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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2015 21:09:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2015 21:32:18 GMT
Hmmmm wonder what the rating will be tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2015 22:00:00 GMT
His line: "They call it a burn notice" -  |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2015 22:13:52 GMT
His line: "They call it a burn notice" - I know, right? Clever reporting--he took what was basically a statistical summary and made it amusing. I've always wondered, if HBO can track the pirate sites closely enough to know exactly how many downloads were done within a given time frame, then why can't HBO (or someone) shut those sites down? I've never understood that.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2015 0:36:27 GMT
His line: "They call it a burn notice" - I know, right? Clever reporting--he took what was basically a statistical summary and made it amusing. I've always wondered, if HBO can track the pirate sites closely enough to know exactly how many downloads were done within a given time frame, then why can't HBO (or someone) shut those sites down? I've never understood that.
Because the amount of effort involved in pursuing online pirating (especially elusive bit torrent file sharing) is more than HBO wants to bother with from a financial standpoint. It's a bit like playing whack-a-mole anyways. They could energetically go after one (like has just been done to pirate-bay) only to have 50 others crop up around it anyways. In protest, Pirate Bay allowed all of it's users to download it's code and host their own - so it was like a zombie plague. It doesn't help and it will never be eliminated so it's just something they live with knowingly I guess. |
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Post by kingeomer on May 12, 2015 2:19:52 GMT
To add to what @envie said, it's too hard and costly to stamp out pirating...so I think HBO has learned to live with it and try to put down the vibe : You have to see the show that everyone is willing to pirate to see. It's good PR for the show.
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Post by day dreamer on May 12, 2015 12:37:47 GMT
HBO is going to start wearing this as a badge of honor, eventually. lol
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Post by boojam on May 12, 2015 23:43:02 GMT
Hmmmm wonder what the rating will be tomorrow. Seems it falls behind E4 but still is Sunday Cable champion by almost a factor of 2. Still don't know even the finals from HBO on their 'global' ratings , done by HBO, much less the should-be-available-now HBO rating for E2. Half way through, interesting to speculate what this means for a GoT extension. We still have S6 coming , do we wait until next year to find out about S7? 'Windage' guess is that season 5 would have to do something like 50% better than S4 for HBO to think about a S8. Wild card, the pirates continue of rampage, crazy idea, to scotch that end with an IMAX film! If the climax is as big as GRRM promises a 200 million dollar film might net a billion! Consider right now Ultron (made for 250 m) is on the road to bust a billion , foreign sales are double domestic. Furious 7 has now made 1.5 billion! (made of 190 mil) , 1 billion of that is foreign. There is money to be made and GoT is unique enough it might just do it, if the ducks lined up. |
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