Wil Wheaton Explains Why Hollywood Needs To Compete With 'Piracy'
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An anonymous user pointed us to this nice quick video of actor/geek Wil Wheaton discussing how the entertainment industry needs to catch up with the 21st century when it comes to dealing with "piracy."Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Discredit everyone and anyone that does not share your opinion is as effective as it's new.
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That's catchy.
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1/10
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUWXjs2jPQI
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Yeah. Great Gig There...
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Ninja... ummm
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Or is there some other place that is not USA?
*confused*
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Because his "argument" is transparently stupid.
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Speaking of "transparently stupid"...
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It snowed today so that disproves global warming.
I saw a rich black man so racism doesn't exist.
How can you even talk to these people? Life can be exhausting.
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I saw a rich black man so racism doesn't exist."
@crade,seriously? That was the best you could do? So I saw a poor black man so racism still exists. It didn't snow every day so Global Warming is real.
Your analogies are flawed in so many ways. Let me help you out. I am crade, I make huge generalities about large groups of people. I am 14 and because the internet is anonymous I want every one to thing I am older and smart. Then again, how can anyone talk to you? Trying to do so I so exhausting.
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Very simple instructions in dealing with trolls
1. Place hand in front of you
2. Place hand on forehead
3. Shift head 45 degrees forward. This becomes default position.
4. Shift head 25 degrees to the left.
5. Shift head to default position.
6. Shift head 25 degrees to the right.
7. Shift head to default position.
Repeat steps 4-7 as necessary to show inanity of behavior.
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Whether you're trolling or not, its because neither Hulu or Netflix meet Wil's conditions of: "that makes it just as easy [as Bittorrent or piracy] for honest people to get access to the programming."
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Do you have an example?
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How about Syfy themselves. They do not stream shows on Hulu until 2 months after the original air date. Pirates have to wait a few minutes after the show airs.
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Or before...
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So I can stream every show minutes after it airs for the first time? Can I download the shows in convenient formats so I can watch them later? Or take them with me on my laptop/Android/iPod to watch them away from home?
If those answers are no, then it is not as easy as piracy.
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Sorry, but are you *seriously* claiming that Hulu and Netflix allow you to watch downloaded content offline? (Or download - rather than stream - at all for that matter?) Or that the streams work with any and all media players and don't require a special player to work? Or that once downloaded, the stream can be scaled/transcoded to work on other devices, without having to be re-downloaded again?
Are you *seriously* claiming that they offer everything that's available via illegal means? That any movie or TV show you want, regardless of which studio produced it, is available quickly and simply?
Are you so completely and totally unaware of what Hulu and Netflix actually *are* that you have to ask such a stupid question?
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They also have very limited selection compared to the pirates'.
They are a good example of at least a decent attempt to compete with piracy, though. Thats why the movie industry wants them dead.
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I'm gonna engrave that in a steel plate and send it to MAFIAA.
As for availability, it means not with laughable selection of content and all the access restrictions other countries face.
I'll stick to file sharing for now.
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"In Vancouver, I can watch broadcast television from Seattle, but I can't watch shows on Netflix."
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The shills will ignore the fact that he's part of the 'creative process' and will try to discredit him because of [insert random reason here]. Oh, they already did.
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Yeesh.
Now, in the lighter side of the news, doubt this young man's opinion is going to sway anyone, especially when the other guy came in and basically make a mockery of his interview.
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I can only think of
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I've never seen it. I know him from STTNG.
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Because you can get things immediately through piracy. I don't know how long tv shows take to show up on Netflix but I can get any tv show on a torrent site within 10 minutes of the showing airing. Movies take what 28 days after the DVD release or something like that to show up, I can get those same movies 1-2 months before they are released on DVD on any torrent site.
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The guy who comes in.
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Great Idea
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Hollywood can't compete. The internet has outmoded them.
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Hollywood can't compete. The internet has outmoded them.
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