Breaking Bad Breaks Piracy Records > Not suprising

Not suprising

To those saying its available legally... Video games have always been available legally but I used to pirate them until steam came a long. steam was so easy and painless that it was easier to pay 5 dollars than it was to pirate and deal with potential viruses.

Piracy has almost always, to me, been a service issue and not an availability issue. Sure it's available on hulu but even if I pay I still have to watch adds, can only stream it (can't dll for offline viewing) and it is still going to be delayed.

I personally haven't watched BB except for the random episode at my parents but as a comparison of what is available automatically: I could have a torrent/usenet app autosubscribed to download said show, send a notification to my phone that it is available, and then watch it through plex which, with a subscription, allows me to download it for offline viewing painlessly on any of my devices. The current options out there (itunes, amazon, netflix etc.) offer nowhere near that level of convienence.

The day I can subscribe to something like plex with total control of my content (NO DRM) is the day I will stop current activities.

EDIT to add: There is currently no way for me to legally purchase the level of service that I want.

iTunes has DRM (last I checked) and cannot be automated.
Amazon has DRM and cannot be automated.
Netflix has DRM and cannot be downloaded or viewed on all of my systems without significant hackery and is delayed significantly.
Hulu, even with paying, forces me to watch ads, cannot automate, cannot download.
DVDs only come out AFTER the entire season is done and cannot be automated.

Why would it be so hard for the media companies to make something more like steam? Let me purchase a season or show (before it finishes or even in advance) and download non drm files the same day it airs with available tie ins to various apps (which all have open source, preprogrammed tieins). They could make it so that as soon as a file is released to them they push it to my computer. Let me redownload the file at a later date in case of a hard drive failure etc.

It's not like their current DRM does anything at all as this torrent swarm shows. It only hurts legitimate customers.

It works both ways. I think it's partially the robin hood effect. Many people don't feel guilty when stealing from mega corporations who seem to also lack a set of morals.

I'm not sure how it impacts the future. Maybe the media companies will stop locking everything up and suing everybody and earn some goodwill.

cry me a river

I agree. I like to collect blurays and find it so annoying that it takes forever to get through all the ads and warning screens. The warning screens take a few minutes to get through. It burns even more know that if you pirating bluray it would of gone right into the movie.

I have no idea why the pull all those warnings on the discs that people actually pay for. They're warning and agitating the wrong people.

Read my edit (seems it went in about the same time you posted so you may not have been able to see). There is no way for me to legally buy what I want. It is not a price constraint, it is a service constraint. I am more than willing to buy and I do. But it is one-off purchases because the whole process of buying is such a PITA to get media into a usable format.

I buy all of my games via steam (I am somewhere around 150 now). I buy all of my music (iTunes + Pandora One is close enough to automated/what I need). But for TV shows and movies there is nothing even close to what I can get for games and music out there. They are all DRMed, ad laden or delayed far longer than they ever should be.

Why can I buy a music track the day it releases to the public but I have to wait a day (for DRM) or months for non-DRM? That's for TV shows, for movies, unless I want to go to a theater to listen to peoples crying babies, my only options for months are DRM-laden semi-rentals. Why can't I just buy the movie?

What pathetic rational. "Two Wrongs ... "