'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".

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.

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.

Apple pushed this film so hard. This site and others push it so hard. WHY? It's just a movie...

A movie that made almost $700M at the box office. All that marketing paid off.

So this is not a movie anywhere participant? That sucks, I’m sure it will be on sale for 9.99 or less for thanksgiving days sales.

A Tim 'Sherlock' Cook Production on movies anywhere ain't happening!