Time to dig out that torrent downloader on my NAS, it seems.
Why can't the movie industry learn from the success of Spotify? No one is pirating music any more because Spotify has everything and their dog without geo restriction (at least as far as I am aware), and those who want to buy music can buy unprotected stuff from Apple Music... only the movie industry is bent on total control and profit extraction.
The "success" is not Spotify. I don't care if Spotify makes a loss or not. The "success" is that most people do not pirate music any longer but pay for it, be it via Apple Music and friends or via Spotify (even if the real bill is footed by investors).
Companies don't actually care very much about if people steal content or not. That's not the metric by which they are judged by their shareholders.
They care about if they generate profit or not. Minimising piracy is one part of that, but it's not worth destroying the rest of your business over chasing marginal returns on the anti-piracy front.
Why can't the movie industry learn from the success of Spotify? No one is pirating music any more because Spotify has everything and their dog without geo restriction (at least as far as I am aware), and those who want to buy music can buy unprotected stuff from Apple Music... only the movie industry is bent on total control and profit extraction.