Comments on: Swedish TV Channels Lose Every Fourth Youngster to Downloading http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-tv-channels-lose-every-fourth-youngster-to-downloading/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: martinelli /swedish-tv-channels-lose-every-fourth-youngster-to-downloading/#comment-85529 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:05:58 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-tv-channels-lose-every-fourth-youngster-to-downloading/#comment-85529 Not surprising at all. People are tired of being stuck to the mind sucker. They want flexibility of scheduling. Time shifting has been the major driving force behind the VCR and Tivo, but the younger generation doesn’t want to deal with the frustration of programming VCR’s (dead tech) and having access to a computer already sees no need to buy a Tivo, so the ultimate timeshift is demand download of the exact program you want and watch at your leisure. Of course, this kills your local TV station, and the major networks aren’t thinking far enough ahead to work on providing the initial content, a way of making it pay and then giving a percentage kickback to their local store. They aren’t as smart as Staples.

]]> By: kdsde /swedish-tv-channels-lose-every-fourth-youngster-to-downloading/#comment-30294 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:14:43 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-tv-channels-lose-every-fourth-youngster-to-downloading/#comment-30294 IMO these are not surprising findings; If the consumer has the chance to decide when HE want to consume something, he will do so.
It’s the stupidity of the content providers that they haven’t embraced that concept years earlier when those highspeed connections were impossible for most of the consumers and they could have had the chance to establish a form of this “time-shifted, on demand”-watching where they could feed you with the advertisements they want you to see.
Now everybody got used to the fact that “the scene” will provide the stuff with cut out ads and the content provider will have a problem to compete with them even if he provides also for free.

Maybe the MAFIAA should use those 38.100.x.y IP’s not to poison and piss off the Joe Average Content consumer (that is also these days already willing to pay “membership fees” to those fucking scam sites) but to use those IP’s to spread their content faster and earlier then “the scene” and then with a “build-in advertisement” instead of a station logo to make the bucks they want to make!

In a few years, only those grey haired oldies will remember the times when it was the TV that dictated you to be home at a certain time, to watch your “Prime Time” TV series.

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