[mjevans]

The Industry can't get this simple message in to it's collective head:

The convenience needs to be better and cheaper (including perceived risks') than piracy to win.

These are the things they MUST do:

    * One payment, that's reasonable.
    * All the content from FOREVER accessible FOREVER in one place.

Honestly, that's it for most people. For me they also need to...

    * Be DRM free so that it actually works on OSes that respect my privacy.

[icelancer]

>> The convenience needs to be better and cheaper (including perceived risks') than piracy to win.

Exactly. People saying "well it's not profitable" or this that and the other are missing the boat. Piracy is always going to exist and it's always going to be basically free. There is no beating that. That is the new reality we are in.

Now, they must adjust to that reality, whether they like it or not. Many services have and many people pay plenty of money because of it. But we're rapidly moving to a place where piracy is simpler than what we have now, which is embarrassing for paid services.

[edanm]

It kind of sounds like you're getting your history backwards here.

Piracy has existed for almost 2 decades at this point. Back then, people were making the argument that the industry needs to adjust, needs to make things as simple and cheap as piracy is, etc.

[Freak_NL]

It would be nice if this problem could be solved through cooperation rather than just hoping a unicorn will appear.

A flat subscription fee, perhaps with tiered pricing in terms of content resolution and number of concurrent users in a household.

Figure out some fair distribution key for the viewer's contributions. Newer content gets a higher slice of the pie to encourage investing in new content, but older content under copyright (like a 40 year old film) will still bring in some money, and it makes sense to make a back catalogue available.

Allow users to use their own clients if they wish (technically possible if you forget about DRM), and let enthusiasts create a user experience no platform has ever seen that can rival the ease of use of piracy (e.g., Popcorn Time, and similar services).

Start out as a conglomerate of big studios with a clear short to midterm business model, but aim to set up a non-profit custodian in the long term to handle the maintenance and development of the platform, and make it possible to represent any content owner in a fair way — because if you don't, you'll end up the target of anti-trust lawsuits.

This won't happen because of greed of course. Ah well, there is always piracy to supplement a Netflix/Disney/Whatever subscription and just pretend it does exist.