Quote from: Carlton Banks on May 28, 2018, 12:50:00 PM

Quote from: Samarkand on May 27, 2018, 09:45:10 AM

Take a look at the success of companies like Netflix. They are not charging you a micropayment for every
minute of content that you consume, but rather charge a flat monthly fee.

I highly doubt that Netflix would be more successful if they would abandon their current business model.

Netflix's business model is to borrow loads of money, then charge users less than their costs. They never made any profit on streaming; they're in huge, ever increasing debt.

(the idea is to establish themselves in the streaming marketplace, then massively ramp up the subscription fees later)

There's no reason why a Netflix-like company wouldn't add pay-per-view to their model, but only when they're sufficiently dominant in the overall pay-TV market (i.e. once they've eclipsed cable providers altogether, and once their customers feel reliant on their service)

Do not underestimate the consumers Carlton. In my country a large franchise pissed off a bunch of consumers and they started to boycott them. There will always be alternative offerings and companies that would step up to take their place, when they do a Bait and switch strategy like this.

The internet is already saturated by other "illegal" streaming services, so they are already competing with FREE streamers out there. Wink

Circle tried the same thing and Bitcoiners left in their droves. Grin