SOPA…Online Piracy…Downloading. The hot topic of 2012. I
have seen some great online comics about the ludicrousy of online content
sharing and thought it was all fun and games until Megavideo was shut down and
the owners sentenced to jail time.
WOW…ridiculous that online piracy gave them more time than
some murder cases. See Mike Kuster’s blog for more information: TheNewGuyOnTheSpot
Now I am sitting here and Glee (yes I confess I have a
guilty pleasure) posted a teaser video of past episode that is unavailable in
Canada and many other countries. I wasn’t too upset at the ridiculousness of it
until I noticed how many negative comments the video was getting, and they
weren’t about Finn and Rachel but because a majority of their active users on
Facebook were NOT from the United States where their content was being
streamed.
Now I do understand that Canada makes it impossible to share
entertainment content online such as music and videos but they do have some successful
companies like ABC and Slice that are streaming content online with
advertisements every 10-15 minutes. I think this idea is golden, and if you don’t
want to host the channel yourself USE YouTube to post your episodes with
advertisments and incredible room to share and spread your content to online
fans.
I do not have cable and now that I have been liberated from
that money grubbing prison I am so happy. I don’t mind spending a fraction of
the cost on Netflix and legally streaming the rest of my shows online on
websites that allow me to, but I am constantly annoyed with the fact that the
ability to stream and share content online is so easy yet companies make it
remarkably hard to watch something legally online while it is SO easy to
download and watch online content illegally with little fallout.
I think this comic sums up perfectly my point:
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| To view comic click here |
To be successful in the coming years I think shows are going
to have to get online and stop relying on cable/satellite because the fan base
won’t be there when Xbox, Netflix and online streaming fully take over.
