Comments on: Pirates are Customers, too http://nathan.studiodifferent.com/2006/05/01/pirates-are-customers-too/ Wired World Wonderings Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:21:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Warner Bros. to Sell Content Via BitTorrent » Nathan’s Blog http://nathan.studiodifferent.com/2006/05/01/pirates-are-customers-too/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Warner Bros. to Sell Content Via BitTorrent » Nathan’s Blog Wed, 10 May 2006 20:59:39 +0000 http://nathan.studiodifferent.com/2006/05/01/pirates-are-customers-too/#comment-72 [...] Warner Bros. announced yesterday that it will sell movies and TV shows online, and distribute them using BitTorrent. In the same vein as my editorial Pirates are customers too, Warner Bros. realises “If we can convert, 5, 10 or 15 percent of the illegal downloaders into consumers of our product, that is significant.” [...] [...] Warner Bros. announced yesterday that it will sell movies and TV shows online, and distribute them using BitTorrent. In the same vein as my editorial Pirates are customers too, Warner Bros. realises “If we can convert, 5, 10 or 15 percent of the illegal downloaders into consumers of our product, that is significant.” [...]

]]> By: JonnyRo http://nathan.studiodifferent.com/2006/05/01/pirates-are-customers-too/comment-page-1/#comment-59 JonnyRo Sun, 07 May 2006 16:42:58 +0000 http://nathan.studiodifferent.com/2006/05/01/pirates-are-customers-too/#comment-59 I drop $50 a month for high speed internet access without blinking. I pay a Tivo subscription for two units without blinking. What's different about these services from lets say a DVD. I tend to classify movies into three groups 1. Essential - These are movies usually related to a book series i've read as a child or a TV series of exceptionally high quality. Serenity,Hackers, and The Matrix (not the sequels) are in this category. The Essential Movies I will go see in the theater, buy the DVD release, and if there's a book, i'll probably get that too. 2. Entertaining - These are movies that are good, but have little repeat value for me in a meaningful sense. A History of Violence, Antitrust, Resident Evil. I will watch these, but I will only rent through netflix and I will probably not go to the theater to see 3. Comedies - comedies are fine sometimes, and there are breakaway hits in here that might sometimes be called essential, but still i'm not likely to go out of my way to see them. These are the movies that I borrow. Kelli however might buy them. In the case of two or three I will only pay for the convenience of accessing it, not for the title itself. and in #2 I'm only paying money to the person renting the movie to me, not the original authors. I am itching to remove the movie theater, the rental, and to a lesser degree the borrowing option from my list, in a way that increases the funds payed to the content owners. Give me compulsory licensing. I will happily pay $50 a month for unmetered content. The crap about pay per view shit on cable is useless. It's a waste of time, and i pity the poor bastards that take advantage of it. they are making it worse for the rest of us consumers. I drop $50 a month for high speed internet access without blinking. I pay a Tivo subscription for two units without blinking. What’s different about these services from lets say a DVD.

I tend to classify movies into three groups
1. Essential – These are movies usually related to a book series i’ve read as a child or a TV series of exceptionally high quality. Serenity,Hackers, and The Matrix (not the sequels) are in this category.
The Essential Movies I will go see in the theater, buy the DVD release, and if there’s a book, i’ll probably get that too.
2. Entertaining – These are movies that are good, but have little repeat value for me in a meaningful sense. A History of Violence, Antitrust, Resident Evil. I will watch these, but I will only rent through netflix and I will probably not go to the theater to see
3. Comedies – comedies are fine sometimes, and there are breakaway hits in here that might sometimes be called essential, but still i’m not likely to go out of my way to see them. These are the movies that I borrow. Kelli however might buy them.

In the case of two or three I will only pay for the convenience of accessing it, not for the title itself. and in #2 I’m only paying money to the person renting the movie to me, not the original authors.

I am itching to remove the movie theater, the rental, and to a lesser degree the borrowing option from my list, in a way that increases the funds payed to the content owners.

Give me compulsory licensing. I will happily pay $50 a month for unmetered content. The crap about pay per view shit on cable is useless. It’s a waste of time, and i pity the poor bastards that take advantage of it. they are making it worse for the rest of us consumers.

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