Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Joakim]

On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 04:29:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/2/2013 6:13 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> Unless the industry is showing signs of understanding, I'm 
>> done with theses
>> stuffs. When amateurs can do better for free, you are not 
>> providing any service,
>> you are just scamming your customers.
>
> I don't know about scamming, but I find the business practice 
> of ignoring people who want to throw money at you to be utterly 
> baffling.
>
> For example, I want to watch Forbrydelsen. It's only available 
> as Region 2 DVDs. I have several dvd/bluray players, none will 
> play it. What the hell? It's 6 years old. Who is making money 
> off of me not being able to watch it?
>
> (Amazon sez: "It won't play on standard DVD/Blu-ray players 
> sold in the United States.")
>
> I'm unimpressed.

It's an issue of rights negotiation.  Someone has to go buy the 
rights for each of those shows for every region and type of 
technology, whether broadcast or DVD or internet, each one is 
handled separately.  Because there's no standardized contracts or 
pricing, these deals take forever and they simply don't bother if 
the market is too small, ie you and the three other people who 
want to watch Forbrydelsen, whatever that is. ;) If it costs them 
more to hire the high-priced lawyers to cut these deals than they 
will get from foreign sales, they don't bother.

This is what bit torrent is for:

http://bitsnoop.com/
http://thepiratebay.sx/
http://www.transmissionbt.com/

I've watched the full runs of HBO shows like Game of Thrones and 
Boardwalk Empire and any popular movie I want, in HD, through 
these torrent sites.  I discovered an Australian reality show 
called My Restaurant Rules through a torrent site, despite never 
having heard of it anywhere else, and enjoyed it enough that I 
watched the entire second season through torrent almost a decade 
ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Restaurant_Rules#Series_two).

I haven't had any cable, HBO, or online video subscription 
service in more than a decade; I've probably rented one, maybe 
two, DVD/blurays during that time.  It's all moving online 
anyway, only a question of when.