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Originally Posted by HOOT
You haven't shown once how the NHL can recoup their costs of lost revenue besides banner ads and crossing their fingers for new fans. Do you honestly believe that banner clicks would amount to the same dollar figures?
Don't you have to ask yourself if this was such a good idea why none of the big 4 have bothered to even try it? There is a reason why it wouldn't work and I'd guess money would be the biggest reason.
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Obviously, if only the GC subscribers will be watching the NHL streams then ads won't come close to their current profit.
The question comes down to how many illegal stream users are there for ever subscribers. By getting their traffic on to a legit stream, would it be enough to off set the cost lost by some subscribers going from Game Center Plus to the free version Lite (Like I said, I do like the PVR ability, HD quality and being able to watch older games so I would still subscribe to Plus. But I do wish they have more advertising on it to subsidize the subscription cost).
Big 4 haven't tried it because its always hard to try something new, because of the chance of failure.
I don't think the music industry would be what it is now if it wasn't for piracy forcing the industry to adapt. We no longer have to get ripped off when buying music since we're not forced to buy the entire CD and now we have the convenience to download music with a single click. Although most users are still opting to pay, there are legit options to listen to music on the web for free, and the sites that offer these services pay for the rights to do so from the revenue they generate from ads.