Millennials Call It Sharing. Wall Street Calls It Stealing.

[Natrii]

I have crunchy roll, my roommate has netflix, our closest friend who is always here has hulu...nothing wrong with using these accounts in a privet circle. its not like we hand out the PWs door to door. Also Netflix limit the amount of devices used.

[Kujako]

Why even pay for Hulu at all? Most of the shows I watch at streamed directly from the network's website. If not, you can usually find it streamed somewhere else for free the day it comes out.

So I can watch on the big ol' TV in the living room.

[Endus]

1> Most of these shareable accounts are already restricted. My Netflix only allows 2 active screens. If that's me and my sister across the country, we're still well within the terms. As long as we're not trying to use more than the screens I'm paying for, nobody's stealing anything.

2> How is it any different from inviting a dozen friends over to watch a pay-per-view event? It isn't. We've been doing this the entire time. This is just a naked attempt to bitch about "millenials".

3> Make your services cheap enough that it's worth it to us to pay for ease of access and convenience, and there won't be any conflict. It's when people feel the price isn't worth the content that they find other ways to get it, at the price point they feel is reasonable. If you're not offering at that price point, they'll go with "free". Particularly since entertainment, unlike most products, isn't actually "consumed" by those who use it. A TV show doesn't become less profitable when more people watch it for free. You aren't producing "more" to feed that demand, which isn't being returned in compensation. Downloading stuff off the Internet is like building your own furniture in your workshop. You might be borrowing someone else's design, for your personal use, but the actual building of the end product is all by your own labor, and with your own materials.

4> If your business model isn't keeping you afloat, blame your business model, not those who've found a more equitable and cost-effective alternative. All complaining about this means is that you're refusing to admit your business model is outdated. It's like a blacksmith complaining that these newfangled "automobiles" mean less people have horses that need shoeing.

[mizeri]

if some of the networks i watch made deals with hulu and netflix i wont even have basic cable.

[Jotaux]

Also imagine if cable was free. Streaming an episode would still be far superior. Cable companies want people to pay for a inferior service and then wonder why people are going with the illegitimate ways to watch tv shows.

[Rioo]

Piracy might have hurt TV a lot but Netflix have killed piracy for me pretty much. In the end it's all about what service provides the content the easiest. There's no way I'm ever going back to watching TV where I have to schedule my evening around when they choose to broadcast their shows, and having to spend 20-33% of the time watching loud commercials for five different online casinos.

[Natrii]

http://time.com/money/4066429/passwo...facebook_money

Also should note that the reason cable sub is declining...Internets aggressive advertising, cost is stupidly high, and the customer support is the worst in the world...two Cable giants Time Warner and Comcast have the lowest customer satisfaction in history. If they want to see why people don't pay for thier services tell them to look into the mirror.

[Roujeaux]

Gatekeepers and their blameshifting control issues are always hilarious to watch whenever their outdated business models are disrupted. 21st century 'Murica.

[primalmatter]

Wall street really wants to start complaining about theft?

[Jotaux]

3> Make your services cheap enough that it's worth it to us to pay for ease of access and convenience, and there won't be any conflict. It's when people feel the price isn't worth the content that they find other ways to get it, at the price point they feel is reasonable. If you're not offering at that price point, they'll go with "free".

Here's the thing, even if there service was free its less convenient to use.

[Xisa]

Millennials are a generations that wants to take everything, and give nothing in return. They are the worst generation in American history.

That being said, this article is still absolute nonsense. Because, you know, no one has ever gone to a Super Bowl Party before, right?

STEALING MY VIEWS.

[Kujako]

Here's the thing, even if there service was free its less convenient to use.

Not true, I find using Netflix, Hulu etc more convenient then downloading a torrented media file and playing it on my TV.

[Yvaelle]

Millennials call intentionally shuffling accounts around until they are filled with hidden debt, selling them to the retirement funds of the general public, designing home loans that will never result in ownership, and then cyclical lifelong debt, and hiking student loan rates until they may never be paid off - then intentionally bankrupting your companies and ransoming tens of Trillions of dollars from the developed world and recessing the global economy stealing.

Wall Street calls it sharing

Frankly I'm impressed no artist has built a Guillotine around the head of the golden calf of Wall Street:

[Natrii]

Really before Netflix and suck services, we would just use limewire and give our computers AIDS...Really we are moving in a better direction. The giants need to adapt or dies, their only option.

[PC2]

I'm happy with the content that already exists, all readily available on the internet.

Future entertainment will probably be filled with SJW obsessions that don't deserve to make a profit anyways.

[Anonymous1038853]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0sAVtOt2wA

[Forgettable]

I have no sympathy, respect or pity for old rich geezers who don't understand what their customer base wants, and then have the balls to call us thieves. They can go bankrupt for all I care.

[Stacyrect]

That article is so out of touch with the reality.

[Sky High]

get a better business model scrubs.

[s_bushido]

This reminds me of the HBO Go thing: They were simultaneously dead-set against letting people subscribe to it without having an HBO cable subscription, while also bitching constantly that shows like Game of Thrones were so heavily pirated. Then they finally got their heads out of their asses. Other companies will adapt as well, I suspect.