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Originally Posted by psyang
Blaming HBO is a bit backwards too - sure, they didn't provide timely access. But really, it's their show, they can do what they want. Is it really someone's right to watch a show?
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Nope. But HBO as a capitalist corporation should be maximizing profits. With the amount of people who have watched the show without subscribing to HBO or buying the DVD's they have obviously lost a lot of potential revenue.
The earlier poster has a point that they are obviously trying to base their model on subscription to their channel. Whether that model is the most successful model they could be applying is what a lot of us are questioning. Does HBO really think that allowing consumers to buy series on demand will cost them money in the long run? I think that is shortsighted personally. I'm not sure I know a single person who subscribes to HBO and yet I know of a ton of people who watch their shows via torrents.
In this case what would benefit the consumer (watching the shows on demand for money) would also seem to benefit the producer. So why isn't that a reality? Seems to be cable companies lack of adaptation to the changing world.