Would you use this service?

What if you hosted it on say the IS and Saix server that way that could moniter what you are downloading and not deduct it from your local cap. I would gladly pay R15 an episode no adds and no monthly subscription fee. If you set it up as say R100/month subscription for say 20 30 min episodes and then R10/ episode there after?
just throwing out ideas
 
well you can get 1 gb from axxes for 12 rand, so 1 series like top gear is 700 mb and something else thats only half an hour is 300 mb,.. just do it yourself ;)
 
I also would pay say R8 to R10, but not for the old stuff like say Heroes one year old, should be like one day after shown in Canada or the USA.
And it doesnt help waiting here for DSTV that is all years behind and some never arrive here.
 
Great idea, but who gets ripped off???

This would be a great service that I would most certainly use under certain conditions.
1st of all, if he/they were to charge more than R5 an episode and include some adverts on the thing, then it should be designed in such a way that my bandwidth is untouched after each download. I wouldn't buy an episode for more than R5 and still have to pay Telkom for a bandwidth usage. I watch quite a number of series and so I would have to spend approximately R100 a week. That's a lot of money when I will have to buy bandwidth from ISPs. I have DSTV so that someone else can download the staff and deliver it straight to my TV.

This is really an untapped market, but its rather very tricky. I would only use this if all episodes bought were delivered to the end-user at no extra "delivery cost". However, if then you could create some kinda "client zone" where one would log in and just watch his stuff online and then have an option of storing it externally at a fee... I would really think about it. But only if you would promise to pay for the streaming and all other bandwidth related uses.

All-in-all, I would use this if you pay for streaming and I pay for bandwidth when I wanna store it externally. And don't forget... all paid episodes don't have an expiry date... they never get DELETED!!!!...

... unless I do it myself. :D

Then this means we, me and you, would have to agree on some sort of a fee for the storage coz my hard drive would be empty here and yours would get fuller fuller. :p
 
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And hey, one more thing...
Please pm me if you wanna take this further... I would really like to make some money. :D

Anyone who wants to have a try on this, please take me with you... or at least make me your right-hand-man worker. :p

Arko2 said:
I also would pay say R8 to R10, but not for the old stuff like say Heroes one year old, should be like one day after shown in Canada or the USA.
And it doesnt help waiting here for DSTV that is all years behind and some never arrive here.
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I LOL'ed at your signature... LMAO :D
 
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I prefer to PVR all my favorite series and then watch another day so I can fast forward all the adds. So no I wouldnt pay for that service (mind you we are all technically paying for our series if you consider you TV Lic and DSTV fees).
 
I would gladly pay for a service that let me get my grubby paws on TV series immediately after their original US/UK air dates, legally. Can't see it happening in SA any time soon though - Multichoice has a stranglehold on licensing.

Having said that, I could see an "on demand" type service working, especially if shows were made available substantially before they air on the normal channels.
 
In SA this service will be launching 1 Feb 2037. I started this thread to get an idea of those who would stop pirating if a cost effective legitimate alternative came along.
 
Shayd said:
If you could register with a local company that had the rights to sell you TV series etc by the episode and charge you one of 2 fees, 1 fee if you want no ads at about R10 per episode and 1 fee if you are happy to have lets say 2 ads per 30 min at say R2 per episode would you happily never pirate again?
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yes to both, although id probably stick to the add-free ones. at R240 for a season ( Taking a thumbsucked ave season size ) , its cheaper than the the box sets i have .
 
Shayd said:
In SA this service will be launching 1 Feb 2037. I started this thread to get an idea of those who would stop pirating if a cost effective legitimate alternative came along.
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Thats not funny
 
Tpex said:
Thats not funny
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i would love to have this concept if i had this i would stop my dstv all together so if u guys want my money get this up and running and i will stop the piracy (of series only ;))
 
Would you move to an ISP say for example Webafrica at R40 a gig if they hosted this on their freezone and the episodes came out a week after the US release?
 
This model has been banded around for a number of years with the media/production companies stopping it every step of the way because of the lower profit margins and politics involved.

It's just an extension of what the cinema companies now do around the world e.g. R150 per month for unlimited movie access.
They can afford it across the country, with a large customer base averaging 2 visits per month, as you can make a fair amount of money on top of the extortion of showing Hollywood movie and the advertising fees recouped.

The issue is all the middle men currently in the model making a huge amount of cash, including the large production costs and salaries. They have all been in bed together for so long and have such close ties that cutting through some of these people would cause a huge problem. Also, the question of who would own the data cantres that dispersed the info... again - all of this has been thought through in detail and the model has been sorted for years now... just that no one will agree on it.

I do believe that piracy would significantly decrease/stop if thre were local 'free peered' data centres around the world where subscribers paid a reasonable monthly fee to access the wealth of information available by the multitude of production companies. Essentially, Pay-as-you go TV... it's piloted and kinda/sorta/maybe working in many places. However, it always stops or starts to become way too expensive when everyone starts demanding their usual profit margins.

If someone could sovle the political/money-grabbing issue around the media industry then why would anyone want to or need to pirate?

We all know that another media revolution has to happen, however, as with all previous revoltions, the people in control will fight until they run out of breath to stop it happening.
 
I don't think it will work. To much corruption in SA won't allow this sort of good deal to go through.
 
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