon
Prime video Star Wars fan don't miss
Disney's upcoming Disney Plus so then
with all of these options you can see
how easily 10 or 15 dollars a month can
turn into 60 or 75 or even more
depending on how many of these
fragmented streaming services that you
need to subscribe to in order to see all
your favorites and then at that point we
can see why people might begin to
explore other options the cost is now
getting close to a cable subscription
and a freaking TiVo box but here is it
and as for the convenience well that's
where we can see how going back to
piracy could certainly seem appealing
even if you can't afford it keeping up
with all those different services can be
a massive pain compared to having one
site that's your one-stop shop with
larger media companies seeming to be
mostly on the cut out the middleman
train it looks like the only thing that
might reverse this trend is them taking
an actual hit to their bottom line so
I'm gonna be interest
to see how the next couple of years play
out until then it might be worth putting
an extra few dollars a month in the
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