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The argument works both ways:

It's only 24 hours, release the content right away and collect your $2/ep. What's 24 hours to itunes/content owners?

From a profitibility statement I think the consumers have the stronger hand. How does AMC convince people to wait 24 hours and pay for it? Tell them its the right thing to do. lol. There the ones losing sales not the consumers because people don't want to wait 24 hours and accidently read spoilers in the headlines of news pages.

No, this is AMC leaving money on the table. They should have an app for google play, iOS (including apple TV), Roku and any other market they want money from. Then they can turn on the ability to watch via their apps at the same time as the eastern seaboard and include all the ads they see fit.

AMC made a business decision to have that kind of piracy. Just like Redbox and netflix and peers made business decisions that significantly dropped piracy and picked the money up off the table.

HBO is another major one that is sitting there with piles of money on the table that they refuse to pick up. Maybe they do it on principle ("people shouldn't pirate"), or maybe they have poor leadership, but either way the money is there, whether they want to grab it or not.

I'm very glad to hear it. Open-mindedness is key.

Tell that to the folks who don't make more then $10 an hour and have bills to pay.

Then $4 is a lot.
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Glad to hear it.

Also, *satisfying not satisfactory. That typo has been bugging me for a while.

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His is a problem I see with lots of "older" folks of the Baby Boom generation (again, using his "I had cable in '83" comment to get a rough estimate of his age). In general, they don't understand just how much the cost of living has increased since they were teenagers and prefer to instead call us "lazy slackers who want everything for free." They don't understand that the cheapest state-sponsored college educational systems still cost thousands upon thousands of dollars to get through, and that a college degree doesn't even guarantee that you'll get a job flipping burgers nowadays. It's a different world than it was even 30 years ago.

Life is hard, always has been and always will be. I understand that. But that doesn't excuse him from clapping his hands over his ears and yelling "I'm not listening I'm not listening!!!" whenever anyone dares to complain about anything just to let off steam.

Even when it becomes available the most of the pirates will not pony up and obtain legal copy. In effect just using it to time-shift, but still paying for the content. So once again this argument is nonsense and does not hold water. Only way they will pay for it is if it is the only way they can get it.

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Not necessarily. 10.3 million viewers on a premium channel is really good. Add the 500k torrent users and you got yourself a really good viewership. Just because people still use bittorent doesn't mean that they aren't aware of other legit offerings. In this case it may be a case of "a little to late." Those 500k downloads could be people who are just comfortable with using bittorent and can't be bothered with changing there ways.

Pretty sure the vast majority of people streaming/downloading this finale are actually doing it legally.

The show is so popular though it crosses typical demographic lines. So you're going to have pirates crawling all over it. And the numbers themselves don't look amazingly huge.

It's far easier to just watch AMC than bother with downloading the show illegally the day after it showed.

No it proves that the industry does such a shitty job of providing services, that a large swath of society has simply stopped giving a shit.

I have programs that will automatically seek out episodes in whatever size and format I desire. It's brutally efficient, unlike the retarded attempts of large portions of the industry which have nothing to do with efficient.

I buy books from Amazon, not TV, I don't use Apple I use Android.

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Because he states his opinion that anyone that purposefully breaks copyright laws, are immoral turds, that makes him a "golden boy"?. He is simply a law abiding citizen regarding this matter, and everyone else should follow the same laws. For some incredible reason, people feel justified to break these laws, and I impatiently wait for the day when it all blows up in their faces.
Everyone who feels they are morally just, anyone who believes they arent doing anything wrong by trading music/movies/software like theyre trading baseball cards, feel free to publicly state your IP address. Better yet, write a signed letter to the MPAA and RIAA telling them to go F themselves, and attach a list of all the content you COPIED, not STOLE.
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I think outside the US the people are not doing anything wrong, If they are delayed by weeks or months they are not doing the wrong because they are using torrents for a problem that should not need that solution. Consumers should not be at the mercy of the suits, Suits should be at the mercy of the consumer.
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