especially when no one's buying a physical product, just the files themselves.
Yes, exactly! I really side-eye the industry when a digital cd costs $20. Bitch, don't even act like a *fraction* of the costs associated with a real cd are involved with a digital one! lol
Aw man, 4 episodes behind on Fringe! D: Catch uuuuup! XD But yeah, it's awful. I actually stopped using Hulu entirely once they did that. I didn't purposely go "fuck those guys" but I just have no use for them anymore. *facepalm*
It would be so much easier.
Yesssss, which reminds me of another point: consumers want things easy, not necessarily cheap (or free). Most people don't download because they enjoy getting something for nothing, or don't think it's worth paying money for. They do it because it's way damn easier than waiting forever for Hulu to have it, or to buy it on DVD, or whatever. For me, I've become addicted to Netflix instant watch, and pretty much all my tv is watched through that now. A service *I pay for!* Because it's so much easier to just pick up the remote and click to play something than going through the trouble of downloading, hooking my computer up to my tv, blah blah.
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Date: 2012-01-25 08:40 pm (UTC)Yes, exactly! I really side-eye the industry when a digital cd costs $20. Bitch, don't even act like a *fraction* of the costs associated with a real cd are involved with a digital one! lol
Aw man, 4 episodes behind on Fringe! D: Catch uuuuup! XD But yeah, it's awful. I actually stopped using Hulu entirely once they did that. I didn't purposely go "fuck those guys" but I just have no use for them anymore. *facepalm*
It would be so much easier.
Yesssss, which reminds me of another point: consumers want things easy, not necessarily cheap (or free). Most people don't download because they enjoy getting something for nothing, or don't think it's worth paying money for. They do it because it's way damn easier than waiting forever for Hulu to have it, or to buy it on DVD, or whatever. For me, I've become addicted to Netflix instant watch, and pretty much all my tv is watched through that now. A service *I pay for!* Because it's so much easier to just pick up the remote and click to play something than going through the trouble of downloading, hooking my computer up to my tv, blah blah.