'F1: The Movie' Coming to Apple TV+ on Friday, December 12

Should have been added ages ago

But I also don't think your rationale fully works -- the availability of pirated works has a direct impact on the number of people that will fall into A or B.

Again ... marginal cost of nearly zero.

If they want to keep piracy at bay, make the prices and terms more attractive, don't gum it up with ADs and too many tiers and make the Apps and experience great.

THAT is what keeps mainstream Piracy at bay...

Trying to "lock it down more" and "limit the screens in use" and "screw with folks sharing a password with family" or too many "geo restriction hassles" or a hot garbage App experience..-- all of that pisses people off and you encourage them to seek other means.

For some faction of folks, there will always be piracy and they are not "gettable" as customers and not worth worrying about.

Anything else is like trying to "squeeze the air out of a balloon".

Again ... marginal cost of nearly zero.

If they want to keep piracy at bay, make the prices and terms more attractive, don't gum it up with ADs and too many tiers and make the Apps and experience great.

THAT is what keeps mainstream Piracy at bay...

Trying to "lock it down more" and "limit the screens in use" and "screw with folks sharing a password with family" or too many "geo restriction hassles" or a hot garbage App experience..-- all of that pisses people off and you encourage them to seek other means.

For some faction of folks, there will always be piracy and they are not "gettable" as customers and not worth worrying about.

Anything else is like trying to "squeeze the air out of a balloon".

Exactly.

Let's not forget that one big factor contributing to the success of the iTunes store 20+ years ago was simply:
- it was less hassle than piracy.

There wasn't a global sentiment of "Oh no, we have to support the poor records labels".


Imagine you had the same situation as the movie streaming market: There would have been half a dozen competing stores, one for each major label. Barely any overlap in their catalogues. More than half of it region-locked. And now imagine you'd need to pay a subscription for every single one of them to listen to your whole music collection.
You'd imagine people who would usually be willing to pay for a song would just find it easier to pirate stuff to not have to deal with this kind of corpo nonsense.

They messed up with that clooney/pitt film, wolf last year. It was going to be a theatrical release but then Apple pulled that at the last minute and went straight to streaming. The director went mad and vowed not to work with Apple again or do a sequel I think.

Basically it didn’t move the needle on Apple subscription sales. So they’ve figured out finally that big name actors straight to streaming doesn’t really do anything but cheapen the perception of the content your getting from streaming.

What keeping movies in the cinema does is let a title “marinate”. And grow its perceived value. So now if you buy an Apple subscription in December you will feel that your getting a 20 dollar movie for free, one that people left their house to see on purpose and wasn’t just given to them as part of a package deal.

I feel like series like Severance or Ted Lasso sell streaming services better than just a place to get movies. And for the movie part to make sense you’ve got to know the movie before hand and that means the whole cinema/rent/dvd cycle.

Also, films get buried when they go to streaming. It’s prominent for a few weeks maybe on the front page but then it’s buried after that. Most people only look at what is on there first few scrolls. So the ease of streaming is actually killing are ability to see the good films and programming. Needs a change somehow.

I think it’s soooo slimy that companies stretch out the release window for movies as long as possible.

The only way to legally watch this is to buy for $20 or $25 from Apple. There’s no reason they can’t offer a rental at the same time. Will they even offer a rental when it’s on ATV+? Or do you need to subscribe to watch?

Things like this are why I encourage piracy.

Almost like they're trying to make money off the thing they invested hundreds of millions of dollars in.

Encouraging people to steal a movie just because it isn't discounted or available to rent soon enough for your tastes is wild.

Almost like they're trying to make money off the thing they invested hundreds of millions of dollars in.

Encouraging people to steal a movie just because it isn't discounted or available to rent soon enough for your tastes is wild.

It’s more that I’m encouraging people to not support scummy business practices. Piracy is on the rise for a reason, it’s not the consumers’ fault.