BitTorrent usage is climbing and streaming services' original content is to blame

[Matrix]

 

 

 

The big picture: Streaming services are an excellent alternative to piracy but exclusivity of original content is leading to fragmentation and that’s driving some viewers right back to file sharing. It's not financially feasible to subscribe to every service out there so some are paying for their favorite or two and pirating everything else.

Streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video were supposed to curb piracy by providing subscribers with an easy and affordable way to consume content. Mission accomplished? Yes and no.

The aforementioned streaming services and their competitors have indeed created an ecosystem in which people are willing to pay a reasonable rate for access to a massive library of media. But along the way, something happened. Rather than simply serving as a hub for movies and TV shows, these companies decided they wanted to participate in the production of original content.

Again, this has largely been a success. Without Netflix, for example, we wouldn’t have Stranger Things, Black Mirror or House of Cards. Amazon has delivered The Grand Tour, Transparent and The Man in the High Castle, just to name a few. You get the point.

It makes sense for a streaming outfit to produce original content as it serves as a differentiator between it and the competition. If service A offers something that service B doesn’t, that gives consumers a valid reason to select one provider over another.

It’s this exclusivity, or fragmentation, that is steering some back to the path of piracy as subscribing to every available service becomes cost prohibitive at a certain point.

As outlined in Sandvine’s October 2018 Global Internet Phenomena Report, BitTorrent traffic now accounts for nearly 22 percent of total upstream volume (and roughly 32 percent in EMEA regions).

One of the reasons it’s higher in EMEA regions is because these areas don’t always have instant access to the latest content. If a Game of Thrones episode is launched and isn’t immediately available to stream, some eager fans will turn to file sharing to get the episode ASAP. And in some regions, exclusives aren’t available at all, giving interested viewers virtually no legal options to watch.

In actuality, BitTorrent numbers are probably even higher than what Sandvine is reporting due to the use of proxies and VPNs.

 

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[Sylence]

There are a dozen FREE websites that host direct link to the latest fullhd/4k TV series and movies. if their format is mp4 then your browser can play them automatically, if not you can use VLC and stream it right away. so why should someone pay those premium subscriptions!

[steven36]

Most people on PCs  only have 720p  or 1080p monitors because of  DRM you cant even watch legal 4k videos on PC and a lot of hardware is not even compatible  , Most that using 4k streaming is mostly using Android  TV Boxes they don't cost but a few $100 now . 

http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/worldwide

 

I dont think legal streaming services were the cause of the rise of it , it was boxes with Kodi  on them and the rise of 4k on BitTorrent , they have services you can buy were they upload the video from BitTorrent  for you  and they have addons  can scrape the public trackers  and it can see if the file has already been uploaded to there system by hashing  and you just click on the cached file and it clones it over to your download  folder and it plays it in Kodi no wait or anything  and these services cost  less than buying a legal service  , 

 

Also if you have a vpn and don't mind waiting a few minutes to stream there's  some Kodi addons were you can stream p2p 4k and lower without paying for a service .  BitTorrent is the way to go if you want to stream pure 40 GB Blu-Ray .  Most 4k you have wait for it too get on Blu-Ray to get it from BitTorrent because they update the DRM so fast on  Amazon and Netflix  that if it gets cracked they just update right away and break it again. It been cracked few times in the past, but it never lasted very long so most webrips are  just 1080p like you can play on a PC from legal services  .

 

 

Amazon have almost every movie and tv show now and it all come out in 1080p on BitTorrent for free.  Theirs not very much Amazon original  content even what they do have they do the pilot and let people vote on it and they nuke the shows for the ones that have low votes and only order more episodes  only for the shows that got a lot of votes. Germany, Japan, and the U.K. Amazon have more users than Netflix even.  Because Netfilx dont offer the same videos  they the offer to the US.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/02/14/the-3-countries-where-amazon-prime-video-is-beatin.aspx

 

What will  kill legal  streaming services is the new Copyright laws that the EU passed  that will force them to mostly only have local content in there library.

 

But  I call  BS on the Global Internet Phenomena Report because the big legal streaming services keep getting more and more users every year  tell they start losing users its not effecting them. they just are greedy and want to blame it on piracy when in the end copyright laws and geo blocking will be there down fall. . Mostly  of the big streaming services subscribers are in the USA because of the poor content offered overseas and copyright laws to prevent these services from the USA  from taking hold in the EU.  And the shame of it is the EU is not offering no services like Netflix with loads of content you can get on BitTorrent ether.

 

Smart move by comcast  to buy SKY because they have a lot of channels that offer USA content.  IPTV is were it's at in Europe..