Shai
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Post by Shai on May 13, 2018 16:36:10 GMT -5
Hulu has commercials though that you can't skip, you'd think the show's network would get a piece of that. Exactly. It's not like I'm not still watching a ton of freaking ads here. If it were Netflix I would maybe understand a bit more.
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sfvega
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Post by sfvega on May 15, 2018 7:17:17 GMT -5
I disagree with the idea that torrenting isn't supportive of a show. In the short-term, yes, I'm not playing by the rules of advertising to which TV networks are beholden. And yet I've downloaded TV shows, but also movies, books, and music, and if I especially liked them, I'd go out of my way to buy the item in question (buy a Blu-Ray set, buy a season pass, buy a streaming subscription, etc.). In some cases, I didn't download the entirety of a show outright, but enough of it to give me a flavour of what that show was about, and then decided to part ways with my money. Downloading is often a great way to sample something, which can, in turn, lead people to financially support their entertainment. Yes, there will always be free-loaders who won't ever pay, but that doesn't mean that torrenting can and should be dismissed out of hand. Torrenting itself is getting content for free. Whether or not you pay and support the content later doesn’t discount the fact that you bootlegged it. It’s kinda like sneaking into the movies over and over again, but if the movie is REALLY good, you walk out and pay for a ticket. For a content provider standpoint, yeah it should probably be dismissed.
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