The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 193
DavidGilbert99 writes "Fantasy fans are clearly among the most prevalent downloaders of pirated material if the 2013 lists of most pirated films and TV shows is anything to go by. The Hobbit beat Django Unchained and Fast and Furious 6 while on TV, Game of Thrones saw off competition from Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead as the most pirated TV show. While this is clearly losing money for both industries, the US box office doesn't seem to be suffering too much as it is about to record its best year ever."
Re:Clearly losing money? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Informative)
I haven't figured out why they won't just sell you an HBO Go subscription as a separate entity. They have a digital content distribution system in place. It has support on many different devices. Yet they still require that you buy their channel through a cable/satellite provider and THEN get access to it.
Why not just have an HBO Go subscription for $10/month? They can cut out the middle man (cable companies) and get a lot more customers that only do internet based TV.
HBO doesn't want to cut out the middlemen, because doing so would actually lose
them money (or at least not make them as much as one would expect, while at the
same time seriously pissing off their current revenue sources):
Why Doesn't HBO Allow Non-Cable Subscribers To Subscribe To HBO Go à la Hulu? [forbes.com]
Re:Clearly losing money? (Score:4, Informative)
These freetards are not going to the theaters or buying DVDs or whatever, and therefore it is not a lost sale.
Actually, there is evidence that people that share files buy more than the average public [arstechnica.com].