Yeah, that's exactly it. More and more artists are realizing it, but it's the producing companies and overseers like MPAA/RIAA are the ones shitting their pants. Radiohead dumped their label a few years ago, and now sell all their records on their own, through their website and an affiliated online store. Their first self-sold album, they let people pay whatever they wanted. Radiohead said they made more money on those album sales than any previous ones done through the label, since artists get like 5% of sales when associated with a label.
I think the problem they realized with Hulu is they just don't make *as much* money with that model as the old standard. So they decided Hulu isn't worth it. And then they all started doing the mindblowingly stupid thing where they wait 8 days to put a new episode of something onto Hulu. I mean what the fucking use is that? You will be eternally behind. Is it some sort of punishment? In the end, it just *guarantees* people will download instead, so they can be caught up in time.
The outdated ways of thinking and complete inability to try and adapt just blow my mind. Every other industry on the planet understands change is inevitable. I personally don't get why the industry isn't teaming up with Netflix. Despite people's complaining about price changes, I would honestly pay upwards of $30/month for Netflix if it included new episodes of airing shows, and I bet I wouldn't be the only one. And that is just one of many, many ideas for how to integrate technology and tv.
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Date: 2012-01-25 08:17 pm (UTC)I think the problem they realized with Hulu is they just don't make *as much* money with that model as the old standard. So they decided Hulu isn't worth it. And then they all started doing the mindblowingly stupid thing where they wait 8 days to put a new episode of something onto Hulu. I mean what the fucking use is that? You will be eternally behind. Is it some sort of punishment? In the end, it just *guarantees* people will download instead, so they can be caught up in time.
The outdated ways of thinking and complete inability to try and adapt just blow my mind. Every other industry on the planet understands change is inevitable. I personally don't get why the industry isn't teaming up with Netflix. Despite people's complaining about price changes, I would honestly pay upwards of $30/month for Netflix if it included new episodes of airing shows, and I bet I wouldn't be the only one. And that is just one of many, many ideas for how to integrate technology and tv.
JUST, ARGH. Lol. It's so frustrating.