P2P In The Age Of SVOD Rights Fragmentation Gives Piracy A Free Pass
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The 20,000 Foot View Ever since the advent of Napster media industries have been locked in a war against free. Learning from the lessons of the music business, TV companies nipped much of the demand for shows by fighting free with free itself, launching services such as Hulu and the iPlayer. Now though the fragmentation of rights across competing SVOD services looks set to hand the initiative back to Key Findings
- In the TV companies responded to by user needs but now rights in streaming services is handing initiative back to piracy penetration is compared to for SVOD
- France is only country where penetration is than SVOD penetration among year olds – - higher than SVOD – reflecting the longstanding habits of the now older first generation of file sharers
- SVOD has even gender split while skews slightly –
- YouTube Rippers the piracy app of choice Digital Natives with penetration among
- The top pirated TV shows are all on SVOD services but they fragmented across different services
- It would a month to subscribe to SVOD services required to watch most pirated shows
- This rights gives an unnecessary advantage to opportunity that next-generation piracy app Time will seize gleefully
Companies mentioned in this report: ABC, Amazon, BitTorrent, CBS, HBO, Hulu, Napster, Netflix, Pandora, Popcorn Time, Soundcloud, Spotify, Torrent Freak, YouTube