Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36000789)

I am sure you have downloaded something in the past that you shouldn't have, even if it was a TV episode not yet available in the UK?

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36000808)

None at all. SnoopZ.

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 36000805)

The article is "typical" Guardian fare, especially the bit where the author says "There’s a huge difference between not being able to watch everything because there’s too much choice and not being able to watch everything because you don’t have enough money."

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 36000805)

Each media company having its own streaming services brings the possibility, the possibility, of providing a permanent archive of all their back catalogues, something Netflix could never do with other company's content.

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 36000805)

Do you remember repurchasing Star Wars for the billionth time on different formats and then special editions, limited editions etc? That nonsense is gone and I welcome it.

Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36000809)

You're a very very rare breed Den! :D

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 36000817)

Agree with your earlier comment though, about the media companies being greedy, but they still have to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 36000817)

Denphone, DVD's sales are in permanent decline, so not a sudden disappearance, just a withering into nothingness over the next few years.

Agree with your earlier comment though, about the media companies being greedy, but they still have to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36000759)

Golden age of streaming is over.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...sive-heres-why

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 36000805)

DVDs, TV licenses, pay tv subscription all used to add up each month. Fast forward to today and if the DVDs are gone and if the pay tv superscriptions are, or at least pared back, then adding in most of the main streamers will be affordable to many people, especially those paying hideous amount like £100+ each month for their tv and broadband needs.

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 36000817)

Denphone, DVD's sales are in permanent decline, so not a sudden disappearance, just a withering into nothingness over the next few years.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 36000857)

I'd imagine the majority of people paying £100 + are taking Sport so I fail to see how they'll save in the world of broadcasters moving content onto their own OTT offerings.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36000863)

So how much do you reckon you'd save if you no longer had to pay for the linear pay tv channels?

Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 36000760)

wow this is totally spot on. Greed. Tv companies may regret this as piracy returns!

Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36000807)

Hi i've been a lurker of these forums for around 2 years but decided to sign up as seeing some rubbish getting posted, i work in media law and Kodi itself is not illegal it is perfectly legal and is infact a media centre/streamer.
However some third party apps certainly are illegal this applies for plex and Emby too.
Regarding torrents. Torrents are not illegal as a lot of freely available open source content is provided via torrents, however copyrighted material such as movies/tvshows/games/music etc is illegal, there is however free music/movies/tvshows etc available via torrents that are perfectly legal.
I will have my six pence on streaming now too with companies getting greedy this i think will infact result in a spike in the number of people using illegal/grey area methods to obtain content, using a vpn to obtain content you pay for yourself from another country is not illegal say you use ESPN+ that is not illegal but may be against t+cs of your isp and ESPN so be careful, obtaining it via iptv service you see on facebook for example is illegal.

Originally Posted by alwaysabear (Post 36000871)

Hi welcome aboard , its always nice to get a new perspective especially from someone with legal knowledge of the media market.:welcome:

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 36000805)

The article is "typical" Guardian fare, especially the bit where the author says "There’s a huge difference between not being able to watch everything because there’s too much choice and not being able to watch everything because you don’t have enough money."

There's never been a opportunity, yet, to watch everything either on channels or on Netflix.

As the author says, if you wanted to watch whole tv shows, just one season would cost over £15 to buy the DVD and if the tv shows were long running over ten plus years, this got very expensive. There was never a time before Netflix where you could watch all of a tv show on a tv channel, something totally omitted from the article. Netflix provided an exceptionally cheap way to view content, which obviously people got very used to.

Another omission is that you couldn't even watch shows and films for a very long time on Netflix because the rights expired, which caused and still does cause, major headaches for Netflix as people complain when content is removed from the service. Sometimes the rights are renewed especially for major shows, but many times they're not. So, it was never a eat all you can bucket that the author quips about.

Each media company having its own streaming services brings the possibility, the possibility, of providing a permanent archive of all their back catalogues, something Netflix could never do with other company's content.

DVDs, TV licenses, pay tv subscription all used to add up each month. Fast forward to today and if the DVDs are gone and if the pay tv superscriptions are, or at least pared back, then adding in most of the main streamers will be affordable to many people, especially those paying hideous amount like £100+ each month for their tv and broadband needs.

And just a reminder, which the author forgets, Amazon, Apple and Netflix's original content are all new shows and films, so of course the prices would be higher, because that's additional new content which was never available before.

Netflix and other streamers haven't necessarily made things more expensive, especially when you throw in DVDs into the mix, they've made things more available and expanded the choice immeasurably.

Do you remember repurchasing Star Wars for the billionth time on different formats and then special editions, limited editions etc? That nonsense is gone and I welcome it.