I'm unsure about the Canadian market particularly but i can name half a dozen people I know personally who have "Steaming boxes". Most are tech illiterate so I doubt they fully know what it is or how they work but I'm sure they know its illegal.
Piracy isn't as rampant as the Kazza/Limewire days but it seems to have taken off again in a big way.
Maybe splitting everything off in to 12 different services and plastering ads over the top of the lot wasn't the masterful MBA plan it first seemed.
> Maybe splitting everything off in to 12 different services and plastering ads over the top of the lot wasn't the masterful MBA plan it first seemed.
I suspect they're still extracting more money from the population than they would have with the previous model. My impression is that many people are now paying 2x what a Netflix subscription for a single service that covers a fraction of the content, and many even have more than one service.
Piracy cuts into those profits but probably not enough to make up for the massive price increases and fragmentation.
Piracy isn't as rampant as the Kazza/Limewire days but it seems to have taken off again in a big way.
Maybe splitting everything off in to 12 different services and plastering ads over the top of the lot wasn't the masterful MBA plan it first seemed.