Last Week Tonight knows that it's target audience aren't a bunch of 60 year olds who think cable will never die and don't know what the WhatTube is exactly. Word of mouth, reddit posts and forum chatter will drive more eyes if they give away some of the product for free. I don't think them giving away bits of the product for free hurts their HBO sub numbers and it can do nothing but help. Companies who don't embrace piracy as a real thing and figure out how to make their product something worth paying for will be doomed for failure in the next decade or so.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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iannis
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Yeah. What's funny about Colbert is that he knows it too. Very well. His promo with, "Hello internet. I start on television next week. Which means you'll only ever see me on the internet!"
Give the content creators a say in how the money works. It's gotta be that way until we get the great NSA filter installed.
Give the content creators a say in how the money works. It's gotta be that way until we get the great NSA filter installed.
I heard a great saying at work yesterday which was "Everything is free but you pay for convenience." Which it dawned on me convenience is what I'm actually willing to pay for and if the free route is MORE convenient it will obviously be the most attractive option [ie: DRM, poor streaming quality, too expensive, etc,etc]. Like I'm willing to pay $10/mo for Spotify because it is convenient as hell. Torrenting all the albums was becoming tedious. But I personally don't find it personally inconvenient to just watch HBO shows for free the day after (ie: torrents.) Companies need to just understand piracy exists and you can't stop it. You need to just try and make money off some of the pirates via convenience.
kegkilla
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Colbert ratings are in the shitter:
Colbert Drops to 3rd Place Behind Kimmel as New Poll Shows CBS Host Alienating Audiences | Mediaite
boy, what sort of genius could have predicted this disaster?
oh of course:
enjoy early retirement you dickless cunt.
Colbert Drops to 3rd Place Behind Kimmel as New Poll Shows CBS Host Alienating Audiences | Mediaite
boy, what sort of genius could have predicted this disaster?
oh of course:
enjoy early retirement you dickless cunt.
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kegkilla
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i actually like Colbert more than that insufferable cunt John Oliver. at least Colbert is a fucking American. uppity, faggy Brits are the last people who should be coming to our country and lecturing us on oppression.
kegkilla
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Drakain
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Colbert is just ok. Show seems too hipster for my tastes though. I was always a Craig Ferguson fan. Miss me some Geoff. James Corden actually has a pretty good show. He's a lot funnier than I figured he would be. I think I slammed him in one of these threads but I was wrong. Kimmel is hit or miss but usually entertains. I don't watch enough Fallon to judge. Our local NBC affiliate sucks and I can barely stand to have that channel on.
