[TrinaryWorksToo]

Each episode of G O T is 3.00 on youtube. Or you can buy the whole season for $20 HBO GO is $15 per month and you can watch more than one season. This is clearly way too high a price. In theory, google should compete with HBO GO and lower their price.

[Crosseye_Jack]

Don't the rights holders for these shows set the price and not Google? (The Price per episode is the same as if you buy the episodes on Amazon Video)

Also on YouTube you are "Buying" the episode / season so you can watch it anytime you want, with HBO Go if you stop paying the subscription you lose access to the content.

[Mindwipe]

Google are granting permanent (to all intents and purposes) ownership of the content to view, whereas a month does not cover time to watch all the episodes of a new season, and goes away the second you stop subscribing, and allows the content to be downloaded. Your theory is comparing apples and oranges.

[TrinaryWorksToo]

In practice people usually watch an episode once or twice. They lose access if they lose the account, they do not own the episode. Additionally, Google could compete and make a monthly streaming service too, which they don't except for live tv. Why aren't they competing with a streaming service? Because they have Google Play.

[thanatropism]

What, in practice people are burned out by twice-to-thrice-a-generation format changes. I have a bunch of TV series in DVD boxes and now have no DVD player.