Comment by PebblesHD
4 years ago
If this sort of activity continues, I can only see it decreasing the effective value of good ‘purchased’ through these online stores. People will only pay similar prices to physical goods for digital goods if they behave similarly, if they do not, the price must surely come down to reflect this.
This can be easily fixed by exclusivity deals, cancellation of "unsecure" physical copies and the fact that none of modern media display devices even feature physical media drives.
You can't vote with your wallet if they kill all the alternatives with the help of IP law ;)
Most probably that will force most of the people to stick to using more TikTok (or whatever video platform will be popular at a future time) and less feature movies. Which I find a real shame, because I personally love movies, but imo that's the direction things are going.
There are videogame streamers and YouTubers who easily provide over 4 hours of content on a regular basis, mostly for free. It's going to be either making subscriptions as content rich and cheap as possible or hoping to get a renaissance of movie nuts culture.