> Why aren’t you offering a Digital Download or DVD reward?
> I wish I could give you all everything you want. Unfortunately, giving away the movie could scare off the good distributors for movies like this, because the theater chains insist on having the “first run” of movies before they are available on DVD or digitally. I want all my fans to be able to see this movie in their hometown theaters on the big screen if they want to. I hope you like the rewards I am offering, and if there’s something you don’t see on the page, please comment and let me know.
Yes, you can download it and support them by paying later. I agree.
But... I see no point into publishing the direct stream link. Although it's funny due what the movie is about, I think it creates some disadvantages for them.
I hope they took in mind this and they don't feel threatened by this behavior.
This bothers me as well. After you've watched something several times on Netflix and then it isn't available, I feel like they've taken something valuable away from me, even though I never owned it in the first place.
But this often results in me buying a physical copy, so I suppose that's a win for the movie studios.
The difference is that there is no loss. In the circumstances that you list there actually was something taken from someone, e.g time taken from something else, or I guess kissing someone you were not supposed to.
You can argue that a person might have gone to see the movie if they hadn't downloaded it, but that's kind of a dumb argument.
I downloaded guardians of the galaxy recently because someone was praising the cgi and I just wanted a quick look at it, but there is no way I would go to the cinema to watch it and no way I would ever buy it on dvd even if it was being sold really cheap. basically they would not make any money from me either way, so what exactly is being stolen from them?
It is most likely the result of a person from the distribution company saying, "Hey, either you give us this or we're not licensing the movie to your for online use. Period."
That says that theater chains insist on being first. But the download/dvd could come after the theatrical run. It would be nice if, in exchange for helping to fund the movie, I could get, you know, the movie.
The movie is the point of the whole enterprise; it seems like a natural reward.
We’ve shown that people will risk fines, lawsuits and whatever consequences that may come just to be able to watch a recent movie in slippers. Just to get the kind of experience they deserve.
How many times am I allowed to watch a movie after I buy it?
Imagine now that I _buy_ the movie. Can I watch it with my friends? Or do they have to pay the movie too?
If they pay _me_ then I'm a pirate. If they don't, are they pirates?
If nobody payed for the movie than me and my friends who watch it are all pirates.
Except that I didn't buy it because someone in the "extended circle of my friends that I've never met" gave it to me. At least that's how I'm pretending it to be.
Now it's not entirely like this but this is the problem with the Internet Hollywood doesn't like. You can interact with people you've never met very easily and pretend that they're your friends.
Just to be clear for anyone who didn’t read TFA, the digital copies were given out as a bonus with purchases of physical media. Sure someone may have made a different purchasing decision if they knew the streaming platform would be going away eventually, but it’s not like they took back their DVDs.
Your analysis is dead on. I forget the movie but I remember seeing that it was 'out on DVD.' I decided I wanted to watch said movie so I checked NF (streaming or disc) and it didn't have it. I checked Comcast OnDemand, not there either. So I checked xbox live and even itunes and it was not available. At this point the only way to watch the movie as to either buy it (rofl never) or pirate it.
In the end I just skipped the movie because it really wasn't that important, but look at the effort I went through to try and hand over my money. Number one rule of business is to make it frictionless for your customers to give you money. Movie studios do the exact opposite and then wonder why movies are pirated.
Surely all the customers losing access to their libraries have to do to regain access to the content they paid for is either watch or rip the physical media that the streaming code was issued with that they still completely have and didn't sell, lose, or give away, right?
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