I have a Netflix account. I wanted to review a scene in the Great Debaters from 2007. Well, for whatever reason, it's not available via streaming. I can get it on a DVD but I didn't want to wait. So, I went to YouTube and watched it there.
Here is a case where some money to the studios is better than no money.
People will just watch other things
When will the content produces get it. When they make things unavailable, people will just watch the things that are available.
No loss to us. Only a loss to them.
In other news...
... AT&T purchases Oxford University and begins editing several key definitions in the world renowned Oxford English Dictionary.
Hollywood doesn't care
No one in Hollywood cares what the film is shot on. They only care about the stars that are in a film.
A film shot on 70mm with NO stars wouldn't even get into Sundance, let alone, picked up by Paramount.
I've done exactly this
I have a Netflix account. I wanted to review a scene in the Great Debaters from 2007. Well, for whatever reason, it's not available via streaming. I can get it on a DVD but I didn't want to wait. So, I went to YouTube and watched it there.
Here is a case where some money to the studios is better than no money.
Can't stream on Netflix but can on YouTube
I have a Netflix account and was looking to do research on a verbal debate and wanted to watch parts of The Great Debaters with Denzel Washington.
Turns out I could not stream it and could only get that movie via DVD on Netflix but I could watch for FREE the whole movie on YouTube.
This is the twisted sense of distribution we have and we will continue to have until the old guard dies off.