{"id":115,"date":"2012-01-26T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:23:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:23:35","slug":"hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2012\/01\/26\/hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Still Hates You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These people\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2012\/01\/warner-bros-netflix-deal-includes-delay-in-queues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do not get it<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Under a new deal between the two companies, Netflix users won\u2019t just have to wait 56 days to rent Warner Bros. movies on DVD. They\u2019ll have to wait 28 days to add the movies to their queues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Also under this new deal, pirated movies remain free of charge, free of non-skippable ads, free of five-minute load times, and are now nearly three months ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>iTunes changed the music industry because it was&nbsp;<em>more convenient than stealing<\/em>. Most people made the value judgment that ten bucks for a clean, legal digital album was worth the alternative of fishing around for files that may or may not be damaged or infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hollywood continues to completely ignore that lesson. It continues to punish the people who play by the rules with an insufferable customer experience. This is the sole reason piracy is up and profits are down: because&nbsp;<em>doing it right<\/em>&nbsp;<em>totally sucks<\/em>. And that\u2019s apparently how the studios want it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These people\u00a0do not get it: Under a new deal between the two companies, Netflix users won\u2019t just have to wait 56 days to rent Warner Bros. movies on DVD. They\u2019ll have to wait 28 days to add the movies to their queues. Also under this new deal, pirated movies remain free of charge, free of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}