one more reason to pirate video.... Come on people, when are you gonna realize that your business model (paid cable tv) is obsolete! I personally never understood why we PAY the cable companies for ad supported TV in the first place. Right now I am completely happy with a combination of over the air programming and online streaming. If Hulu and the rest become only available to subscribers, I will just steal the content...you arent getting me to pay $100 a month ever again!
You're right, you don't understand. TV used to be ad supported and then broadcasters got greedy. Ever wonder why the broadcasters might work on this with the cable companies rather than eliminate them from the equation? Because almost all of a subscriber's monthly bill goes to the broadcasters. I work for a major cable company and let me tell you how it works. If you pay $50 per month for 60 channels, that all goes to broadcasters. Big networks like NBC might get $2-3, while BET or G4 might get 25 cents. The money is made by pay-per-view, service calls, local ads and being an internet/phone provider.
NBC and FOX are looking at stuff like hulu but they see that the ads alone aren't going to give the same money. The good news here though is a few years from now you might be able to pick from several internet based cable providers rather than just getting stuck with whoever you have locally. Even though they'd still be you ISP.
psst... Dude, this is only going to work if you are the exception. Guess what? If everybody steals the content, there won't be any content. But don't tell anybody else.
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one more reason to pirate video.... Come on people, when are you gonna realize that your business model (paid cable tv) is obsolete! I personally never understood why we PAY the cable companies for ad supported TV in the first place. Right now I am completely happy with a combination of over the air programming and online streaming. If Hulu and the rest become only available to subscribers, I will just steal the content...you arent getting me to pay $100 a month ever again!
You're right, you don't understand. TV used to be ad supported and then broadcasters got greedy. Ever wonder why the broadcasters might work on this with the cable companies rather than eliminate them from the equation? Because almost all of a subscriber's monthly bill goes to the broadcasters. I work for a major cable company and let me tell you how it works. If you pay $50 per month for 60 channels, that all goes to broadcasters. Big networks like NBC might get $2-3, while BET or G4 might get 25 cents. The money is made by pay-per-view, service calls, local ads and being an internet/phone provider.
NBC and FOX are looking at stuff like hulu but they see that the ads alone aren't going to give the same money. The good news here though is a few years from now you might be able to pick from several internet based cable providers rather than just getting stuck with whoever you have locally. Even though they'd still be you ISP.
psst... Dude, this is only going to work if you are the exception. Guess what? If everybody steals the content, there won't be any content. But don't tell anybody else.