TurboPGT

digitalclips said:

TurboPGT said:

When are content providers going to wake up and start competing with piracy? There is literally no other way to beat it. For every site they take down and person they arrest, 10 more spring up in its place. It is always going to exist. You just have to incentivize the legal options. 

1) Theaters are dead, and are not making as much money as digital distribution could. New releases that are $10-15 per ticket in the theatre? They need to be available on streaming services the same day, to rent, for a premium. Instead of spending upwards of $20-40 for a couple or family to go to a movie, make the new release $29-49 to rent. With strict limitations during the launch period. 

2) iTunes needs a new model. Apple Video, or whatever they'd call it. $19.99 a month to stream the entire catalog of movies and tv shows. No ownership. Purely streaming, as well as downloads with DRM.

Not talking about movies here as you are, but for apps, my two cents here is Apple's amazingly low prices for purchasing its software and family usage/sharing plans with free updates is probably the only solution to battling software piracy.  Renting at high costs like Adobe not so much.

As to movies, IMHO there are so few good ones these days and TV content has improved so much thanks to technology it's not just prices here.  In fact, ironically,  my wife and I found CinéBistro a wonderful experience (no under 21 helps!) where the movie cost far more than normal not to mention the drinks and fillet mignons.  That said, for the most part Netflix and TV shows suffice for us with a few beers and a bowl of popcorn at home.  For the few really good movies each year, it's CinéBistro and damn the cost from now on!

Cost and availability of content are the number one drivers of piracy. Its not only because people want to steal instead of buy. In many cases, there is no option to buy (or rent).

Not saying any of this deplorable behavior is excusable, but I am saying that there is no legal replacement where it counts:

1) When someone can download a torrent of a TV episode many hours before it is available on iTunes or Hulu, et al, they will...and they will watch it, and that's it.

2) When someone can download a shitty cam/telesync of a film currently in theaters, instead of renting it on iTunes or elsewhere...they will.

3) When someone can get an entire TV series for nothing, as opposed to for $50 for a single season from iTunes....they will.

To fix this, you:

1) Ensure that recently aired episodes are available immediately after airing for streaming/download.
2) Break the mold and start releasing films digitally and in theaters at the same time, but at a premium for the first few months.
3) Establish a subscription plan for all movies, all tv shows in the entire store, and make it so that people can set it and forget it, and never need to seek out a file elsewhere again.

When are content providers going to wake up and start competing with piracy? There is literally no other way to beat it. For every site they take down and person they arrest, 10 more spring up in its place. It is always going to exist. You just have to incentivize the legal options. 

1) Theaters are dead, and are not making as much money as digital distribution could. New releases that are $10-15 per ticket in the theatre? They need to be available on streaming services the same day, to rent, for a premium. Instead of spending upwards of $20-40 for a couple or family to go to a movie, make the new release $29-49 to rent. With strict limitations during the launch period. 

2) iTunes needs a new model. Apple Video, or whatever they'd call it. $19.99 a month to stream the entire catalog of movies and tv shows. No ownership. Purely streaming, as well as downloads with DRM.

rogifan_new said:

TurboPGT said:

Neither are the people who actually buy them. Only the people that make a living commenting on it.

And yet Apple has an industrial design team reporting directly to the CEO. Funny how design mattered when they were putting out industry leading designs.  It matters to some people because let's face it external design changes signify something new and people want everyone else to know they have the latest and greatest. And with the iPhone 6 series I think there are some who plain don't like the design and would like to see something different.

I think the point is, who are you to say the iPhone 7 is not an industry leading design? Apple has gotten the size and shape of the iPhone nearly perfect with iPhone 6. Customers agree. They are making some aesthetic improvements to it, like the new antenna design, and some majorly functional changes like replacing the legacy analog jack with a speaker, and overall better water resistance. 

If that doesn't impress you, that's your problem. It's no excuse to start toting out the comments about their industrial design and industry leading status.

d.j. adequate said:

I find the focus on external design changes baffling. Other than screen quality, perhaps, I'm far more interested in functional updates. I'm not yet bored with having faster processors, better cameras, and added functionality. Eventually, radical design changes just for their own sake will make things worse. 

Neither are the people who actually buy them. Only the people that make a living commenting on it.

AI,

WTF guys? Can you seriously not see that the poll question is incredibly disingenuous and designed to mislead and create a specific result?

"If the iPhone isn't redesigned"...guess what, the iPhone 7 is a new design.

"Will you switch to every 3 years if Apple does"...that's not what Apple is doing.

Can somebody please fucking explain to me how the tech blog universe managed to shove its collective head up its ass in support of this narrative? Why does the iPhone 7 have to look dramatically different, instead of just mostly different, to qualify as "New"?

This poll is literally trying to say that the iPhone 7 will not be new, and you're supporting that bullshit.