Ditch said:
Paying for cable TV through the big 3 does not pay an actors salary. You are simply paying Shaw or Rogers for the technology to stream TV to your screen. If our high $$/month paid for the production of the shows - why do we still get subjected to advertising? Adverts pay for programming - plain and simple. That's why a show with poor ratings gets cancelled - not enough people watched the Doritos commercial - doesn't matter that Rogers still paid for streaming rights to a particular show.
I cut all ties to TV in my house - I stream with a clear conscience as I know that I am not a Neilsen rating statistic, therefore I know whether I watch a show or not will never cause a blip in the way that production occurs.
Indirectly does it not?
Fox creates Family Guy.
Rogers Pays Fox the right to stream family guy
Rogers Sells add space to Doritos.
You Pay Rogers to to Watch Family Guy (Among other things).
However everyone pays everyone and if you don't Pay Rogers
Dorito's won't pay Rogers because no one is watching it
Rogers won't pay Fox
Fox Won't Pay the actors.
How does new content great created? Under the current model it can't/wont.
Has everyone been screwing over the consumer? 100% But It hasn't been up until say 2010 that streaming was this feasible.
Before the Internet, Fox on it's own couldn't get Family Guy to everyone and needed to use Roger's Infrastructure.
Now we have companies like FaceBook Talking about FREE internet. As long you don't mind them tracking you and selling your every move it is free. But honestly why not it is free, I'll do it. They already track all my browsing history with chrome. Might let em have it all.
https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/
Sure it is 5mbps, but it is free. You can get a 1gbps for $70 a month. Insane, I had some lucrative student deal and I got 25mpbs down and a 300gb cap for $50 a month, which is crap compared to that.
Are we soon going to see you can only "stream Fox with Rogers". Or exclusive channels based only on your ISP? Maybe but I imagine that FaceBook/Google will slowly cut out the middle man and just do it all themselves.
I'd reckon in the next 5-10 years we are going to see some
big changes. Not just will telecommunications but also banking (when was the last time you went into a bank), transport (driver less cars), retail (I buy everything online, I only go to a store if I need it NOW or when it is a high quality item), logistics (amazon drones).
Once I graduate my bank wants to charge me fees, for what? They only pay me like 0.005% interest and lend my money out to other people for much more. I already do the tellers jobs on my phone. I'll switch to Tangerine or PC banking. When I need a mortgage, I'll be able to tweet all of the Big 5 and ask who can give me the best rate. I won't even need to go the bank. Hell the only reason i need to go to bank these days is for quarters and loonies for a washer/dryer (which is less and less common because everything is switching to "smart laundry cards"), Farming (GPS tracking, steering).
I'm not really sure where we all plan to work... but who knows.