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

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 XXX 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 XXX Findings

• XXX the 2000’s TV companies responded to XXX by meeting user needs but now rights fragmentation in streaming services is handing the initiative back to piracy
• XXX style="line-height: XXX penetration is XXX compared to XXX for SVOD
  
• France is the only country where XXX penetration is higher than XXX penetration among XXX year olds – XXX - higher than SVOD – XXX reflecting the longstanding habits of the now older first generation of file sharers
  
• SVOD has an even gender split while XXX skews male slightly – XXX Rippers are the piracy app of choice for Digital Natives with XXX penetration among under XXX top XXX most pirated TV shows are all available on SVOD services but they are fragmented across XXX different services
  
• It would cost XXX a month to subscribe to all XXX SVOD services required to watch the XXX most pirated shows
  
• This rights fragmentation gives an unnecessary advantage to XXX an opportunity that next-generation piracy app Popcorn 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