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Originally Posted by gottabekd
Now, in Canada, of course its a different story. Bell owns the rights to HBO content (rumoured until 2020, and who knows, they might strike a new deal). Bell did not follow HBO's lead and make the content available standalone. They are the dinosaurs refusing to meet the consumer demands. They have at least started making 1+ year old HBO content available standalone via CraveTV, but this isn't enough to satisfy the consumer demands for a popular 'watercooler' show like Game of Thrones. Under this model, it is no surprise if piracy is rampant.
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It's also to the point where people pirate TV because online is fragmented too much. I don't want to subscribe to 5 or 6 different online services to catch the shows I want, I want a central portal with everything. That doesn't exist, so I subscribe to Netflix as it has most of what I watch, and then I download the rest to my Plex server