P2P In The Age Of SVOD Rights Fragmentation Gives Piracy A Free Pass

Mark Mulligan

February 2016

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 BBC iPlayer. Now though, the fragmentation of rights across competing SVOD services looks set to hand the initiative back to

Companies mentioned in this report: ABC, Amazon, BitTorrent, CBS, HBO, Hulu, Napster, Netflix, Pandora, Popcorn Time, Soundcloud, Spotify, Torrent Freak, YouTube

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